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Columbia Law School has the oldest, richest, and most widely acclaimed human rights program of any law school in the United States and probably the world. For nearly half a century, it has been the model for pioneering education and scholarship in human rights. Since 1998, Columbia's human rights program has been coordinated by the Human Rights Institute.
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Programs
Public Interest Law Institute
Columbia University's Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) is a center for learning and innovation that advances human rights principles by stimulating the development of a public interest law infrastructure, working primarily in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. PILI conducts activities in two principal areas: Institutional Reform and Training and Education, with priority placed on the cross-cutting theme of combating discrimination. It maintains a headquarters in Budapest, with additional offices in New York and Moscow. For more information click on the link below to visit PILI’s main website at www.pili.org.
Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies
Advancing human rights principles through assisting the development of a public interest law infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
Human Rights Speaker Series: From Inspiration to Impact
Co-sponsored by SIPA Human Rights Program, Columbia University Undergraduate Human Rights Program and the Center for the Study of Human Rights.
Centers and Clinics
Center for the Study of Law and Culture
The mission of Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University (CSLC) is to facilitate interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. Starting from the twin premises that law is a cultural form and that culture carries the regulative force of legal practices and norms, the CSLC seeks to advance a wide range of work in law and culture studies. Embracing an expansive definition of culture as a concept whose boundaries range from the aesthetic to the political, the CSLC supports projects that understand law in a strict institutional or positivist sense, as well as those that approach law more generally as a regime for ordering social life, constructing cultural meaning and shaping group and individual identity. CLSC projects emanate from the understanding that law can no longer be adequately analyzed as though it were exogenous to the realm of culture. In keeping with its broad mandate, the CSLC offers an intellectual home for teaching, research and scholarship across disciplines.
Human Rights Clinic
The Law School's pioneering Human Rights Clinic exposes students to the practice of law in the cross-cultural context of international human rights litigation and advocacy.
The Center for Public Interest Law
Columbia is at the forefront of preparing the public interest lawyers of the future, whether they seek full-time careers or substantial pro bono service while at law firms—or both.
Human Rights Institute
The Human Rights Institute helps train the next generation of lawyers, teachers, and human rights professionals.
Journals and Publications
Columbia Human Rights Law Review
Columbia Human Rights Law Review, a student-edited legal journal, publishes student and professional articles on contemporary human rights and civil liberties issues both in the United States and around the world. The journal seeks to present in-depth analyses of specific legal questions as well as broad surveys of the law in particular areas. Topics covered include freedom of speech, criminal law and procedure, poverty and family law, the impact of legal institutions on the lives of individuals and groups, and the efficacy of various international efforts to protect human rights. The staff is selected from applications received after the students' first year. Members of the editorial board are chosen from the second-year staff. Their web site is located at the link below.

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Columbia Human Rights Law Review
Columbia Human Rights Law Review, a student-edited legal journal, publishes student and professional articles on contemporary human rights and civil liberties issues both in the United States and around the world.
Faculty
Mark Barenberg
Jack Greenberg
Louis Henkin
Peter Rosenblum
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Civil Rights
Katherine Franke
Kendall Thomas
Kim Crenshaw
International Law
Jose E. Alvarez
Lori Fisler Damrosch
Constitutional Law
Michael Dorf
Gillian Metzger
Henry Paul Monaghan
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