Eduardo Peñalver

Eduardo M. Peñalver is an American law professor and dean of Cornell Law School.

Peñalver earned his B.A. from Cornell University and M.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then received his J.D. from Yale Law School. Peñalver also clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Eduardo Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School taking over for Stewart J. Schwab in July 2014. He is an expert on property and land use law as well as the intersection of law and religion. His scholarship has appeared in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal Columbia Law Review and Cornell Law Review. 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, andAn Introduction to Property Theory.

Peñalver began his academic career at Fordham Law School from 2003-2006 before moving on to Cornell Law School from 2006-2012 and was a visiting professor at both Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He then served as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School 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 Ivy League law school.

Books authored

• Peñalver, Eduardo; Katyal, Sonia (2010). Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300122954.
• Peñalver, Eduardo; Alexander, Gregory, eds. (2010). Property and Community. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195391572.
• Peñalver, Eduardo; Sterk, Stewart (2011). Land Use Regulation. Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1599418742.
• Peñalver, Eduardo; Alexander, Gregory (2012). An Introduction to Property Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521113656.
• Singer, Joseph William; Berger, Bethany; Davidson, Nestor; Peñalver, Eduardo (2014). Property Law: Rules Policies & Practices (6th ed.). Aspen. ISBN 978-1454837619.

Selected 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)