Law

Field Description

The Doctor of Science of Law degree is intended for students who want to become legal scholars and to pursue original investigations into the function, administration, history, and progress of law.

The minimum residence requirement is two full terms; the program normally requires at least three to four terms. Candidates ordinarily concentrate on one legal field and do a substantial amount of work in at least one other field.

The catalog of the Law School contains descriptions of subject areas and of the Graduate Legal Studies.

Contact Information

Website: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu
Email: glsadmissions@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-5185

Field Manual

• Manual

Subject and Degrees

Law

• Law (J.S.D) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Law

• law

Faculty

Elizabeth S. Anker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: She has published and taught in the areas of human rights and humanitarianism, comparative constitutional law, law and literature, law and development, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, feminist jurisprudence, animal rights, immigration law, and legal and political theory.

Emad H Atiq

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: philosophy of law, ethics and legal theory

Dan J Awrey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: financial regulation, regulation of banks, investment funds, derivatives markets, financial market infrastructure

Celia Bigoness

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law

John H. Blume

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: criminal procedure; wrongful convictions; mental health issues in criminal cases; the Supreme Court's treatment of the death penalty

Elizabeth Brundige

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Gender Justice, International Human Rights

Yun-chien Chang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: East Asian Law; Property Law; Empirical Legal Studies; Economic Analysis of Law; International & Comparative Law

Kevin Michael Clermont

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: civil procedure

Deborah Dinner

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Property, Employment Law, Family Law, Gender & the Law, Law & Social Movements Law

Michael C. Dorf

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: civil procedure; constitutional law; constitutional interpretation; comparative constitutional law; democratic experimentalism; federal courts; jurisprudence

Jessica M Eaglin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Crime Policy, Information Technology, and the Law; Race, Technology, and the Law

Maggie Gardner

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law

Stephen P Garvey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: criminal procedure; jurisprudence; capital sentencing

Afroditi Giovanopoulou

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: International Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Property

Robert Alan Green

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: taxation

James Grimmelmann

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law

Valerie Hans

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: law and psychology; juries; social sciences and law; empirical studies of law

George Alan Hay

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: antitrust; economics for the lawyer

Michael R. Heise

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: torts; law and education policy; insurance; constitutional law; empirical methods

Robert C. Hockett

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: financial and business organizational law and economics; distributive justice; international law and finance; social insurance

Erik Hovenkamp

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Antitrust & Competition Policy, IP & Innovation Policy, Law & Economics, Industrial Organization

Sheri Lynn Johnson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: race and criminal procedure; constitutional law

Alexandra D Lahav

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Litigation risk and the history of products liability litigation.

Mitchel Lasser

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: chair of Graduate and International Faculty Committee; judicial interpretation; comparative law; comparative constitutional law; law of European Union; courts and institutions; jurisprudence; labor law

Oskar Liivak

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: patent law; biotechnology law; copyright law; intellectual property; property; trademark law; international intellectual property; science and the law

Beth Lyon

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law

Andrei Marmor

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law

Muna Baron Ndulo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: human rights and elections; legal aspects of foreign investment in developing countries; African law; democracy and governance

Jens D. Ohlin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: criminal law theory; public international law; international criminal law

Saule Omarova

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Financial Services, Banking Law, Corporate Finance

Frank Pasquale

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Administrative Law; Health Law & Policy, Intellectual Property; Technology, Equality, & Human Rights; Health Information, Privacy, & Innovation; Health Data Analysis & Advocacy

Jeffrey John Rachlinski

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: civil procedure; environmental law

Kazi Sabeel Al-Jalal Rahman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Law & Inequality

David J. Reiss

• Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC) - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Real Property, Real Estate Finance, Housing Policy, and Fintech/Proptech

Brian Michael Richardson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Constitutional Law, International Law, Criminal Law

Stewart Jon Schwab

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: law and economics; labor and employment law

Emily Sherwin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: property; remedies; trusts and estates; feminist jurisprudence; legal history

John Andrew Siliciano

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: torts; economics and legal doctrine

Edward Stiglitz

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law

Nelson Tebbe

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law

Chantal Thomas

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: relationship between international law, political economy and global social justice

Kristen Ann Underhill

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Health Law, Torts, Law & Behavior, Law & Economics, Empirical Analysis of Law

Laura Underkuffler

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: property law and property theory; comparative property law; property rights and regime change; corruption and democratic governance; the role of moral decision-making in law

W. Bradley Wendel

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Law

Charles Whitehead

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: corporate law; mergers and acquisitions; financial regulation; securities regulation; transactional law; law and economics; law and finance

Eleanor Wilking

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Tax Policy, Employment Law, Law & Economics

Leehi Yona

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Law: law
• Research Interests: Environmental Regulation and Climate Law