
Cornell Law School: Historical Timeline
History of Cornell Law School
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1866 | Laying plans for the new university, Cornell University president-to-be A.D. White proposes establishing a department of law | |
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1888 | First graduating law class (nine students) | ||
1889 | Keigo Harada and Masayasu Naruse graduate; they are the Law School's first Asian students | ||
1890 | George Washington Fields graduates; one of the nation's first law-school-graduates of color | ||
1891 | Charles Evans Hughes joins faculty | ||
1892 | Construction of Boardman Hall completed, will later house Law School | ||
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1915 | Cornell Law Quarterly established (Professor George G. Bogert is first faculty editor) | ||
1916 | Cornell Law Quarterly now edited by student board | ||
1919 | Mary Honor Donlon becomes first woman editor-in-chief of any law review in the U.S. and edits three issues of the Cornell Law Quarterly: November 1919, January 1920, and March 1920 | ||
1924 | Trustees approve College of Law as a graduate school | ||
1925 | Renamed Cornell Law School | ||
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1932 | Myron Taylor Hall dedicated October 15 | |
1948 | Program of specialization in international affairs established; LL.B. degrees established | ||
1954 | Combined four-year programs leading to LL.B. and M.P.A. or M.B.A. degrees established | ||
1958 | $1,000,000 gift from Myron Taylor for new residence center, to be named for his professor/mentor, Charles Evans Hughes | ||
1966 | Cornell Law School becomes first law school to receive permission to permit court appearances by third-year students working at its Legal Aid Clinic | ||
1967 | Cornell Law Quarterly becomes Cornell Law Review | ||
1968 | First issue of Cornell International Law Journal | ||
1978 | Law Library designated U.S. Government Depository | ||
1988 | Opening ceremonies for new Jane Foster addition and remodelled Myron Taylor Hall | ||
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1993 | Cornell Death Penalty Project created | ||
1994 | Cornell Law School and University of Paris I law faculty launch Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law | ||
1997 | Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence established | ||
2002 | Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture established | ||
2004 | First edition of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | ||
2005 | First edition of electronic newsletter, the e-Forum, sent to alumni, friends of the Law School | ||
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The Deans of Cornell Law School
Douglas Boardman | 1887-1891 |
Francis Miles Finch | 1891-1903 |
Ernest Wilson Huffcut | 1903-1907 |
Frank Irvine | 1907-1916 |
Edwin Hamlin Woodruff | 1916-1921 |
George Gleason Bogert | 1921-1926 |
Charles Kellog Burdick | 1926-1937 |
Robert Sproule Stevens | 1937-1954 |
Gray Thoron | 1956-1963 |
William Ray Forrester | 1963-1973 |
Roger Conant Cramton | 1973-1980 |
Peter William Martin | 1980-1988 |
Russell King Osgood | 1988-1998 |
Charles W. Wolfram | 1998-1999 (Interim Dean) |
Lee E. Teitelbaum | 1999-2003 |
John A. Siliciano | 2003 (Interim Dean) |
Stewart J. Schwab | 2004-2014 |
Eduardo M. Peñalver | 2014-present |