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.
He couldn't talk his way out of this one....
My appearance on Morning Joe: "There's a phrase that collapse happens slowly then suddenly. For Jewish students on campuses at Cornell and elsewhere, we're in the suddenly phase of things. This has been building for 20 years."...
"There's no indication from what's been released so far about his background that he came to Cornell with these thoughts. He learned them at Cornell."...
Patrick Dai, a Cornell Junior, has been charged....
My appearance on the Laura Ingraham show: "we've got a toxic atmosphere and Cornell and other schools need to consider whether this hyper focus, this obsession with race is actually making matters worse. I know that at Cornell it's making matters a lot worse for...
Kidnapped German citizen's mostly naked body, with limbs twisted in the wrong direction, was driven in the back of a pick up truck through Gaza streets, as large crowds of "civilians" spit on her and beat her limp body. Now skull bone has been recovered which...
"Cornell Police Department is on site and monitoring the situation...
The beast has been unleashed. Coming to a campus and city in the U.S. It already has....
The representatives of over 200 Israeli hostage families want the government to make an "everyone for everyone" hostage-for-prisoner exchange. The horrors of what Hamas did may be what holds Israel together in its goal of eliminating Hamas, which is not consistent with getting all the...
A moment of moral clarity from John Kirby, at a White House press briefing....
"I renew my call for the Board of Trustees to take action to examine the antisemitism problem on campus and the connection to the 'intersectional' racialist 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' advocacy and programming which isolates and marginalizes Jews."...
“Bismarck State needs to extend the deadline for the upcoming tuition waiver program cycle so that students who did not apply because of the racial and ethnic barriers have a chance to apply [and] to retroactively apply tuition waivers to students who were excluded based...
"There is no difference between what we did and what ISIS does. The brutality is the same."...
"Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old."...
Medialine: "Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads." Daily Mail: "‘There is evidence of mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children." Fox News' Trey Yingst: "We’ve left out some incredibly graphic details about what Hamas did...
My appearance on Breibart News Daily: “There’s that saying that collapse happens slowly, then suddenly. We’re in the ‘suddenly’ phase.”...
Motion for Stay: "No Court in American history has imposed a gag order on a criminal defendant who is campaigning for public office—least of all, on the leading candidate for President of the United States. This Court’s Opinion and Order ...
