At Law School, Bulgarian ambassador to U.S. says checks and balances make democracy work

How do former dictatorial regimes become democracies? They begin by reshaping the laws that govern society, said Elena Poptodorova to a roomful of law students in G85 Myron Taylor Hall, Feb. 11.

Harvard's Lucie E. White will deliver Law School's Stevens Lecture, April 11

Anti-poverty law specialist Lucie E. White, the Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver Cornell Law School's Robert S. Stevens Lecture, April 11.

Abstinence-only sex education is unconstitutional, suggest two legal experts

Is abstinence-only sex education unconstitutional? Yes, say a Cornell Law School professor and a Washington, D.C., attorney, because it has the purpose and effect of endorsing a religious agenda.

High-tech amphitheater to be dedicated at Cornell Law School Nov.13

A significant gift from a Cornell Law School alumnus has helped transform an ordinary classroom in Myron Taylor Hall into a fully wired and equipped high-tech facility. The Harriet Stein Mancuso '73 Amphitheater.

Director of Tribal Law and Government Center to present lecture on Iroquois land claims at Cornell Oct. 23

Robert B. Porter, professor of law and director of the Tribal Law and Government Center at the University of Kansas, will present a lecture, "Resolving Iroquois Land Claims," Monday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in 290 Myron Taylor Hall.

First Amendment advocate to talk about school vouchers and religious liberty, Oct. 23

Vincent Blasi, a law scholar and advocate and defender of the First Amendment right to free speech, will deliver this years annual Frank Irvine Lecture at Cornell University Law School Monday, Oct. 23.

Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project founder, to speak here Sept. 27; Criminal lawyer for Louima also helped prove innocence of 40 clients

Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.

CU Law institute web site has latest legal information, from Miranda to Elian

Behind every famous web site, from Amazon to Priceline, is a common-sense idea that somehow no one thought of before. The genius behind the Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell's most-accessed web site, is that its authors correctly guessed there were millions of people out there who needed to know U.S. laws and court decisions.

Cornell small-business clinic offers legal, business and other services to local child-care providers

How should a home-based child-care provider set up a partnership, plan her liability insurance and more. These a few challenges facing an interdisciplinary team of 12 Cornell University students working as part of the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business Project.