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.
"The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor"...
Incriminating website section taken down after we filed a joint complaint with the Departments of Education and Justice....
Prof. Robbie George: "The white supremacists, the antisemites, the eugenicists, the bigots, must not be welcomed into our movement or treated as normal or acceptable. Is this a call for “cancelation”? No. It’s a reminder that we conservatives stand for something—or should stand for something....
Heritage President Kevin Roberts is a disgrace. He has helped Tucker and Fuentes advance their goal of destroying the MAGA movement -- which was a large multi-religious, multi-racial achievement rare for Republicans....
Kat Abughazaleh is in the Find Out phase: "It’s federal charge so Pritzker can’t bail her out. Oops!"...
A retort to Helen Andrews: "I think civilization will survive all right"...
"Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently...
How NYC is on the verge of electing a socialist jihadist: "The left was very savvy and very strategic. They identified the weakness in our society and the weakness in our society is the educational system."...
Higher Education Needs An Intervention - Part 2 - Academia is in freefall. It's losing not only the population as a whole, but both Republicans and Democrats and almost all demographics. Yet higher education is defiant of attempts at outside reform....
"You’ve turned the population against you. You’re biting the hand that feeds you. This is an unsustainable model...
Equal Protection Project to take legal action: “The attacks on him serve as a deterrent to other students who may want to come forward, particularly Israeli or Jewish students who may be afraid that if they do complain about discrimination, their name is going to...
"In a better world, nobody would be doing this. But we don't live in a better world. We live in a world where the federal and state prosecutorial bureaucracies were completely weaponized against Donald Trump."...
"There has been a gross campaign at the international level to demonize Israel. These are all percolating under the surface on the campuses. In some ways, the situation’s worse underneath, more organized, more coordinated, and more dangerous."...
Asra Nomani: "as long as the blood flows in our veins, as long as we have breath, I believe it is our duty to try to fight this extremism and to expose it, to investigate it, to stand up to it, to express our voices...
Nicholas Roske - now going by Sophie - gets only 8 year sentence. DOJ is appealing the sentence....
Tariffs, Lisa Cook, congressional racial redistricting, and Girls' Sports: "I think the court's going to say that under Title IX, you judge sex discrimination and the rights you have under that statute based on reality, based on biology, not how you feel."...
When a university accepts federal funding, it is obligated to provide equal access to education, and affinity or professional-focused groups are not a way around that obligation....
Cornell reportedly says "[b]ased on the findings of this investigation, the faculty member is not teaching this semester and significant disciplinary action is being recommended," but that's not enough. We need an independent federal investigation of a serious alleged civil rights violation....
