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Cory Way

Lecturer on Sociology

Biographical Note

Cory Way is Lecturer on Sociology, Dean of Kirkland House and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession. He holds a doctorate from Oxford and is a licensed attorney who has practiced litigation and corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, DC. He has maintained an active pro bono practice, recently winning political asylum for a Rwanda genocide survivor whose entire family had been murdered; his work on this novel case earned a pro bono award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Cory holds degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Virginia and the University of Oxford, where he also served in dean positions at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges. While in England he was also appointed as Course Director for a masters degree program at the University of Cambridge. Cory’s public service includes four years at the U.S. Department of Justice and one year as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. His broad areas of academic interest include: the intersection of crime, journalism and law in England and America; the sociology of the legal profession, with a particular focus on mentoring and professional development; and white collar crime.

01/13/2012

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