Scholarships
The endowed scholarship program allows Cornell Law School to offer more than half of its students outright scholarship aid; awards average almost $13,000.
Scholarships are an investment in the future. What was given to students as an act of faith many years ago will often be returned to the institution many times over.
Facilities Support
To ensure that Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School’s home for more than 70 years, continues to serve as an appropriate facility for the teaching of a world class legal education, we constantly seek opportunities to renovate, restore and upgrade our spaces for teaching and learning. Numerous current designated and endowed opportunities exist to assist with this important and on-going work, including but not limited to:
Law Library
The Library presents a range of gift possibilities in a variety of subjects and jurisdictions. Outright gifts and collection endowments provide naming opportunities in the donors name, to honor current or past Law School faculty members for their leadership, to honor fellow colleagues, or in memory of someone. Information resources are an important aspect of scholarship and continued learning by faculty and students alike.
Book plates in individual volumes acknowledge support. A specific journal title of choice can also be endowed, with credit to the donor's name in the Cornell University online catalog- accessible worldwide via the Internet.
Acquisitions and preservation of books, periodicals, and online services are regularly needed beyond the annual acquisitions budget.
Legal Information Institute
The Legal Information Institute is known internationally as a leading provider of legal public information. Its mission is to carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information, the delivery of legal education, and the practice of law. It strives to make law more accessible not only to U.S. legal professionals but to students, teachers, and the general public in the U.S. and abroad.
The Institute is an activity of the Cornell Law School, supported in part by grants and gifts. No subscription fee limits access to LII services and the Institute is not supported by advertising. Gifts are critical to ensure the continuation of the Institute’s work. Contributing members are welcomed and encouraged. Opportunities to endow the work of the LII exist as well.
Moot Court Program
Each year, the student-run Moot Court Board prepares and administers two upper-class competitions and one first-year competition. The Board also sponsors students' participation in 4 annual external, nationwide competitions. Faculty and members of the federal and state judiciary also judge rounds. The final round is judged by appeals court judges, usually including a circuit judge from the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Professorships
Endowed support to attract and retain our world-class faculty of legal scholars helps to assure Cornell's place among the finest centers of legal education in the world. Cornell Law School seeks to expand its endowment for existing faculty positions as well as to increase the size of the full-time faculty.
Public Interest Low Income Protection Program (PILIPP)
Partial forgiveness of student loans incurred during law school is made possible via The Cornell Law School loan forgiveness program for graduates of the J.D. program. Graduates who work in the public sector or in legal settings providing services to the poor are eligible. Amounts are determined by the financial aid office.
The Law School encourages graduates to pursue careers in alternative work settings. Major gift support can result in naming the Program.
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