Ebony Ray

Professor Ebony Ray is an Academic Fellow at Cornell Law School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers Law School, where she teaches Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research Skills. Her research focuses on labor and employment law, administrative law, and civil rights. Her current scholarship examines how legal institutions respond to evolving forms of workplace harm and changes in the nature of work.

Before joining Cornell, Professor Ray served as Associate Director and Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering in NYU School of Law’s Lawyering Program. Prior to entering academia, she practiced for several years as a litigator at leading international law firms, focusing on labor and employment and complex commercial litigation.

Professor Ray holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She clerked for Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.