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The Perkins Coie partner fought for marriage equality and calls protection of voting rights “imperative for our democracy.”

These exceptional scholars, teachers, and clinicians will build on the Law School’s continued excellence in both fundamental and emerging areas of the law. 

Preeminent legal philosopher and longtime member of the Columbia Law School faculty dies at 83.

Leading scholars of law, economics, and contracts from Columbia Law School and other top law schools attended a celebration and participated in a day-long conference to honor the distinguished scholar, teacher, and leader on his retirement from full-time teaching. 

How a ’77 Olds with a junk transmission put a musician on the road to success in the law school classroom.

Kamilah Moore ’19 is chair of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.

Two programs awarded funding through the inaugural round of Anti-Racism Grants—the Black Men’s Initiative and the Law School Pathways Program—are designed to help current and future law students. 

The five fellowship recipients—all members of the Class of 2023—are dedicated to pursuing careers in social and racial justice.

The former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change receives the 48th annual Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award.

For the first of what will be an annual lecture series, political theorist Pratap Bhanu Mehta examined historical injustice, agency, and resentment, with commentary from Columbia Law School faculty.