James A. Henderson Jr.
James Henderson is a leading commentator in the field of torts and products liability. After he received both an LL.B and LL.M from Harvard Law School, Professor Henderson clerked for the Hon. Warren L. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then taught at Boston University Law School for twenty years before joining the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1984. His scholarship and teaching addresses theoretical, practical, and process concerns in the fields of products liability and torts. In addition to serving as the co-reporter of the American Law Institute's revision of the products liability portions of the Restatement of the Law of Torts from 1992-1998, Henderson has testified extensively on torts, products liability and insurance before the Senate and Congress, as well as before numerous state legislatures. He is the coauthor of torts and products liability casebooks.
Education
A.B., Princeton University, 1959
LL.B., Harvard Law School 1962
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1964
Richard N. Pearson
Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor Emeritus, University of Florida. b. 1928. B.B.A., 1950, Michigan; L.L.B., 1956, Boston University; LL.M., 1964, Yale. Comment Ed., B.U.L. Rev. Admitted: NH, 1956, MA, 1971, Private Practice, Concord, NH, 1956-62; Assistant Professor, Connecticut, 1962-63; Associate Professor, 1964-65; Associate Professor Boston University 1965-68; Professor 1968-82; Visiting Professor, L.S.U., 1975-76; Visiting Professor, University of Florida, 1981-82; Professor, 1982-95; Visiting Professor, Hawaii, fall 1982; Visiting Professor, Brigham Young, spring 1987; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, fall 1990; Visiting Professor, Wake Forest, fall 1995; Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, since 1995; Visiting Professor, Washington & Lee, fall 1996. Subjects: Insurance; Products Liability; Remedies; Torts.
Douglas A. Kysar
Douglas Kysar graduated magna cum laude in 1998 from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize and was a member of the Board of Student Advisors. Following law school, Professor Kysar clerked for the Hon. William G. Young, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, and practiced with Foley, Hoag, & Eliot in Boston before joining the faculty at Cornell in 2001. Professor. Kysar's works have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Boston College Law Review. Two of Professor Kysar's articles have been selected for presentation in the environmental law category at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. He has been a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School, a visiting professor at Yale Law School, and a visiting scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
Education
B.A., Indiana University, 1995
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1998
John A. Siliciano
John Siliciano, who is a national authority in torts and products liability, has served on Cornell Law School's faculty since 1984. The co-author of The Torts Process, Prof. Siliciano clerked for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court, and for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg at 2nd Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. He was Columbia Law Review editor-in-chief, and was in private practice for three years before turning to teaching. He has served as associate dean since 1997 and as vice dean from 2000-2003.
Education
B.A., Cornell University 1975
M.P.A., Princeton University 1979
J.D., Columbia University 1979