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4 unusual facts about Cornell Law School


Carlos Mendoza Davis

He earned a law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, for which he wrote the thesis Human rights and their protection in Mexican constitutional law. In 1994 he attended the Institute of International and Comparative Law summer school in France, sponsored by the Cornell Law School and the University of Paris.

Empirical legal studies

In 2004, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies was launched by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and Cornell Law School, and within three years risen to be ranked 28th of the over 800 US law journals.

Frank Irvine

Frank Irvine (September 15, 1858 - June 23, 1931) was a federal judge, and later the dean of Cornell Law School.

Free Access to Law Movement

The movement began in 1992 with the creation of the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute by Tom Bruce and Peter Martin.


Laila Macharia

In 1995, Macharia earned a Bachelor of Laws (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M) from the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.


see also

Legal Information Institute

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Professor Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.