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William A. Jacobson

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.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2010 4 Comments

....(Psst... Don't anyone tell Frank Rich, it will upset his psychosis).--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Proposed TPM and LGF HeadlinesDems' Strategy of CrazyA Warning For The Next Scott BrownGhouls Preparing To Dance on Sparkman's GraveSo, Mr. Krugman, Who Incited This Violence?Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2010 2 Comments

Britain's health care system in many ways is our canary in the coal mine warning us about the dangers of Obamacare.What can and does go wrong in Britain is widely documented almost daily in the British press. From these reports, we learn the danger of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2010 5 Comments

Forget everything I have told you about why I started this blog.And stop sending me e-mails asking "what is a clinical law professor?"My secret is out.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1h8I91XOdw](h/t TaxProf)--------------------------------------------Related Posts:This Is Why I Named This Blog "Legal Insurrection"Thanks a Million!Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2010 2 Comments

Also known as Israel Apartheid Week, scheduled for March 1-14 (what don't these malicious idiots understand about "week"?).This is the time of the year when the internationalists, selectively outraged NGO "human rights" activists, Islamists, progressive journalists, leftist academics, self-hating Jews, and Palestinian terror apologists come...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This is the first post in this series to focus on the use of the race card by both sides of a dispute, call it "race card v. counter-race...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 8 Comments

Just when you thought it was over:With speculation mounting that US Representative William D. Delahunt will not seek reelection, Joseph P. Kennedy III, son of the former congressman and great-grandson of the Kennedy family patriarch, is eyeing a run to succeed him in the 10th...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 12 Comments

A few days ago I wrote that Obama had declared legislative war in signalling that budget reconciliation would be the way to go to pass Obama's health care plan. The doomed-to-fail health care summit was just a justification.The signals today are even clearer. Democrats assert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2010 3 Comments

It is widely assumed that Mossad assassinated what's his name, the Hamas killer rocket guy who wants to drive the Jews into the Dead Sea.While some governments are expressing shock, shock, shock that an intelligence agency would forge passports, Mossad mania has taken over Israel,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2010 28 Comments

Just another day in Spinsville, where the White House attempts to sell a plan which will deprive individuals of control over their health care in favor of federal mandates and regulations, as a plan which will put individuals in charge of their own health care:It...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2010 14 Comments

In the midst of whining about how sick and tired she is about progressives who whine, a blogger at Firedoglake writes that progressive activists need to be more like the Founding Fathers:I’m so torqued off right now I could spit. Perhaps it’s because I’m a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2010 0 Comments

That does it:Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson's lawyers: If the winter glove won't fit, you must acquit.You can falsely and maliciously call us a mob, racists, terrorists, anti-government, un-American, extremists, Nazis, "Birthers," "teabaggers," crazy, war criminals, and just about anything else, even the dreaded...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2010 4 Comments

is that this headline would not be surprising if it were at any of a number of left-wing blogs which do everything they can to smear Tea Party attendees and anyone else who opposes Obamacare and the massive expansion of government:Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2010 14 Comments

The health care fight is coming to a head. We're in the 15th round, and the health care summit to be followed by budget reconciliation is Obama's desperate attempt to land a one-two knockout punch because he is down on points.Now is not the time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2010 5 Comments

Reid: 'Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive'I wonder if he had anyone in particular in mind?--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Harry Reid, Card SharkHarry Reid Plays Every "ism" CardGreatest Sentence Ever (feat. H. Reid)Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2010 5 Comments

The pharmaceutical industry is under attack by the Obama administration and Democrats for supposedly obscene profits.Despite the industry's support for Democratic health care efforts, reached last spring in exchange for certain protections, Obama continues to demonize the industry. Obama's new plan, rolled out yesterday, increased...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2010 17 Comments

"Balloon Mortgage."I am glad that Obama released his plan this morning, when I was driving. Since I was in the car for several hours, I did not feel compelled to try to churn out a quick review. Instead, the rest of the world did it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2010 8 Comments

I really didn't care when they revoked the claim that the glaciers would disappear. I don't live near glaciers.But now the seas are not going to rise? My dream of a waterfront home is melting away faster than the glaciers:Scientists have been forced to withdraw...

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