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An eight-year veteran of former president Barack Obama’s administration, James Cadogan ’06 is now the executive director of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition.

The award-winning documentary filmmaker says her experiences at Columbia Law focused her work on systemic injustice.

The Australian lawyer wanted a career in academia. As a student in Columbia Law’s J.S.D. program, he produced original scholarship on elder abuse and inheritance disputes that paved the way to a tenured position at the University of Sydney Law School.

Alumni returned to campus to celebrate, reminisce, and engage with current issues in law. 

Columbia Law School honored the centennial of the graduation of artist and activist Paul Robeson 1923 with an exhibit and special lecture.  

Members of the alumni society gathered on May 10 to honor Cathy Kaplan ’77.

To help celebrate this year’s graduates, alumni offer words of counsel and encouragement.

A pioneering civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.

His pathbreaking career was nearly crushed by McCarthy-era ostracism, but Paul Robeson’s voice, in song and speech, continues to be heard in support of Black freedom.

The Columbia Law School Black Law Students Association honored Judith Browne Dianis ’92 and Marcia Sells ’84 at this year’s gala and hosted a two-day conference on Black political power.