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Professors Jamal Greene and Gillian Metzger begin positions within the U.S. Department of Justice, and Professor Tim Wu resumes teaching after serving in the Biden administration.

The first-year curriculum often strikes students as unrelated to the most pressing legal issues of the day. On a panel this fall, faculty teaching 1L courses “taught their subject” through the lens of the right to abortion, showing how their subject is critical to the legal questions surrounding a right to abortion, reproductive autonomy, or sexual liberty.

A lawyer who uses economic theory and empirical tools in his research joins the faculty as an associate professor of law.

Republican legislatures in purple states are passing restrictive election laws in advance of the next presidential contest—but new analysis from Columbia Law Professor Jessica Bulman-Pozen says state constitutions can provide protection for voters. 

The annual event, sponsored by the Center on Corporate Governance and the Millstein Center, returned following a two-year hiatus and featured a talk with Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. 

Increasing reliance on the Federal Reserve to prevent financial panics and manage economic cycles shows the need to lighten the load on the central bank by strengthening banking regulation and developing new fiscal policy tools, the former U.S. Treasury official says. 

Over the past year, alumni have published nonfiction books covering legal topics from climate change to voting rights to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Put down the casebook! This year, alumni published a shelf’s worth of new fiction.  

With more than 1,000 gifts made, this year’s Giving Day proved to be another record-breaking year, thanks to the steadfast support of the Law School community.

Citing the importance of pursuing our core scholarly, pedagogical, and programmatic objectives without constraints, Dean Gillian Lester announces that Columbia Law School will no longer submit data to the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of best law schools.