Eduardo Moises Peñalver is an American legal scholar who has been serving as the 22nd and current president of

Seattle University Seattle University (Seattle U or SU) is a private Jesuit university in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest independent university in the Northwestern United States, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and grad ...

since 2021. He served as the 16th dean of

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private university, private, Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, Cornell Law School offers four degree programs (Juris Doctor, JD, Maste ...

from 2014 to 2021.

Early life and education

Peñalver was raised in

Puyallup, Washington Puyallup ( ) is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. It is on the Puyallup River about southeast of Tacoma and south of Seattle. The city had a population of 42,973 at the 2020 census. The city's name comes from the Puyallu ...

.''Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine'' (December 2020)
Latino Trailblazer: Eduardo M. Peñalver
His family is

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, and he received his primary education at his parish school, All Saints. He attended Henry Foss High School in

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia ...

.''Seattle Post Intelligencer Staff'' (October 22, 2020; updated October 23, 2020
Eduardo M. Peñalver named 22nd president of Seattle University
KOMO News. His parents and four siblings all live in the Puyallup and Tacoma areas. Peñalver earned his B.A. from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

and M.A. from

Oriel College, Oxford Oriel College () is Colleges of the University of Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title for ...

, where he was a

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and Hermano of Lambda Upsilon Lambda. He then received his J.D. from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

. Peñalver clerked for Judge

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of the

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, and Justice

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of the

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Career

From 2014 until 2021, Peñalver was the Allan R. Tessler Dean of

taking over for Stewart J. Schwab. He is an expert on

property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, re ...

and land use law as well as the intersection of

law and religion Law and religion is the interdisciplinary study of relationships between law, especially public law, and religion. Over a dozen scholarly organizations and committees focussing on law and religion were in place by 1983, and a scholarly quarterly, ...

. His scholarship has appeared in law reviews such as the

Yale Law Journal ''The Yale Law Journal'' (YLJ) is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School. The journal is one ...

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and

Cornell Law Review The ''Cornell Law Review'' is the flagship legal journal of Cornell Law School. Originally published in 1915 as the ''Cornell Law Quarterly'', the journal features scholarship in all fields of law. Notably, past issues of the ''Cornell Law Revi ...

. He has authored, co-authored or edited five books on property including ''Property Outlaws'', examining the role of disobedience in the development of property law, and ''An Introduction to Property Theory''. Peñalver began his academic career at

Fordham Law School Fordham University School of Law is the law school of Fordham University. The school is located in Manhattan in New York City, and is one of eight ABA-approved law schools in that city. According to Fordham University School of Law's ABA- ...

from 2003-2006 before moving on to Cornell Law School from 2006-2012 and was a visiting professor at both

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

and

. He then served as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the

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from 2012 to 2014 before being named the 16th dean of Cornell Law School. Peñalver is the first person of Latino descent to become dean of an

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law school.

Personal life

Peñalver married Sital Kalantry in 1997.

Publications

Books

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Scholarly publications

*''Exactions Creep'', 2013 S. Ct. Rev. 287 (2014)(with Lee Fennell) *''The Right Not to Use in Patent and Property Law'', 98 Cornell L. Rev. 1437 (2013) (with Oskar Liivak) *''The Illusory Right to Abandon'', 109 Mich. L. Rev. 191 (2010) *''Regulatory Taxings'', 105 Colum. L. Rev. 2182 (2004)

Opinion writing

*"The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws", The Atlantic, March 25, 202
The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws
*"Remembering Justice Ginsburg", Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 2020
Peñalver: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue – Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 , Cornell Chronicle

References

External links

About the President
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