News
Cornell Alumna Slated to be First Female to Hold Local State Supreme Court Seat
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Cornell professor Elizabeth Aherne ’95 reflects on her time on the Hill and her career in the lead up to her New York State Supreme Court election this fall.
SCOTUS
Cornell Law Professors Discuss Implications of New Supreme Court Pick
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Cornell professors weigh in on what the Supreme Court vacancy and Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination means for the 2020 election and for the country.
Money & Business
Defund or Reform Police? Cornell Experts Highlight Obstacles to Changing Law Enforcement
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“It’s not just about a one-time de-escalation training or a one-time racial sensitivity training. Those are merely band-aids.”
Black Lives Matter
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Cornell Law Clinical Faculty Respond to Racism and Police Violence
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To the Editor:
As individuals and as professors, we oppose racism in all its forms. We are outraged by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and by the killings of countless other Black people who have lost their lives as a result of racialized violence. We are also outraged by commentators, some of them attached to Ivy League Institutions, who are leading a smear campaign against Black Lives Matter. In describing the protests, they deliberately use terms like “wilding,” a racially loaded term coined in 1989 to describe the imagined actions of five innocent Black teenagers (Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray and Yusef Salaam) who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the assault of a White jogger. These commentators express rage over the sporadic looting that has taken place amidst the largely peaceful protests, calling for organized manhunts to track down those responsible. Theirs is a form of racism that gives cover to those police who use their batons and tear gas and rubber bullets and fists to silence and maim their critics.
Cornell Law
Cornell Law Classmates Protest Ousting of Inspector General Michael Atkinson J.D. ’91
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Gideon Aronoff J.D. ’91, who authored the letter to the editor, called Trump’s removal “politically motivated,” arguing that Atkinson acted in line with his role under federal law and followed Cornell Law’s motto: “lawyers in the best sense.”
david french
Cornell Republicans to Host Former Cornell Law Professor and Conservative Writer David French
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Best-selling conservative author, Iraq War veteran and National Review commentator David French will speak at Cornell University on September 18 at the invitation of the Cornell University College Republicans.
One Cornell
Visioning Grants Will Fund Research in Humanities, Science, Music in New York City
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Four proposals were selected from a pool of 30 applications. A committee surveyed Cornell students and faculty from both campuses in order to make their final decisions on the recipients of $250,000 in grant money.
obituary
Law Prof. James Henderson Jr., Special Master in 9/11 Victims Litigation Case, Dies at Age 81
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Prof. James Henderson Jr., Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law Emeritus, died on July 2 at 81. For nearly 30 years, he taught tort and product liability law at Cornell creating a lasting impact on the field.
Cornell Law
From Homeless to Mayor: Cornell Law Alumnus Elected Kansas City Mayor
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On June 18, Quinton Lucas J.D. ’09 was elected mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. Lucas, 34, ran on a platform focused on expanding affordable housing, improving healthcare in the community, and criminal justice reform. During his run for mayor, Lucas was endorsed by the local police department, fire department and teachers’ union.
Cornell Law
Cornell Law Holds 13-Spot, But Trails Ivy Rivals in Annual Law School Ranking
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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.