Professor Sidney Tarrow's new book, “The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012,” looks at role of language in social and political movements.
Sun-Uk Kim, president of Ewha Womans University in South Korea, delivered the Law School's Clarke Lecture Oct. 21 and also signed a memorandum of understanding with Cornell.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Generations of students in the Law School's Capital Punishment Clinic have worked on the case of Johnny Ringo Pearson, an intellectually challenged man accused of kidnap, rape and murder.
Kimberlé Crenshaw '81, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law and Columbia Law and specialist in race and gender theory, will present a lecture and several other talks and participate in meetings.
Since its launch by Cornell Law School's Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture in 2012, Meridian 180's influence on Southeast Asian policy has grown.
Law professor Charles K. Whitehead argues that regulation of bankers' compensation must include the pay for non-senior executives, which could remove the incentive for traders and others to take the kind of high risks that contributed to the financial crisis of 2007.
