Hannah McKinney '15 received the John F. Kennedy Memorial Award May 4 to help her pursue a career in public service. The honor includes a $12,000 award.
In his "Last Lecture" April 29, law professor John Blume spoke of the challenges he’s faced as a defense lawyer for people on death row and the life lessons he’d like to impart to young students.
Wrongful convictions occur for a number of reasons, but Cornell research is showing how to address some of those factors and lead to more accurate verdicts, according to a Charter Day Weekend panel.
The Cornell Law Review celebrated 100 years of publication April 15 with an event in the Law School. The review has featured groundbreaking legal scholarship and "a number of undisputed classics."
Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.
Panelists will discuss a national effort being organized by lawyers and activists to end the practice of family detention of refuge seekers in a panel discussion on campus April 16.
At the 2015 LALSA, BLSA and NALSA Professional Development boot camp March 13-14, first-year law students came together to prepare for the annual August job fair.
Colleagues from Cornell and elsewhere celebrated publication of law professor Jens Ohlin’s “The Assault on International Law,” which among other things looks at U.S. hostility to international law.
