Beth Lyon to Open Cornell Farmworker Clinic

Cornell Law School has announced that Beth Lyon , currently at Villanova University School of Law. will be joining the faculty this summer. She will be developing and directing a new Farmworker Clinic, which will be offered for the first time during the fall semester 2015.   The clinic will serve the legal needs of farmworkers in Western New York. 

Beth developed the first farmworker clinic in the country at Villanova in 2001, and is a respected scholar in the areas of immigrant workers, international law, and clinical legal education.

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