Schwab to step down as Law School dean

After a decade as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, Stewart J. Schwab will step down in June 2014. Schwab’s second term as dean ends in December, and he will stay on for the spring term.

Yale-Loehr says 2013 immigration reform is unlikely

The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill to overhaul immigration laws but the House will probably not vote on it this year, said adjunct professor of law, Stephen Yale-Loehr '77, J.D. '81, at a press briefing May 17 in Washington, D.C.

Alumnus Daniel Werfel to lead scandal-rocked IRS

Daniel Werfel '93 will become acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service May 22.

Law School report targets Argentine women prisoners

Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and International Human Rights Clinic has issued a report on Argentine women in prison and recommends reform of drug sentencing.

Hospital executive urges radical health care reform

Hospital executive Reginald M. Ballantyne III, MBA '67, discussed his ideas for health care reform at the Sloan Program in Health Administration's alumni weekend May 4.

Hod Lipson briefs Congress on 3-D printing

Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, brief a Congressional committee on the impact of 3-D printing technology on manufacturing April 24.

Film reveals new footage of Soviet bioweapons program

A new documentary film created by two Cornell faculty members and others probes the moral dimensions of the Soviet bioweapons program.

Lecturer says labor law divide is sign of broader conflict

Former National Labor Relations Board chair Wilma Liebman talked about the troubled state of U.S. labor law in her Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture April 29.

Global Law Brigade offers help on Panama trip

Over spring break, 26 Cornell students offered legal education to disenfranchised Panamanians through the student group Global Law Brigade.