Cornell University Law School Brochure - (Page Cover3) Extend Your Opportunities Rich resources You’ll find Cornell’s Law Library a spectacle to behold: Look up and you’ll be impressed with the building’s architectural splendor; look around and you’ll find an outstanding collection managed by a professional staff, six of whom hold dual library science and law degrees. More than 700,000 books and microforms provide comprehensive coverage of Anglo-American law sources; international, foreign, and comparative law; the British Commonwealth and European countries; and public international law and international trade law. Plus, you’ll have access to any of nineteen other Cornell libraries, and a collection exceeding seven million volumes. NOTE: Cornell Law School’s wired and wireless network gives all law students high-speed access to the Internet. legal journal dedicated exclusively to empirical legal scholarship. The journal is co-edited by three Cornell Law School professors and a professor in Cornell University’s Department of Biometrics. Special programs Cornell Law School is home to several unique programs of interest, including the Cornell Death Penalty Project, Clarke Business Law Institute, Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative, Conflict Resolution Program, Lay Participation in Law International Research Collaborative, BR Legal Joint Program, Institute for the Social Sciences, Clarke Scholars Program, Empirical Studies Project, Entrepreneurship Legal Services, and Keck Focus on Legal Ethics. Joint degree programs Being part of a world-renowned university is of great benefit. Cornell Law School and Cornell University offer many combined degree programs, including the J.D./M.B.A. (Business), J.D./M.P.A. (Public Affairs), J.D./ M.I.L.R. (Labor Relations), J.D./ M.R.P. (City and Regional Planning), and J.D./Ph.D. in a wide variety of fields. Law students can take as many as 12 credits outside the Law School. 700,000 volumes at the Cornell Law Library (print and microfilm equivalents) Legal Information Institute The Legal Information Institute (LII) was the first to provide open-access legal information on the Internet more than fifteen years ago. The LII combines cutting-edge technology with top-notch legal expertise to provide legal information to a huge global Internet audience—10 million hits a week from more than 200 countries—for free. The LII is linked to by over 1.5 million Web pages worldwide. The LII is an invaluable resource for legal professionals and lay people. For example, in February 2008 the IRS used LII’s Title 26 in its nationally-distributed package of electronic tax materials, widely used by a diverse population that includes employee-oriented corporate tax-assistance programs, libraries, and tax clinics for the elderly along with the IRS’ own offices. The LII also publishes the LIIBULLETIN—a student-written and edited online publication that offers commentary on all upcoming Supreme Court cases, before they are argued. More than 17,500 e-mail subscribers read the Bulletin. Another 16,500 lawyers, judges, and members of Congress receive it as a regular feature in The Federal Lawyer, the magazine of the Federal Bar Association. The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies makes Cornell Law School the publisher of the only 1st Legal Information Insitute site was the online law site 10 million page hits received by the LII site on a weekly basis 8
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