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.
Something is wrong with the culture at Stanford Law School, and many (most) law schools. Let's address that issue. ...
Maybe it's better for the greater good of society to let Stanford Law School bear the consequences of its obsession with DEI, rather than removing a figurehead and pretenting that the problem is solved....
Intimidation of conservative Supreme Court Justices, including protests at their homes, has normalized intimidation of conservative jurists. It's no surprise that it has trickled down to elite law schools and an attack on Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan. ...
Non-stop hecking ended event, and when 5th Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan asked for an administrator to help the situation, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbachtook the stage and berated the Judge....
Government withholding the video was "a dagger in the heart of our American justice system"...
"Biden has driven a Mack truck through this [narrow statutory] loophole, releasing almost a million immigrants into the U.S. through the parole power alone. This is clearly illegal, and 20 states have sued Biden to end the program."...
My appearance on the Matt Allen Show on how to stop equity discrimination: "Sometimes when people get publicity on bad things they're doing, they stop doing it. That doesn't seem to be the case with the Providence School District."...
As affirmative action likely comes to an end later this SCOTUS term, higher ed will not give up its obsession with racial preferences, it'll just eliminate the key type of evidence relied upon by the Asian students in the Harvard case: Standardized test scores....
My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer about the launch of EqualProtect.org: "as long as each individual is being treated fairly without regard to race, then group outcomes don't matter. We don't buy into, I don't accept, that group measurements are the way to measure fairness."...
WaPo: "clashes in a tense tug of war between two arms of the Justice Department over how aggressively to pursue a criminal investigation of a former president...
Christopher Wray: The "origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan."...
To understand that a Wuhan lab leak was the most likely scenario you had to ignore the mainstream U.S. media, read Leslie Eastman at Legal Insurrection, and just use common sense....
Compares racially discriminatory hiring program to picking one academic field to support over another: "It's not anything against other [white] teachers, just that's an area, just like could be science teachers."...
The whistleblowers help by James O'Keefe are standing by their man as Project Veritas forces out its founder and most public face....
