Cornell Law School
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Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University.
The Law School was formally opened in 1887 and moved along with the Law Library to its current location in Myron Taylor Hall in 1937. The law school building was a donation of Myron Charles Taylor, Cornell Class of 1894, one of the CEO's of US Steel. An addition to Myron Taylor Hall was completed in 1988. The Law School confers primarily Juris Doctor, or J.D., degrees following a three-year residential course of study, but also has a significant two-year master of laws, or LL.M., program that primarily serves international students. As of 2004, the Law School had 551 total enrolled J.D. students and 58 total enrolled first-year LL.M. students.
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Library
The Library contains 600,000 books and microforms and includes rare historical texts relevant to the legal history of the United States.
The library contains multiple online legal reference tools including Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute (LII). LII is the world's leading investigator of new ways to do legal research in electronic formats. Advances in online legal research include an early Microsoft Windows-compatible web browser: Cello (web browser). The Web site offers timely legal information in hypertext format including primary materials and links to virtually every legal resource in the world, organized by topic and practice area. It offers distribution of opinions of the Supreme Court and the New York State Court of Appeals (the state's highest court). Legal analyses of recent New York State Court of Appeals decisions are compiled and sent to attorneys, judges and others via email.
Faculty
- Stewart J. Schwab, current Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
- Robert S. Summers, current William G. McRoberts Research Professor in the Administration of the Law
- Kevin M. Clermont, current Professor of Law as well as casebook author in and instructor of civil procedure
- Cynthia R. Farina, current Professor of Law, Associate Dean of the University Faculty, instructor in administrative law
- Robert A. Hillman, current Professor of Law and instructor in contracts
- Muna B. Ndulo, current Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for African Development
- Faust F. Rossi, current Professor of Trial Techniques and well-known for his lectures in evidence to students preparing for the bar examination
External links
- The Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/)
- Cornell Law School (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/)
- Cornell International Law Journal (http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/ilj/)
- Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/cjlpp/)