Through teaching, research and outreach, ILR generates and shares knowledge to solve human problems, manage and resolve conflict, establish best practices in the workplace and inform government policy.
Lectures
Konvitz Lecturer Calls for ‘Curious, Teeming and Occasionally Noisy Pluralism’
Cornell Chronicle
Constitutional scholar Cass R. Sunstein, delivered the annual Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on Oct. 30. The lecture, “Free Speech on Campus,” took place at Myron Taylor Hall.
As the 2024 Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence, ILRie Randi Weingarten spent time at ILR teaching, speaking and meeting with students, professors and university staff.
Thirty years after the genocide that devastated his country and killed most of his family, Freddy Mutanguha continues to stand for the empathy he developed in the tragedy’s aftermath.
Professor Amrita Basu, A&S ’75 brought to light the courageous resistance of Muslim women in their fight to overcome repression through peaceful demonstration and collective empathy.
Speaker Kate Andrias, a Columbia Law School professor, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who studied as a Cornell undergraduate with the legendary Professor Milton Konvitz.
