Angela Cornell : Biography
Angela B. Cornell graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1989. She worked with the Chilean Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1990, and with APRODEH (Association for Human Rights) in Lima, Peru. She is the co-author of "Democracy, Counterinsurgency and Human Rights: The Case of Peru," published in the Human Rights Quarterly (November 1990). For six years she represented low-income immigrants, many of whom were fleeing persecution in their country of origin.
Prior to joining the faculty, Ms. Cornell was a partner at Peifer & Cornell, LLP, a small labor and employment law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is recognized as a specialist in labor and employment law by the Board of Legal Specialization in New Mexico. She has extensive union-side labor law experience, representing both public and private-sector, blue and white-collar unions. She also has considerable employment law experience, and has litigated in the following areas: Family and Medical Leave Act; Americans with Disabilities Act; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; race, national origin and sex (disparate treatment and sexual harassment) discrimination; First Amendment retaliation; and Title IX.
Until she departed from New Mexico, she was a Labor Commissioner serving on the tripartite New Mexico Labor and Industrial Commission, which hears appeals from the Labor and Industrial Division. As a Labor Commissioner and in private practice, she worked extensively with issues affecting building and construction trades unions, including prevailing wage and the classification of work on public construction projects. She also served on the Albuquerque Personnel Board adjudicating appeals of employees terminated or subjected to severe discipline and advising the City on related policy matters pursuant to the Merit System Ordinance.
Ms. Cornell has a joint appointment with the Law School and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is developing a Labor Law Clinic, which will be offered for the first time in the Spring.
