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.
ICC "has engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel."...
DEI "didn't come out of nowhere. It was 20 to 30 years in the making, and it captured key institutions in our society."...
"There's a saying that collapse comes gradually then suddenly, We've been gradually moving towards a collapse of our institutions that have been captured by group identity politics...
"They don't want to have to live by the rules that everybody else lives by, whether it's disrupting the library, whether it's blocking campus flow of pedestrians, whether it's blocking entrances. And as soon as you enforce the rules that everybody else needs to live...
EPP: ICSD "needs to be held accountable for a four-year-long campaign of discrimination that involved and was known by the highest levels of the administration and Board of Education, despite complaints from the community objecting to the discrimination. It is not enough at this late...
The Keystone Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation at East Stroudsburg University, Millersville University, Slippery Rock University, and West Chester University operate the program under a National Science Foundation grant....
My take: EOs will impact "grotesquely discriminatory" programming, but the "core ideological and cultural battles on campuses ...
"OCR confirmed that, since you filed your complaint, the University made changes to the Consortium and its programs/initiatives such that they are open to any student regardless of race, color, national origin, and sex."...
The EO takes aim at the private sector and higher education, requesting an OMB report within 120 days on the worst offenders and targets for federal action. Through our work at the Equal Protection Project, we have already identified numerous recalcitrant and systematically discriminatory institutions...
My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer: "Just because Joe Biden pardoned the Biden crime family, I'm not sure we need to rush out and change the Constitution...
DEI in the federal government is dead. Or so we think....
Israel wins the way it has been winning for over three-quarters of a century, with a strong military but equally important, thriving not just surviving. We could learn lessons from them....
I'm hoping - probably wishful thinking - that those Leb/Gaza deals were the cost of gaining Trump admin support for Israel taking out Iran's nuke program...
"If there is a lack of representation, a lack of diversity, there are many lawful ways that the school can go about increasing diversity and increasing access. But what they can't do is achieve that goal through racial discrimination."...
Widespread media coverage of EPP's complaint as Iowa Regents may vote as early as January 15 whether to eliminate DEI language from its Strategic Plan...
The Dept. of Education has opened formal investigations less than a month after our Complaint was filed. "I hope the incoming Trump administration will make the University of Rhode Island a test case for enforcement of the Civil Rights Laws."...
On January 7, 2015, Islamic terrorists attacked the satirical French publication Charlie Hebdo, angered over a cartoon mocking Mohammed, murdering 12 people....
In opposing Trump nominees, Murphy says Democrats need to make sure "the temperature has been turned up all across the country" and "to start throwing punches." Turning up the temperature in this way is how Democrats inspired the would-be assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh....
