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.
My appearance on The Western Spirit podcast, covering Intersectionality, the Red-Green alliance, SPLC, Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, and more....
"We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy"...
"“They fundraised off the rally they helped create and didn’t tell people. That’s a fraud in my view.”...
Students follow President to his car, surround the car blocking his exit, then claim the car hit one of them....
"Academia has been hijacked by radicals, hijacked by anti-Israel radicals, hijacked by anti-American radicals"...
SPLC tried to weaponize Donor Advised Funds to cut off groups on it's politicized Hate Watch lists, now it is cut off after federal indictment....
"Rather than an outright repeal, ACA 7 seeks to so thoroughly narrow Prop 209's constitutional protections as to constitute a de facto repeal as relates to education."...
"That's why we are calling on the administration to update their executive orders, to issue a new executive order which includes intersectionality under the definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion."...
"I guarantee you it's going on extensively, these false flag operations to portray Republicans and conservatives as racist, etc., etc. And it appears if what the Feds are saying is true that SPLC was part of that."...
"This has got to be just the tip of the iceberg, not just for SPLC but for a lot of left-wing movements."...
My appearance on the Scott Jennings Radio Show: "Joining us now to discuss this indictment is Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson...
Our Report on the need to close the "Intersectionality Loophole"....
"At every level it's oppressor versus oppressed. It is people of color versus whites. And its goal is to delegitimize the United States, to delegitimize capitalism, and to delegitimize Israel.."...
In open break with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, Trump posts: "They’re not “MAGA,” they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA."...
Calls for investigation of "scholarships and mentoring … for aspiring teachers who are people of color or indigenous or American Indian.”...
"there was no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered part of a judge’s job."...
Brown Jackson's dissents have gone off the rails, calls her colleagues' 8-1 majority opinion "unprincipled."...
