# Emily Sherwin

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'''Emily L. Sherwin''' is the Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law at the [Cornell Law School](/source/Cornell_Law_School).{{r|cv}} At Cornell, her specialties include "jurisprudence, property, and remedies".{{r|profile}}

Sherwin did her undergraduate studies at [Lake Forest College](/source/Lake_Forest_College) in Illinois, graduating in 1977. She earned her J.D. from the [Boston University School of Law](/source/Boston_University_School_of_Law) in 1981. She also has a master's degree in philosophy, earned in 2015 from the Sage School of Philosophy at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University).{{r|cv}}

From 1981 to 1982, Sherwin clerked for [Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court](/source/Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court) chief justice [Edward F. Hennessey](/source/Edward_F._Hennessey).
After practicing law for three years in Boston, she taught in the [University of Kentucky College of Law](/source/University_of_Kentucky_College_of_Law) from 1985 to 1990, and in the [University of San Diego School of Law](/source/University_of_San_Diego_School_of_Law) from 1990 to 2003, before moving to Cornell in 2003. She was named the Ingersoll Professor in 2014.{{r|cv}}

With Theodore Eisenberg, she is the author of the casebook ''Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies: Cases and Materials''.
With [Lawrence A. Alexander](/source/Lawrence_A._Alexander), she is the author of two books ''The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules & the Dilemmas of Law'' (Duke University Press, 2001){{r|ror}}
and ''Demystifying Legal Reasoning'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008).{{r|dml}}

==References==
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<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty_cvs/Sherwin.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|accessdate=2017-11-26}}</ref>

<ref name=dml>Reviews of ''Demystifying Legal Reasoning'':
*{{citation
 | last = Priel | first = Dan
 | date = January 2009
 | title = Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
 | url = https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/demystifying-legal-reasoning/}}
*{{citation
 | last = Saffie | first = Francisco
 | date = July 2009
 | issue = 2
 | journal = The Cambridge Law Journal
 | jstor = 40388813
 | pages = 477–479
 | title = none
 | volume = 68| doi = 10.1017/S0008197309000701
 | s2cid = 143791464
 }}
</ref>

<ref name=profile>{{citation|url=https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio_emily_sherwin.cfm|title=Emily Sherwin|publisher=Cornell Law School|accessdate=2017-11-26}}</ref>

<ref name=ror>Review of ''The Rule of Rules'':
*{{citation
 | last = Alces | first = Peter A.
 | date = May 2003
 | journal = Michigan Law Review
 | pages = 2037–2059
 | title = The unruliness of rules
 | url = https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/129
 | volume = 101| issue = 6
 | doi = 10.2307/3595343
 | jstor = 3595343
 | s2cid = 159226975
 }}
</ref>

}}

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