Overview And Certificates

Cornell Law School offers a unique Certificate Program model combining Ivy League legal education with intimate, interactive learning limited to just 35 professionals. Our 20+ specialized programs are designed and delivered by Cornell Law faculty, featuring rigorous legal training through small cohorts and personalized expert mentorship—a distinctive approach to professional legal education. Only Cornell’s programs give you the unprecedented opportunity to study curriculum developed by Cornell Law School’s distinguished faculty who shape legal precedent and advise global corporations, while working on real legal challenges through guided projects. This combination of academic rigor, practical application, and peer collaboration with legal professionals worldwide creates exceptional career preparation.

Education With Impact
Cornell expertise, immediate application, proven results

Flexible Online Format
Your schedule, your projects, optional live engagement

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Real feedback, real peers, real experts

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Legal Research

Courses

  • Creating a Legal Research Strategy
  • Selecting Legal Research Sources
  • Applying Strategic Legal Research
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Paralegals and legal assistants
  • Law clerks
  • Legal secretaries and administrative assistants
  • Pre-law students
  • Managers, executives, and professionals who work with counsel
  • Compliance and risk management professionals
  • Professionals working in highly regulated industries
  • Auditors
  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Librarians and aspiring law librarians
  • Legal publishers and editors
  • Journalists
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 7 to 8 hours of study per week

Cost
$2,500

Securities Law

Courses

  • Defining Security
  • Securities Registration and Reporting
  • Registration Requirement Exemptions
  • Key Securities Law Liabilities and Principal Underwriting Documents
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Finance professionals
  • Investors and investment professionals
  • Lawyers
  • Business leaders
  • Compliance and risk management professionals
  • Procurement professionals
  • Fundraising professionals
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 4 to 6 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750

Immigration Law

Courses

  • Hiring Foreign Nationals
  • Immigration Law in Practice
  • Employment Law in Practice
  • Anti-discrimination Principles
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass
  • Employee Privacy in the Workplace
  • Wage and Benefit Regulations
  • Employee Duties and Promises
  • Leading Across Cultures
  • Cross-Cultural Communication

Designed For

  • HR professionals
  • Recruiters and talent management professionals
  • Managers and executives
  • Compliance and risk management professionals
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3-4 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750

Legal Essentials

Courses

  • Thinking Like a Lawyer
  • Sources of Law
  • Litigation
  • Limits of Legal Obligations
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Business leaders looking to better understand legal issues
  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Anyone looking to work effectively with legal professionals
  • Professionals in highly regulated industries
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

Employment Law

Courses

  • Employment Law and Policy Issues
  • Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Treatment Issues
  • Benefits, Compensation, Safety, and Other Legal Issues
  • Employment Laws Around the Globe
  • HR Policies in International Contexts
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • HR managers and executives in any industry
  • HR professionals seeking to develop an area of specialization
  • HR leaders expanding into the global market
  • Legal professionals
  • Global HR leaders
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

Business Contracts

Courses

  • Creating Effective Contracts
  • Interpreting Contracts
  • Managing Risk in Contracts
  • Enforcing Contract Terms
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Business professionals in any sector
  • Leaders and executives who engage with legal professionals
  • Compliance officers
  • Procurement professionals
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750

Legal Writing and Communication

Courses

  • Maximizing Your Value in the Attorney-Client Relationship
  • Evaluating the Impact of Legal Documents
  • Composing Documents That Help Lawyers
  • Writing and Persuading Like a Lawyer
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Business leaders
  • Paralegals
  • Law clerks
  • Current and aspiring law students
  • Law enforcement professionals
  • Attorneys and judges
  • Law firm consultants
  • Public and nonprofit professionals
  • Compliance and risk management professionals
  • Anyone looking to work effectively with legal professionals
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$2,750

Corporate Governance

Courses

  • Corporate Governance
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Executives
  • Board members
  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Accountants
  • Auditors
  • Investment bankers
  • Professionals working with boards of directors
  • Professionals working in highly regulated industries
  • Professionals working with lawyers
Format
Mentored Learning
All online

Time Commitment
40 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace

Cost
$3,900

Intellectual Property Law Essentials

Courses

  • Trade Secrets and Patents
  • Trademarks and Copyrights
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass
  • Employee Duties and Promises
  • Leading for Creativity and Innovation
  • Creating Advantage Through Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • Company Structure and Due Diligence

Designed For

  • Entrepreneurs
  • People whose roles involve new product or service development
  • Business development and marketing professionals
  • R&D, engineering, and technology managers
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 9 hours of study per week

Cost
$2,999

Business Ethics

Courses

  • Foundations of Ethical Reasoning
  • Ethics in Business and Technology
  • Psychology in Business Ethics
  • Addressing Dysfunctional Ethical Cultures
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Business managers and leaders
  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Anyone looking to work effectively with legal professionals
  • Professionals, particularly those working in highly regulated industries
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
2 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

AI Law and Policy

Courses

  • Exploring the Legal Principles of AI
  • Promoting Effective and Inclusive AI
  • Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in AI
  • Competing and Thriving in a Global AI Landscape
  • Shaping Internal AI Policies
  • Building Organizational Resilience for AI
  • AI Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Leaders and business professionals
  • Policymakers, government officials, and NGO professionals
  • Compliance officers and risk managers
  • Lawyers and paralegals
  • Professionals working in startups
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Anyone responsible for AI-related decision making
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750

Regulatory and Antitrust Law

Courses

  • Regulatory and Antitrust Law

Designed For

  • Managers and executives
  • Legal and paralegal professionals
  • Compliance and risk management professionals
  • Professionals in heavily regulated industries
  • Auditors
  • Business owners
  • Contract administrators
  • Leaders and executives who engage with legal professionals
Format
Mentored Learning
All online

Time Commitment
48 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace

Cost
$3,750

International Business Law

Courses

  • International Business Law
  • Leadership Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Business professionals managing international operations, partnerships, or investments
  • Import/export, supply chain, and procurement professionals working across borders
  • Legal, compliance, and risk management professionals supporting global business activities
  • Entrepreneurs and business owners expanding into international markets
  • Professionals seeking practical knowledge of tariffs, FCPA compliance, and trade secret protection in global commerce
Format
Mentored Learning
All online

Time Commitment
40 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace

Cost
$3,750

Employee Relations and Investigations

Courses

  • Conducting Effective Employee Relations Conversations
  • Internal Investigation Fundamentals
  • Conducting Internal Investigation Interviews
  • Investigating Internal Complaint Issues
  • Concluding an Internal Investigation
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • HR professionals
  • Employee relations managers
  • Generalists seeking to move into a specialized role
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

Compliance Systems

Courses

  • Rule Systems as Designed Systems
  • Rule Design
  • Rule System Training
  • Policing of Rule Systems
  • Investigation of Rule System Violations
  • Responding to Violations and Improving the Rule System
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • HR professionals
  • Compliance officers
  • Finance and accounting professionals
  • Health and safety managers
  • Process control professionals
  • Operations professionals
  • Lawyers and legal professionals
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

Entertainment Law and Business

Courses

  • Fundamentals of Entertainment Law
  • Intellectual Property: Copyright, Trademark, and Publicity Rights
  • Entertainment Law Contracts: Property Rights and Assignments
  • Entertainment Law Contracts: Credit, Ownership, and Budgeting
  • Entertainment Law Contracts: Payment Structures
  • AI, the Law, and Its Effect on the Entertainment Industry
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • TV, film, and theater professionals
  • Agents and managers
  • Entertainment executives
  • Producers
  • Creative professionals and artists
  • Writers
  • Directors
  • Musicians and recording artists
  • Journalists
  • Media professionals
  • Podcasters
  • Content creators
  • Influencers
  • Lawyers looking to get into entertainment law
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,750

Labor Relations

Courses

  • Collective Bargaining Foundations
  • Preparing for Labor Negotiations
  • Principles of Costing
  • Handling Grievances
  • Arbitration
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Union staff, stewards and officials
  • HR and Operations Managers
  • International professionals working with unionized US-based organizations
  • Attorneys and general counsel
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$3,900

Policy Advocacy

Courses

  • Community Organizing
  • Legislative Advocacy
  • Administrative Advocacy
  • Media Advocacy and Storytelling
  • Electoral Advocacy and Campaigns
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • Nonprofit leaders and professionals
  • Government agency leaders and professionals
  • Professionals working in NGOs, U.S. advocacy, community, and civic organizations
  • Public office candidates
  • Students in law, social work, and social sciences
  • Union representatives
  • Private sector professionals working in human services, healthcare, and environmental-related roles
  • Academics and researchers
  • Elected local government officials
  • Individuals interested in policy advocacy
Format
All Online

Time Commitment
3 months with 3 to 5 hours of study per week

Cost
$2,999

Hospitality Labor and Employment Law

Courses

  • Hospitality Labor and Employment Law
  • Hospitality Symposium  
    LIVE
  • HR Symposium  
    LIVE
  • AI Workshops All-Access Pass

Designed For

  • HR professionals working in the hospitality industry
  • HR consultants
  • Hospitality managers and executives
  • Hotel owners and asset managers
  • Small business owners and franchise owners
  • Overseas companies looking to do business with the U.S. market
Format
Mentored Learning
All online

Time Commitment
40 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace

Cost
$3,750

Cannabis Law and Policy

Courses

  • Cannabis Law and Policy

Designed For

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Cannabis industry business leaders
  • Cannabis growers, producers and hobbyists
  • Farmers
  • Investors
  • Cannabis industry marketers
  • Lawyers
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Current students in law, public policy, or agriculture
Format
Mentored Learning
All online

Time Commitment
60 hours with 6 months of access at your own pace

Cost
$3,750

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