Larry Bush
Executive Director, Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies
107 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 USA
Tel: 607.255.3014, Fax: 607.255.7193, lsb13@cornell.edu
Larry Bush is Professor Emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he taught international law, comparative law, international human rights, civil procedure, and labor and employment law, over the period 1981-2001. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida and his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. He served as acting dean and associate dean for academics (two terms) at the University of Mississippi, held a Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Bucharest, and founded and directed the Cambridge Summer Session, a foreign summer law program currently co-sponsored by the law schools at the Universities of Mississippi, Arkansas-Fayetteville, Nebraska and Tennessee. He has lectured and conducted workshops and international labor rights seminars for trade union members and employer representatives from Romania, Serbia and Thailand.
Charles D. Cramton
Assistant Dean for Graduate Legal Studies
109 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 USA
Tel: 607.255.5850, Fax: 607.255.7193, cdc7@cornell.edu
Charles D. Cramton is currently the Assistant Dean for Graduate Legal Studies at Cornell Law School, a position he has held since the fall of 2000. Prior to that time, he was the Assistant Dean for Alumni & International Affairs at Cornell Law School. He is responsible for the school’s extensive LL.M. program (60-65 foreign lawyers per year), J.S.D. program, visiting doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows. In the past he has also been involved with Cornell Law School’s joint degree programs with foreign law schools, visiting scholars and visiting foreign faculty, and the Summer Institute in Paris, France jointly sponsored with the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Over the past 14 years he has been one of the school’s primary contacts with the American Bar Association on matters of accreditation for the school’s international programs and is the past chair of the American Association of Law Schools’s Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers. At Cornell he is a member of the Cornell International Educational Network, serving as the network’s chair in 2003-04. From October 2000 through September 2005, he served as one of 16 members of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board. He has been an active member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, first as a member and currently as chair of the committee. In May of 2005 he was appointed by the president of the NYSBA to the Association’s "Special Committee on the Bar Examination," a committee charged with evaluating the effectiveness of the current bar examination process in New York.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Schools, the National Association for Law Placement, the New York State Bar Association and the Tompkins County Bar Association. Prior to coming to Cornell, he was in private practice for over ten years in Rochester, New York, concentrating on corporate and business law.
Dean Cramton received his B.A. in 1978 from Cornell University, his M.A. in 1980 in legal history from the University of Virginia, and his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1983. He is admitted to practice in New York and in both the U.S. District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Dawne F. Peacock
Assistant Director, Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies
105 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 USA
Tel: 607.255.5978, Fax: 607.255.7193, dfp7@cornell.edu
Dawne Peacock holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from the City University of New York, Queens College.
Ginny Starr
Program Assistant, International Programs
115 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 USA
Tel: 607.255.7044, Fax: 607.255.7193,vms7@cornell.edu
