Learn From a Wealth of Perspectives

As students progress through law school, in addition to encountering and addressing real-world issues, they can take courses that address a variety of issues such as systemic racism, colonialism, bias, and inequity. Indeed, the Law School offers a concentration in Law, Inequity, and Structural Exclusion. The list below includes some of the doctrinal and experiential courses and seminars that have been available to students; new courses are always being evaluated and added.

• Anti-Liberalisms
• Asian Americans and the Law
• Ethics in Policing
• Family Law
• Federal Indian Law Practicum
• First Amendment: Speech and Press Clauses
• Gender Justice Clinic
• Immigration Federalism
• Issues in Poverty Law
• Moral Foundations of Anti-Discrimination
• Movement Lawyering
• Race, Racism and the Law: Selected Topics
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Women in Business and International Trade

Cornell Law believes that a faculty that reflects the diversity in its student body and in society is essential to its core educational mission. To that end, the Law School’s priorities include recruiting and retaining faculty who are excited to engage with a diverse student body and who are skilled in facilitating dialogue and the exchange of ideas among those with differing viewpoints. 

Our faculty members contribute unique insights and experiences that challenge traditional ways of thinking. Their voices bring a wealth of perspectives, ideas, and approaches that enhance the learning environment for all students. Cornell Law faculty are integral to helping students broaden their perspectives, fostering cultural competence among students, and providing students with role models who share similar unique identities.

Emad Atiq

Professor Atiq teaches contracts, legal ethics, and seminars in legal and moral philosophy. His research examines the nature of objectivity in the context of normative reasoning, broadly construed to include reasoning about legal, moral, and epistemic norms.

Sandra Babcock

Professor Babcock specializes in international human rights litigation, access to justice, death penalty defense, international gender rights, and the application of international law in US courts.

John Blume

Professor Blume is the Samuel F. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques and the Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Federal Appellate Practice, and supervises the Capital Punishment and Juvenile Justice Clinics.

Yun-Chieng Chang

Professor Chang is the Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law and Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. 

Jessica Eaglin

Professor Eaglin’s research examines the expansion of technical legal practices in criminal administration as response to the economic and social pressures of mass incarceration. She is a leading expert on algorithms in criminal sentencing. 

Afroditi Giovanopoulou

Professor Giovanopoulou researches at the intersection of law and history, with a dual focus on the history of American legal thought and on the legal history of international politics. She is particularly interested in the ways that legal doctrine, practice, and theory have structured the establishment of political, cultural, and economic hierarchies across the globe, including the rise of the United States in the world. 

G.S. Hans

Professor Hans is the founding Director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic (CRCLC). CRCLC works on cases and projects relating to a wide range of topics including free speech and association; current issues involving developing technologies; and amicus briefs and policy and advocacy.

Estelle McKee

Professor McKee teaches Lawyering and the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic.

Kim Nayyer

Associate Dean and Professor Nayyer oversees the operations of Cornell Law Library and its services to the law school community. She teaches a seminar in comparative copyright; leads a colloquium on the critical evaluation of legal information; teaches legal research for the MSLS degree; and regularly supervises reading, writing, and experiential learning courses for JD and LLM students. 

Muna Ndulo

Professor Ndulo is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance and institution building, international criminal law, African legal systems, human rights, and international law and foreign direct investments. 

Sabeel Rahman

Professor Rahman’s academic research focuses on issues of democracy, governance, economic power, political economy paradigms, racial equity, and inequality.