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• Cornell Law School Facilities Expanding in N.Y.

Cornell Law School will undergo extensive renovation and expansion in the next few years if the Board of Trustees approves design plans next month. The planned renovation of the neo-gothic architecturally styled school will consist of three phases and cost approximately $55 million to $60 million. As Cornell University Architect Gilbert Delgado explained, the school has been built in parts since the 1930s, and the first phase of the development project is designed to "bring vitality to the green space of Purcell Courtyard.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• November 30, 2011

• Christy Brzonkala, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Antonio J. Morrison; James Landale Crawford, Defendants-Appellees, and Cornell D. Brown; William E. Landsidle, in His Capacity as Comptroller of the Commonwealth, Defendants. Law Professors; Virginians Aligned Against Sexual Assault; the Antidefamation League; Center for Women Policy Studies; the Dc Rape Crisis Center; Equal Rights Advocates; the Georgetown University Law Center Sex Discrimination Clinic; Jewish Women International; the National Alliance of Sexual Assault Coalitions; the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault; the National Network To End Domestic Violence; National Organization for Women; Northwest Women'S Law Center; the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated; Virginia National Organization for Women; Virginia Now Legal Defense and Education Fund, Incorporated; Women Employed; Women'S Law Project; Women..., 169 F.3d 820 (4th Cir. 1999)

ARGUED: Mark Bernard Stern, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Julie Goldscheid, NOW Legal Defens...

• Federal Circuits

• Cornell University Law Professors Report: Discrimination Suits Declining in Federal Court

A study by two Cornell University law professors published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review shows a dramatic decline in the number of employment discrimination cases filed in federal court. According to the article by professors Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab, "Employment Discrimination in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?", the number of federal employment discrimination cases filed has dropped by almost 41 percent in the past five years.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• September 25, 2008

• A theory of WTO adjudication: from empirical analysis to biased rule development.

... of Constitutional Tort Litigation, 72 CORNELL L. REV. 641, 694 n.217 (1987) (citation omitted). ...

• Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 2, March 2009

• Neil Getnick Receives the Exemplary Public Service Award from Cornell Law School for Work on Whistleblower Cases.

NEW YORK -- Getnick & Getnick LLP is pleased to announce that Neil Getnick has received the Alumni Exemplary Public Service Award from Cornell Law Sch...

• Business Wire
• February 13, 2012

• Harter, Secrest & Emery Offers Cornell Law School Diversity Scholarship

Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP has become the first firm to establish a diversity scholarship program specifically for a student of Cornell Law School. The Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP Diversity Scholarship Program provides a first-year Cornell Law School student with a $5,000 scholarship and a paid summer associate position at the firm's Rochester office. According to John R. DeRosa, assistant dean for student services at Cornell Law School, Harter Secrest has created a wonderful opportunity for one of our first-year law students. Aside from the obvious financial benefits, which are considerable, this program will expose the recipient to a sophisticated, multi-faceted legal practice in a highly supportive environment.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• April 06, 2005

• Letters to Editor ; Bearing False Witness? Member of the Flock Agrees with Pastor It's Still a Sin Daughters Had Options No Say On Those Schools Reasons for Running Taxpayers in Rough Put Off by Put-Downs Balancing the Rhetoric Thank-You Note Food Fight Back the People, Joe Rebellious Son

CORNELL COLUMN The Southern Poverty Law Center recently profiled 18 anti-gay organizations, listing 13 as hate groups.

• Sunday News; Lancaster, Pa.
• January 24, 2011

• Sandra Day O'connor to Visit Cornell Law School in Ithaca

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will visit Cornell Law School as its Distinguished Jurist in Residence from Oct. 21 to 23. She plans to meet with law students and will participate as one of the judges presiding over the school's annual moot court competition. She also will participate in a dialogue with Provost Carolyn Martin on women in leadership and teach a class at Ithaca High School.

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• October 20, 2007

• Flower Power

Both [Josh Lamon] and [Amy Goldberger] are well-cast performers who play just a little bit against type. Lamon is smarter and gutsier than previous Seymours, but when his glasses begin to scrape against his microphone, starting with the first act's "Grow for Me," his efforts are undercut. Goldberger's Audrey (yes, rhymes with "tawdry") is usually seen as a street tart with a heart of gold and lungs of brass, like Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull or any youthful appearances of the late Mae Questal or Ms Adrian. Goldberger and director [Steve Bebout] give us a subdued, more restrained [Audrey II], who's sweet on Seymour before the bullying Orin has been removed from the picture. The tender "Somewhere That's Green" in the first act should have been a reminder of how much heart is in the show,...

...Michael James Leslie, incidentally a Cornell law graduate, owns the voice of Audrey II. He's al...

• Syracuse New Times
• August 28, 2009

• Cite unseen: how neutral citation and America's law schools can cure our strange devotion to bibliographical orthodoxy and the constriction of open and equal access to the law.

... 2006 ed.), available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation; Ronald B. Standler, Legal Research a...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 70 Nbr. 2, March 2007