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.
Update -- The death of the ballot initiative movement as Court gives de facto veto power to government officials who want to lose a case....
Full opinion embedded at bottom of post. Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:02 Amy Howe: 5-4 per Kennedy. 10:02 Amy Howe: Roberts dissents. Scalia dissents. Equal protection. 10:02 Amy Howe: Alito dissents, joined by Thomas in part. 10:03 Amy Howe: DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of...
Our decision in no way affects the permanent, nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting found in §2.Here's the ignorant and confused reaction: https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/349560354503794688 https://twitter.com/aaldef/status/349569255848673281 https://twitter.com/jvdet/status/349568907528511489 https://twitter.com/TPM/status/349571684111613952 https://twitter.com/donnabrazile/status/349538552117329921 https://twitter.com/DWStweets/status/349535772652740610
NOTE: Tomorrow is the last opinion day -- so we will get gay marriage and DOMA decisions. Be here at 10 a.m. Section 4 of Voting Rights Act held invalid. Full Opinion embedded at bottom of this post. Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:10 Amy Howe: Shelby County. The...
The amnesty charade which has taken place in the Senate with the visible advocacy of several Republican Senators -- Rubio, McCain, Graham, Corker, Hoeven -- and the assistance of 10 other Republican Senators who voted for cloture is just about the last straw. I'm not going...
Unfortunately. From Russell, spotted in New Jersey: ...
[Note -- More decisions will be released Tuesday -- check back here at 10 a.m.] Full opinion embedded at bottom of post Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:14 Amy Howe: The opoinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. 10:15 Amy Howe: The holding is because the Fifth...
That's what today's vote on the Corker amended immigration bill is about. The Senate bill cannot pass the House, there's been no public debate and consensus within the Republican Party on the key issues of legalization and citizenship for law-breakers, and most if not all of...
Longtime readers know that Boney M and I go way back. For some reason I couldn't get this song out of my head last night. The words are from Psalms 137:1: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. https://youtu.be/ta42xU2UXLA Which continues: If...
Tomorrow will be a busy law day. 1. Zimmerman Trial Opening Statement and Prosecution case-- 9 a.m. We'll have our live coverage, including video embed and live Twitter stream, as well as commentary during the day and in an end-of-day wrap up from Andrew Branca. If you...
We covered the continuing protests in Turkey yesterday, Protests in Turkey reignite after relatively quiet week. Not so sure I want to visit right now. I hear that dinner in Istanbul may give you gas: https://twitter.com/YigalSchleifer/status/348567191702106112 https://twitter.com/YigalSchleifer/status/348567933267607552 At least it's better than Ankara, where you'll get hosed: https://twitter.com/Nivrep_Te/statuses/348540917218680834...
On Monday the Senate is scheduled to vote on a 1,200-page amendment offered by Sen. Bob Corker, R- Tenn., and Sen. John Hoeven, R- N.D., which has an initial cost of $46.3 billion – money to be used hire 20,000 Border Patrol agents and to deploy them along the Mexican border, as well as building add border fencing and setting up an electronic visa entry/exit system at all air and sea ports of entry where U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are currently deployed. “The bill will pass,” Graham said on Fox News Sunday. “I think we are on the verge of getting 70 votes. That is my goal. It's always been my goal. We are very, very close to 70 votes. The Hoeven-Corker Amendment I think gets us over the top.”
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But don't think this will gain any love for Republicans: https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/348814113075511296 Via The Hill:A senior Democratic senator predicted Sunday there could be massive demonstrations in Washington if House Republicans try to block a bill to grant legal status to millions of immigrants. Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Senate immigration reform bill, said House Republicans would likely spark massive civil rights rallies if they try to quash measures to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country. This has the potential of becoming the next major civil rights movement. I could envision in the late summer or early fall if Boehner tries to bottle the bill up or put something in without a path to citizenship — if there’s no path to citizenship, there’s not a bill — but if he tries to bottle it up or do things like that, I could see a million people on the Mall in Washington,” Schumer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Glenn Greenwald appeared on Meet The Press this morning. The interview is garnering headlines, mostly for David Gregory's suggestion that Greenwald is not a real journalist and question as to why Greenwald should not be prosecuted. Not being prosecuted, of course, is something David Gregory knows a...
Comment worth considering from Adios Taxifornia: bannor | June 21, 2013 at 7:54 am The problem with a lot of people that flee California is they continue to vote for the same type of people and idea that wrecked that state. Ask Colorado. From the Tip Line: janitor | June...
The race issue in the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin has been pushed early and often. We've covered the false accusations that Zimmerman called Trayvon Martin a "coon" on the initial 911 call, and that Zimmerman suggested that Martin was suspicious because black (that was an...
Turkish riot police fired water cannon to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in central Istanbul on Saturday, as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan castigated those behind protests he said had played into the hands of Turkey's enemies. The latest unrest in Taksim Square punctured six days of relative calm in Turkey's biggest city, although it was a long way from matching the ferocity of previous clashes there and in other cities that began more than three weeks ago. Demonstrators threw carnations at a phalanx of officers carrying shields who slowly advanced towards them, flanked by water cannon, to clear the square. "Police, don't betray your people!" activists shouted after they had been scattered into streets leading to Taksim. Witnesses said police later used teargas to disperse pockets of protesters on a main shopping street nearby. Hours earlier, Erdogan had told thousands of supporters in the Black Sea city of Samsun that the unrest had played into the hands of Turkey's enemies.This comes on top of a crackdown on social media and intimidation of the media which appeared to have crushed the protests. The "standing man" silent protests became a symbol of passive resistence. https://twitter.com/Nivrep_Te/status/348540917218680834 https://twitter.com/arzugeybulla/status/348540565236879360 https://twitter.com/Sedat2aral/status/348535744442298369
