The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-law/page/2/)
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.
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.
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.
Muna Ndulo, Cornell Law professor, was recently named as an advisor to the United Nations. He will be handling issues of sexual misconduct of deployed soldiers on UN peacekeeping missions.
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.
The Makwanyane institute is a part of the broader international abolitionist movement to abolish the death penalty and strengthens an African movement often overlooked, according to Prof. Sandra Babcock, law.
Prof. William Jacobson, law — known for posting conservative-leaning opinions on his blog, Legal Insurrection — gave a lecture to Vassar students on free speech on college campuses