Welcome to Cornell Law School!

Check out this latest blog post from Clinical Professor, Angela Cornell.

https://www.demdigest.org/why-organized-labor-is-a-democratic-catalyst/

"The efficiencies defense may not prove the pivotal argument in most merger cases, but it’s often a useful buttress for other defenses," said George A. Hay, a professor of law and economics at Cornell Law School.

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglawnews/business-and-practice/X3IB174000000?bna_news_filter=business-and-practice#jcite

Our brand-new 52nd State Senate district includes Tompkins, Cortland and Broome counties. It also includes SUNY Cortland, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Binghamton University and SUNY Broome... https://www.tompkinsweekly.com/articles/opinion-we-are-the-suny-district/

Cornell Constitutional law professor Michael Dorf is more pointed, calling the opinion, "dishonest" because it "so selectively cites history" to argue just one side of a case.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114281008/supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito

"I think we're gonna have these cases come before the court: the travel issue, the rape, incest exception, the life of the mother exception. I don't know what the court would do," said Cornell Law School professor Sherry Colb

https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-courts-overturns-roe-v-wade-legal-challenges-justices-abortion-2022-7

Be sure to check out this op-ed from professor Chuck Whitehead "Companies should be required to disclose their ties to Putin’s Russia."
https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/companies-should-disclose-russia-risk-investing-markets-sanctions-russia-putin-ukraine-biden-us-world-europe-charles-whitehead/

“I don't think most people would want judges or justices making decisions based on what's politically expedient, or politically popular. That's what the legislative branch of government is supposed to do,” says Jared Carter, professor of constitutional law
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-courts-dramatic-rightward-turn-undermine-political-distance/story?id=85460463

“What you're really seeing is that [Chief Justice John Roberts] is no longer the center of the court,” says Sherry Colb, professor of law. “He doesn't like what's happening.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/john-roberts-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-abortion-control-overturn-2022-6

Aziz Rana, professor of law, points out that when presidents have enjoyed ideological harmony with the judiciary, they have traditionally also been backed by a robust popular vote that put them in office.

https://www.vox.com/2022/7/2/23191885/supreme-court-trump

“The court today recognized that this is really part of a bigger political problem of not enough funding for our broken immigration system,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/07/05/biden-administration-can-drop-remain-in-mexico-policy-but-what-will-it-use-instead/