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Winter Cup Moot Court Named for Faust Rossi J.D. ’60
Foundational endowment gifts totaling $100,000 from Cornell Law School alumni John Clarke LL.B. ’67, Paul Crotty LL.B. ’67, Marc Goldberg LL.B. ’67, Bruce Goldstein LL.B. ’67, Susan Robfogel J.D. ’67, Jonathan Weld J.D. ’67, Michael Wolfson B.Ch. ’64, LL.B. ’67, Kevin Arquit J.D. ’78, and Stephen Robinson A.B. ’81, J.D. ’84 have named the Law School’s Winter Cup moot court competition, long a staple of the academic year and a signature event of the Spring semester, for Professor Faust F. Rossi. Beloved and respected by more than four decades of Cornell Law students, Faust F. Rossi J.D. ’60 is the Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques at Cornell Law School, to the faculty of which he has belonged since 1966. The inaugural Faust F. Rossi Moot Court Competition will take place in February 2014.
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