The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-law-school/page/2/)
There is no other institution but the people. We are the ones who have to guarantee that things work. Passing a good law is just the beginning. The people being asked to implement that law are often the same people who are against these laws anyway.
Cornell Police are looking for a suspect it said graffitied Cornell Law School and Collegetown during February break.
Cornell Alum appointed by President Trump to serve as DHS’ top lawyer just five months after he fired predecessor John Mitnick.
Cornell Law School’s immigration clinics allow students to gain hands on experience with immigration law. Students are arguing to retain the residency of a South Sudanese and the asylum of a persecuted Cuban, appearing before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
As the world witnessed the Notre-Dame Cathedral, a marker of centuries of French history crumble over in fire, one Cornellian was on the ground battling to save the historic structure.
Correction appended. Cornell Law will once again be the United States’ 13th top law school, according to a leaked copy of the U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings posted yesterday on Above the Law, a well-known legal blog. Every year, U.S. News — which is best known for its annual ranking of undergraduate schools — scores 192 law schools on the basis of selectivity, post-graduation placement success, faculty resources, bar passage and peer and professional assessment scores, according to the survey’s website. While maintaining its membership to the exclusive “Top-14” — a group of schools historically placed at the top of U.S. News’ report — Cornell Law still ranks below the four Ivies that also offer a J.D. program: Yale, Harvard, Columbia and The University of Pennsylvania. This year, Cornell placed between Northwestern and Georgetown — and six spots behind Penn, its closest Ivy competitor.
For decades, the legal profession has long been a man’s game: Just over one-third of all lawyers are women, according to the most recent U.S. Census report.
At Bailey Hall, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recalled the culture shock of arriving at Princeton as an undergraduate and said she had been determined to “hold on to who I was” when she joined the nation’s highest court. She also said she preferred bourbon over beer.
Cornell is investigating a report that male, first-year Cornell Law School students ranked female first-year students on their appearance in a private group chat and whether the behavior violates Title IX policies, according to Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver.
The Sun reached out to nine professors in the law school and government department and received comment from four, one of whom signed a letter signed by more than 1,700 law professors across the country that was sent to the Senate today.