Wex Definitions

Under LII’s supervision, Cornell Law students research and draft the content of our free Wex online legal reference collection. The Wex Definitions Project, specifically, began as a reaction to the contracted labor market for law student summer work during 2020, as most legal employers pulled back from their regular practice of bringing in clerks, interns, and summer associates due to the remote work mandates in place at the time.

Since that summer, Cornell Law students have improved upon thousands of definitions originally imported into Wex in an arrangement with a now-defunct third-party online source, replacing them instead with more current and comprehensive, link-dense and example-driven explanations. The project also encourages students to create new definitions where they find a gap in the Wex collection. Nichole McCarthy heads up the Wex Definitions team for LII.

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Team

2020 – Current

Original Content Collections Manager

Nichole McCarthy

Team members

Aalam Singh Natt ’21
Abdias Montelus ’22
Alex Haims ’22
Alexander Kokka ’24
Alvaro Lopez ’23
Alyssa Kastner ’23
Amanda Bello ’22
Andrew Kim ’24
Andrew Pei ’25
Angelina He ’22
Arianna Zarka ’22
Asif Achakzai ’22
Austin Law ’22
Ben Barkley ’25
Benjamin Sugarman ’23
Bhavuk Sharma ’21
Bingyue Jing ’22
Blaine Fix ’22
Brie Michaelson ’22
Chloe Agelou ’22
Dan Nahon ’24
Daniel Park ’23
David Mayorga ’21
Dorothée Lanes ’21
Elaine Xie ’22
Ellie Yang ’24
Emma Kim Tall ’22
Eric Bee ’24
Felicity Luttman ’22
Geetpreet Singh Gill ’21
Graham Foster ’24
Haoyi Sun ’21
Huimei Xiao ’21
Iain Richards ’25
Iain Smith ’25
Inder Singh ’23
Isaac Gorenstein ’22
Jacob Walsh ’23
James Gordy ’25
Jenny Li ’22

Team members

John Ra ’22
Jonathan Gonzalez ’22
Jose Villazon ’22
Joseph Teitelbaum ’26
Josh Spagnoli ’24
Junpeng Qiao ’22
Justin Cwiklinski ’26
Justin Franz ’25
Justin Park ’22
Kaiwen Fan ’22
Kendall Lee ’22
Korica Simon ’21
Krystyna Blokhina ’20
Lauren Enriquez ’25
Leila Loudghiri ’26
Louise Choi ’23
Lucas Carter ’23
Luis Miguel Garrido ’22
Madison Zlotolow ’25
Maegan Stanley ’22
Manel Mostefaoui ’22
Mary Walz ’25
Matthew Jahnle ’22
Matthew Tinker ’22
Melissa Lin ’21
Minghao Xu ’26
Minjie Lu ’25
Miriam Domer ’22
Mordechai Neuman ’24
Nicholas Hietpas ’24
Nicholas LaPietra ’22
Nicholas Pantazopoulos ’25
Nicholas Perez ’22
Nick Steele ’22
Omkar Mahajan ’21
Peter Walsh ’23
Prachee Sawant ’21
Richard Wang ’22
Rifqi Mufid Riansyah ’22
Riley Morrow ’23

Team members

Ruyi Wang ’22
Shirley Matcha ’22
Stephanie Yang ’22
Syed Shariq Bin Afzal ’22
Taesuh Kim ’25
Théo Kaici ’22
Tim Choi ’24
Timothy Huysmans ’24
Tristan Jahn ’25
Trumond Best ’25
Yue Yang ’22
Yuzhu Pu ’22
Zachary Fritz ’22
Zhongyu Liu ’22
Zora Franicevic ’21