William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School.
He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. At Harvard he was Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.
Prior to joining the Cornell law faculty in 2007, Professor Jacobson had a highly successful civil litigation and arbitration practice in Providence, Rhode Island, concentrating in investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry, including many high profile cases reported in leading newspapers and magazines.
Professor Jacobson has argued cases in numerous federal and state courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fifth and Sixth Circuits, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Professor Jacobson has a national reputation as a leading practitioner in securities arbitration. He was Treasurer, and is a former member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, a professional organization of attorneys dedicated to protecting public investors. He frequently is quoted in national media on issues related to investment fraud and investor protection, and in the past has served as one of a small number of private practice attorneys who trained new arbitrators for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Professor Jacobson is co-author of the Securities Arbitration Desk Reference (Thomson-Reuters), updated annually.
Professor Jacobson is frequently quoted in the media on political and legal topics, has authored many Op-Eds in major publications, and appears on television and radio to discuss politics and the law.
A more complete listing of Professor Jacobson's professional background is available at the Cornell Law School website. The views expressed here are his own and not those of any employer or organization,
The best way to reach Prof. Jacobson is by e-mail here.
"A lot of colleges, and Brown also, are under enormous pressure not to cooperate with police, not to have surveillance cameras, not to have mask bans...
Calls out Tucker, Candace, and Megyn by name: "These people are frauds, and they are grifters, and they do not deserve your time. And they are something worse than that: a danger to the only movement capable of stopping the left from wrecking the country...
Identified as Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national...
"I think with the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a campus there's a question, no answers yet, but there's a question whether this was a targeted killing."...
Restarting reader-submitted Bumper Sticker posts. I miss those early days when we were "just a blog" and the internet was more fun. And we weren't so serious. I want to rekindle that spirit....
"Students of Color" restriction scrubbed: "Sometimes they say the quiet part out loud. And that's what we found with the Harvard Union Scholars Program...
Likely costs Republicans two congressional seats in a midterm where two seats could be the difference in control of the House and whether Democrats get to unleash investigations and impeachment....
State Department to end Biden-era 'diversity and inclusion' initiative requiring use of Calibri font in official communications....
"Considering that Harvard litigated the issue of race-based admissions all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, prompt and aggressive DOJ action is warranted."...
The consequences could be YUGE - no more birthright tourism, no more anchor babies, it would be the legal equivalent of "the Wall" but would not be limited to the southern border....
Our Complaint to DOJ: DACA/“Undocumented” programs operating at 138 colleges and universities in the University of California, California State University, and California Community College systems systemically discriminate against American-born students on the basis of national origin. ...
"We have enough problems...
As part of a broad deal including payment of $75 million, Northwestern has agreed to abandon and reverse the "Deering Meadow Agreement" challenged by EPP which provided Palestinian-exclusive scholarships and preferential housing for "MENA/Muslim students."...
What I noted just a month after the October 7 Massacre continues two years later: "What's really striking is how many of these violent demonstrators and kidnapped poster destroyers are young women, seems like a significant majority"...
"The Advancing Future Program violates both Title VI, by discriminating on the basis of race, skin color, or national origin and Title IX, by discriminating on the basis of sex. White males are disadvantaged relative to women and racial and ethnic minorities."...
'Location' feature implemented by X reveals fake foreign and fake MAGA accounts targeting Israel and Trump, but the boosting of malicious American accounts by foreigners still is hidden....
Killed during the the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 24 years ago today:....
Now we know that it was all a massive foreign influence operation of fake MAGA accounts meant not to promote Trump, but to turn Americans against Jews and Israel and to sow chaos and division among actual Trump supporters....
