Prof. Michael C. Dorf

Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

Michael C. Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, has been teaching law since 1992. He has authored or co-authored six books and over one hundred scholarly articles and essays for law journals and peer-reviewed science and social science journals. He also frequently writes for non-lawyers. In addition to occasional contributions to The New York Times, USA Today, CNN.com, The Los Angeles Times, and other wide-circulation publications, Professor Dorf has been writing a bi-weekly column since 2000 and publishes a popular blog, Dorf on Law. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard. After law school, Dorf served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked with several law firms and maintains an active pro bono practice mostly consisting of writing Supreme Court briefs. Before joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Dorf taught at Rutgers-Camden Law School for three years and at Columbia Law School for thirteen years.

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Sep 9 2020

Wednesday 6:00 p.m. EST

The Legislative Filibuster

Cornell Student Chapter

Zoom Webinar -- Cornell
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca , NY 14853

Speakers:

Michael C. Dorf • Martin B. Gold

Topics:

Separation of Powers • Federalism & Separation of Powers

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Showcase Panel II: Why, or Why Not, Be an Originalist?

Nov 15 2019

Friday 9:00 a.m. EST

Showcase Panel II: Why, or Why Not, Be an Originalist?

2019 National Lawyers Convention

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Amy Coney Barrett • Michael C. Dorf • Thomas M. Hardiman • Richard H. Pildes • Saikrishna B. Prakash

Topics:

Constitution • Jurisprudence • Philosophy

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Nov 14 2019

Thursday 9:00 a.m. EST

2019 National Lawyers Convention

Originalism

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

G. Barry Anderson • John S. Baker • Jack M. Balkin • Stephanie H. Barclay • Randy E. Barnett • William P. Barr • Evan D. Bernick • Josh Blackman • Adam Candeub • Michael A. Carvin • Ronald A. Cass • Eric R. Claeys • Paul D. Clement • Alexander J.S. Colvin • William S. Consovoy • Harmeet K. Dhillon • Michael C. Dorf • John C. Eastman • Jennifer Walker Elrod • Kurt Damian Engelhardt • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Mark C. Fleming • Deborah A. Garza • Eric Goldman • Luke Goodrich • Neil M. Gorsuch • Jamal Greene • Tara Leigh Grove • Deepak Gupta • Christopher Hajec • Philip A. Hamburger • Mauricio R. Hernandez • Kristin E. Hickman • Ryan T. Holte • Brett M. Kavanaugh • F. Scott Kieff • Gene Kimmelman • Neil J. Kinkopf • Donald Kohn • Richard J. Lazarus • Renée Lettow Lerner • Jonathan Lowy • Nelson Lund • William P. Marshall • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Thomas W. Merrill • Bernadette Meyler • Thomas D. Morgan • Alan B. Morrison • Christina M. Mulligan • Ryan D. Nelson • Norman J. Ornstein • Michael Stokes Paulsen • James E. Pfander • Richard H. Pildes • Andrew J. Pincus • Alex J. Pollock • Saikrishna B. Prakash • William H. Pryor • David B. Rivkin • Edward L. Rubin • Stephen E. Sachs • David S. Schoenbrod • Jefferson B. Sessions • Ilya Shapiro • Paul Sheard • Kristen Silverberg • Mark W. Smith • Lawrence Solum • Ilya Somin • David R. Stras • Richard E. Sylla • Jonathan E. Taylor • Eugene Volokh • Elizabeth B. Wydra • John C. Yoo • Juan C. Zarate

Topics:

Constitution

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