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O'Connor will also deliver the ILR School’s Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture

To see additional information about Justice O'Connor and the Cornell Law School go to the online Press Kit.

Note: O’Connor will be available for a media round table at the Law School on Monday, Oct. 22, 10:30-11 a.m. in room 273 Myron Taylor Hall. Press who wish to attend a round table with Justice O’Connor at the Law School on Monday or the events listed below, including the public lecture on Tuesday, must contact Nicola Pytell in the Press Relations Office by COB Friday, Oct. 19.

ITHACA, N.Y. – Retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will visit Cornell Law School as its Distinguished Jurist in Residence Oct. 21–23. As part of her visit, O’Connor will be meeting with Law School students, participating as one of the judges presiding over the Law School's annual moot court competition, delivering a faculty lecture, engaging in an open dialogue with Cornell Provost Carolyn (Biddy) Martin on women in leadership, and teaching a class at Ithaca High School. She also will deliver the 2007 Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture and discuss "The Importance of an Independent Judiciary,” Tuesday, Oct.23, from 4:30- 6 p.m. in Bailey Hall on the Cornell campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Stewart Schwab, dean of Cornell Law School, says “When A.D. White founded Cornell Law School in 1887, his vision was to educate ‘Lawyers in the Best Sense.’ Following White’s vision, Cornell Law School has invited Justice O'Connor as a ‘Jurist in the Best Sense,’ and our school will be enriched as a result.”

The Law School’s Distinguished Jurist in Residence Program was initiated into 2005 and brings some of the nation’s foremost judges to Cornell, providing public opportunities for them to address the Cornell and Ithaca communities as well as occasions for more intimate discussions with students and faculty members.

The Konvitz lecture honors the life and career of the late Milton R. Konvitz, one of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ founding faculty members, who also served as a professor in the Cornell Law School. A leading authority on constitutional and labor law, and civil and human rights, Konvitz was considered a mentor by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and his work has been cited in many Supreme Court decisions.

Contact: Nicola W. Pytell

Phone: (607) 254-6236 or (607) 351-3548

E-Mail: nwp2@cornell.edu