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Beth Lyon
Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Clinical Professor of Law, and Clinical Program Director
Clinics and Programs:
Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic
Address
Cornell Law School
G28P Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
G28P Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Beth Lyon is a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where she founded the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, and co-founded the Low-Income Taxpayer Law and Accounting Practicum. She also serves as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Clinical Program Director. Her areas of focus include domestic and international migrant and farmworker rights, language access to justice, and provision of legal services to rural minorities.
Professor Lyon received her B.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, her M.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, she was the managing editor of Law and Policy in International Business (since renamed Georgetown Journal of International Law) and a Ford Foundation Fellow, working in Lima, Peru for the Comisión Andina de Juristas.
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- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988
- M.S., Georgetown University, 1994
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1994
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- “Portable Justice,” in Kavita Datta and Nicola Piper, Eds., The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (with Cathleen Caron) (2024)
- Umarova et al., “Xenophobia Meter: Defining and Measuring Online Sentiment Toward Foreigners on Twitter,” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) (2024)
- “One Bridge, Two Gaps: The Unrealized Interprofessional Potential for Law and Accounting Clinical Collaboration,” Journal of Business Education Innovation 15, 163-168 (2023)
- “Acceso Lingüístico a la Justicia y Debido Proceso,” in Luiz Dellore, ed., Due process of Law in the 21st Century (with Lesbia Marleny Sis Chen) (2022)
- “New York State Addresses a Jim Crow-Era Legacy: The 2019 Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act,” Labor and Employment, Volume 48, Number 1, 8 (Fall 2019)
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