Sandra L. Babcock

Sandra Babcock is a Clinical Professor and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School.  From 2000-2006, she was Director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program. She was counsel to the Government of Mexico before the International Court of Justice in the case of Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States), and in the Supreme Court cases of Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Medellin v. Texas.  Since 1991, she has defended dozens of Mexican nationals in capital proceedings around the United States.  She is the founder and editor of Death Penalty Worldwide, a website and database that provide comprehensive information on the application of the death penalty around the world.  Since 2007, she has been working with a coalition of Malawian organizations to obtain new sentencing hearings for individuals given mandatory death sentences; her work there has contributed to the release of more than 75 prisoners.  In 2003, the Government of Mexico awarded her the Aguila Azteca for legal assistance she has provided to Mexican nationals facing the death penalty in the United States.  She received her B.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991.
More Info:
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/Clinical-Programs/international-human-rights/Projects-by-Prof-Sandra-Babcock-Human-Rights-Clinic.cfm

www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio_sandra_babcock.cfm

Paul L. Sawyer

Paul Sawyer came to the Cornell English department in 1975, after receiving his PhD from Columbia University.  My academic specialization is Victorian literature, but in my teaching and writing,  I've branched out to other areas.  Most broadly,  I'm interested in the intersection between culture, literature, and social justice.  The course I've taught most often is English 2680.  Culture and Politics in the 1960s.  From 2006-2016, I've been director of the Knight Institute, which reflects my interest in writing and pedagogy at the university level.  I've been a volunteer at Auburn Correctional Facility since about 1999, when I joined  Pete Wetherbee—at that time Cornell's sole representative in a local prison.   Since then,  I've taught for-credit courses in English and writing at Auburn, served on the CPEP Advisory Board, and acted as faculty director of the program in 2013 (when the program offices were shared with the Knight Institute).  The book I've taught most often at Cornell is The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which is the subject of the book I'm working on at the moment.
Some courses taught at Cornell:
English 2680. Culture and Politics in the 1960s
English  3600.  Another World Is Possible:  Writing on the Left since the 1960s
English   XXX.  Freedom Writes (spring 2017)
Writing 4100.  Writing Behind Bars.  This was a reflection course for undergraduate volunteers for CPEP and for other programs.  Beginning in fall 2016 I'll be teaching a version of this course for the Prisons and Policing minor, hosted in the Government Department.
More Info:
english.arts.cornell.edu/people/?id=91