Eduardo Peñalver

Eduardo Peñalver
Occupation Law professor
Title Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School
Academic background
Alma mater Cornell University (B.A.)
Oriel College, Oxford (M.A.)
Yale Law School (J.D.)
Academic work
Institutions Fordham University
University of Chicago
Cornell University

Eduardo M. Peñalver is an American law professor and dean of Cornell Law School.

Career

Eduardo Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School taking over for Stewart J. Schwab in July 2014.[1][2] He is an expert on property and land use law[3][4][5] as well as the intersection of law and religion.[6] His scholarship has appeared in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal[7] Columbia Law Review[8] and Cornell Law Review.[9] He has authored, co-authored or edited five books on property including Property Outlaws,[10] examining the role of disobedience in the development of property law, and An Introduction to Property Theory.[11]

Peñalver began his academic career at Fordham Law School from 2003-2006 before moving on to Cornell Law School from 2006-2012 and was a visiting professor at both Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He then served as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School[12] from 2012 to 2014 before being named the 16th dean of Cornell Law School. Peñalver is the first person of Latino descent to become dean of an Ivy League law school.[13][14]

He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his law degree from Yale Law School and was also named a Rhodes Scholar in 1993,[15] studying philosophy and theology. Peñalver also clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.[16][17]

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