Faust F. Rossi, J.D. ’60, the Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques Emeritus and a revered educator, mentor and legal scholar, died March 6 in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 91.
At age 36, George Washington Fields graduated as a member of the first class of Cornell Law School, the school’s first Black graduate and the only formerly enslaved person to graduate from Cornell.