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Jeffrey S. Lehman

Professor of Law

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Contact Information

Cornell Law School
235 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: jeffrey-lehman@lawschool.cornell.edu

Professional Biography

Professor Lehman is former President of Cornell University and former Dean of the University of Michigan Law School. He clerked for Chief Judge Frank M. Coffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and for Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a prolific legal scholar whose research and teaching concerns are poverty, taxation, and the American welfare state. While at University of Michigan he was one of the primary architects of the successful defense of the Law Schools admissions policy before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Education

  • A.B., 1977, Cornell University
  • J.D., 1981, University of Michigan Law School
  • M.P.P., 1981, University of Michigan