{{short description|American poet}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Julien Davies Cornell | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = March 17, 1910 | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|12|2|1910|3|17}} | death_place = Goshen, New York, U.S. | other_names = | known_for = | education = Swarthmore College (BA)<br />Yale University (LLB) | occupation = Lawyer }}
'''Julien Davies Cornell''' (March 17, 1910 – December 2, 1994) was an American lawyer.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Cornell, Julien Davies|title=American National Biography|chapter-url=http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-01218.html|publisher=Oxford University Press}} {{Subscription required}}</ref> Cornell, a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Yale Law School and a descendant of Ezra Cornell, was a pacifist who defended many conscientious objectors who refused to serve in World War II<ref name="Papers">[http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-dg-010 Julien D. Cornell Papers, Collection Identifier: SCPC-DG-010] from [https://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-collection Swarthmore College Peace Collection], Swarthmore College</ref> and wrote two books on the subject of conscientious objection, ''The Conscientious Objector and the Law'' (1943) and ''Conscience and the State'' (1944). Cornell's greatest notoriety came from his defense of Ezra Pound following Pound's indictment for treason for his wartime broadcasts denouncing the Allied war effort and its political leaders and praising Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, an experience Cornell chronicled in ''The Trial of Ezra Pound'' (1966).<ref>{{cite news|title=Julien Cornell, 83, The Defense Lawyer In Ezra Pound Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/07/obituaries/julien-cornell-83-the-defense-lawyer-in-ezra-pound-case.html|accessdate=January 23, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 7, 1994}}</ref>
==External links== * [http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-dg-010 Julien D. Cornell Papers, Collection Identifier: SCPC-DG-010] from [https://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-collection Swarthmore College Peace Collection], Swarthmore College
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