Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of Progressive America.
Hope in the midst of despair. But first, things will fall apart, so get ready....
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.
Hope in the midst of despair. But first, things will fall apart, so get ready....
Travis and Greg McMichael got life without parole. William “Roddie” Bryan got life with the possibility of parole....
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This "is a fight in many ways for our national survival”...
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UIC has imposed a reeducation and supervision program to publicly humiliate and demean a professor that would make the Maoist Red Guards blush. It is psychologically torturing a professor just because it thinks it can....
My appearance on Breitbart News Sunday On SiriusXM Radio with Joel Pollak: "Our U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries”...
On this Christmas Day 2021, some things seem insurmountable. But they are not. Don't give up. Stick together....
The NY Times obtained and published privileged documents of a party (Project Veritas) who was litigating against the NY Times. The Judge Ordered the NY Times to return and not to use the privileged documents, and to expunge the documents from its systems....
"The Native American population in the U.S. grew by a staggering 86.5% between 2010 and 2020, according to the latest U.S. Census – a rate demographers say is impossible to achieve without immigration...
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