Clinical, Advocacy, and Skills Programs “For many of our students, clinical, advocacy, and skills courses provide the most rewarding and self-revelatory experiences of law school. Cornell Law has long introduced students to the sort of experiential learning that, especially when it occurs in real-life settings, constitutes the core of skills education.� John H. Blume, Director of Clinical, Advocacy, and Skills Programs; Director, Cornell DeathDeath Penalty Project; Professor of Law
A Message from the Director At Cornell Law School, our students are provided with both a strong doctrinal program and a rigorous and varied set of clinical and skills courses. For many of our students, clinical, advocacy, and skills courses provide the most rewarding and self-revelatory experiences of law school. Cornell Law has long introduced students to the sort of experiential learning that, especially when it occurs in real-life settings, constitutes the core of skills education. Our commitment to skills education and public service is not only longstanding, but also rich and diverse. Our clinical program, which began in the 1970s, now includes a broad array of clinical experiences for students and also provides needed legal services to underserved populations locally, nationally and internationally. Our current programs, described in detail in this brochure, include five clinics taught by full-time members of the faculty, additional clinics supervised by experienced practitioners serving as adjunct professors, and a number of intensive externships and field placements. In these varied settings, students not only attempt to solve individual clients’ legal problems but also address larger systemic issues and the need for legal reform. For example, students may find themselves representing a discharged worker in a labor arbitration, a criminal defendant charged with a felony, a senior citizen who fell victim to a fraudulent investment and lost her retirement funds, or an unemployed worker wrongfully denied benefits. They may assist in preparing a state post-conviction challenge on behalf of a wrongfully convicted person or a federal habeas petition for a death row
inmate. They may provide support to organizations protecting women from acid violence in Southeast Asia. Other opportunities include working at the local district attorney’s or U.S. Attorney’s office or in state and local government. Regardless of whether they go on to careers in public interest law or in the private sector, our clinic students gain practical legal skills beyond the scope of most traditional law school classes, and they also begin to hone a sense of legal judgment and ethical lawyering that truly makes a “lawyer in the best sense.” Our clinical, advocacy, and skills programs are growing and evolving to meet the needs not only of our students but also of the populations we serve. In January 2011, Dean Schwab created the position of Director of Clinical, Advocacy, and Skills Programs to facilitate the growth and direction of our experiential learning offerings. I am excited to be the first Director, as ours is a program on the rise. Evidence of that growth is the addition of Susan Hazeldean to our faculty as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, where she will offer a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights Clinic in the spring
of 2012. Susan joins an already strong, experienced, and dedicated core of clinical professors who are committed to making our clinical program one of the best in the country. Sincerely,
John H. Blume Director of Clinical, Advocacy and Skills Programs; Director, Cornell Death Project; Professor of Law
Capi tal Def ens e Cli ni cs The Capital Appellate Clinic and Capital Punishment Clinics, in conjunction with the Cornell Death Penalty Project, enable students to participate in the litigation of death penalty cases. The Clinics provide representation to individuals from a variety of jurisdictions at all stages of the criminal process, from jury trials and direct appeals, to state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus review, to proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United States. Under the supervision of faculty members experienced in capital litigation, clinic students work as members of legal teams assembled to meet the needs of individual cases. Students participate in every aspect of the representation. They take part in formulating case theories and strategies; they learn to review court records, identify issues and develop legal arguments; they conduct investigations, a task that frequently involves meeting with and interviewing clients or potential witnesses, such as mental health experts; and they often have opportunities to attend and observe court proceedings in Clinic cases. In addition to client representation, the Clinics involve a series of classroom sessions designed to enhance students’ knowledge of relevant law and develop their investigation and advocacy skills. Through these sessions, students are introduced to the rules and doctrines unique to capital cases and to the sequence of steps that a typical capital case follows as it proceeds through the state and federal courts. Students also take part in interactive exercises on interviewing, case theory development, and persuasion.
“The capital litigation clinic was my most valuable law school experience. It gave me an opportunity to learn practical skills that I did not get in any other course, and it showed me that I could use my career in law to do something good.” Emily C. Paavola ’05, Executive Director, Death Penalty Resource & Defense Center
Students participate in the litigation of death penalty cases at all stages of the criminal process.
Chi ld Advocacy Each student in the Child Advocacy Clinic is assigned to a local attorney who has been appointed to represent children (and in some cases, parents) in Family Court in Tompkins County or surrounding areas. The attorneys and students work together on all aspects of representation, including home visits, pre-trial conferences, negotiation sessions, client and parent interviews, litigation documents, and hearings. The student may also help the attorney with appellate work. A classroom component of the Clinic allows students to learn the substantive law of Family Court and to share their insights and experiences with one another. In addition to the Clinical course, each semester the Child Advocacy program places one student in the local Attorneys for Children Office. The Office provides representation to children involved in Family Court proceedings, handling such issues as child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, custody, Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS), and juvenile delinquency. The student assists the office’s attorneys and social workers in all phases of representation: case investigation, including interviewing clients, teachers, therapists, and families; home visits; court proceedings; and the researching and writing of pleadings, memoranda, discovery documents, and closing arguments. The student is admitted to practice under the student-practice rule and is able to appear in court under attorney supervision. A classroom component of the course ensures that the student understands the substantive law involved in the work.
Attorneys and students work together on all aspects of representation of children in Family Court, including home visits, pre-trial conferences, negotiation sessions, client and parent interviews, litigation documents, and hearings.
Cri mi nal Def ens e The Criminal Defense Trial Clinic gives students the opportunity to represent indigent individuals facing misdemeanor or non-criminal charges in Tompkins County. Students interview clients and witnesses and, when necessary, prepare them for trial and hearings; conduct plea-bargaining negotiations, case research and fact investigation; prepare discovery demands; and engage in motion and paper practice. The charges typically encountered by Clinic participants include harassment, criminal mischief, vehicle and traffic offenses, misdemeanor DWI, disorderly conduct, various drug offenses, and assault.
Though most cases are resolved through plea-bargaining and negotiation, the opportunity to conduct non-jury trial representation sometimes arises. Representation can involve appearances at Ithaca City Court or other Town Court proceedings, including pre-trial conference sessions. Students have the chance to observe and critique trials or hearings and may also have the chance to conduct research related to active major felony cases. The classroom component of the course involves discussion, lecture and courtroom simulation exercises and addresses all aspects of the handling of a criminal case, including criminal law and procedure, ethics, case strategy and management, plea bargaining and negotiation, trial/hearing strategy and preparation, and trial/hearing conduct. Students receive mentoring, and they participate in both explorations of theoretical issues and practicum exercises in order to cultivate the skills that will be applied in client representation.
Students have the opportunity to represent indigent individuals facing misdemeanor or non-criminal charges in Tompkins County.
The Clinic engages students in both theoretical development and practical application of the principles of deliberative democracy, conflict resolution, collaborative decision-making, and public law in the context of Web-enabled rulemaking.
E- Government President Obama’s Open Government Initiative calls on federal agencies to increase transparency, participation, and collaboration in their decision-making, with emphasis on the use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking tools. Because of its centrality in the creation of domestic federal policy, rulemaking has been a particular target of Government 2.0 projects. Legal, communications, and technological complications, however, have hindered the realization of such projects’ potential to achieve broader, better public participation in rulemaking. The e-Government Clinic, which grows out of the research of the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative (CeRI), addresses these complications. The Clinic engages students in both theoretical development and practical application of the principles of deliberative democracy, conflict resolution, collaborative decision-making, and public law in the context of Web-enabled rulemaking. The primary vehicle for this research is RegulationRoom.org, an online platform that allows stakeholders to learn about, discuss, and react to selected regulations proposed by federal agencies.
This Clinic is a highly collaborative, team-based environment, with students and faculty working together to develop strategies and allocate responsibilities for each rule. Students participate in all aspects of the project, including developing content for the Regulation Room, moderating discussion on the site, developing and implementing the communications plan for each rule, and creating and testing a scheme for coding comments according to the qualities most helpful to federal agencies when crafting final rules. Additionally, students research topics as diverse as collaborative governance, deliberative democratic discourse, and online conflict resolution and consensus-building.
I mmi grati on Appellate Law and Ad vo ca cy Cornell’s Immigration Appellate Law and Advocacy Clinic is one of the only law school clinics in the country to focus exclusively on appellate immigration cases. Under the supervision of the Clinic directors, students represent immigrants fleeing persecution whose cases have come before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Since the clinic’s founding in 2003, approximately forty law school students have worked on twenty cases. The Clinic has won nearly half the cases it has taken, a rate of victory far greater than the average for appeals brought before the BIA. Many clinic participants continue to work in immigration law after graduation, either through employment at NGOs or through taking pro bono asylum cases while employed at private firms.
Over the course of one semester, Clinic students build skills in such areas as research and interviewing (including the use of translators) as they work intensely to review the transcripts of hearings before the Immigration Judge, interview the client, develop the factual and legal theory of the case, and write an appeal brief to the BIA. Participants often consider the Immigration Appellate Law and Advocacy Clinic one of their most meaningful law school experiences. Says Clinic co-director Stephen Yale-Loehr, “we are representing people who fear persecution in their home countries. Our clients have few rights, not even the right to a court-appointed attorney. Most are detained. Many do not speak English. If we are successful, we save someone’s life. What is more important than that?”
Students represent immigrants fleeing persecution whose cases have come before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
“The asylum clinic is an incredible introduction to refugee law and appellate advocacy, because it lets you work on a real and intensely compelling case while you are still within an academic environment, with feedback from classmates and guidance from two of the world’s best immigration attorneys.” John Palmer ‘03
I nnocence In the Innocence Clinic, students receive practical training in post-conviction criminal defense work by investigating and litigating on behalf of prisoners with claims of actual innocence. The Clinic’s mission is to investigate New York criminal cases in which there are claims of actual innocence and fundamental miscarriages of justice and, when appropriate, to pursue relief. The classroom component of the Clinic consists of lectures and discussions focused on the principal causes of wrongful convictions (including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, forensic science error, and incentivized witnesses), post-conviction law and litigation skills, and ethical issues involved in innocence work. In the clinical part of the course, students develop investigation and litigation strategies; carry out fact investigation, including prisoner and witness interviews; perform case screening; work in collaboration with forensic science experts; and conduct legal research and writing. Class meetings are supplemented by regularly scheduled team meetings, in which participants critically examine the issues arising in each case. In contrast to projects that specialize in DNA exonerations, the Cornell Law School Innocence Clinic principally addresses cases in which there is no biological evidence. The Innocence Clinic responds to an increasing number of exonerations nationwide and fills a long-standing need for pro bono assistance to wrongfully convicted prisoners in upstate New York. The Clinic also sponsors community-wide events designed to increase awareness of the causes and effects of wrongful convictions.
Students receive practical training in post-conviction criminal defense work by investigating and litigating on behalf of prisoners with claims of actual innocence.
I nternati onal H uman Ri ghts The International Human Rights Clinic works on a wide array of human rights projects, ranging from the development of materials for use in training foreign judges to the filing of briefs before U.S. and international courts. Clinic participants have filed both party and amicus briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Colombian Constitutional Court. They have prepared reports for hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and have supported domestic human rights litigation in Germany and South Africa. Clinic students have also undertaken international field research and participated in training programs in Colombia, India, Liberia, and other countries. In the Clinic, students learn both substantive human rights law and human rights lawyering skills. They enhance their international research and communication skills by working in teams on projects for human rights organizations, judges, and individual victims of human rights abuse. Additionally, through class sessions and project work, students learn to describe issues in human rights terms, integrate the theory and practice of human rights, formulate demands using human rights accountability tools, and develop strategies that utilize key features of human rights law. Through the International Human Rights Clinic, Cornell Law students have helped strengthen the rule of law and legal processes in communities throughout the world.
“Assisting the trial advocacy training program in Liberia was easily one of the most remarkable experiences of my life. In a week, we met the Chief Justice of Liberia, the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, dozens of Liberian judges and lawyers, and four U.S. federal judges… every day I was completely overwhelmed by the kindness, strength, and perseverance of the Liberian people I met.” Jennifer Holsey ’12
The International Human Rights Clinic works on projects ranging from the development of materials for use in training foreign judges to the filing of briefs before U.S. and international courts.
Students represent the interests of workers and their unions with a range of labor and employment law issues.
Labor Law The Labor Law Clinic provides students interested in the field of labor and employment law with the opportunity to deepen their understanding through practice. Students represent the interests of workers and their unions with a range of labor and employment law issues, including unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board, organizing and collective representation, collective bargaining, contract interpretation, grievance resolution, arbitration and statutory employment law claims. The Clinic also accepts international labor law cases and projects. This work can involve field research outside of the country–most frequently in Latin America. Students have client contact throughout the semester and develop a number of important lawyering skills. To further enrich the learning environment, panel discussions featuring experts in the field address timely topics.
“My experience in the Labor Law Clinic was the most useful and positive experience of my three years in law school.” Katy Hansen, ‘10, Associate with Gladstein, Reif & Meginnis, LLP
“As a labor organization representing workers, we are often at a disadvantage either because of financial constraints or limited ability to research legal issues, but with the help of students in the Clinic, we are put on equal footing. The caliber of the students is second to none. For working people to have such a resource when going against corporations is a gift of fairness.” Richard Knowles, Sub-Regional Director, United Steelworkers–District 4
Advocacy for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (lgbt) Communities The LGBT Clinic is dedicated to advancing the legal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Clinic students represent diverse members of the LGBT community in a range of civil legal matters. Examples of cases the clinic has worked on are: n
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representing a lesbian refugee seeking asylum based on her sexual orientation before the immigration court in Buffalo; assisting a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison in challenging the conditions of her confinement.
Students handle all phases of the representation: interviewing and counseling clients; securing any necessary expert witnesses; researching and writing all briefs and motions filed; and appearing on the client’s behalf at any scheduled court appearances. Students also undertake non-litigation projects in conjunction with non-profit organizations working to advance LGBT equality. Advocacy projects have included researching the legal rights of LGBT domestic violence victims for the New York State LGBT DV Network and creating community education materials on how LGBT couples can safeguard their legal rights in the event of illness or disability. In the seminar portion of the clinic, students deepen their knowledge of relevant law and further develop their advocacy skills. We also reflect on how lawyers can most effectively contribute to the struggle for social justice on behalf of marginalized LGBT communities.
Students represent diverse members of the LGBT community in a variety of legal matters which advance the legal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
Pros ecuti on The Prosecution Trial Clinic gives students the opportunity to prosecute non-felony, non-jury trials in Ithaca City Court. The classroom component of the Clinic involves lecture, discussion and trial simulation exercises. Topics include criminal law and procedure, prosecution ethics, trial strategy and preparation, trial conduct including direct and crossexamination, plea-bargaining, and professional judgment. The courtroom component involves regular attendance at Ithaca City Court’s non-jury terms. Students observe and critique trials and prosecute offenses including traffic tickets (such as speeding and running a red light), city code violations (such as open container and noise offenses), and non-felony penal law violations (such as disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana), among others. As each student conducts multiple trials during the semester, he or she
prepares witnesses (typically police officers); conducts plea-bargaining negotiations, case research and fact investigation; responds to discovery demands; and, as needed, engages in motion practice and appellate practice.
The Prosecution Trial Clinic gives students the opportunity to prosecute non-felony, non-jury trials in Ithaca City Court.
Securi ti es Law Working primarily through arbitration at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Securities Law Clinic provides legal services to small investors in upstate New York who have been the victims of investment fraud. Each Clinic student works on at least one “live client” case. Under the supervision of Professor William A. Jacobson, the student conducts a thorough evaluation of potential cases, including client interviews and investigation of investments and financial advisers. He or she then researches potential theories of recovery, drafts statements of claim, conducts discovery, and handles all aspects of a hearing, including direct and cross-examination of witnesses. Since its founding in 2008, the SLC has recovered in excess of $250,000 for clients.
“The SLC was the highlight of my time at Cornell. I was able to learn and develop important practical skills, such as witness preparation and developing the global strategy of a complex securities case, which have proven to be very helpful throughout my first year of practice. Moreover, the SLC afforded me the incredible opportunity to brief and argue an appeal, an experience I will never forget.” Seth Nadler ‘10, Associate, WilmerHale LLP
Each student also works on at least one non-client matter. Students have the opportunity to research and write on legal topics of importance to investors, including regulatory comment letters, amicus briefs and research articles. Additionally, SLC students conduct seminars and provide educational materials to senior citizens groups and others on how to avoid falling victim to investment fraud.
The Securities Law Clinic provides legal services to small investors in upstate New York who have been the victims of investment fraud.
The SLC is available for up to three semesters. The first semester covers areas of law important to smaller investors, focusing on FINRA conduct and arbitration rules, and includes the “live client” and non-client projects described above. The optional second and third semesters are open to a small number of students to provide an opportunity for continuing work on cases started in the first semester.
U. S . At t o rne y ’s Of f i ce The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York sponsors a clinic for Cornell Law students at its office in Syracuse. Participants assist in federal criminal prosecutions, the defense of federal agencies and employees in civil cases, and the presentation of federal appeals. The eight to ten students hired per semester, each assigned to one Assistant United States Attorney, perform legal research and writing; observe motions and trials; participate in trial preparation and witness debriefings; observe depositions, moot courts and appellate arguments; and, as permitted by local rules, give oral arguments in U.S. District Court under the supervision of their attorneys. Past assignments have included assisting a federal prosecutor during the RICO prosecution of a street gang in Syracuse; preparing a research memorandum for a case against a defense contractor who submitted false claims to the U.S. government; and reviewing court-authorized wire tap conversations of plans to murder and intimidate witnesses involved in a drug prosecution.
Participants assist in federal criminal prosecutions, the defense of federal agencies and employees in civil cases, and the presentation of federal appeals.
The classroom portion of the Clinic, taught by Adjunct Professor and Assistant United States Attorney Charles E. Roberts, addresses such topics as terrorism, interstate domestic violence, child pornography, prosecutorial discretion, oral arguments, and federal civil practice. Guest speakers include judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Assistant U.S. Attorneys and FBI agents.
Water Law and Land Us e Development The effects of land use and development on natural resources are vital concerns of our time. As stresses surrounding these resources arise with increasing frequency in the U.S. and around the world, the need for effective legal instruments of conflict resolution has become critical. The Water Law and Land Use Clinics allow students to tackle projects in this field. In the Water Law in Theory and Practice Clinic, students select and conduct their own projects on topics or disputes of theoretical and practical legal importance, whether of local, regional, national, or international scope. Students are called on to define their issue and formulate a procedure for the project, including collaboration with prospective allies and “clients.” They review the relevant literature, participate in meetings both on and off campus, and present their projects to interested groups and clients. Students consult and work with attorneys, professional staff and stakeholders, as well as with faculty of the various colleges and departments of Cornell University, which is preeminent in the field of water and land resource management research. The Land Use, Development, and Natural Resource Protection Clinic provides students with the opportunity to design and implement economically and legally viable solutions to problems arising from land and natural resources management. Projects may involve creating a detailed theoretical and practical legal analysis; drafting or critically reviewing municipal ordinances and inter-municipal agreements; consulting on
Students select and conduct their own projects on land use and development on natural resources topics.
“After spending a year in ‘big law,’ I started my own solo practice, working in climate change law. I also started a hightech start-up, Renewable Exploration Inc., that works in the area of water data, management and policy. The ‘real world’ experience provided in the clinical environment was key to having the selfconfidence to start these businesses… the connections which I made with community stakeholders have provided a significant network of colleagues with whom I continue to work.” Erika K. Anderson ‘08, CEO, Renewable Exploration Inc.
design parameters for development sites; drafting petition or explanatory documents for clients who wish to obtain variances; resolving compliance issues with state and local laws; or developing alternative dispute resolution options. Students commonly attend meetings, draft briefing papers, and give presentations to clients such as developers, government agencies, community leaders, and NGOs. In both Clinics, student have the opportunity to work on an international issue, such as sustainable development, transboundary conflicts, stresses in rural and indigenous communities, or the role of women. Because these clinics offer a variety of transactional work, they particularly benefit students interested in careers in real estate, land use, energy issues, general practice, or environmental law.
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Clinical Faculty
Cornell Law School students are permitted to take up to a full semester’s worth of course credits by working for a non-profit or governmental agency under the direct supervision and mentorship of both an attorney at the placement and a faculty member from the school. The program strives for placements in which students engage in the activities of a newly hired attorney. Past externship experiences have included: prosecuting all cases in a particular courtroom, briefing political leaders and agency personnel, field investigation in criminal cases, observing and participating in trials, drafting virtually all forms of legal documents, interviewing witnesses, participating in policy and staff meetings, legal research and writing, and negotiating with opposing attorneys. In addition to experiencing the transition from the study to the practice of law, students often enhance their career opportunities by observing legal employment they may later seek to obtain and developing excellent professional contacts long before they graduate.
JOHN H. BLUME
The Externship - Full Time provides students the opportunity for an in-depth legal experience virtually anywhere in the world. Organizations and agencies are eager to welcome externship students and give them special attention, because these students quickly become integrated into the fabric of the office and are very productive. The Externship - Part Time, Neighborhood Legal Services, allows students to provide legal assistance to indigent Ithaca clients in civil matters. Under the guidance of attorneys, students represent clients of the Ithaca office of Legal Assistance of Western New York (LAWNY). Most of the cases address government benefits such unemployment, social security, disability, and welfare, and the results frequently bear directly on a family’s economic survival. Through the Externship - Part Time, Judicial, students clerk for a state or federal judge in central New York, at either the trial or appellate level. Students enhance their legal research, analysis and writing skills and, perhaps even more importantly, have the rare opportunity to experience the judicial perspective. The new Externship - Part Time, Other Local, blends many of the advantages of the full time and the part time externships described above. Because this externship is part time, students chose a local Ithaca placement and continue attending the Law School, but as in the full time externship, students have the opportunity to select almost any placement that meets their educational and vocational goals.
Director of Clinical, Advocacy and Skills Programs; Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project; Professor of Law
Professor Blume clerked for the Hon. Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After private practice, he became Executive Director of the South Carolina Death Penalty Project, where he remained until 1996. He joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1993, and, in conjunction with Cornell Professors Sherri Lynn Johnson and Stephen Garvey, formed the Cornell Death Penalty Project. Professor Blume has argued eight capital cases before the United States Supreme Court and been co-counsel or amicus curiae counsel in numerous other Supreme Court cases. He has been involved in more than one hundred capital cases at the trial, appellate, and postconviction stages. He is the co-author of A Modern Approach to Evidence and Death Penalty Stories and has authored numerous articles
in the areas of capital punishment, criminal procedure, and evidence. Professor Blume teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and the Death Penalty in America and supervises the Capital Defense Clinics and Innocence Clinics. ELIZABETH BRUNDIGE Associate Director of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice; Adjunct Professor of Law
Prior to joining Cornell Law School, Professor Brundige was the Robert. M. Cover - Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights and a clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where she co-taught the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights, she has worked for the International Association of Women Judges on several programs designed to advance women’s human rights and access to justice in southern and East Africa. She was also an
Associate Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a law clerk for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice Sandile Ngcobo of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Professor Brundige co-teaches the International Human Rights Clinic. CYNTHIA GRANT BOWMAN Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law
Before entering law school, Professor Bowman taught political science and spent a year at the University of Chicago as a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellow in the history and philosophy of the social sciences. She received a J.D. with honors from Northwestern University School of Law in 1982, after which she clerked for Judge Richard D. Cudahy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and was an associate at Jenner & Block in Chicago for five years. She served as a Professor of Law and of Gender Studies at Northwestern University
before coming to Cornell. She has published widely on law and women, and her works include the casebook Women and Law in SubSaharan Africa, co-authored by Akua Kuenyehia, the culmination of her five years overseeing an exchange relationship between Northwestern Law School and the University of Ghana. In 2007, Professor Bowman joined Cornell Law School, where she teaches Torts, Family Law and Feminist Jurisprudence and supervises the Water Law and Land Use Clinics. ANGELA B. CORNELL Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Cornell is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and has over twenty years of practice experience, most of which was spent representing the interests of workers. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell Law School, she was a partner at Peifer & Cornell, a labor and employment law firm, which represented plaintiffs and unions. She also served as a State Labor Commissioner under Governor Bill
Richardson of New Mexico. She has significant litigation experience and is a recognized expert in the area of labor and employment law. Before private practice, Professor Cornell worked for six years with non-profit organizations representing low-income immigrants and an additional year working in international human rights in Chile and Peru. She continues to do considerable work in Latin America in the area of international labor law. Professor Cornell directs the Labor Law Clinic and teaches Labor Law, Practice and Policy as well as related courses. CYNTHIA R. FARINA Professor of Law
Co-author of the leading casebook in administrative law, Professor Farina is also a Fellow of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association. A nationally known scholar of the administrative process, she has served as reporter on a number of national administrative law projects. Most recently, she completed the report of a blue-ribbon crossdisciplinary committee that
studied the emerging federal e-rulemaking system in order to make recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration. She has also served as a reporter on the European Union Project. Following her graduation summa cum laude from Boston University School of Law, Professor Farina clerked for the Hon. Raymond J. Pettine, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island, and for the Hon. Spottswood Robinson, III, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. She spent three years as a litigator in private practice before she joined Cornell Law School, where she is a principal researcher in the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative (CeRI) and co-teaches the e-Government Clinic.
Legal Aid Society and ten years as Deputy Director for Litigation for Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc., an Ohio legal services organization dedicated to representing low income plaintiffs in federal class action suits involving major-impact litigation. Professor Galbreath joined the Cornell Law School clinical faculty in 1986. He regularly presents lectures and workshops to judges and other professionals on a wide variety of legal topics. Since 1991, he has been elected five times as the Justice in the Village of Cayuga Heights. Professor Galbreath, teaches Trial Advocacy, several externship courses, and supervised public interest law clinics in the past.
GLENN G. GALBREATH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Clinical Professor of Law
After his graduation from Case Western Reserve University Law School, Professor Galbreath developed extensive litigation experience in his two years as a staff attorney for the Ohio Migrant Legal Action Program and Toledo
SUSAN V. HAZELDEAN
Susan Hazeldean joined the Cornell Law School faculty as an Associate Clinical Professor in July 2011. Professor Hazeldean’s teaching, scholarship, and law practice have focused on gender, sexual orientation, immigration, and civil rights. Before entering
law teaching, Professor Hazeldean directed the Peter Cicchino Youth Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, providing free legal representation to homeless and at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth in immigration, foster care, public benefits, and family law matters. Prior to coming to Cornell, she was a Robert M. Cover Fellow at Yale Law School and taught in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Professor Hazeldean’s latest article, Confounding Identities: The Paradox of LGBT Youth Under Asylum Law, is forthcoming in the U.C. Davis Law Review; her works have also appeared in Benders Immigration Review and the ABA Human Rights Magazine. Professor Hazeldean received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She is a recipient of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship. Professor Hazeldean teaches the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Clinic and is a member of the New York bar.
WILLIAM A. JACOBSON Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Jacobson has a national reputation as a leading practitioner in securities arbitration and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. He frequently is quoted in the national media on issues related to investment fraud and investor protection, and he has served as one of a small number of private practice attorneys who trained new arbitrators for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Professor Jacobson has argued cases in numerous federal and state courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fifth and Sixth Circuits, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He was at one time Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project. Prior to joining the Cornell Law faculty in 2007, he ran a highly successful civil litigation and arbitration practice in Providence, Rhode Island.
Professor Jacobson teaches the Securities Law Clinic. SHERI LYNN JOHNSON Assistant Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project; James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law
Sheri Lynn Johnson is an expert on the interface of race and issues in criminal procedure, and she serves as the Assistant Director of the Cornell Death Penalty project, an initiative to foster empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offer students an opportunity to work with practitioners on death penalty cases, and provide information and assistance for death penalty lawyers. After her graduation from Yale Law School in 1979, Professor Johnson worked for a year in the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the New York Legal Aid Society and then joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1981. Professor Johnson co-founded the Cornell Death Penalty Project in 1993. She currently teaches constitutional and criminal law and supervises the Capital Defense Clinics.
SITAL KALANTRY Faculty Director of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice; Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Sital Kalantry is an Associate Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School where she directs the International Human Rights Clinic and is the cofounder and Faculty Director of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School. She has extensive experience working on and supervising projects that utilize litigation and non-litigation strategies to promote international human rights, particularly women’s rights and the right to education. Professor Kalantry’s research focuses on using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand and promote international human rights law. She has received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to conduct research in India on the use and impact of public interest litigation. Her works have been published in, among other places, the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law.
Prior to joining Cornell Law School, she was a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School where she co-taught a clinic focusing on national security and civil liberties. She also practiced private international law at two major international law firms. SALLY KLINGEL Adjunct Professor of Law
Sally Klingel is the director of labor-management relations programming for the Scheinman Institute, where she teaches, trains, and provides organizational change consulting services to labor and management groups nationwide. She specializes in the design and implementation of conflict and negotiation systems, labor-management partnerships, work redesign, strategic planning and change processes, and leadership development. Her work with Cornell over the past fifteen years has included training, consulting, and action research with organizations in a variety of industries; local, state and federal government agencies; union internationals and
locals; public schools and universities; and worker-owned companies. Professor Klingel has authored articles, monographs and book chapters on innovations in labor-management relations. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, writing a dissertation on labor-management strategies for change in municipal work organizations. Professor Klingel co-teaches the e-Government Clinic. MARY J. NEWHART Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Newhart’s research focuses on conflict and dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on the use of arbitration and mediation in U.S. employment relations. More recently she has focused on facilitating and moderating group collaborative decisionmaking, including the use of technology to support asynchronous consensus building. Professor Newhart is Executive Director of the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative and Law the and Public Policy Program at Cornell University. She coteaches the e-Government Clinic.
KEITH S. PORTER Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Porter is the U.S. editor for the Journal of Water Law. He is a Trustee and ViceChairman of the Wetland Trust, a Faculty Affiliate of the Cornell American Indian Program, and the U.S. Principal in a UK-based international research program on watershed management. He is a founding member of the NYS Nonpoint Source Steering Committee and the NYS Water Management Advisory Committee. Professor Porter was appointed the Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell in 1986. In 1997, he was awarded the Community and Rural Development Institute Innovator Award on behalf of the Cornell interdisciplinary team, and he has also received the Addleshaw Booth & Company Postgraduate Environmental Law Prize from De Montford Law School and the Water Resources Achievement Award from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Currently Professor Porter is
authoring a study guide on international environmental law for the University of London International Programmes. Professor Porter co-teaches the Water Law and Land Use Development Clinics.
Department of Justice attorneys. He has been published in an appellate treatise, law review, and the Federal Civil Practice Manual. Professor Roberts teaches the United States Attorney’s Office Clinic.
CHARLES E. ROBERTS
Adjunct Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Salisbury is an attorney with a practice in Ithaca, New York. He received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa and an M.R.P. degree from Cornell University. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law in 1996. His main areas of work are criminal and education law and international human rights/ rule of law issues. From 1999 to 2001, before returning to practice in Ithaca, he ran a legal aid program in Bosnia and Kosovo. Prior to this he also developed and ran human rights and civil society programs in Liberia in 1997-1998 and in Somalia in 1993-1994. Professor Salisbury teaches the Criminal Defense Trial Clinic.
Professor Roberts is an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York (Syracuse). He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1973 and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1976. He is the supervisor of the U.S. Attorney’s law student program. He has worked in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions, and his current duties include civil prosecutions, Bivens claims and habeas corpus. Professor Roberts has taught at the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Advocacy Center and Syracuse University. His courses have included Appellate Advocacy (16 years), Trial Practice, the BALSA Trial Team (coach), and week-long training programs for new
LANCE SALISBURY
ROBERT A. SARACHAN Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Sarachan holds B.S. and B.A. degrees from SUNYBinghamton, an M.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University, and M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Indiana University. He has a varied private practice in Ithaca and also serves part-time as an attorney for the city. He has authored accounting textbooks and has taught various accounting and business related courses at Indiana University, Syracuse University and Ithaca College. He currently teaches in, and directs, the paralegal program at Tompkins Cortland Community College. At Cornell Law, Professor Sarachan teaches Accounting for Lawyers and directs the Prosecution Trial Clinic. BIRGITTA SIEGEL Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Siegel has practiced almost exclusively in the field of securities litigation/ arbitration for 25 years. After graduating from the University of Miami Law School
with honors in 1985, Professor Siegel joined a large Miami firm where she represented major broker/dealers both in federal court and arbitration and was at the forefront of litigation concerning mandatory arbitration issues. Thereafter, Professor Siegel was in-house counsel at Prudential Securities in NYC, managing high profile litigations and class actions. In recent years, Professor Siegel moved to the ‘other side of the street’ and now exclusively advocates for public investors against financial institutions. Professor Seigel has taught at the Syracuse University College of Law and currently manages the Pearl Law Firm’s Syracuse office. She is a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), current Chair of PIABA’s Self Regulatory Organization Committee, and an active member of PIABA’s Amicus Committee. Professor Siegel co-teaches the Securities Law Clinic.
KEIR M. WEYBLE Director of Death Penalty Litigation; Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Weyble is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to joining Cornell, he spent twelve years in private practice in South Carolina, where he concentrated on the litigation of capital cases in state and federal courts. He has represented prisoners in capital cases in the state and/or federal courts of Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, and he has served as co-counsel for the prisoner in five habeas corpus cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. At Cornell Law, he teaches seminars on Advanced Criminal Procedure: Post-Conviction Remedies and Capital Punishment Law, and co-teaches the Capital Clinics and Innocence Clinics. STEPHEN W. YALE-LOEHR Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Yale-Loehr is one of the nation’s preeminent authorities on U.S. immigra-
tion and asylum law. A prolific scholar, he has written many law review articles and is author or co-author of four standard reference works. He was editor-in-chief of The Cornell International Law Journal, and he co-authors a bimonthly column for The New York Law Journal. He is counsel to the Ithaca firm of Miller Mayer. Upon receiving his Cornell J.D. cum laude, Professor Yale-Loehr clerked for Chief Judge Howard G. Munson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. He is the 2001 recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA) Elmer Fried Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2004 recipient of AILA’s Edith Lowenstein Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law. Professor Yale-Loehr teaches the Immigration Appellate Law and Advocacy Clinic.
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