Beth Lyon

Beth Lyon is a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where she founded the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, and co-founded the Low-Income Taxpayer Law and Accounting Practicum. She also serves as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Clinical Program Director. Her areas of focus include domestic and international migrant and farmworker rights, language access to justice, and provision of legal services to rural minorities.

Professor Lyon received her B.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, her M.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, she was the managing editor of Law and Policy in International Business (since renamed Georgetown Journal of International Law) and a Ford Foundation Fellow, working in Lima, Peru for the Comisión Andina de Juristas.

Education

• Doctor of Law (J.D.) Georgetown University Law Center (1990 — 1994)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1984 — 1988)

Companies

• Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic Cornell Law School (2015)
• Board Member, Chair, Human Rights Committee Society of American Law Teachers (2009)
• Board Member, Board President Global Workers Justice Alliance (2007)
• Board Member, Praxis Chair Latina/Latino Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit) (2003)
• Professor, Director, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic, Co-Director, Community Interpreter Program Villanova University School of Law (2001 — 2015)
• Member, Vice Chair, Chair-Elect, Civil and Equal Rights Committee Pennsylvania Bar Association (2009 — 2012)
• Board Member, Board Vice President Friends of Farmworkers (2005 — 2012)
• Associate Professor Villanova University School of Law (2007 — 2010)
• Practitioner in Residence American University Washington College of Law (1998 — 2001)