Celia Bigoness

Celia Bigoness is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law. Professor Bigoness founded the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, Cornell’s first transactional law clinic, in 2018. In addition to teaching the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, Professor Bigoness teaches Introduction to Transactional Lawyering and organizes the annual Cornell Law School Transactional Lawyering Competition.

Before joining Cornell, Professor Bigoness spent seven years practicing corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, London and Paris. Her experience includes project finance, leveraged finance, capital markets and mergers & acquisitions.

Professor Bigoness received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of International Law, and her A.B. from Harvard.