Cornell is offering a new program for college students who are considering becoming lawyers. The Cornell University Prelaw Program: The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law is an intensive six weeks of study and internship. It will be presented this summer from June 7 to July 16 in New York City. The program is intended to provide participants with an accurate, comprehensive understanding of America's legal system and to form the foundation for future study and work.
Cornell alumnus Mark A. Belnick '68, a former editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, will direct the program. Belnick is executive vice president and chief corporate counsel of Tyco International Ltd., which he joined in September 1998 after 19 years as a partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He will be joined by eminent guest speakers from the worlds of law, finance and government.
Program participants enroll in a four-credit Cornell course, Government 313, "The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law." Students in the program also participate in an internship with a law firm or in the legal department of a corporation, government agency or nonprofit organization. Because of the intensive and individualized nature of the program, enrollment will be strictly limited. Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to register early.
The 1999 list of internship hosts for the program includes American Express Co.; Chadbourne & Parke; Citigroup Inc.; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Davis, Polk & Wardwell; Dewey, Ballantine, LLP; Fish & Neave; Freshfields; Greenberg & Traurig; Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP; Lehman Brothers Inc.; Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Morrison & Foerster; National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD); Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Revlon; Rogers & Wells; Shearman & Sterling; Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett; Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; The News Corporation Limited; Time Warner Inc.; Tyco International (U.S.) Inc.; the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York; and Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
The course will feature distinguished guest speakers, including Hadley P. Arkes, the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College; Gloria Borger, cohost of TV's "Face the Nation," editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report; David Hartman, host of "Good Morning America" for 11 years and a noted writer, media critic and television producer; Elaine Jones, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Lewis A. Kaplan, United States district judge, Southern District of New York; L. Dennis Kozlowski, chairman and CEO of Tyco International Ltd.; Louise Parent, Esq., executive vice president and general counsel of American Express Co.; Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell professor of government; Warren B. Rudman, former U.S. senator and current chairman of President Clinton's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; and Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel to President John F. Kennedy and noted author, lecturer and international lawyer.
The Cornell Prelaw Program is part of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions' Campus-to-Careers series. For information about this series, contact the school at B20 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2801; 255-7259; fax: 255-9697; e-mail cusp@cornell.edu ; or www.campus-to-careers.cornell.edu .
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