Cornell Law School, Cornell University Dean of Students Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School (CLS) is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 13th by U.S. News & World Report. Cornell Law offers a juris doctor (JD) program, a one-year master of laws (LLM) program for international students, a one-year LLM degree in law, technology, and entrepreneurship at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, an online master in legal studies (MSLS) program, and a doctoral (JSD) program. Cornell Law School's nationally ranked faculty includes 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty and 15 clinical professors in the legal research and wr