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Fall 2025

Sandra Babcock

Angela Cornell

  • “Collective Bargaining in the USA:  Union Success Within and Outside of the Flawed Legal Framework,” Rethinking the Law-Collective Bargaining Nexus, edited by Alexis Bugada, Anthony Forsyth, and Paolo Tomassetti, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, forthcoming 2025 
  •  “Strikes and the Struggle for Democracy,” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 45, Iss. 2, Article 5 (Summer 2025) (coauthored with Ruth Dukes), for the special edition, The Enduring Relevance of the Right to Strike:  Arguments for Future Legal Protection and Regulatory Reform, edited by Tonia Novitz, Katherine Fitzpatrick, and Jeffrey Vogt 
  • The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference Panel: The Special Issue on The Enduring Relevance of the Right to Strike: Arguments for Future Legal Protection and Regulatory Reform Topic: “Strikes and the Struggle for Democracy” (Montreal, Canada, July 9, 2025) 
  •  Labor and the Crisis of Democracy: Working Class Politics in an Age of Authoritarianism Conference, CUNY  Presentation “Labor’s Power: The Pro-Democracy Strike” (NYC, May 8-9, 2025) 
  •  American Political Science Association (APSA) Labor Politics Research Workshop Panel:  Democracy, Autocracy, and Labor Topic: “Strikes and the Struggle for Democracy” (March 21, 2025) 

Gautam Hans

  • Working with Heidi Kitrosser (Northwestern University ) and Alan Chen (Denver University), drafted an amicus brief in the Tenth Circuit supporting individuals challenging school library book-banning decisions. Hans has drafted multiple amicus briefs on book-banning topics in recent years.

  • The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic is currently preparing amicus support for a case in which challenges to book bans are seeking certiorari at the Supreme Court.

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer

Ian M. Kysel

Beth Lyon

  • Sergio García-Magariño, Ignacio Sánchez de la Yncera, Mikel Ferrero, Beth Lyon and Leyre Lecumberry, “Democracy, public opinion and algorithmic literacy: the case of the Spanish Xenometer (S-Xenometer), Artificial intelligence against xenophobia,” in Alejandro Torres (ed.), Current challenges for the Rule of Law in Europe, Dykinson (2025). 
  • Kumar, Ashwin, Beth Lyon, and Shannon Gleeson “How to Match Protections Along with Skills? Limitations of the Match and Move Matrix for Temporary Migrant Workers,” International Migration 62 (2024): 279–83
  • Lyon, Beth, and Pranoto Iskandar, “Relational Self and Farmworker Law Reform: The Case of Indonesia.” Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 56, no. 3 (2024): 616–36
  • Co-organizer and co-host, The Role of Law Schools in Addressing Legal Deserts, New York State Permanent Commission on Access to Justice 2025 Law School Conference, April 17, 2025. In partnership with Cornell Law School, University at Buffalo School of Law, CUNY School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.
  • Presenter, “Emergency Preparedness for Farmworkers: From Wildfires to Immigration Raids,” 2025 International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health, Portland, Maine (June 24, 2025)
  • Presenter, “Workstream 4 Discussion,” Liberating Migrant Labour: International Mobility Programs in Settler Colonial Contexts Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto (June 12, 2025)
  • Presenter, “U.S. Immigration Policy Updates,” Workshop on Labour Migration in Settler Colonial Contexts: Conversations Between Critical Labour Migration and Indigenous Studies, York University, Toronto (June 11, 2025)
  • Co-Panelist, “Democracy, public opinion and algorithmic literacy: the case of the Spanish Xenometer (S-Xenometer),” Artificial Intelligence against xenophobia, Conference on Current Challenges for the Rule of Law in Europe, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona (via zoom) (May 27, 2025)

Heather Murray

  • Moderator and panelist, “Writer as Truth-Teller: Free Speech in the Face of Government Censorship, Kitchen Theatre Company Bad Books Talkback,” (Sept. 20, 2025)
  • Panelist, “Obtaining Bodycam Footage and Law Enforcement Records,” Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts’ One-Day Law School for Journalists (Aug. 14, 2025)
  • Panelist, “Gags on Federal Employees,” Media Law Resource Center (Jun. 12, 2025)    
  • Moderator, “Press Freedom, Academic Freedom, and the Right to Choose What to Read,” Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law (Jun. 2, 2025)
  • Brief of Amici Curiae SMU Dedman and Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinics in Support of Respondent American Oversight in Paxton v. American Oversight, No. 24-0162 (Sup. Ct. Tex. 2025) (with Peter Steffensen, Thomas Leatherbury, and Griffin Rubin) 

Spring 2025

Sandra L. Babcock

  • “Women on Death Row in the United States,” with Nathalie Greenfield and Kathryn Adamson, Cardozo Law Review 1:46 (2024)
  • “The Lethal Consequences of Gender Bias in the Application of the Death Penalty,” Amicus Journal 4:45 (2024)
  • “Gender, Violence & The Death Penalty,” with Nathalie Greenfield, California Western International Law Journal 53:327 (2023)
  • Sandra Babcock, Valena Beety, & Susan Sharp, “Why has Brenda Andrew been on death row for two decades? It has everything to do with sex,” The Oklahoman (July 13, 2023)

Angela B. Cornell

  • “Strikes and the Struggle for Democracy,” International Labour Review, The Right to Strike: Revisiting its Role and Regulation, (coauthored with Ruth Dukes), International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, forthcoming 2025
  • Invited presentation, International Symposium “The Law-Collective Bargaining Nexus” at Aix-Marseille University, Oct 3-4.  It’s a comparative book project on how law and collective bargaining interact in the regulation of contemporary labor markets.
  • Invited panelist for a webinar on “The Use of the UN Supervisory System for the Enforcement of Trade Union Rights” on Nov 19.  The panel was titled “Leveraging UN Instruments to Boost Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Rights at the National Level.”

Rachel Goldberg

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer

  • “Bridging the Immigration Detention Justice Gap,” with Alisa Whitfield, Oregon Law Review, 103:101 (2024)

Ian M. Kysel

  • “The World Bank’s 2023 World Development Report: A Missed Opportunity to Recognize That All Migrants Have Rights,” International Migration (2025)
  • “Migrant Rights Protections and Their Implementation in 45 Countries,” with Justin Gest et al., International Migration Review, (2024)

Beth Lyon

  • “Xenophobia Meter: Defining and Measuring Online Sentiment Toward Foreigners on Twitter,” with Khonzoda Umarova, et al, International AAAI Conference on web and social sedia  (2024)
  • Presenter, overview of funded research, Migrations Symposium, Cornell University, Jan. 31. 2025 
  • Panelist, “How Immigration Representation Has Changed Over the Last 40 Years and the Need for Increased Legal Representation of Immigrants,” The (Im)possibility of Immigration Reform: A Conference in Honor of Steve Yale-Loehr, Cornell Law School, Ithaca (2024) 

Julia Mizutani

  • “Legal Research Instruction for Incarcerated Individuals” NELLCO (Law Library Consortium of New England) Symposium (Lightning Talk, Spring 2025)
  • “Time for a Change: Reexamining Character and Fitness Requirements,” panelist for virtual webinar CLE, October 2024

Heather Murray

  • Brief of Amici Curiae Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic, filed December 12, 2024 in Feliciani v. The Impact Project, Dkt. No. 864 EDA 2024 (Super. Ct. Pa.) (with Melissa Melewsky)
  • Brief of Amici Curiae SMU Dedman School of Law First Amendment Clinic and Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic, filed March 17, 2025 in Paxton v. American Oversight, Dkt. No.24-0162 (Sup. Ct. Tex.) (with Thomas Leatherbury, Peter Steffensen and Griffin Rubin)
  • Panelist at New York Press Association Conference on March 20, 2025, discussing New York’s FOIL and Open Meeting Law (with Michael Linhorst)

Katrina Nobles

David J. Reiss 

  • Served as pro bono expert witness for a homeowner in a forfeiture proceeding that stemmed from an expansive criminal scheme to defraud vulnerable New York City residents out of their homes. United States v. Meiri, 15 Cr. 627 (ER), 2024 WL 451230 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 17, 2024)
  • Featured guest, Shaping the NYC Skyline podcast, September 2024
  • Submitted comments to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in response to its a Request for Input on the mission of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, July 2024
  • Consulted with the U.S. Government Accountability Office regarding the Federal Home Loan Banks’ liquidity role during financial crises, January 2025
  • Presented the “History of Housing Finance,” Structured Finance Association’s SF Academy, September 2024
  • Appointed to the inaugural Editorial Board of the Structured Finance Journal, September 2024
  • Presented to the Advisory Board of Entrepreneurship at Cornell, November 2024

Fall 2024

Angela Cornell

  • Awarded Seed Grant, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, $9,000 for collaborative work with Scottish Scholar on Strikes and Democracy
  • Organized Interdisciplinary conference on “Labor, Strikes, and Democracy” at Cornell Law School, April 19-20
  • Transnational Labor Rights in a Globalized Economy, invited discussant on “ILO Draft Instrument: Decent Work in Supply Chain,” April 12-13
  • American Constitutional Society (ACS) Annual Conference, invited panelist. “Necessary Labor for Democracy” June 7-8
  • Invited to teach course on labor and human rights at Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, June 12-14
  • Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Annual Conference in New York City, Panel, “Union Power, Satisfaction and Composition,” June 26-30
  • “Organized Labor as a Democratic Catalyst,” invited talk at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site and National Historic Site, Buffalo, New York, July 16

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer

  • “Bridging the Immigration Detention Justice Gap,” forthcoming in Oregon Law Review (2024) (with Alisa Whitfield)

Ian M. Kysel

Publications

Talks & Panels

  • Northwestern University School of Law, “Empowering Human Rights Students to Change the World,” April 2024

Beth Lyon

Publications

Recent Presentations

  • Co-presenter, Activity Stream 4: “Articulating Principles and Policy Options,” Liberating Migrant Labour Methodology Workshop, Université de Montréal, Montreal (June 16, 2024)
  • Co-presenter, Discussion of draft ‘Authorship & Acknowledgement’ guidelines, Liberating Migrant Labour Canadian/US Region Meeting, Université de Montréal, Montreal (June 15, 2024)
  • Presenter, “How to Match Protections Along with Skills? Limitations of the Match and Move Matrix for Temporary Migrant Workers,” Canadian Political Science Association Workshop, Montreal (June 15, 2024) (held at Université de Montréal owing to strike)
  • Panel presenter, “Bringing Together Researchers and Farmworker Service Providers to Discuss and Synergize on Projects Impacting U.S. Farmworkers,” International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon (June 18, 2024)
  • Trainer, “Exploring Your Client’s Farmworker Background,” 2024 Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program Attorneys’ Meeting, San Antonio, Texas (May 17, 2024)
  • Presenter, “Artificial Intelligence to Prevent Xenophobia,” IV Seminario internacional “Guerra, derecho y seguridad en las relaciones internacionales,” ¿Será Más Humana law Guerra de las Máquinas? Universidad de Oviedo (May 10, 2024)
  • Co-convener, Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic and National Center for Farmworker Health Workshop, Presenter on child farmworker access to justice (April 26, 2024) 

Estelle M. McKee

  • With Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, ”Essentializing Cultures in Us Asylum Law,” 89 Brook Law Review, 443 (2024)
  • Led a plenary session on the writing techniques used in “Nightingale,” by Tobias Wolff, as applicable to persuasive legal writing; cofacilitated small-group sessions at the September 2024 “Persuasion Institute: A Workshop in Legal Storytelling and Narrative Construction for Capital Post-Conviction Counsel,” in Ithaca.

Heather Murray

  • Panelist in the Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts’ One-Day Law School for Journalists on Jul. 22, 2024 on unsealing court documents.
  • Conducted a FOIL and Open Meetings Law training with Michael Linhorst for the Press Club of Long Island on Oct. 17, 2024.
  • Panelist at Yale Law School’s Access and Accountability Conference on Nov. 2, 2024 discussing clinic and client successes to emulate.
  • Guest speaker in an internet law class at Western New England School of Law on Nov. 7, 2024 on government transparency in the age of social media.

Spring 2024

Sandra Babcock

  • “The Lethal Consequences of Gender Bias in the Application of the Death Penalty,” Amicus Journal 45, no. 4  (2024)
  • Sandra Babcock and Nathalie Greenfield, “Gender, Violence & The Death Penalty,” 53 California Western International Law Journal (2023)

John Blume

  • John Blume and Ali Franz, “Controlling Condemned Bodies: Regulation and Dehumanization of Death Row Inmates,” Regulating the Body, S. Lee and A. Sarat, eds (Stanford Univ. Press, forthcoming in 2024)
  • John Blume, Sheri Johnson, and Rosalind Major, “Proportionality is the New Innocence,” Rutgers Law Review
  • John Blume, Anna Effenberger, and Martine Wells, “Quantifying Disparate Questioning of Black and White Jurors in Capital Jury Selection,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 3, p. 609 (2023)

Liz Brundige

  • With Tamar Ezer, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, & Ryan Thoreson, “Integrating Human Rights In Domestic Clinical Practice,” Clinical Law Review (2024)

Angela Cornell

  • Delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Spanish Network of Legal Clinics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (October 2023)
  • Quoted by the Harvard Crimson on the NLRB’s joint employer doctrine, “Harvard Claims it Doesn’t Employ its Contracted Security Guards.  A New Case Could Change that.” (November 2, 2023)
  • Invited participant in Labor and Democracy Opening convening at Harvard University organized by the Center for Labor and a Just Economy and the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance
  • Presented on Organized Labor and the Struggle for Social Justice at the ClassCrits Conference on the panel on the History and Future of the Labor Movement alongside Shirley Lin, Sameer Ashar, Michael Green and Christopher Cameron 

Ellen Eagen

  • Ellen Kimatian Eagen, Dumin, Nick Dugas, and Leon Fruze, three chapters in Policies and Regulations section of Chat GPT: Navigating the Impact of Generative AI on Education Theory and Practice, (Bauschard, Stefan, Anand Rao, Priten Shah, and Char Shryock, eds), 2023. Chapters on acceptable use policies for K-12 (Leon Fruze), higher education (Dumin), and legal scholars (Ellen Kimatian Eagen and Nick Dugas) tackle an analysis of legal compliance, terms of service, and age-appropriate use.  

Ian Kysel

Talks

  • Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Migrant Rights Database, December 2023
  • German Mission to the African Union, Migrant Rights Database, October 2023
  • United States Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, Migrant Rights Database, October 2023

Panels

  • Cornell Migration and Human Rights Program, Principles to Protect all Migrants: Regional Leadership on Rights, December 2023 (organizer, moderator)
  • International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Academic Forum on the Promotion of Refugee Law, November 2023
  • African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Launch of Reports at 77th Ordinary Session, October 2023 (panelist)

Julia Mizutani

  • Invited panelist on “Time for a Change: Reexamining Character and Fitness Requirements,” ABA 49th National Conference on Professional Responsibility, May 2024; presenting her forthcoming paper, “Barred by the Profession, Mischaracterized by Law,” and how the Character and Fitness process has historically been an exclusionary tool and continues to have racial and socioeconomic class biases that harm applicants, especially those with any criminal or civil legal history.

Heather Murray

  • Heather Murray and Mark Jackson, “Commentary: Judicial Appointment Process Must be Transparent,” Albany Times Union, March 20, 2024
  • Amicus brief in February 2024 with Paula Knudsen Burke and Melissa Melewsky in Penncrest School District v. Cagle, 31 WAP 2023 (Sup. Ct. Pa.) on behalf of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cornell First Amendment Clinic. The brief supports petitioner in seeking access to social media records before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
  • Amicus brief in January 2024 on behalf of a media coalition in People v. Weinstein, No. 2022-00112 (N.Y. Ct. of App.). The brief supported Intervenor Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC in seeking to unseal the Harvey Weinstein docket at the New York Court of Appeals.
  • Copresenter at the RTKL Litigation and Open Courts Roundtables at the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Media Lawyers Conference, November 2, 2023
  • Moderator and panelist on the battle surrounding public comment at meetings at the National Freedom of Information Summit on October 5, 2023

Fall 2023

Angela Cornell

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer

Ian Kysel

  • Migrant Rights Initiative launched its Migrant Rights Database at events at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. The tool is the first global data source benchmarking the extent to which states fulfill international obligations in national law and how they implement these protections.
  • Testified before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in support of the adoption of a set of Guiding Principles on the human rights of migrants, the drafting of which was supported by the Migrant Rights Initiative.

Beth Lyon

  • The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council announced that it is funding a long-term research project led by Leah Vosko at York University entitled “Liberating Migrant Labour?: International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts.” Along with a group of researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the U.S., Shannon Gleeson and Beth Lyon were both co-applicants for the seven-year comparative project.
  • Beth Lyon, John McKinley, Marquise Riley, and Adam Vars, “One Bridge, Two Gaps: The Unrealized Potential for Law and Accounting Clinical Collaboration,” Business Education Innovation Journal (2023)
  • Public Employment Relations Board, Brief of Amicus Curiae, New York Farm Bureau (June 28, 2023)
  • Reina Fostyk, testimony before Otsego County Board of Representatives (June 8, 2023) (discussed in the Daily Star)
  • Beth Lyon, poster presenter, “Experiences with Incorporating Critical Theory Insights into Clinical Courses Using Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society,” AALS Clinical Conference, San Francisco (April 27, 2023)

Julia Mizutani

  • Center for Race and Law at St. John’s School of Law symposium, “Racialized Notions of Professionalism,” March 2023: panelist, “Racialized Notions of Professionalism-Language, Being, and Belonging”; presented “Barred from the Profession, Mischaracterized as Unfit by Law,” forthcoming in St. John’s Law Review 97, no. 3 (winter 2024)
  • NELLCO Law Library Consortium Symposium on Incarceration and Information Inequity: Library Advocacy and Outreach: presented on experience touring libraries in prisons in upstate New York and ideas on how to increase information access in prisons (March 2023)

Stephen Yale-Loehr

Spring 2023

Sandra Babcock

  • “The Role of Defense Lawyers in Capital Cases,” in The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 8 (2022)
  • Sandra Babcock, Nathalie Greenfield, Gabriela Markolovic, and Jessica Sutton, Defending Women and Transgender Persons Facing Extreme Sentences: A Practical Guide (2021)
  • Babcock serves as an advisor to the Trial Watch project of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and participated in an expert panel on “Measuring Access to Legal Assistance” organized by Trial Watch in March 2023.
  • Presentation titled “Judging Women: Gender Bias in the Criminal Justice System,” March 8 (International Women’s Day), to attorneys at White & Case
  • Presentation titled “Representing Incarcerated Women: Practical Tips for Defense Teams,” June 9, to attorneys and mitigation specialists in The Sentencing Project’s Second Look Network

John Blume

  • “Ghosts of Executions Past: A Case Study of Executions in South Carolina in the Pre-Furman Era,” Cornell Law Review vol. 107:6
  • John Blume, Sheri Johnson, and Brendan Van Winkle, “Atkins V. Virginia At Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period,” Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice vol. 29:1
  • John Blume, Brendan van Winkle, “Execution Methods and Evolving Standards of Decency,” special issue of the ABA’s Litigation magazine dedicated to “Embracing Change”

Angela Cornell

  • Angela B. Cornell, “Labor Law Unrealized: The Stifling of Workers’ Collective Rights in the United States” in The Future of Labor and Employment Law: International and Comparative Perspectives, (Bruyland-Larcier Publishing, 2023)
  • Angela B. Cornell, book review, “Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy,” ILR Review, by Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, Dominique Méda (University of Chicago Press 2022). Online November 28, 2022, print version forthcoming.
  • Angela B. Cornell, “Why Organized Labor is a Democratic Catalyst,” National Endowment for Democracy, Democracy Digest, August 8, 2022, Solicited
  • Angela B. Cornell and Mark Barenberg, eds Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2022
  • Angela B. Cornell, “Labor’s Obstacles and Democracy’s Demise,” in Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Gautam Hans

Jacklyn Kelley-Widmer

Lorelei Lee

Beth Lyon

  • Acceso Lingüístico a la Justicia y Debido Proceso, in Luiz Dellore, ed., Due Process of Law in the 21st Century (with Lesbia Marleny Sis Chen) (2022).
  • Presenter, Una Mirada Crítica a la Migración, Curso Crítico: Teoría Crítica del Derecho y Justicia Social en las Américas, Universidad Católica de Uruguay (via zoom) (Feb. 27, 2023)

Estelle McKee

  • Led a plenary session and co-led small-group sessions at “Persuasion Institute: A Workshop in Legal Storytelling and Narrative Construction for Capital Post-Conviction Counsel,” in Ithaca.
  • Presented on persuasive legal writing and applied storytelling and co-led small-group sessions at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s appellate defender training in Denver, Colorado.
  • Estelle McKee and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, “Essentializing Culture in U.S. Asylum Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review

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