Faculty

Professional Biography

Eduardo Peñalver joined the Cornell faculty in 2006 after teaching from 2003-05 at Fordham Law School and spending 2005-06 as a visiting professor at Yale Law School. Professor Peñalver received his B.A. from Cornell University and his law degree from Yale Law School. Upon completing law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and at the Supreme Court for Justice John Paul Stevens. His research interests focus on property and land use, as well as law and religion. He is particularly interested in the ways property both fosters and reflects social bonds. His work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. His forthcoming book, Property Outlaws (co-authored with Sonia Katyal), which will be published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2009, explores the role of disobedience in the evolution of property law.

Education

• B.A. 1994, Cornell University
• M.A. 1996, University of Oxford, Oriel College
• J.D. 1999, Yale Law School