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Capitol Rioters Got Tougher Sentences in 2021 from Obama's Judges than from Trump's

Jens David Ohlin, dean of the Law School, discusses the difficulties defense attorneys face in predicting how judges will rule in their clients’ Capitol riot case.

Financial Times

Charles Whitehead: Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, and a Crypto Token’s Wild Ride

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Stephen Yale-Loehr: Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Right to Bail for Detained Undocumented Immigrants (in Spanish)

Business Insider

Valerie Hans Comments on Juror's Experience in the Ghislaine Maxwell Case

Inside Higher Ed

Jens Ohlin: Law Students Protest Research Database Contracts with ICE

New York Times

Sherry Colb: Fetal Viability, Long An Abortion Dividing Line, Faces A Supreme Court Test

Featured Research

The Delaware Death Penalty: An Empirical Study

This article is part of a symposium that honors David Baldus, a great scholar and great man, a quiet man with a strong passion for justice. We study the operation of Delaware’s death penalty in the modern era of capital punishment.

Why Is Torture 'Different' and How 'Different' Is It?

Almost every serious commentator to address the moral and legal question of torture has taken for granted the proposition that the infliction of torture is a sufficiently grave evil to require a distinctly demanding moral scrutiny.

Stings and Scams: ‘Fake News,’ the First Amendment, and the New Activist Journalism

Constitutional law, technological innovations, and the rise of a cultural “right to know” have recently combined to yield “fake news,” as illustrated by an anti-abortion citizen-journalist sting operation that scammed Planned Parenthood.

Dangerous Citations

This Article considers when optional case citations may do more harm than good. There are valid reasons for citing to non-binding precedent — to promote consistency in the law.

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On May 12, 2022, Cornell Law School’s Death Penalty Program received the Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). The award honors the work of the Capital Punishment Clinic, the International Human Rights Clinic, the Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, and the Death Penalty Project, representing the efforts of Professors Sandra Babcock, John Blume, Sheri Johnson, and Keir Weyble, as well as generations of their students, alumni, community partners, and clients.

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👨‍🎓Congratulations to our newest alumni!👩‍🎓

We are proud of all of your hard work and dedication and welcome you to the Cornell Law School alumni family.

#LawyersInTheBestSense #CornellLaw #Convocation

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You could not ask for more beautiful weather for Slope Day 2022.
Good food, good music, and incredible students enjoying the sunshine and celebrating all of their hard work.

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You could not ask for more beautiful weather for Slope Day 2022.
Good food, good music, and incredible students enjoying the sunshine and celebrating all of their hard work.

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Today Fern was at the law school helping students to de-stress while studying for exams. #CornellPawSchool #LabsInTheBestSense

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Today Fern was at the law school helping students to de-stress while studying for exams. #CornellPawSchool #LabsInTheBestSense

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Don’t forget to stop by Copper Horse Coffee in the Commons for your complimentary cup of coffee sponsored by the Dean of students. Keep up the great work studying for exams! 🧠📝

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Don’t forget to stop by Copper Horse Coffee in the Commons for your complimentary cup of coffee sponsored by the Dean of students. Keep up the great work studying for exams! 🧠📝

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Students in the sunshine on this gorgeous Friday. #TGIF #SpringIntoTheWeekend

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Students in the sunshine on this gorgeous Friday. #TGIF #SpringIntoTheWeekend

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Thank you to alumnus Dave McGrath '92 for bringing Rigby along with your family for a tour of #CornellLawSchool

Chloe was also enjoying the rays outside of Hughes Hall while her mama had lunch with a friend.

#LawDogs #LawWithPaws

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Happy 🌎. Day! 🌳
What a gorgeous day to walk around campus.

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Happy 🌎. Day! 🌳
What a gorgeous day to walk around campus.

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Congratulations Professor Kysel. 👏

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/news/ian-kysel-joins-cornell-law-as-assistant-clinical-professor-of-law-and-founding-director-of-the-transnational-disputes-clinic/

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Congratulations Professor Kysel. 👏

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/news/ian-kysel-joins-cornell-law-as-assistant-clinical-professor-of-law-and-founding-director-of-the-transnational-disputes-clinic/

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Cornell Law School sent a higher percentage of its 2021 graduates to large law firms than any other U.S. law school, according to new data from the American Bar Association. 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/biggest-law-firms-turned-these-schools-us-recruits-2022-04-20/

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Where is/was your favorite place to spend your time at the law school?

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Where is/was your favorite place to spend your time at the law school?

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Noted First Amendment clinician Gautam Hans (@dispositive) will join the Cornell Law faculty this summer to teach in the #CornellLawClinics @CornellLaw1AC

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Noted First Amendment clinician Gautam Hans (@dispositive) will join the Cornell Law faculty this summer to teach in the #CornellLawClinics @CornellLaw1AC

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“I know firsthand that policymakers at the White House, Treasury, and Fed are working hard to develop a policy framework for stablecoins,” says Dan Awrey, professor of law and advisor to the Treasury group last fall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/16/cryptos-meltdown-is-refocusing-washingtons-attention-regulating-industry/

This week marks the first International Migration Review Forum at the UN, reviewing state progress on the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).

The @IMBRights Initiative @CornellLaw just released new research on rights implicated by the GCM.

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👨‍🎓Congratulations to our newest alumni!👩‍🎓

We are proud of all of your hard work and dedication and we welcome you to the Cornell Law alumni family.

#LawyersInTheBestSense #CornellLaw #Convocation

James Grimmelman, professor of law, described opposition to Disney’s copyrights as “harmless grandstanding” against something that’s not even happening.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-disney-copyright_n_627ac821e4b046ad0d82c098

“People are parsing the opinion for clues about exactly what its logical implications are,” said Michael Dorf, a Cornell Law School constitutional law expert who has predicted that the court’s abortion ruling has more profound disruptions in store.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-education/2022/05/09/will-brown-v-board-of-education-be-next-to-fall-00030923

A collaboration between Tristan Ivory (@cornellilr), Kristin Roebuck (@CornellHistory), and Chantal Thomas (@CornellLaw) is researching how laws from the Western legal tradition often inadvertently harm and unfree the very people they are trying to help.

“It jumps off at the starting point being there is no right,” says Jared Carter, visiting clinical professor of law. “That’s the big takeaway from there, the rationale is essentially that the court got Roe wrong.”

https://wset.com/news/instagram/abortion-advocates-opponents-prepare-for-far-reaching-effects-after-high-court-leak-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-roe-v-wade-planned-parenthood-v-casey-justice-samuel-alito-prolife-prochoice

Jens David Ohlin, dean of the Law School: if the leaked draft opinion by the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade becomes the court’s final decision,“Some people will be enraged and will feel that they were misled during the Senate confirmation hearings.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awzdd/kavanaugh-gorsuch-abortion-rights

“It used to be that the Supreme Court had something called the endorsement test, which said that if the government appears to be endorsing a particular religion, that’s unconstitutional,” says Nelson Tebbe, professor of law. https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/supreme-court-coach-prayer-case-could-open-door-to-prayer-in-public-schools-joseph-kennedy-bremerton-washington-high-school-football-coach#:~:text=Supreme%20Court%20coach%20prayer%20case%20could%20open%20door%20to%20prayer%20in%20public%20schools,-by%20GRAYCE%20MCCORMICK&text=HUNT%20VALLEY%2C%20Md.,is%20treated%20in%20public%20schools.

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