Matt Hornung
Cornell Law School
Matt Hornung is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School and works as a research assistant to Professor Maggie Gardner. He is a Publishing Editor for Cornell Law Review and a Managing Editor for the Legal Information Institute’s Supreme Court Bulletin. Matt also represents journalists in federal and state litigation as a member of Cornell’s First Amendment Clinic, and he serves as the President of Cornell’s Tax Law Association.
Prior to law school, Matt graduated with honors from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Business & Economics and a B.A. in Music. While at Lehigh, Matt published original research on the effectiveness of the Coordinated Entry System, the Department of Health and Human Services’s resource-prioritization program for social services agencies.
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