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.
All in all, not a bad first 19 months. We are focused on expanding our impact even more in 2025....
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"The wording change by UVA so soon after our complaint is a tacit admission of wrongdoing"...
I don't think this is by accident. It's Jill's revenge....
Our Op-ed in The NY Post: "If adopted, Prop One would embed racial retribution in the form of reverse racism, critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion principles into the state Constitution, without most voters realizing its far-reaching effects."...
Sadly prophetic: "The goals of toppling Hamas and getting the hostages back alive are not consistent. Israel faces a tough choice."...
My appearance on the Rob Schilling Show regarding the Civil Rights Complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project against the University of Virginia BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program....
"the explosions were Israeli airstrikes intended to destroy an underground bunker where senior Hezbollah leaders were meeting"...
“The university needs to be race-neutral in its educational and related programming.”...
Israel Should Not Let Iran Missile Attack Crisis Go To Waste...
This is an enormous victory. It's a signal that not just Israel, but perhaps there is hope for Western civilization in the face of these monsters, in the face of these people who want to rejoice over our demise....
The inital event in the Equal Protection Project's ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Continuing Legal Education program so lawyers in states where DEI CLE is required have an alternative to the usual woke programming....
"[B]ased on the requirement that participating students be BIPOC, the campus meetings would be de facto segregated by race, skin color, and ethnicity. Any reasonable student viewing the information on the U of A website would understand the racially exclusionary basis of the program, and...
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Kemberlee Kaye, Managing Editor of CriticalRace.org: "We predicted a year ago after the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling that DEI would not disappear on college campuses but would move underground in a variety of ways. Our research findings confirm our analysis that one time legislative...
Ryan Wesley Routh in custody, accused of being the shooter...
When they say to "Globalize the Inifada" what happened in Newton, MA, is what they mean. The knee-jerk reaction was to arrest and charge the victim: "if you defend yourself, if you’re a pro-Israel supporter, whether you’re Jewish or not, and you are viciously attacked...
After my lecture on how to fight campus antisemitism was cancelled at a local synagogue because I was too conservative, it appears I'm blacklisted. A local community member reports: "I’ve not been able to get anyone else to host. There seems to be a lot...
