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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.
My appearance on the Todd Herman radio show: "So how is it that you have to hire lawyers to defend the teachers who were doing [CRT teaching], but at the same time you say it's not happening?"...
My appearance on the Todd Hermon radio show: "What you had with Black Lives Matter is only the worst of the worst offenders, you know, people who've set fire to police stations and things like that, being prosecuted. You didn't have everybody who was in...
This does not signal that the Biden administration, which has fully embraced the Critical Race Theory approach to policy, has changed its mind. Rather, this is a tactical retreat....
My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer: "this is an issue that scares [Democrats] terribly because it cuts across racial groups. It cuts across ethnic groups. And it's very personal to parents. And that's why they're hitting so hard on it."...
Alliance Defending Freedom: "Teachers shouldn’t be forced to promote ideologies that are harmful to their students and that they believe are false, nor should they be silenced for commenting at a public meeting.”...
"it is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention"...
Confirms what I have been pointing out for years: "many Cornellians are scared to challenge the progressive status quo and speak in opposition to those pushing ideological conformity"...
I no longer view "preppers" as crazy. Maybe they were right, just early. Better early than late....
National Education Association Rhode Island dropped its emergency injunction request in court over release of Critical Race records, but now pretends "We won!" It still faces Solas' anti-SLAPP compensatory and punitive damage claims for bringing the case in the first place....
The Facebook records dispute is a sideshow to the main appeal from the Gibson's Bakery verdict, but it's a nasty sideshow done by a media outlet that appears to be doing the college's dirty work in the hope of portraying the Gibsons as racists....
"the CDC has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions in reliance on a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination. It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts." ...
The debacle of how withdrawal from Afghanistan has been carried out has been an exercise in humiliating the United States, and the lead perpetrators are our own leadership....
In 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS refuses to stay lower court injunction reinstating the Trump policy, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan would have granted a stay....
Biden's debasement of our country should be a life-altering national call to action....
Unions argue: "because the School Department has not objected to the entry of temporary injunction relief, the Motion should be granted." But for the Court to grant collusive relief over the objection of Solas not only would run counter to RI Supreme Court precedent, it...
Real Clear Investigations: "Doctors are questioning the concept of colorblindness in patient care as a racist holdover that benefits white people."...
The unions sued over Solas' public records requests, now she has filed her opposition: "This extraordinary case is brought by a party without standing, disregards the entire statutory scheme under the [public records law], and is an affront to Parents’ rights to open and transparent...
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