Faculty and Administration Profiles

James Hagy

About

Jim Hagy is Distinguished Lecturer in Residence at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He also taught for many years at New York Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and as an Affiliated Transnational Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He founded The Rooftops Project for not-for-profit organizations, where he was the Director from its inception in 2010 to its conclusion in 2023. The Project offered conferences and programs both at Loyola University Chicago and at New York Law School.

Prior to his work in academia, Professor Hagy had a 28-year career with Jones Day, the global law firm. He served for 10 years as co-chair of the firm’s worldwide general real estate practice. He also formed and chaired the firm’s Corporate Real Estate Services practice worldwide and served in a variety of additional management roles. He advised a broad range of Fortune 500, FT 500, and private companies in major national and international transactions.

Professor Hagy serves as an editorial board member of the Corporate Real Estate Journal (Henry Stewart Publications, London) and as an editorial board member of the Journal of Corporate Real Estate (Emerald Group Publishing, London). His honors include appointment to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and being awarded the Judge Richard M. Marcus Award for Excellence in Teaching by Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He has also received repeated top-rated faculty awards from CoreNet Global Learning for his workshops and presentations to international business audiences. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he obtained his JD in 1978 (Order of the Coif, and an Editor of the Law Review) and his BA in 1975 (with honors, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude).

Jim also has been a magician for almost 60 years and writes and speaks regularly on the history and theory of performance magic, including a keynote lecture at The British Library (London). For almost 40 years, he has also held the honor of being a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star, the highest level of achievement with this London-based, global organization of professional magicians. In 2023, he received the Literary Award from the Milbourne Christopher Foundation for his lifetime's work writing about the history of conjuring (performance magic).

Degrees

BA, Case Western Reserve University
JD, Case Western Reserve University

Courses Taught

Advanced Legal Writing for Business Practice
Advising Not-for-Profit Organizations
Animal Law & Policy
Business Practice Transactional Skills

Selected Publications

Professional and Business Audiences

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Effective Business Transactions, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2021
• Your Next Lease: Small Font, Big Points . . . ., Rooftop Views: Essays from the Rooftops Project, 2020
• Managing Global Property Portfolios, Transactions, and Teams: A primer for Corporate Real Estate Executives (in four parts), Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2020-2021
• Tenant Tenacity: Disappointments and Disputes with Your Landlord (with Nicole Bieganski), 2020
• Napkin Notes to Nowhere: Why Deals Fail, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2019
• In the Aftermath of the Notre Dame de Paris Fire, Rooftop Views: Essays from the Rooftops Project, 2019
• Wanted: Real Estate Heroes, ACREL News & Notes, 2019
• Guest Editorial: Wanted, Corporate Real Estate Heroes, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2018
• If Your Space Could Speak . . . Actually, It Does, Rooftop Views: Essays from the Rooftops Project, 2018
• Guest Editorial, Are We There Yet? Corporate Real Estate as a Discipline, 30+ Years On, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2013
• The Gates Foundation LEED Platinum Seattle Headquarters (Rooftops Project Field Interview Series, NYLS, 2012)
• The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities (Rooftops Project Field Interview Series, NYLS, 2012)
• Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada (Rooftops Project Field Interview Series, NYLS, 2012)
• Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Rooftops Project Field Interview Series, NYLS, 2012)
• Tacoma Museum of Art (Rooftops Project Field Interview Series, NYLS, 2012)
• Guest Editorial, A Charitable Look at Corporate Real Estate, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2011
• A View from the Rooftops: The Role of Real Estate Occupancy in Not-for-Profit Organizations, ACREL Newsletter, 2011
• Industrial Property Disaggregations: Planning the New Ownership Regime, Corporate Real Estate Journal, 2011
• Rooftops Project Report Summarizing Results of a Survey of Not-for-Profit Organizations, New York Law School, 2010
• Please Pass the Usufructs: Managing Global Property Portfolios, Transactions and Teams, a Primer for Corporate Real Estate Executives, CoreNet Global Learning, 2007
• Industrial Property Disaggregations: Planning the New Ownership Regime, Rooftops Group LLC 2007
• Handcuff Kings and M&A Mavens: Attorney Work/Life Balance, Canadian Bar Association, 2006
• Before the Garage Sale: Five Steps to Unloading Property More Efficiently, Site Selection Magazine, October 2005
• Real Estate Practice in China, Jones Day International Real Estate Briefings, September 2004
• Editor, Survey of Customs and Practices Respecting Real Estate Brokers and Chartered Surveyors, Jones Day International Real Estate Briefings, August 2004
• Energy Procurement in a Deregulating United States – Part 1: The Strategies Available to Corporate Occupiers (with Chris Flynn), Journal of Corporate Real Estate, September 2001
• Energy Procurement in a Deregulating United States – Part 2: Key Considerations and Criteria in Long-Term Energy Commitments (with Chris Flynn), Journal of Corporate Real Estate, December 2001
• Structuring Effective Real Estate Outsourcing and Preferred Provider Relationships in the Global Environment, Journal of Corporate Real Estate November 1998
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Maximizing the Value of Real Estate Due Diligence, Site Selection Magazine, April/May 1998; also reprinted in The Best in M&A: The Full Text of Insightful Articles to Help You Get the Deal Done, Second Edition (New York: Bowne & Co., Inc., 1999).
• Developing an Effective Real Estate Organization, Jones Day Quarterly Spring 1997

History and General Audiences

Books

• The Instant Illusionist and the Cleveland Bunch (2023)
• Secrets Magicians Could Tell: The Art of Presenting . . . You (2021)
• Early English Conjuring Collectors: Henry Evans Evanion and James Savren (Expanded edition, 2020)
• Fair Tricks: The Magicians at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 (2019), with co-author Sage Hagy
• The One Young (1996)
• Early English Conjuring Collectors: Henry Evans Evanion and James Savren (1995)

Articles

• A Distant Devotion: Edwin A. Dearn in Shanghai 1914-1950 (2007)
• The First Visit to a Magic Shop (anthology editor, 2006)
• Dazzled By Diamonds: Evanion and Houdini (2005)

Representative Public Speaking

• The Instant Illusionist and the Cleveland Bunch (Cleveland and Ghent, Belgium, 2023)
• Fair Tricks: The Magicians at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 (venues throughout the U.S. and Europe, 2019-2022)
• Organizer, Moderator and Presenter, The Rooftops Conference (Loyola University Chicago School of Law, annual 2015-2022 and New York Law School, annual 2011-2021) and related workshops and programming
• The Enchanted Parcels: A Wartime Tale of Magical Friendship (Producer/Presenter, The Magic Circle London, 2013)
• Sharing Space or Co-Locating with Another Not-for-Profit Organization (Pratt Institute, 2013)
• Sharing Thoughts About Sharing Space (New York Law School, 2012)
• Leasing for Not-for-Profit Organizations (Moderator and Presenter, New York Law School, 2012)
• Managing Effectively in Global Markets (CoreNet Global Learning, various cities, 2007-2013)
• Advanced Lease Analysis (Moderator and panelist, CoreNet Global Learning, various cities, 1996-2013)
• Developing a Course Syllabus (John Marshall Law School Adjunct Faculty “Teach-In”, 2009)
• You Are on the Same Planet, But Are You on the Same Page? (CoreNet Chicago, 2008)
• Work Life Balance, panel presentation at the Canadian Legal Conference of the Canadian Bar Association (St. John’s, Newfoundland 2006)
• Work Life Balance podcast, Canadian Bar Association (2006)
• The Instant Illusionist (NEMCA, Providence, 2006)
• Dazzled by Diamonds: Evanion and Houdini (The British Library, London, 2005)