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.
Prepared to detail to Congress instances of "preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols”...
The promo for my hour-long interview on Tucker Carlson Today was supposed to run several weeks ago, but was bumped and then bumped again and then bumped again by the Trump indictment circus news cycles. It finally dropped today....
Fox News statement: "We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards."...
My appearance on the Jesse Kelly Show: "So it's at one level hopeless, at another level, the conservative students on campus keep me going."...
Expect a ruling by the full court on the request for a stay of the Texas District Court order rescinding the approval of mifepristone by Wednesday, April 19....
"We call upon UAlbany to immediately cease and desist from participating in, supporting or promoting the [Albany Public Library fellowship] in any way as long as eligibility in the program and selection of participants is based on unconstitutional and invidiously discriminatory racial criteria."...
I don't like this result, even if it holds up to legal scrutiny, but the only out appears to be political....
Podcaster and former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett: Feinstein "is now preventing us from being able to confirm judges ...
"more than five million Americans have chosen to end their pregnancies using mifepristone. Today, more than half of women who terminate their pregnancies rely on that drug."...
Latest salvo is overblown claim about Justice Thomas not reporting trips on a conservative billionaire's private jet and visits to his vacation home - but those trips were not reportable until the law was recently changed....
AOC and Senator Ron Wyden call on Biden to "ignore" the ruling, while the Governor of Massachusets says "I won’t let a Trump-appointed, anti-abortion judge in Texas stand in the way of mifepristone access in Massachusetts."...
A Texas Federal Judge ruled FDA approval was improper, staying his injunction for 7 days to give the government time for an emergency appeal. At the same time, a Federal Judge in Washington State issue a seemingly (but not actually) conflicting ruling....
Alliance Defending Freedom: "Sports underscore the inherent biological differences between the sexes. When society and the law try to ignore reality, people get hurt. In sports, it’s women and girls who pay the price."...
My interview on the Tony Katz Show: "It's a gross manipulation of the Republican primaries...
This will help DeSantis regardless of how the legal wrangling turns out. At one level Disney is popular, but its reputation took a big hit over the teaching of gender ideology to little kids. It's a perfect issue for DeSantis....
Team Trump tactically is conflating defending against the attacks on Trump with the necessity of having him be the nominee. That's understandable as a campaign tactic, but there's no reason Republican voters need to go along, at least not this early....
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