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Since the launch of the Cornell Legal Aid Clinic in 1960, Cornell Police force Schoolhouse has helped students move beyond the classroom into the earth of practice. A multifariousness of courses provide students with opportunities to assume the role of abet on behalf of real clients with real legal problems. Experienced kinesthesia supervisors work closely with students to assist their development into excellent, ethical professionals. Today, through more than than twenty clinics and practicum courses, well-nigh Cornell Police students develop as client counselors, litigators, and transactional lawyers while serving the public involvement locally and around the globe.

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Being a global police force school located in a rural area that has few public interest lawyers allows students to combine unique local partnerships with a national and international scope. We also have strong collaborations with other schools within Cornell Academy, including the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the S.C. Johnson College of Business, and Weill Cornell Medicine. These cross-disciplinary connections let Cornell Police students to work in teams bringing multiple skill sets to deport on circuitous issues.

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Director's Message

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Beth Lyon

At Cornell Police force School, our students are provided with both a strong doctrinal program and a rigorous and varied set of clinical, advocacy, and skills courses. For many of our students, these courses provide the near rewarding and self-revelatory experiences of their police force school experience. Cornell Law has long introduced students to the sort of experiential learning that, especially when it occurs in real-life settings, constitutes the cadre of a pupil's professional development.

A.D. White said that he wanted Cornell'south Law Schoolhouse to provide "Legal training in which Legality shall not crush Humanity." His promise—as he expressed it in 1887—was that this law school would produce "not swarms" of lawyers, but a "off-white number of well trained, big-minded, morally-based lawyers." A.D. White hoped that Cornell lawyers would "go a blessing to the nation, at the bar, on the bench, and in diverse public bodies." Every bit his words brand clear, public service has been an intrinsic part of Cornell Law School's mission from the very beginning, and an important fashion in which we go on faith with that founding commitment is through our law clinics. In 1960, newly minted Law School alumna Betty Friedlander launched the Cornell Legal Aid Clinic, a student pro bono effort that expanded into for-credit courses in the early 1970s. Through the clinic, students worked closely with faculty and local legal services attorneys to correspond low-income Tompkins County residents, providing them with much-needed access to justice.

Through our longstanding commitment to skills teaching and public service, we and generations of students have built a program that is working at the cutting border of pressing legal problems. Our clinical program includes a broad assortment of clinical experiences for students and also provides needed legal services to underserved communities locally, nationally, and internationally. Our current programs include clinics taught by total-time members of the faculty, additional practicum courses supervised by experienced practitioners serving every bit offshoot professors, and a number of intensive externships and field placements.

I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Dean Ohlin and our exceptional clinical faculty as we continue our commitment to provide practical skills preparation to our students and admission to justice for our clients. In these challenging times, Cornell Police Schoolhouse's delivery to supporting our students in their development and in their legal service to the community is unwavering.

Beth Lyon
Associate Dean for Experiential Teaching and Clinical Program Director

For many of our students, the clinical courses provide the most rewarding and self-revelatory experiences of their law school experience. Cornell Constabulary has long introduced students to the sort of experiential learning that, peculiarly when it occurs in real-life settings, constitutes the core of a student'south professional development.

Clinical Program Team

Beth Lyon
Acquaintance Dean for Experiential Education and Clinical Programme Director
Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic and Codirector Depression-Income Taxpayer Police force and Accounting Practicum
Cornell Law School
156 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
(607) 255-4196
Fax: (607) 255-8887
mbl235@cornell.edu

Susan Tosto
Clinical Programs Coordinator
Cornell Law School
133 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
(607) 255-4196
sjt29@cornell.edu

April Denman
Clinical Programs
Administrative Manager
129 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
(607) 255-2552
asd5@cornell.edu

Photo Gallery

From left: Professor Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer and copresenter Amadou Fofana give an Undocu-Ally training to Cornell staff in February 2020.
A educatee in the Low-Income Taxpayer Police and Accounting Practicum does tax prep during the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
Dispensary students Rohini Tashima and Andrew Guiang getting ready to interview clinic client Billy Kelly.
Clinic educatee Florence Seaman, J.D. '16 (foreground middle), with clinic client Stephanie Schroeder (foreground left), presenting on the issue of armed forces sexual assault during the U.N. Committee Against Torture's review of the United States in Geneva, Switzerland.
Victoria Inojosa and Matt Lutwen working on a submission to the U.N. on Freedom of Association in Colombia.
Victoria Inojosa '19, Linda Lin '21, and Diana Caraveo Parra '20 in downtown Dilley, Texas, in January 2019, as part of a trip past the 1L Immigration Police force and Advocacy Dispensary's where they volunteered at the country'south largest family detention facility, assisting asylum-seekers with their legal cases.
Death penalty: Mail service Conviction Litigation Clinic students Alessandra Scalise (left) and Amelia Hritz (right) interviewing Rev. Delaine in South Carolina while working on the Anthony Forest case.
From left: Professor Muna Ndulo; Tinenenji Banda, J.S.D. '16, LL.Chiliad '07; Christopher Sarma, J.D. '15; and Amy Stephenson, J.D. 'fifteen, present on the Gender Justice Clinic's coauthored handbook on Zambian juvenile justice law.
Students in the Securities Police Clinic comport a mock mediation with Adjunct Professor Birgitta Siegel.