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Gert Jan van den Bergh ’91 LL.M. seeks justice for artworks and their owners. 

Oscar Lopez is the interim director of the Education Advocacy Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California.

Jin Hee Lee ’00 is the senior deputy director of litigation and director of strategic initiatives for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in New York City.

Chanler Langham ’04 is a Houston-based trial lawyer handling complex commercial litigation. He is a partner at the litigation boutique firm Susman Godfrey.

Long before intersectionality became a watchword, Florynce Kennedy ’51 identified the confluence of race and gender discrimination, bringing to second-wave feminism a Black voice that was impossible not to hear. But first, she took on Columbia Law School.

The aviation disaster litigator won justice from Libya for the bombing of Pan Am 103 and wants the same for 9/11 families.

The first Black woman to graduate from Columbia Law School was a pathbreaking litigator and jurist.

 A veteran of presidential politics now works to combat climate change through values and ethics.

After risking his life to desegregate Ole Miss in 1962, Meredith continued his activism at Columbia Law School.

Now a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, Verrilli discusses the courses he teaches at Columbia Law School, the biggest mistake of his storied career, the experience of arguing before the Supreme Court, and the rewards of public service.