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.
Mangione shouted out about "lived experience" as he was led into the courthouse, but his lived experience was one of privilege....
WKU terminated discriminatory Athletics Minority Fellowship, which excluded whites from participation. We would have been just as happy if WKU kept the fellowshp but opened it up to everyone, but WKU chose otherwise....
We have to stop this system where, for political reasons, we are all at risk....
Jury deliberations on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide will continue Monday after Judge granted prosecution's request to drop manslaughter to avoid a mistrial....
The jury in the Daniel Penny trial has been deliberating for three days, and it just informed the Judge that it is unable to reach a verdict on the most serious charge, manslaughter in the second degree....
"three to four years of people like us and others, many others, hammering on [DEI] has changed the culture when it comes to DEI. And so now political change I think is possible because the culture has changed."...
Case filed by Equal Protection Project and Pacific Legal Foundation. Court rules: "plaintiffs have plausibly alleged that their children have been treated differently than members of the historically underrepresented minorities included in the STEP eligibility criteria...
"They're not angry that Joe Biden pardoned his son. They're not angry that he lied about it for years. They're angry that they feel that this had given an advantage to Trump."...
"The Equal Protection Project, a conservative legal group, has been particularly active in challenging services for students based on race and gender...
This video of Kamala Harris released by the Democrats X account is just sad....
"It's possible to help disadvantaged students without creating racial barriers...
Killed during the the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 23 years ago today: "So in these days in which we remember those who died on 9/11, let’s also remember Johnny “Mike” Spann, who died in the weeks immediately after 9/11 on a battlefield far from home...
It's Deja Vu all over again as to fury over illegal immigrant crime: In 2015, it was Kate Steinle; in 2024, it is Laken Riley....
My Take: This substantive overreach is why the U.S. refused to join the ICC in the first instance, and the jurisdictional overreach poses a threat to the United States. If they can issue an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, they can issue an arrest warrant...
Race and Sex Discrimination alleged in Civil Rights Complaint over "Young Males of Color Consortium" program operating at numerous Cal State campuses....
My appearance on The Matt Allen Show: Cut off the funding from the federal government and private foundations....
UMN is a repeat offender in programming that discriminates in favor of BIPOC students and against white students, having recently resolved a similar OCR complaint brought by EPP as to a different program, yet it continued such discriminatory conduct....
