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.
You know what happened. You saw it. We all saw it. There are feeble efforts, once again, to convince you that you didn't see what you saw, but Democrats know they have a problem....
"It’s too big a bet to simply hope Americans will overlook or discount Mr. Biden’s age and infirmity that they see with their own eyes."...
"To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so."...
Can you imagine an emergency situation where immediate military decisions that only a president can make need to be made in seconds or minutes, and the military having to go to diminished Joe for a decision?...
CNN: "There is a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. It started minutes into the debate and continues right now. They're having conversations about the president's performance, which they think was dismal."...
"Ithaca College – under the apparent belief that U.S. Department of Education’s OCR will not take any meaningful action against it for doing so – not only continues to engage in flagrantly illegal race- and color-based discrimination, but has expanded its racially exclusionary programming by...
My appearance on the Jesse Kelly Show talking about the Supreme Court ruling in Murthy v. Missouri, the social media censorship case....
Gad Saad: "War is coming to every corner in the West. It might take 5 days, 5 years, or 50 years but it’s coming." I would argue it's already here....
Suits brought by Missouri, Florida, and several other states. In many ways states, and particularly state attorney generals, have become our last line of defense against a lawless federal executive branch. ...
At midyear 2024, I am happy to report that the State of Equal Protection Project is very sound and we're building, and we look forward to a great remainder of the year and the future....
So many lines have been crossed by anti-Israel protesters in the U.S. since October 7, it's hard to see that any lines are left. The increasingly dominant glorification and worship of Islamist movements and leaders, combined with ability to act with impunity, is a bad...
"Deep fake" is the term being thrown around, which means "not fake" just not helpful to Joe Biden. Democrats and the media are afraid of this issue because it damages Biden. ...
Douglas Murray, at the Monk Debates, gave one of the most impressive explanations as to why, in the real world, anti-Zionism is antisemitism: "the interesting thing about antisemitism is the Jews can never win because historically ...
The freeze would not mean much if it were the first time. But it's not. The lights are on, maybe someone is home, maybe not. Let the voters decide. But instead the mainstream media is swarming to Biden's defense, a sure signal that the real...
Democrat U.S. Senator Promptly Breaks Rule...
EPP's hope is that “the university recognizes they have no legal ground to stand on, that what they're doing is wrong and they change the programs.”...
In a CBS/YouGov poll, 62% of Americans embrace mass deportation. The anti-Israel anarchy is a microcosm of our greater national anarchy, and people are getting fed up....
"You cannot have a grant program that says whites cannot apply"...
