It has now been 5 years since our Editor Mandy Nagy suffered a catastrophic stroke at the young age of 45.
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, I received an email from Mandy’s mom, Ginny, directed to the “contact” email address:
About: William A. Jacobson
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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.
Posts by William A. Jacobson
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New App at University of Alabama Will Track Students During Football Games
University of Utah Holds Debate on Second Amendment Limits
California Passes Bill Requiring Public Universities to Offer Abortion Pill on Campus
Scholar at Columbia University Under Fire for Alleged Plagiarism
Priest at Purdue University Hears Confessions by Driving Around Campus on a Golf Cart
U. Oklahoma Undergrad Congress Resolution Says Students are ‘Visitors’ on Indigenous Land
It’s never over, is it?
Donald Trump was elected president. But it wasn’t over.
There immediately launched an attempt to pressure Electors to change their votes, then an FBI-Democrat collusive attempt to undermine the presidency before it began, and a slow-motion coup to prevent...
Oberlin College offered only a small fraction of ultimate verdict to settle Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit
One of the big questions in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case is why it didn’t settle. Based on recent court filings, we have a glimpse at the settlement process, and how it failed.
Kamala Harris’ campaign should have ended tonight at #DemDebate
The Democrat debates are the best thing that ever happened to Donald Trump.
Tonight’s debate in Houston was another example, a mostly sleepy affair in which the two leftist party leaders — Bernie and Warren — further cemented their primary policy of taking private insurance away from almost 150 million people. Some...
Mandy Nagy on “Remembering September 11th and the importance of loved ones and endurance”
In 2013, our then-Editor Mandy Nagy wrote one of the best posts on 9/11. Considering what would happen to her a year later, the post was particularly poignant.
Here is the post, excerpted, click on the link for the full original post:
Oberlin College denied new trial in Gibson’s Bakery case
In the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, the judgment for the plaintiffs amounted to almost $32 million in damages and defendants were required to post a $36 million bond to secure the judgment pending appeal.
Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down
We have not written a lot in recent years about Think Progress, the left-wing website owned by the Center for American Progress.
But back in the day, in the earlier years of Legal Insurrection, we wrote a lot about Think Progress...
CNN’s 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Town Hall was a man-made disaster for Democrat presidential candidates
The presidential ambitions of the leading Democrat candidates may not survive CNN’s 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Townhall.
It was a man-made disaster, created in the fevered swamps of CNN and fueled by pledges of allegiance to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
This is your periodic reminder, AJ+ (@AJplus) is Al Jazeera’s viral video propaganda wing
We haven’t written a lot about AJ+ (@AJplus), but we have written some.
We’ve tweeted about @AJplus more than we’ve written, with the periodic reminder that @AJplus is the viral video wing of the anti-Israel movement:
Republican Senators: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Brief “openly threatened” Supreme Court “with political retribution”
In August 2019, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse signed and filed an Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court that threatened the Justices with future court-packing if they didn’t vote his way on a 2nd Amendment case.
It truly was an extraordinary move, as we explained in Dem Senators to Supreme Court:...
Hezbollah attacks near Avivim, Israel, scene of notorious 1970 school bus rocket attack
Israeli raids on Iranian bases in Syria killed two Hezbollah operatives working with the Iranians to launch drone attacks on Israel. That same day, Israel reportedly destroyed key Iranian missile manufacturing equipment in the heart of Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold, using small copter-drones.
James Comey “was shown to be a scoundrel, a liar, a leaker, all of these things”
In the aftermath of the Department of Justice Investigator General Report on James Comey, I commented that James Comey was the Bad Guy in the ‘Russia Collusion’ story
I had a chance to expand on that concept during a radio interview with Jack Riccardi on KTSA, San Antonio:
Reports: Small Israeli copter-drones blew up key Iranian missile equipment in heart of Hezbollah stronghold
We recently reported on Israel’s attacks on Iranian bases in Syria at which drone attacks on Israel were being prepared, Israel hits Iranian bases in Syria to prevent large-scale drone attack.
James Comey was the Bad Guy in the ‘Russia Collusion’ story
The Department of Justice Inspector General Report revealed what many of us suspected all along: James Comey was the Bad Guy in the ‘Russia Collusion’ story.
Gibson’s Bakery: Oberlin College’s request for a new trial is “baseless”
In the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, the judgment for the plaintiffs amounted to almost $32 million in damages and defendants were required to post a $36 million bond to secure the judgment pending appeal.
Kirsten Gillibrand ends her pathetic, opportunistic presidential candidacy
There never was a reason for a Kirsten Gillibrand presidential candidacy.
In a world of opportunistic, unprincipled, chameleon-like politicians, she stood out as among the most opportunistic, unprincipled and chameleon-like.
Investigation: Radical ‘American Muslims for Palestine’ a Key Connector of Anti-Israel Groups
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has emerged as one of the most radical and controversial anti-Israel groups, with a far reach into campuses and anti-Zionist organizations. We have covered the role of AMP in numerous posts dating back several years.
