William A. Jacobson

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William A. Jacobson
EducationHamilton College (B.A.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)
OccupationLawyer
Law school professor
Blogger
EmployerCornell Law School
TitleProfessor

William A. Jacobson is an American lawyer, Cornell Law School professor, and conservative blogger. He has "a national reputation as a leading practitioner in securities arbitration."[1] His cases have been covered by The Wall Street Journal,[2]The Boston Globe,[3] The Providence Journal,[4] TheStreet.com,[5] RegisteredRep.com,[6] and Investment News.[7]

Education[]

Jacobson is a 1981 summa cum laude graduate of Hamilton College.[8][9] He received his J.D. degree in 1984 from Harvard Law School.[8][9] During his time at Harvard Law School, Jacobson served as Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal, for which he wrote a Case Comment entitled "Process Due Resident Aliens Upon Entering the United States," 24 Harv. Int’l Law J. 198, and as Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.[10][11]

Career[]

Early career[]

From 1984 to 1993, Jacobson practiced litigation with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and with Miller & Wrubel in New York City.[12] From 1993 to 2007, he was a litigator in Providence, Rhode Island, with a civil litigation and arbitration practice.[13] His work was focused around investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry.[1][12]

Cornell Law School[]

In 2007, Jacobson joined Cornell Law School as a Clinical Professor of Law.[9] He is also the Director of the law school's Securities Law Clinic, which provides legal services to small investors in upstate New York who have been the victims of investment fraud.[1][14]

Legal Insurrection[]

Jacobson is author of the conservative law blog, Legal Insurrection, which was founded in 2008.[15][16] As of January 2011, Legal Insurrection was ranked number 24 in politics, and number 67 overall, by Technorati,[17] and number 7 for top legal blogs by Avvo.[18]

Jacobson is a conservative pundit, writing for a variety of outlets. He is a contributor to Politico's "Arena".[19]

Author[]

Jacobson is co-author of the Securities Arbitration Desk Reference (Thomson-Reuters).[9]

Activities[]

Elizabeth Warren[]

During Senator Elizabeth Warren's 2012 U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Scott Brown, Jacobson criticized Warren's claim that she was 1/32nd Cherokee Indian.[20][21]

Israel and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)[]

Jacobson has lobbied against the BDS movement.[22][23][24][25] He has participated in numerous speaking engagements on the matter, most notably events at Harvard Law School (hosted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) in association with Alliance for Israel),[26][27][28] Cornell University (sponsored by Cornellians For Israel),[29] Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors,[30] Vassar College (a Vassar Conservative Libertarian Union event),[31] and the Florida Region of CAMERA.[32]

When Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi spoke to third graders at an elementary school in Ithaca, New York, in 2015, Jacobson covered the event on his blog.[33] Jacobson filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) to further investigate the circumstances surrounding the speaking event.[33] After a year-long court battle with the ICSD demanding that the ICSD remove extensive redactions in the documents provided,[34] a judge sided with Jacobson, after which the ICSD was ordered to release the video of the event.[35][33] That video included one of the speakers saying to the children, "You can defend us, you can be freedom fighters for Palestine, you can bring peace;"[36] a child is also heard saying, "When I grow up, I'm going to go to Palestine and protest."[35]

YouTube[]

On January 13, 2017, Jacobson's YouTube channel was taken down, with YouTube citing copyright violations.[37] However, Jacobson stated that he was targeted for his conservative political views.[37] His channel was restored on January 15, 2017.[38]

Black Lives Matter[]

In 2020, Jacobson authored two articles that criticized the history of Black Lives Matter. Jacobson described Black Lives Matter's founders as "anti-American, anti-capitalist activists, who want to destroy capitalism, in an act of revenge."[39] This caused controversy and Cornell Law School students called for action against him.[39]

2020 election[]

Shortly before the 2020 presidential election, Jacobson wrote a piece implying that Trump would be justified to not concede the election if he lost, claiming that Democrats will do the same as well as cheat. Jacobson wrote "The Red Mirage theory, that Trump will have a significant lead on Election Night, but will lose when mail-in ballots are counted, is the excuse for Democrats to spend weeks trying to count ballots in Democrat areas that arrive late or that don’t comply with the rules, and to disqualify valid ballots in Republican areas."[40]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "William A. Jacobson". cornell.edu.
  2. ^ "Former Salomon Manager Wins $1.9 Million in Arbitration Case". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  3. ^ "Galvin alleges Oppenheimer was lax in preventing fraud," The Boston Globe, August 3, 2006
  4. ^ "Broker accused of victimizing Mass. couple". www.brokeragesdaytrading.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  5. ^ "Oppenheimer Has Heart of Stone, Ethics of Putty" Archived 2012-10-11 at the Wayback Machine TheStreet.com, July 10, 2007
  6. ^ "Citigroup Wins Long, Strange CAP Battle" RegisteredRep.com, October 4, 2006
  7. ^ "No shot at third strike for former Smith Barney rep". investmentnews.com.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jacobson, William A." vivo.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d [1]
  10. ^ "Editorial Board, 25 Harvard International Law Journal, 1984". heinonline.org. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  11. ^ "Cornell Law Professor to Discuss Academic Freedom - Hamilton College". www.hamilton.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b [2]
  13. ^ "William A Jacobson, JD - SPME". SPME. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  14. ^ [3]
  15. ^ "Blogger: User Profile: William A. Jacobson". blogger.com.
  16. ^ LI About, Retrieved 2015-03-29
  17. ^ Technorati page for Legal Insurrection Archived 2011-01-12 at the Wayback Machine, January 26, 2010
  18. ^ Avvo – Top Legal Blogs[permanent dead link], January 26, 2010
  19. ^ Contributor profile, The Arena
  20. ^ "How Warren fumbled first controversy". POLITICO. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  21. ^ "NightSide - Professor William Jacobson Talks With Dan Rea About Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren". CBS. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  22. ^ "When Students Vote on Israel's Demise - Commentary Magazine". Commentary Magazine. 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  23. ^ "Partners in protest: The anti-Israel, cop-bash link". New York Post. 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  24. ^ "Anti-Semitism at CU Gets Response". Ithaca Times. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  25. ^ "Cornell student government tables Israel divestment, averting Passover vote". JNS.org. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  26. ^ "Academics unpack BDS, anti–Semitism at media watchdog's national conference". American Israelite. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  27. ^ "War by Other Means: Israel, BDS and the Campus". JewishBoston. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  28. ^ "The REAL History of BDS Movement, by Prof. William Jacobson (Legal Insurrection via EoZ)". Israel Activist Alliance. 2016-12-30. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  29. ^ "Cornell Prof. Lectures on Ithaca Elementary School Anti-Israel Event". The Cornell Review. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  30. ^ How the Academic Boycott of Israel Hurts American Students with Professor William Jacobson, Esq., 2014-06-29, retrieved 2017-09-12
  31. ^ "Blog: 'Vile at Vassar'". www.americanthinker.com. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  32. ^ "CAMERA on campus". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  33. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Judge sends Ithaca schools a message over pro-Palestinian speaker". The Ithaca Voice. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  34. ^ "ICSD to release video of controversial talk". Ithaca Journal. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  35. ^ Jump up to: a b "Video shows pro-Palestinian indoctrination of 3rd graders in NY school". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  36. ^ "New York schoolchildren outrageously shown anti-Israel propaganda during presentation". Express.co.uk. 2016-12-16. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  37. ^ Jump up to: a b Rogers, James (January 13, 2017). "YouTube removes influential conservative website's channel". Fox News. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  38. ^ Rogers, James (January 16, 2017). "YouTube restores influential conservative website's channel". Fox News. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  39. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cornell professor who criticized Black Lives Matter faces student boycott". Foxnews.com. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  40. ^ Kilgore, Ed (2020-09-08). "Trump Backers Make a Case for Stealing Election, Before Biden Gets the Chance". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  41. ^ "Covering CPAC 2014: What the mainstream media got wrong". The Jewish Star. Retrieved 2017-09-21.

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