“One of the biggest problems in this area has been overly broadly defined noncompete clauses that cover large geographic areas. There are clauses that apply beyond a single state and that wouldn’t be an automatic bar to enforceability in the courts,” says Alexander Colvin, dean of the ILR School.  

Daniel Alpert, senior fellow in financial macroeconomics at the Law School, talks about how both inflation and deflation impact the economy. 

“The phosphine is not telling us about the biology of Venus,” says Jonathan Lunine, professor of astronomy and co-author of the paper. “It’s telling us about the geology. Science is pointing to a planet that has active explosive volcanism today or in the very recent past.”

“Different workers have different needs,” says Ian Greer, senior research associate in the ILR School. “For some of them the real barrier is not money, it is not the low wage, but it is the schedule. For many workers health insurance is a huge need. They will take a lower wage job so their family can have health insurance.” 

“If you want to build confidence in the criminal legal system, you can’t have circumstances where people cheated and won,” says Carlton Williams, assistant clinical professor of law.

“We should be doing anything we can to trim the rate of warming,” says Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. “We can do a lot of damage in the next few years. You actually run the risk of irreversible, catastrophic warming.” 

“China won’t be pushed around, it’s no longer weak,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government. “The more they take flak, the more they’re going to give it back.”

“Investing in emerging markets is a high-risk, high-reward proposition,” says Eswar Prasad, a trade-policy professor at Cornell University. “Many emerging markets have done well growth-wise, and their financial markets have had periods of success, but it tends not to last too long.”

“The basis for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision was that Cosby had a binding and enforceable non-prosecution agreement. He should have never been prosecuted,”  says Randy Zelin, a professor at Cornell Law School. “Weinstein has never claimed to have such an agreement.” 

“The fact that he was charged with conspiracy indicates that he faces years, not months, in prison if convicted,” said Jens David Ohlin, dean of the Law School. “Does that mean he will cooperate with New York prosecutors to spare himself? Maybe or maybe not. Self-interest and loyalty are two opposing forces, and both can be powerful.” 

“A big focus today is breeding for a changing climate,” says Abraham Stroock, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. “We want to discover new traits and their genetic origins for resilience in a hot and dry climate of our future—of our today in many parts of the world.” 

“Given our efforts to jump start the economy after the pandemic, it is particularly unfortunate that the Senate failed to extend the program,” says Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.