Cornell University's Law School has one of the most published faculties in the country. According to the Chicago-Kent College of Law Review Faculty Scholarship Survey, Cornell has the third most prolific law faculty in the nation.
High school teachers from across North America and from as far away as Asia will travel to Cornell University to be honored by their former students on May 22. The students, honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars, represent the top 5 percent of Cornell's 1996 graduating class.
The Cornell Law School will confer degrees on 224 students during convocation ceremonies Sunday, May 19, at 2 p.m. in Bailey Hall on the Cornell campus.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. In his first commencement ceremony since assuming the Cornell presidency on July 1, 1995, Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates.
Edward J. Lawler, professor of organizational behavior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been nominated to serve a five-and-a- half-year term as dean of the school, beginning Jan. 1, 1997.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at Schoellkopf Stadium at 11 a.m. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will present an address at Senior Convocation.
Winnie F. Taylor, professor of law at Cornell University since 1990, has been appointed associate provost, President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Don M. Randel announced on May 1.
Regulations on law and government policies regarding the Internet will be examined by law professors, attorneys, a representative of America Online and the president of Morality in Media at a symposium on April 12.
