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.
Syria basically says: So sue me. State Dept. says: Pretty please....
A song from John Elefante formerly of the group Kansas. Ed Morrissey writes: If you’re not choking up by the end of this video — when John and Sami explain the meaning of this video — check your pulse. Yup. It's not often we hear pro-life songs coming from...
President Asterisk strikes again...
I think the Brazilian President is not so much upset that we spy, but that we spy better than her spies spy....
But in many cases, someone's Twitter or blog history is important in itself.
With a blog entry, one can update and correct, as Buzzfeed did yesterday, and Google Cache often (but not always) saves the original. But with Twitter, there is no ability to change the tweet itself, only to issue a new tweet correcting the prior (Morgan has not done that, btw), and it is much harder to reconstruct deleted tweets.
The same issue exists as to the NY Daily News' now infamous Cover which was sent out on Twitter, and resulted in this conversation:
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/380086436835241984
https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/380312186456793088
My USNA '81 classmate Marty Bodrog was killed yesterday by the douchebag at the Navy Yard. Here's the thing. The very first week of training at the Naval Academy in July 1977 during "plebe summer" we woke up at about 0600 and the second thing we did (after PT) was to go across the Severn River on boats to the Annapolis Naval Station to the shooting range, where we were all (1000 or so of us) trained by enlisted (many Vietnam veteran) Marines in how to shoot a Navy 45 caliber pistol. By the end of the week I shot expert and was awarded the Navy Expert Pistol Medal. Not everyone did that, but we were all exceptionally well trained. I have no doubt that if Marty was armed he would be alive and that douchebag would be dead. It is such a tragedy. Just thought I'd share, since no one will ever bring up anything like this.Video report on Marty Bodrog:
Republican Steve Lonegan is running against Cory Booker in the Senate race in New Jersey. This story is linked at Drudge, but the Drudge link doesn't have the video. Here it is: The press is mostly quiet about it. What if the roles were reversed? T-Bone could not...
That's what this Prius driver is. From Randy: A couple of bumper stickers for you, spotted near Charlotte, NC. ...
David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, was interviewed recently on PBS and referred to Ted Cruz as "the Senator from Canada through Texas." (h/t Instapundit) I guess Brooks meant that as a shot, but it's an odd shot for Brooks to make. Brooks also was born in...
Fox News primetime line up gets even stronger....
It happens in just about every mass shooting or terrorist event. The initial media reports are inaccurate, yet those hurried inaccuracies feed a political narrative that is hard to break even after the facts are "corrected." In the Newtown shooting, the wrong person was identified as...
Another media meme is created. Plus -- some legal lessons....
Chemicals delivered using surface-to-surface rockets over wide area in several locations....
A lot of attention is focused on Jihadist elements fighting in Syria, and the more "secular" Assad regime. The most underreported aspect of the civil war is that it's not just a civil war, it's a grand power-play by Iran to keep control of Syria as...
Death Panels by a thousand cuts....
Jeffrey Goldberg makes several points similar to the points I made in my post last night, The Deal: In order to remove the threat of Bashar Assad, we have to save Bashar Assad. Goldberg writes, New Syria Agreement Is a Big Victory. For Assad: A couple of...
