Classes on labor and employment law and labor relations intrigued Hannah Young ’23, Law ’25, when she was a first-year ILRie, but she wouldn’t be completely sold on pursuing a law career until a year later.
“I’ve always had an interest in law, but did not have any friends or family in the legal field, so I put it on the back burner for a while. It was not until I took ‘Introduction to Labor Law’ as a sophomore that I decided to seriously think about pursuing law school,” she said.
During her sophomore and junior years, Young worked as a research fellow at the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, focusing mainly on employment law. Her mentor, Susan Brecher, “was a huge inspiration” for the path Young hopes to take in practicing employment law.
Numerous faculty members at ILR are lawyers. Their specialties cover diverse areas of the law, from the intellectual and moral origins of the American Constitution to public sector employment law to technological change and anti-discrimination law.
Their teaching inspires many students to pursue law school.
Law-focused courses are foundational to the ILR curriculum, along with classes in management, history, organizational psychology, economics and statistics. Additionally, many ILR students are eligible to take courses at Cornell Law School. The Cornell Speech and Debate Society, based at the ILR School, and the Cornell Mock Trial Association also offer opportunities to practice skills that are useful to many professionals,...
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