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Established in 2015, the need-based scholarship is awarded annually to a Columbia Law School LL.M. student, with priority consideration given to students who are from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe and demonstrate academic success and promise.

A scholar who draws on political science and intellectual history in studying democracy, Ahmed joins a growing cohort of legal and constitutional theorists on the faculty.

A philosopher and an intellectual property specialist, Chatterjee joins the faculty as an associate professor of law.

A distinguished scholar of international law, Cleveland would be the second U.S. woman to serve on the court.

The former State Department lawyer, international law expert, and new member of the Columbia Law faculty argues that we should take international law on its own terms. 

A child of the Jim Crow South who became a civil rights activist, state senator, and the first Black federal judge in Alabama, Clemon is retired from the bench but continues to advocate tirelessly for justice and speak out fearlessly on public affairs.

Robert Currie Ríos ’13 LL.M. is director of environmental strategy and regulatory affairs at Entorno Social Consultores, a sustainability and environmental consulting firm in Santiago, Chile.

A new podcast from Columbia Law School and the Center for Constitutional Governance, Through the Gale explores the role of lawyers in the struggle for multiracial democracy.

Hosted by Professor John C. Coffee Jr. with Judge Jed S. Rakoff and produced by Columbia Law School and The CLS Blue Sky Blog, this new podcast explores current issues in white collar crime and corporate governance with a focus on those that involve significant ethical and professional issues.

The Justice Department’s approach to a criminal referral from the committee would certainly begin with issues of fact and law, but it would not end with them, the criminal justice professor says.