Director of the Lawyering Program and Clinical Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
307 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-1348
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: jba23@cornell.edu
Joel Atlas teaches first-year lawyering and an upper-level course on appellate advocacy. After graduation from Boston University School of Law, Mr. Atlas worked for 15 years, first as Associate Appellate Counsel and ultimately as Supervising Attorney, for the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the New York Legal Aid Society. During that time, he also taught first-year writing at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a seminar on appellate advocacy at Brooklyn Law School, and the criminal appellate advocacy clinic at New York University School of Law. He joined Cornell Law School's Lawyering Program faculty in 2000 and became Director in 2006.
