A new Securities Law Clinic has opened at the Cornell Law School to provide free legal services to investors in central New York who have suffered losses due to fraud or other improper conduct. (Oct. 28, 2008)
A Cornell study has identified four strategies that restaurants use to reap higher wine sales: including the wine list on the food menu and listing prices without a dollar sign. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Professors Michael Heise and Marty Wells discuss how they collaborate on empirical legal research, applying advanced data science and statistical analyses to look at legal issues that affect people’s lives as well as examining the judiciary system and how it operates.
Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi death row inmate, had been tried six times for four murders he says he did not commit. In June 2019, a Cornell Law School team convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that he had been the victim of racial bias.
After 15 students briefly pitched their business ideas to a panel, the judges and audience chose three winners Oct. 27 for their viability and uniqueness. (Nov. 1, 2010)
A new Web-based tool developed at Cornell that helps the university manage safety inspections on more than 6,500 research spaces has won national recognition and spawned a new startup enterprise. (Dec. 16, 2011)
H. Fisk Johnson '79, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, will speak about challenges arising from the global consumption crisis at the annual Hatfield Lecture Oct. 22 in the Statler Hall Auditorium. (Oct. 15, 2009)
N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Dec. 8 that he will award $49.4 million to implement the plan proposed by the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council to stimulate local economic growth. (Dec. 8, 2011)