Emily L. Sherwin is the Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law at the

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. At Cornell, her specialties include "jurisprudence, property, and remedies". Sherwin did her undergraduate studies at

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in Illinois, graduating in 1977. She earned her J.D. from the

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in 1981. She also has a master's degree in philosophy, earned in 2015 from the Sage School of Philosophy at

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. From 1981 to 1982, Sherwin clerked for

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chief justice

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. After practicing law for three years in Boston, she taught in the

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from 1985 to 1990, and in the

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from 1990 to 2003, before moving to Cornell in 2003. She was named the Ingersoll Professor in 2014. With Theodore Eisenberg, she is the author of the casebook ''Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies: Cases and Materials''. With

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, she is the author of two books ''The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules & the Dilemmas of Law'' (Duke University Press, 2001) and ''Demystifying Legal Reasoning'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

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