Clinical Professor

Cornell Law School

Sandra Babcock is a Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School, where she teaches the International Human Rights Clinic and is the Faculty Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. She teaches classes in international human rights, gender rights, and the death penalty. Together with her students, she works to document, expose, and remedy human rights violations by governments around the world, including the United States. Her research focuses on gender bias in the criminal legal system. She received her BA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins and her JD from Harvard Law School. 

Candidate Statement:

I am running for Senator at Large because we are facing unprecedented challenges to academic freedom and the values that underpin higher education. In an increasingly authoritarian political environment, faculty governance is vital to support our students and colleagues who are under attack. I am particularly concerned about (1) faculty engaged in vital research that has lost government funding; (2) students facing deportation for exercising their rights to free speech; (3) government efforts to restrict academic freedom; and (4) the job security of untenured colleagues and staff as the university enacts budget cuts.

Further Information:

https://dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu/