Faust F Rossi

Faust F. Rossi, the Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Law and Trial Techniques, Emeritus, taught Evidence and Civil Procedure for 47 years at the Cornell Law School. Regarded as a popular and dynamic teacher by his students and colleagues, Professor Rossi is a national authority on Evidence, Procedure and Trial Advocacy and has written extensively on these subjects. After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1960, Rossi began his career as a trial attorney in the United States Department of...See more

Faust F. Rossi, the Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Law and Trial Techniques, Emeritus, taught Evidence and Civil Procedure for 47 years at the Cornell Law School. Regarded as a popular and dynamic teacher by his students and colleagues, Professor Rossi is a national authority on Evidence, Procedure and Trial Advocacy and has written extensively on these subjects. After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1960, Rossi began his career as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Honors Program and later became a litigation partner in a New York law firm. In 1966, he joined the Cornell Law faculty where he not only taught but also served for several years as the Associate Academic Dean. He has authored a text on Expert Witnesses and was a national winner of the Roscoe Pound Jacobson award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy. Rossi has given hundreds of Continuing Legal Education lectures to lawyers and judges in the United States and Europe. He has reached over a hundred thousand law students with his popular bar review lectures and his nationally distributed "Law School Legends" audio and video tapes on Evidence. Professor Rossi was a recurring visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest where he taught "Introduction to American Civil Procedure" and was a regular faculty member in the joint Cornell/Paris 1 Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris for over 15 years. During his career he has been a visiting professor at Oxford University in England; the University of Siena, Italy as well as the Law Schools at New York University; Emory University; University of San Diego and Georgetown. He also taught for many years at the annual National Institute for Trial Advocacy. See less