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Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University. It is one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees, hosts an array of programs and institutes, and offers more than 120 courses for its students. Students may supplement their legal studies by availing themselves of the rich academic resources available in other colleges of the university. The law school's faculty is among the most prolific in the nation in terms of scholarly output and is well regarded for its excellence in classroom teaching. The school has a student to faculty ratio of 10.4 to 1, the third lowest of the 184 American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the United States [1] Cornell enjoys an excellent reputation in the legal profession, and its graduates have the sixth highest percentage placement at the top 50 law firms. Additionally, Cornell's first-time pass rate for the New York Bar Examination is consistently among the highest of any law school in the state. It has a residence hall, Hughes Hall, attached to the law school to the east.
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The "law department" opened in 1887 in Morrill Hall with Judge Douglas Boardman as its first Dean. At that time, admission did not require even a high school diploma. In 1917, two years of undergraduate education was required for admission, and in 1924, it became a graduate degree program.[2] The department was renamed the Cornell Law School in 1925. Perhaps the most prominent faculty member in the early years was Charles Evans Hughes who taught from 1891-93. In 1890, George Washington Fields graduated, one of the first law-school-graduates of color in the United States.[3] In 1893, Cornell had its first female graduate, Mary Kennedy Brown. In 1892, the school moved into Boardman Hall, which was constructed specifically for legal instruction. The school moved from Boardman Hall (now the site of Olin Library) to its present-day location at Myron Taylor Hall in 1937. The law school building, an ornate, Gothic structure, was the result of a donation by Myron Charles Taylor, a former CEO of US Steel, and a member of the Cornell class of 1894. An addition to Myron Taylor Hall, the Jane M.G. Foster wing, was completed in 1988. Foster was a member of the class of 1918, and was the first woman to serve as Editor-in-Chief on an American law review. In 1948, Cornell Law School established a program of specialization in international affairs and also started awarding LL.B. degrees. In 1968, the school began to publish the Cornell International Law Journal. In 1991, the school established the Berger International Legal Studies Program. In 1994, the school established a partnership with the University of Paris I law faculty to establish a Paris-based Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law. In 2006, the school established its second summer law institute in Suzhou, China. The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture was established in 2002. [edit] Admissions Admission is very competitive. The law school receives roughly 4000 applications each year for an entering class of 185-190. Successful applicants usually have thrived in academic as well as non-academic settings. The academic profile of students is strong. In 2006 the median GPA for incoming Cornell Law students was 3.67, and the median Law School Admission Test score was 167. The admission rate for 2006 was 22.6%. Entering students graduated from over 100 different undergraduate colleges and universities and studied a wide range of academic disciplines. In addition, they typically were active in extracurricular and community activities. Well over half usually have full-time work experience and less than 40% come straight from college to law school. In the LL.M. program, which is geared to non-U.S.-trained lawyers, 900 applications were received for the 50 to 60 openings. LL.M. students come from over 30 different countries.[4] Along with consideration of the quality of an applicant's academic record and LSAT scores, the full-file-review admissions process places a heavy emphasis on an applicant's personal statement, letters of recommendation, community/extracurricular involvement, and work experience. The application also invites a statement on diversity and a short note on why an applicant particularly wants to attend Cornell. The Law School values applicants who have done their research and have particular interests or goals that would be served by attending the school versus one of its peer institutions.[5] [edit] ReputationCornell is one of the preeminent law schools in the United States; 7th in the 2004 Law School 100 rankings,[6] 13th in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report,[7] and its master of laws, or LL.M., program ranked 1st in the 2006 and 2008 AUAP rankings[8]. In 2005, the National Law Journal reported that Cornell Law graduates had the 6th highest percent placement at the top 50 law firms.[9] [edit] Academic Offerings[edit] Law Degrees
[edit] Summer Law Institutes in France and ChinaCornell Law School runs two summer institutes overseas, providing Cornell Law students with unique opportunities to engage in rigorous international legal studies. The Cornell-Université de Paris I Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law at the Sorbonne in Paris, France offers a diverse curriculum in the historic Sorbonne and Centre Panthéon (Faculté de droit) buildings at the heart of the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne. Coursework includes international human rights, comparative legal systems, and international commercial arbitration. French language classes are also offered. In 2006, Cornell Law School announced that it would launch a second summer law institute, the new Workshop in International Business Transactions with Chinese Characteristics in Suzhou, China. In partnership with Bucerius Law School (Germany) and Kenneth Wang School of Law at Soochow University (China), Cornell Law provides students from the United States, Europe, and China with an academic forum in which they can collaborate on an international business problem. [edit] LibraryCornell's law library is one of the largest in the nation, and was physically expanded in 1990, doubling its floor space.[citation needed] The law library contains 700,000 books and microforms and includes rare historical texts relevant to the legal history of the United States.[10]  The library is one of the 12 national depositories for print records of briefs filed with the United States Supreme Court. Also, there is a large collection of print copies of the records and briefs of the New York Court of Appeals. The large microfilm collection has sets of Congressional, Supreme Court, and United Nations documents, as well as a large collection of World Law Reform commission materials. Microfiche records and briefs for the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and D.C. circuit, and the New York State Court of Appeals are also collected.[11] The library also has a large collection of international, foreign, and comparative law, with the main focus being on the Commonwealth of Nations and Europe. Along with this, there are also collections of public international law and international trade law. A new initiative by the library is to collect Chinese, Japanese, and Korean resources to support the Law School’s Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture.[11] The law library also boasts a significant collection of rare books. This collection has over 1200 volumes and it is housed in the Rare Book Room, which was built in 1981. Among these rare books is the Samuel Thorne collection, which has 175 of the some of the earliest and most rare books on law. Other significant collections include the Nathaniel C. Moak library and the Edwin J. Marshall Collection of early works on equity and the Earl J. Bennett Collection of Statutory Material, a print collection of original colonial, territorial, and state session laws and statutory codes.[11] Among the library’s special collections are 19th Century Trials Collection, Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection, Scottsboro Collection, William P. and Adele Langston Rogers Collection and the Chile Declassification Project.[11] [edit] Legal Information InstituteCornell Law also is home to the Legal Information Institute (LII), known internationally as a leading on-line provider of public legal information.[12] The LII offers all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. The LII also publishes important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of “topical” pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law. Search engines and ranking systems identify the LII as the most linked to web resource in the field of law. [edit] PublicationsCornell Law School boasts three highly-regarded law journals that are student-edited: the Cornell Law Review, the Cornell International Law Journal, and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. Additionally, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that is published by Cornell Law faculty. [edit] Moot CourtCornell Law students actively participate in myriad moot court competitions annually, both in the law school itself and in external and international competitions. The Langfan First-Year Moot Court Competition, which takes place every spring, traditionally draws a large majority of the first-year class. Other internal competitions include the Cuccia Cup and the Winter Cup. [edit] Notable current faculty
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