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'''Background'''

Cunningham's father died when Cunningham was 13, whereupon he enrolled in [[Girard College]], the boarding school for poor orphans in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. After graduation, he worked full-time to put himself through his home-state school, [[University of Delaware]]. On a scholarship, he attended Cardozo[[Benjamin LawN. Cardozo School of Law]]in New York, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1988.

From 1988 to 1992, Cunningham practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore before taking an appointment to the law faculty of his alma mater. While on the Cardozo faculty, Cunningham directed The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and wrote several books on value investing.