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William A. Jacobson is an American lawyer,
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professor, and conservative
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Education

Jacobson is a 1981 ''
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'' graduate of
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. He received his J.D. degree in 1984 from
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. 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.


Career


Early career

From 1984 to 1993, Jacobson practiced litigation with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and with Miller & Wrubel in New York City.https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty_cvs/Jacobson.pdf From 1993 to 2007, he was a litigator in Providence, Rhode Island, with a civil litigation and arbitration practice. His work was focused around investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry.


Cornell Law School

In 2007, Jacobson joined
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as a Clinical Professor of Law. 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
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''Legal Insurrection''

Jacobson is author of the conservative law
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, ''Legal Insurrection'', which was founded in 2008.LI About
Retrieved 2015-03-29
As of July 2014, the TaxProf blog ranked Legal Insurrection as the third most visited blog run by a law professor for the year prior. As of January 2011, ''Legal Insurrection'' was ranked number 24 in politics, and number 67 overall, by Technorati, and number 7 for top legal blogs by Avvo.


Author

Jacobson is co-author of the ''Securities Arbitration Desk Reference'' ( Thomson-Reuters). Jacobson is a conservative
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, writing for a variety of outlets. He is a contributor to '' Politico''s "Arena".


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
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Israel and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)

Jacobson has lobbied against the BDS movement. 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), Cornell University (sponsored by Cornellians For Israel), Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and the Florida Region of CAMERA. When Palestinian activist
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spoke to third graders at an elementary school in Ithaca, New York, in 2015, Jacobson covered the event on his blog. Jacobson filed a
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request with the
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(ICSD) to further investigate the circumstances surrounding the speaking event. After a year-long court battle with the ICSD demanding that the ICSD remove extensive redactions in the documents provided, a judge sided with Jacobson, after which the ICSD was ordered to release the video of the event. 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;" a child is also heard saying, "When I grow up, I'm going to go to Palestine and protest."


YouTube

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


Race

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.""Cornell professor who criticized Black Lives Matter faces student boycott"
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This caused controversy and Cornell Law School students called for action against him. In February 2021, Jacobson launched the website CriticalRace.org, a database listing the training activities and actions of college administrations pertaining to critical race training and anti-racism initiatives.


Federal COVID-19 lawsuit

In January 2022, Jacobson filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Mary T. Bassett, then Acting Commissioner of the New York Department of Health, challenging the constitutionality of state health department that considers race as a risk factor in the distribution of COVID-19 treatments. The lawsuit argues the department directive is "patently unconstitutional" because it uses racial preferences in determining whether someone qualifies to receive them, which according to the lawsuit would violate the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act and other federal statutes.


Awards

* Blogger of the Year, Conservative Political Action Conference Red Carpet Bloggers Awards, March 2014.


References


External links


Legal Insurrection
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