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The Unprecedented Class of 2024

Despite contending with a global pandemic as they prepared to apply for and enroll in law school, Cornell Law School’s entering class of 2024 came in..
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Justin Cajero ’20 Reaches New Heights

Higher education was never in Justin Cajero’s ’20, plans. No one in his family, and few people in his hometown...
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Michael Atkinson ’91, Intel Watchdog Who Refused to Look the Other Way

On August 15, 2019, Michael Atkinson ’91 found himself reading the whistleblower complaint that would lead to the first...
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Faculty Essay: Learning How to Teach Again

I was in the last year of my term as associate dean for academic affairs when news reports started trickling in of a new potentially dangerous and highly contagious respiratory virus.
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Cold Calling through a Pandemic—Faculty and Students Navigate Legal Education in the COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 pandemic overtook Cornell Law School in earnest in March 2020. Over the past year, students and professors...
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Eduardo Peñalver: Mastering the Curve

In the year and a half between leaving Cornell Law School as a professor and returning as its sixteenth dean, Eduardo M. Peñalver had time...
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Tsai Ing-wen, LL.M. ’80 “The most powerful woman in the Chinese-speaking world” -Time

A Note from the Dean Dear alumni and friends: Over the past few months, our alumni have been making headlines for remarkable, yet vastly different,..