Eduardo Peñalver

Eduardo Moises Peñalver is an American legal scholar who has been serving as the 22nd and current president of Seattle University since 2021. He served as the 16th dean of Cornell Law School from 2014 to 2021.

Eduardo M. Peñalver
22nd President of Seattle University
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2021
Preceded by	Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J.
16th Dean of Cornell Law School
In office July 1, 2014 – January 1, 2021
Preceded by	Stewart J. Schwab
Succeeded by	Jens David Ohlin
Personal details
Education	Cornell University (BA) Oriel College, Oxford (MA) Yale University (JD)
Profession	Law professor, legal scholar, academic administrator

Early life and education

Peñalver was raised in Puyallup, Washington.^[1][2] His family is Catholic,^[1] and he received his primary education at his parish school, All Saints.^[2] He attended Henry Foss High School in Tacoma, Washington.^[1] His parents and four siblings all live in the Puyallup and Tacoma areas.^[2]

Peñalver earned his B.A. from Cornell University and M.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and Hermano of Lambda Upsilon Lambda. He then received his J.D. from Yale Law School.^[1][3]

Peñalver 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.^[1][4]

Career

From 2014 until 2021, Peñalver was the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School taking over for Stewart J. Schwab.^[5][6] He is an expert on property and land use law^[7][8][9] as well as the intersection of law and religion.^[10] His scholarship has appeared in law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal^[11] Columbia Law Review^[12] and Cornell Law Review.^[13] He has authored, co-authored or edited five books on property including Property Outlaws,^[14] examining the role of disobedience in the development of property law, and An Introduction to Property Theory.^[15]

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^[16] 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.^[1][3][17]

Personal life

Peñalver married Sital Kalantry in 1997.^[18]

Publications

Books

• 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 (2021). Property Law: Rules Policies & Practices (8th ed.). Aspen. ISBN 978-1543838534.

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)

Opinion writing

• "The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws", The Atlantic, March 25, 2021 The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws
• "Remembering Justice Ginsburg", Cornell Chronicle, Sept. 2020, Peñalver: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue – Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 | Cornell Chronicle

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4)