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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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Students Accused of Sexual Assault are Suing Schools and Often Winning
George Mason U. Law School: Brett Kavanaugh Will Not be Fired, Despite Leftist Activist Demands
Socialist Students at U. Buffalo Oppose Speech by ‘War Criminal’ Condoleezza Rice
Middlebury College Cancels Lecture on Totalitarianism by Conservative Philosopher
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan Joining Faculty of U. Notre Dame
Historically Black All-Male College to Begin Accepting Transgender Men
MUELLER REPORT released
The Mueller Report (pdf.), in redacted form, has been released by the Department of Justice.
A full copy is embedded at the bottom of this post.
Bernie Sanders attacks Cherokee author for criticizing Elizabeth Warren’s false Cherokee claim
Elizabeth Warren is struggling in fundraising and in the polls (even in Massachusetts). While her campaign is not over, she is being left in the dust by the old school (Sanders, Biden) and the new school (Buttigieg, Beto, Harris).
On your mark. Get set. Mueller Report!
Thursday is going to be a total s–tshow.
The redacted Mueller Report is going to be released in the morning.
Anti-Israel activists shout down legal scholar’s lecture on legality of anti-BDS laws
Eugene Kontorovich is a brilliant legal scholar formerly with Northwestern University Law School, who recently joined George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law.
Kontorovich’s expertise includes international law, as well as free speech. His lecture The Legal Case for Israel is a must watch video.
Washington Post seeks dismissal of Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit, says reporting was “neither false nor defamatory”
Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann sued The Washington Post for defamation related to its coverage of the incident in which Sandmann was portrayed as the perpetrator of the harassment of a Native American ‘elder’ after the March for Life in D.C. S...
Elizabeth Warren’s 1st Quarter $6 million fundraising dud, and “she’s burning through money almost as quickly as she’s raising it”
We have noted numerous warning signs about Elizabeth Warren’s fundraising efforts in comparison to top tier Democrats.
Warren held back her numbers while others released impressive amounts.
Final Verdict: Liberal concedes defeat to Conservative in Wisconsin Supreme Court election
A conservative victory in Wisconsin now is a done deal in the election to replace retiring uber-liberal Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
We previously reported on the victory by conservative appeals court Justice Brian Hagedorn, Wisconsin Sup Ct election has Democrats worried for 2020 – Conservative has unexpected lead heading into possible recount.
Airbnb rescinds ban on Jewish settlement home listings in “West Bank”
We previously covered the policy implemented by Airbnb last November to ban listings from Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).
That amounted to a de facto Jewish boycott because Jews are forbidden under Palestinian Authority law and practice from buying homes outside the settlements, and Palestinians could be killed...
Palestinian terrorist prisoners start hunger strike over Israeli jamming of their smuggled cell phones
Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prison are commencing a hunger strike. Because Israel has started jamming their smuggled cell phones.
Seriously.
Spartacus underwhelms 1st Q fundraising
The 1st Quarter fundraising derby is nearing an end.
Cory Booker, aka Spartacus, just released his numbers, and they underwhelmed, as reported at NJ.com:
Sad: Elizabeth Warren polling in 3rd place … in Massachusetts
No matter how hard she tries, and she is trying really hard, Elizabeth Warren cannot seem to gain traction with voters.
I surveyed Warren’s dismal landscape recently, Elizabeth Warren’s increasingly dramatic proposals reflect a campaign struggling to stay relevant.
Elizabeth Warren’s increasingly dramatic proposals reflect a campaign struggling to stay relevant
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is stuck in neutral at best, in reverse at worst.
She just isn’t getting any momentum despite assembling a high-powered campaign team before anyone else, and announcing before any other major candidates. The DNA rollout was an unmitigated disaster, and compounded Warren’s original sin, her false claim to be...
Wisconsin Sup Ct election has Democrats worried for 2020 – Conservative has unexpected lead heading into possible recount
Wisconsin Supreme Court election fights have been some of the most intense and bizarre elections we have covered over the years.
According to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” Maybe, maybe not, but in Wisconsin there sure...
Joe Biden’s Defense to Creepy Touching: “Social norms are changing” (since 2015?)
With a long video history of creepy touching and nuzzling women and young women in front of the cameras, Joe Biden now has four women who accuse him of doing similar things off camera.
There is little doubt this has hurt Biden because it throws off his plans for a smooth campaign...
Male student lawsuit against Oberlin College dismissed despite possibly flawed sexual assault disciplinary decision
In 2017, Oberlin College was sued by an expelled male student who had been found responsible for sexual assault in a campus disciplinary hearing. The student, identified only as John Doe, alleged a seriously flawed hearing process as well as discrimination on the basis of sex because the process allegedly was...
