Cornell University Law School

Cornell Law School

Motto	"Lawyers in the Best Sense"
Parent school	Cornell University
Established	1887
School type	Private
Parent endowment	$6.2 billion
Dean	Eduardo M. Peñalver
Location	Ithaca, New York, United States
Enrollment	627
Faculty	99
USNWR ranking	13
Bar pass rate	93.33%
Website	lawschool.cornell.edu
ABA profile	Cornell Law School Profile

Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It is one of the five Ivy League law schools and offers three law degree programs (J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D.) along with several dual-degree programs in conjunction with other professional schools at the university. Established in 1887 as Cornell's Department of Law, the law school is ranked 13th in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

Cornell Law alumni include business executive and philanthropist Myron Charles Taylor, namesake of the law school building, along with U.S. Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and William P. Rogers, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce, the first female President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, federal judge and first female editor-in-chief of a law review Mary Donlon Alger, former President of the International Criminal Court Song Sang-Hyun, as well as many members of the U.S. Congress, governors, state attorneys general, U.S. federal and state judges, diplomats and businesspeople.