Columbia Law School is home to one of the nation's most vibrant intellectual property law programs — a meeting place of dynamic faculty experts, stimulating events and coursework, alumni shaping the law in their fields, and engaged students eager to take advantage of all the resources. The program hosts numerous journals, student organizations, related initiatives, and two affiliated centers: the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts and the Program on Law & Technology.
The body of law now labeled intellectual property has become front-page news. Stories about the rise of the digital age, computers and the web, file-sharing, technological protection, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act pervade the news and entertainment media. The ability to make a perfect copy without any decrease in quality is status quo for an entire generation of people.
Few places better reflect this shift in legal practice — or better prepare IP lawyers — than Columbia Law School, where IP has been an area of teaching and scholarship since long before current trends began to emerge.
"I can say with certainty that the education I received in intellectual property at Columbia Law School could not have been equaled elsewhere. Copyright and trademark law are taught by professors who do not simply report the law; they help shape it." — Kevin Burdette '06
