Liz Brundige

In addition to her teaching, practice, and research, Liz serves as the faculty advisor to Cornell’s Complainants Codes’ Counselors, law students who assist individuals who have filed or are considering filing a complaint under Cornell’s Title IX, Institutional Equity, or Student Code of Conduct policies, and to the student group, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice. She is a member of the Legal Division Advisory Committee of the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, which is based in Lusaka, Zambia.

Before joining Cornell, Liz was the Cover-Lowenstein Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School, where she taught in the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She previously worked with the International Association of Women Judges on human rights programs in southern and East Africa, served as an associate legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and was a judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Constitutional Court of South Africa. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and an M.Phil. from Oxford University.

Liz is thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission. She looks forward to working with the other Commissioners to support the protection of human rights in our community.