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.
Rep. Jim Jordan's question gets to the heart of how the Biden classified records scandal may be more than it seems....
Looks like DeSantis is gathering info to gut the DEI bureaucracy, which could achieve the goals of The Stop Woke Act without dictating what professors can say or teach, and possibly insulating the reforms from the type of judicial injunction already granted....
"a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden's private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there."...
Doesn't look promising that the perp(s) will be identified....
"Twitter warned politicians and media the not only lacked evidence, but had evidence the accounts weren’t Russian – and were roundly ignored."...
The walls were closing in on Trump, Sonny Hostin goes all conspiracy nutter: "Does it feel like the Republicans are behind it?"...
Here we go. Can't wait to hear the Democrat media spin this one away....
On Prof. Glenn Reynold's new Substack, Prof. Perry explains his success fighting politically-correct bigotry: "In 2022 alone, the OCR resolved 170 violations of Title VI and IX at 97 colleges and universities based on my complaints...
Complaint: "Each of the defendant medical schools and universities, along with nearly every medical school and university in the United States, discriminates on account of race and sex when admitting students by giving discriminatory preferences to females and non-Asian minorities, and by discriminating against whites,...
Will there be FBI Raids? CNN: "The classified materials included some top-secret files with the 'sensitive compartmented information' designation, also known as SCI, which is used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources."...
Harvard Law Prof. and MSNBC Trump Collusion Star Laurence Tribe, who never met an investigation of Republicans he didn't love, is apoplectic, calling it a plan "to hound — er, investigate — the investigators (including those investigating the coup/insurrection leading to Jan 6)"...
This is how to do it. Rufo: "Left-wing radicals have spent the past fifty years on a 'long march through the institutions.' We are going to reverse that process, starting now. Gov. DeSantis has laid out a vision for recapturing the institutions and restoring them...
In light of Bush's vile racist attack on Republican Byron Donalds, it's worth revisiting how Bush glorified someone who advocated violence against cops: "St. Louis and I rise today in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in memory of our brother Bassem Masri, a Ferguson...
Our CriticalRace.org website is a focus of an article on the pushback against Critical Race Theory. The word "insurrection" in Legal Insurrection apparently left a professor at Florida State shaking in her boots. We've used our name since October 2008. Most people chuckle. We make...
Are they really afraid of DeSantis, or is this some sort of 3D chess, getting people to think they are afraid of DeSantis, but they really are afraid of Trump, so they figure that if they portray DeSantis as Worse Than Trump™ that will make...
It can't continue on this trajectory. Something has to give. Be prepared....
Father Jeff Younger says his son "now subject to being chemically castrated in California," but Texas judges say that's not true: "Father misreads California’s new law."...
11th Circuit en banc finds St John's County, Florida, transgender bathroom policy lawful: "separating school bathrooms based on biological sex passes constitutional muster and comports with Title IX."...
