Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Lang and other experts on international trade will offer insight into a controversial new international investment agreement Friday, March 6, at the Cornell Law School.
Attorneys, legal scholars and environmentalists will participate in a Cornell Law School symposium, "Changing of the Guardian: Re-examining the Role of the Federal Government in the Protection of Endangered Species and Environmental Habitat," Feb. 27 and 28.
A book by Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell professor of law, has been named one of the best scholarly works of 1997 by the Association of American Publishers. Alexander's Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal.
Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has rescheduled his appearance at the Cornell Law School for Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Room G90 of Myron Taylor Hall.
Larry Palmer, professor of law at Cornell University, has been named as a member of the board of directors of the American Medical Association's National Patient Safety Foundation.
Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.
Jan Schlichtmann JD '77, the principal plaintiffs' attorney in a major environmental civil case documented in the paperback best seller A Civil Action, will participate in a panel discussion on March 26.