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Emily L. Sherwin
Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law
Expertise:
Jurisprudence, Property Law
Address
Cornell Law School
210 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
210 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Professor Sherwin specializes in jurisprudence, property, and remedies. She is the author of three books: Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies (with Theodore Eisenberg), Demystifying Legal Reasoning, and The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law (both with Larry Alexander). In addition, she has published numerous book chapters, articles, and reviews in her subjects of specialty.
Before coming to Cornell, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Law from 1985 to 1990 and the University of San Diego School of Law from 1990 to 2003. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Law (where she received her J.D.). In 2015, she received her M.A. in philosophy from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell.
She was recently a member of the advisory committee for the ALI's Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, and continues to be a regular participant in the North Atlantic Workshop on Private Law Theory and the Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference.
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- B.A., Lake Forest College, 1977
- J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1981
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- Sherwin, Emily L., “Locke and Private Law,” Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky, eds. 2021)
- Sherwin, Emily L., “Formalism and Realism,” The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily Sherwin, and Henry E. Smith, eds., Oxford University Press 2020)
- Sherwin, Emily L. and Lawrence Alexander, “How to Govern Conduct,” New Essays on the Nature of Legal Reasoning, Mark McBride and James Penner, eds. (Hart Publishing, forthcoming)
- Gold, Andrew S., John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily L. Sherwin, and Henry E., Smith, Introduction, The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Sherwin, Emily L., “General and Particular Jural Relations,” The Legacy of Wesley Hohfeld: Edited Major Works, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries, Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman, and Henry Smith eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
See all publications on SSRN and SelectedWorks.
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- 5121 Property