Summer 2026
Sandra L. Babcock
This research, which was the subject of an op-ed by Professor Babcock in The Appeal in 2025, has led to a proposal for legal reform in California to eliminate gender bias in women’s criminal trials. The California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, after hearing testimony by Professor Babcock, recommended reforms to the Rules of Evidence in the state to minimize the introduction of gender-biased testimony. This recommendation is the first of ten recommendations made by the Committee in its year-end report.
Angela B. Cornell
- Presented co-written paper, “Labor Rights and Democratic Resilience: the Inter-American Court Considers Whether Democracy is a Human Right,” at Convening organized by Cornell Brooks Center on Global Democracy, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and Sciences Po Bordeau in Bordeaux, France, June 25-26, 2026
- Coauthored (w/Jeffrey Vogt) Amicus Brief in Inter-American Court of Human Rights Case on Democracy and participated in the oral argument before the Court in Brasilia, Brazil on March 18, 2026
- Presentation and led discussion on Business and Human Rights/Corporate Accountability in new campus-wide undergraduate course, PUBPOL/HE 2700: Pathways to Purpose – Civic Leadership in Law, Health, Tech, and Business, February 7, 2026
- Moderated Panel at ILR School on The Attack on Federal Workers and the Union Response, October 23, 2025
- Moderated Panel, Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Conference, Topics in Labor and Employment Law, summer 2025
- “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, 2026
Rachel Goldberg
- Transforming Indigent Appellate Advocacy, 114 Geo. L. J. 643 (2026) (with Estelle McKee)
- Panelist, Feedback Strategies for Strengthening Students’ Legal Writing in Clinics, AALS Clinical Conference, Portland, Oregon (May 3, 2026)
- Presenter, Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects: Analyzing Women’s Capital Trials for Gender-Biased Language, AALS Clinical Conference, Portland, Oregon (May 5, 2026)
Beth Lyon
- Co-Presenter, Lessons from History: Building a Research Coalition to Address Xenophobia, International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Addressing and Eradicating Xenophobia in the Southern African Region, University of Johannesburg (March 26, 2026) (with O’Brien Kaaba)
- Presenter, Computational Methods for Migration and Xenophobia (Detection Description Experiments), Migration Methodology Workshop, Cornell University (March 10, 2026)
- Presenter, Addressing Xenophobia in the Southern African Region, Cornell Institute for African Development Fall Colloquium Series (Oct. 8, 2025)
- Co-Presenter, Paper on Clinic Autonomy, Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop (Oct. 4, 2025) (with Ty Alper, Praveen Kosuri, Alicia Plerhoples, Laura Riley, and Robin Walker Sterling)
- Presenter, Land Grant Law Schools and Community Engagement, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island (July 1, 2025)
Estelle McKee
- Transforming Indigent Appellate Advocacy, 114 Geo. L. J. 643 (2026) (with Rachel Goldberg)
- Presenter, Persuasive Brief-Writing, an Interactive Workshop, Federal Defender Capital Habeas Unit, Tampa, Florida (December 10, 2025)
- Presenter, Pro Se Prose, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York (Oct. 14–16, 2025) (interactive workshop and writing consultations for judicial clerks)
- Panelist, Feedback Strategies for Strengthening Students’ Legal Writing in Clinics, AALS Clinical Conference, Portland, Oregon (May 3, 2026)
- Panelist, Immigration Clinics in Federal Court, AALS Clinical Conference, Portland, Oregon (May 5, 2026)
Julia Mizutani
- From Contracts to Courts: Legal Protections for Academic Librarians’ Academic Freedom, forthcoming in Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy 2026
- Presenter at Intellectual Freedom Symposium at American Library Association Conference 2026
- Panelist, Bridging the Legal Information Gap in Prisons: A Dialogue between Librarians and Jailhouse Lawyers, American Library Association Conference 2026
- Presenter at Abolition Law and Policy Review Symposium, Meeting the Moment: Abolitionist Interventions in the Face of Retrenchment, 2026
- Presenter at Expanding Legal Training and Legal Career Pathways convening at the National Conference on Higher Education in Prison 2026