- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda".
- Jeffrey Sean Lehman
Jeffrey S. Lehman was appointed Cornell University's eleventh president by the Board of Trustees at a special meeting held on campus Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002, and he assumed the presidency on July 1, 2003. He was the first Cornell alumnus to serve as president of the university. In his inaugural address, Lehman characterized Cornell as a blend of beloved and revolutionary elements.
- Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 - August 27, 1948) was Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Julie Hilden
From 1996-99, Hilden was a litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, where she focused on First Amendment issues. Since then, in addition to being a FindLaw columnist, Julie has made occasional appearances to provide legal commentary on Good Morning America, Court TV, CNN, NPR, and Slate.com. Hilden's most recent book is the novel 3 (also available in French and Czech).
- Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron (born October 13, 1953) is a professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law. He also holds a visiting professorship at Victoria University in his native New Zealand. Waldron is a liberal in both the general and American senses of the word, and a normative legal positivist. He has written extensively on the analysis and justification of private property, the political and legal philosophy of John Locke, …
- Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Marie Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), one of America's leading scholars in constitutional law, is a professor at the Stanford Law School and currently practices appellate litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a law firm in California. Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Sullivan was the dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 to 2004. She was a professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1984 to 1993.
- Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang is a lawyer and author, best known for his book, "The Coming Collapse of China" (2001) in which he argued that the hidden non-performing loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down the PRC financial system and the communist government with it. In "Nuclear Showdown : North Korea Takes On the World" (2006) Chang suggests that Japan is the most likely target for North Korean aggression (not South Korea).
- Jacob Sullum
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and a nationally syndicated columnist. Sullum is the author of two critically-acclaimed books: Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004) and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (Free Press, 1998).
- Harry T. Edwards
Harry T. Edwards (born 1940) is a federal appellate judge in the United States. Judge Edwards graduated from Cornell University in 1962, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He graduated from University of Michigan Law School in 1965. He practiced law in Chicago for the firm of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson from 1965 to 1970. He then taught at the University of Michigan Law School from 1970 to 1975 and again from 1977 to 1980.
- Leonie Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkema (born 1944, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a United States District Court judge, in the Eastern District of Virginia. From Dutch descent, judge Brinkema received her B.A. from Douglass College in 1966 and undertook graduate studies in philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1966) and New York University (1967-1969). She earned her M.L.S. at Rutgers University in 1970 and her J.D. at Cornell University in 1976.
- Morris Raphael Cohen
Morris Raphael Cohen was a Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen. Cohen was born in Minsk, Belarus (then Russian empire), but moved with his family to New York, at the age of 12. He was educated at the City College of New York (ccNY) and Harvard University, where he studied under Josiah Royce, William James, …
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
Daniel Cosío Villegas was a prominent Mexican economist, essayist, historian and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University (nowadays UNAM) and took several courses in economics at Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell.
- Arthur Dean
Arthur Hobson Dean (1899 - 1980) was a New York lawyer who was viewed as one of the leading corporate lawyers of his day, as well having served as a key advisor to numerous U.S. presidents. Dean was Chairman and Senior Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell and was the U.S. negotiator of the truce that ended the Korean War. Dean's official papers are maintained at Cornell University.
- Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee and its litigation practice group. Floyd has a national trial and appellate practice and extensive experience in high-visibility matters, often involving First Amendment, intellectual property, insurance, public policy and regulatory issues.
- Leonard Leo
Leonard Leo (1965 -) is director of the Lawyers Division and executive vice president of the Federalist Society, and head of "Catholic Outreach" at the Republican National Committee. He also served as an advisor to President George W. Bush on judicial nominees. With James Taranto, he edited the book "Presidential Leadership." Leo is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He is also the uncle of David Joseph Maxham III, …
- Jan Schlichtmann
Jan Richard Schlichtmann (16 March 1951-) is an American attorney specializing in personal injury law and toxic torts. He was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., and Cornell University, J.D., and was admitted to the bar in 1977.
- Rudolf Schlesinger
Rudolf Schlesinger was the son of a lawyer and a relative of bankers. He was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 1909. As he was growing up, he exhibited especial intellectual abilities, but also a great interest for sports and art. He completed his doctoral thesis on commercial law with great success and next he worked as a lawyer for the bank that years ago had been founded by his predecessors. On December 1939, he left for the United States (to flee persecution by the Nazi regime, …
- David A. Embury
David Augustus Embury (November 3, 1886 in Pine Woods, New York - July 6, 1960 in New Rochelle, New York) was an attorney and author of "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" (1948), a classic encyclopedia of the 20th century cocktail. The book is noteworthy for its highly opinionated and conversational tone, as well as its categorization of cocktails into two types: aromatic and sour, its categorization of ingredients into three: base, …
- Roberto A. Rivera-Soto
Roberto A. Rivera-Soto is an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Born in New York but raised in Puerto Rico, Rivera-Soto graduated from the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1970. He graduated from Haverford College in 1974 with honors. He received his J.D. from Cornell University School of Law in 1977.
- Philip Perry
Philip J. Perry (born 1964, San Diego County, California) is an American attorney and Bush Administration political appointee. He was Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. Perry is a member of the Federalist Society. He is currently a partner at Latham & Watkins in their litigation department.
- George Shiras III
George Shiras, III (January 1, 1859 - March 24, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania. George Shiras (son of George Shiras, Jr.) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1881 and from the law department of Yale College in 1883.
- Walter Chadwick Noyes
Walter Chadwick Noyes (August 8, 1865 - June 12, 1926) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Noyes graduated Cornell University in 1888 and then read law for admission to the Connecticut bar. He worked as a lawyer in private practice in New London, Connecticut. Noyes served as a judge of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas from 1895 to 1907. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt selected Noyes as a Second Circuit judge.
- Richard M. Berman
Richard M. Berman (born 1943 in New York, New York) is a Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He received his BS from Cornell University in 1964 and his JD from NYU School of Law in 1967. He also received an MSW from Fordham University in 1996. He went into private practice in New York before becoming an executive assistant to United States Senator Jacob Javits in 1974.
- Clair S. Tappaan
Clair Sprague Tappaan (May 14 1878 - November 30 1932) was an American lawyer, professor and jurist who was on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law School from its formation as an official school of the university in 1904 until 1928, and served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and California Court of Appeal from 1927 until his death.
- Daniel R. MacKesey
Daniel R. Mackesey was born July 14, 1954 in Ithaca, New York and attended Cornell University where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and graduated cum laude in 1977. While at Cornell, Mackesey played lacrosse with distinction. He was an integral member of Cornell’s national championship teams in 1976 and 1977. He was a first team All-American both of those seasons as well as winning All-Ivy honors.
- Ernest William Huffcut
Ernest Wilson Huffcut (1860-1907) was an American lawyer and educator, born in Kent, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University in 1884 and from Cornell Law School in 1888, then practiced law at Minneapolis, Mn., in 1888-90, served as professor of law at Indiana University in 1890-92, and thereafter was dean of Cornell Law School. Governor Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, at the beginning of his first term (1907), appointed Huffcut his legal adviser.
- David Stern
David Stern is a Venture Partner at Clearstone where he focuses on developing early stage investment opportunities at the intersection of consumer technology and media. ... David is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of San Diego School of Law. He sits as an advisor or board member of Clearstone portfolio companies SoonR, Rubicon Project and Spock Networks.
- Elizabeth H. Sillin
- E. Adam Leyens
- Peter N. Kirsanow
Peter N. Kirsanow President Bush recess appointed Peter N. Kirsanow to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board on January 4, 2006. He can serve until the sine die adjournment of Congress in 2007 unless the Senate confirms his pending nomination. Mr. Kirsanow was a partner with the Cleveland-based law firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, in the Labor and Employment Practice Group.
- Patrick B. Omilian
- Christopher Reeve
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- Ronald A. Brand
Ronald A. Brand Professor of Law Director, Center for International Legal Education E-mail: rbrand@pitt.edu - Web site "I grew up in a small Nebraska town where my next-door neighbor was the only lawyer in the county. He helped facilitate the business and social functions of the community.
- Gary Bettman
This site is to get some intrest from hockey fans who are sick of Gary Bettman's decisions that have depleted the NHL over the last 10 or so years. Today's announcement that the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to move was the last straw. 2 work stoppages,2 Referee strikes, moving teams from Winnepeg,Hartford and Quebec City to name a few. An announcement today also came through that the NHL is considering making the nets larger.
- Ilene S. Cooper
Ilene Cooper is a Hofstra Law graduate of the class of 1979. She is a partner at Farrell Fritz concentrating in trusts and estates. She practices litigation in Surrogate's Courts throughout the metropolitan area. Her area of work has required her to prepare objections, answers, discovery demands, motions and memoranda of law. She also has experience in the drafting and execution of will and trust instruments, powers of attorney, health care proxies and living wills.
- I. Fred Koenigsberg
- Jocelyn B. Hurwitz
- Matthew T. Wilkov
- Herrick K. Lidstone Jr
- Allison K. Romantz