Cornell Law SchoolMotto'Lawyers in the Best Sense'Parent schoolEstablished1887School typeParent endowment$7.2 billionLocation, United StatesEnrollment627Faculty146ranking13thpass rate96.07%WebsiteABA profileCornell Law School is the of, a located in. It is one of the five and offers three (, and ) along with several dual-degree programs in conjunction with other professional schools at the university. Established in 1887 as Cornell's Department of Law, the school today is one of the smallest top-tier JD-conferring institutions in the country, with around two-hundred students graduating each year. Since its inception Cornell Law School has always ranked among the top law schools in the nation (the 'T-14').Cornell Law alumni include business executive and philanthropist, namesake of the law school building, along with and, the first female, federal judge and first female editor-in-chief of a, former President of the, as well as many members of the, governors, state, U.S. Federal and state judges, diplomats and businesspeople.Cornell Law School is home to the (LII), the, the, the and the. The current dean of the law school is, who assumed the role in 2014. Entrance to Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law's principal building for instructionThe Law Department at Cornell opened in 1887 in with Judge as its first dean.
Connect with classmates outside of the classroom through moot court or mock trial competitions, the Cornell International Law Journal, BRIGGS Society of.
At that time, admission did not require even a high school diploma. In 1917, two years of undergraduate education were required for admission, and in 1924, it became a graduate degree program. The department was renamed the Cornell Law School in 1925. In 1890, George Washington Fields graduated, one of the first law-school-graduates of color in the United States. In 1893, Cornell had its first female graduate, Mary Kennedy Brown. Future Governor, Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States, was a professor of law at Cornell from 1891–1893, and after returning to legal practice he continued to teach at the law school as a special lecturer from 1893–1895. Hughes Hall, one of the law school's central buildings, is named in his honor.In 1892, the school moved into Boardman Hall, which was constructed specifically for legal instruction.
The school moved from Boardman Hall (now the site of Olin Library) to its present-day location at Myron Taylor Hall in 1937. The law school building, an ornate, structure, was the result of a donation by, a former of, and a member of the Cornell Law class of 1894. Hughes Hall was built as an addition to Myron Taylor Hall and completed in 1963. It was also funded by a gift from Taylor. Another addition to Myron Taylor Hall, the Jane M.G.
Foster wing, was completed in 1988 and added more space to the library. Foster was a member of the class of 1918, an editor of the (then ), and an graduate. In June 2012 the school embarked on a three-year, multi-phase expansion and renovation. The first phase created additional classroom space underground, adjacent to Myron Taylor Hall along College Avenue. The second phase will include the removal and digitization of printed materials from the library stacks so that the space can be converted to additional classroom and student space.
The third phase involves converting Hughes Hall into office space.In 1948, Cornell Law School established a program of specialization in international affairs and also started awarding LL.B. In 1968, the school began to publish the. In 1991, the school established the Berger International Legal Studies Program.
In 1994, the school established a partnership with the I law faculty to establish a Paris-based Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law. From 1999–2004 the school hosted the. In 2006, the school established its second summer law institute in Suzhou, China. The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture was established in 2002.
Banner outside the law school's Jane M.G. Foster wingCornell Law School is highly selective: for the class entering in the fall of 2018, 872 out of 4,126 applicants (21.13%) were offered admission, with 195 matriculating. The 25th and 75th percentiles for the 2018 entering class were 164 and 168, respectively, with a median of 167. The 25th and 75th undergraduate percentiles were 3.73 and 3.89, respectively, with a median of 3.82.In the LL.M. Program, which is designed for non-U.S.-trained lawyers, 900 applications were received for the 50 to 60 openings. Students come from over 30 different countries.Along with consideration of the quality of an applicant's academic record and LSAT scores, the full-file-review admissions process places a heavy emphasis on an applicant's personal statement, letters of recommendation, community/extracurricular involvement, and work experience. The application also invites a statement on diversity and a short note on why an applicant particularly wants to attend Cornell.
The law school values applicants who have done their research and have particular interests or goals that would be served by attending the school versus one of its peer institutions. Reputation Cornell Law School was ranked 13th in the 2019 Law School rankings and 5th in the 2019 rankings. The (LL.M.) program at Cornell Law School was ranked 1st in the 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2011 AUAP rankings.
In 2017, the ranked Cornell 4th on its list of 'Go-To' law schools that excel in placing graduates at the top 250 law firms. Cornell has the third lowest student-to-faculty ratio (10.4 to 1) of –accredited law schools in the United States. Academics. Cornell seal beneath the tower of Myron Taylor Hall Legal Information Institute Cornell Law also is home to the (LII), an online provider of public legal information. Started in 1992, it was the first law site developed for the internet. The LII offers all of the handed down since 1990, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance.
The LII also publishes over a decade of opinions of the, the full, the, and the among other resources.It recently created Wex, a free wiki legal dictionary and encyclopedia, collaboratively created by legal experts. And the LII Supreme Court Bulletin is a free email- and web-based publication that intends to serve subscribers with thorough, yet understandable, legal analysis of upcoming Court cases as well as timely email notification of Court decisions.
Publications The school has three law journals that are student-edited: the, the, and the. Additionally, the is a peer-reviewed journal that is published by Cornell Law faculty.Moot Court Cornell Law students actively participate in myriad competitions annually, both in the law school itself and in external and international competitions. The Langfan First-Year Moot Court Competition, which takes place every spring, traditionally draws a large majority of the first-year class.
The Cornell Law Library is one of 12 national depositories for print records of briefs filed with the.The contains 700,000 and microforms and includes rare historical texts relevant to the legal history of the United States. The library is one of the 12 national depositories for print records of briefs filed with the. Also, there is a large collection of print copies of the records and briefs of the. The large microfilm collection has sets of, Supreme Court, and documents, as well as a large collection of World Law Reform commission materials. Records and briefs for the United States Supreme Court, the and, and the New York State Court of Appeals are also collected. The library also has a large collection of, foreign, and, with the main focus being on the and Europe. Along with this, there are also collections of.
A new initiative by the library is to collect Chinese, Japanese, and Korean resources to support the law school’s Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture.Rare books in the library include the Samuel Thorne collection, which has 175 of some of the earliest and most rare books on law. Other significant collections include the Nathaniel C. Moak library and the Edwin J.
Marshall Collection of early works on equity and the Earl J. Bennett Collection of Statutory Material, a print collection of original colonial, territorial, and state session laws and statutory codes. Among the library’s special collections are 19th Century Trials Collection, Donovan Collection, Collection, and Adele Langston Rogers Collection and the Declassification Project. People Deans of Cornell Law SchoolNameTenure181–1901907–1916Edwin Hamlin Woodruff1916–1921George Gleason Bogert1921–1926Charles Kellog Burdick1926–1937Robert Sproule Stevens1937–1954Gray Thoron193–1973Roger Conant Cramton1973–1980Peter William Martin1980–1988Russell King Osgood1988–1998Charles W. Wolfram †1998–1999Lee E.
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