Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
110 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-4560
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: shs6@cornell.edu
Steven H. Shiffrin is a professor of law at Cornell Law School. He began his law school teaching career at UCLA in 1977, receiving tenure in 1981. He has been a visiting professor of law at Boston University, at the University of Michigan, and Harvard University. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1987. Professor Shiffrin is the author of Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America, Princeton University Press, 1999, and The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance, Harvard Press, 1990, winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Award. His writings have appeared in many publications, including the Cornell Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the New York Times Book Review. He is a coauthor of Constitutional Law, 10th ed., 2006, and The First Amendment, 4th ed., 2006, both of which are widely used casebooks in the field. His new book, The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, will be published by Princeton University Press in the fall of 2009.
