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J.D. ApplicantsColumbia Law School offers a broad range of career services and programs to support students and graduates of the Law School in their career decision-making process. Through the expertise and individual attention of the Career Services Office and the Center for Public Interest Law, Columbia provides unmatched opportunities for students to join in real-world legal efforts, and a comprehensive approach to developing fulfilling careers.
International Law
  
From Francis Lieber, whose work formed the basis of the modern laws of war, to Professor Hans Smit, one of today’s leading experts on international arbitration and litigation, Columbia’s faculty have long been on the cutting edge of international legal scholarship. Columbia was among the first law schools to offer courses in foreign law and comparative legislation, to create joint-degree programs with law schools overseas, and to encourage the enrollment of foreign students.
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Programs
International Programs
Today, Columbia's commitment to international and comparative law, reflected in the breadth of its permanent faculty and visiting professors who specialize in these fields, in the scope of its international curriculum and law library collections, in its rich and innovative study abroad programs, and in its path-breaking regional centers, has no peer among U.S. law schools.

Human Rights Internship
The more than 1,000 "graduates" of Columbia Law's Human Rights Internship program have been instrumental in drafting the South African Constitution, documenting human-rights abuses of gay and lesbian youth in America's prisons, and establishing the International Criminal Tribunals in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

Study Abroad/Foreign Exchange
Six years ago, Columbia was the first U.S. Law School to establish a double degree program providing its participants with both a U.S. Juris Doctor and a foreign law degree.
Human Rights Institute
In 1998, building on decades of leadership in human rights education, Columbia Law School founded the Human Rights Institute to help train the next generation of lawyers, teachers, and human rights professionals. As a network for human rights scholars, teachers, practitioners and activists, the Institute is dedicated to building bridges between theory and practice; between law and other disciplines; between national (constitutional) and international human rights.
Public Interest Law Institute in Transitional Societies
The Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) was established in 1997 with the support of the Ford Foundation, to advance human rights principles through assisting the development of a public interest law infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
Program on International Migration: Economics, Ethics and Law
On Friday, November 21, 2003, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, inaugurated the new interdisciplinary Program on International Migration: Economics, Ethics and Law.
Centers
European Legal Studies Center
The European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School is dedicated to the research and teaching of European law, at both the national and supranational levels.
Center for Chinese Legal Studies
The Center for Chinese Studies was established in 1982 under the direction of Professor Randle Edwards, Walter Gelhorn Professor of Law at Columbia, who taught at Columbia Law School from 1973 until his retirement in 2002.
Center for Japanese Legal Studies
The Center for Japanese Legal Studies, directed by Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt (CLS ’89), was established in 1980 with financial support from the Fuyo Group (a group of leading Japanese companies) and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
Center for Korean Legal Studies
The Center for Korean Legal Studies was established at Columbia Law School in 1994 with grants from Hankook Tire Group and the Korea Foundation. Directed by Jeong-Ho Roh, the Center for Korean Legal Studies serves as the focal point of research and teaching on Korean law and the Korean legal system. Visiting scholars to the Center include Korean lawyers, judges, government and company officials.
Center on Global Governance
The Center addresses globalization's legal dimensions through diverse interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
Faculty
Mark Barenberg
George A. Bermann
Lori Fisler Damrosch
Michael W. Doyle
George P. Fletcher
Merritt B. Fox
Richard N. Gardner
Alejandro M. Garro
Ronald J. Gilson
Jane C. Ginsburg
Jack Greenberg
Louis Henkin
Benjamin L. Liebman
Lance Liebman
Petros C. Mavroidis
Curtis J. Milhaupt
Katharina Pistor
Andrzej Rapaczynski
Peter Rosenblum
Charles F. Sabel
Hans Smit
Journals & Publications
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law publishes material on all aspects of transnational, international and comparative law, both public and private.
The American Review of International Arbitration
The American Review of International Arbitration, a quarterly law review published by the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia University, publishes scholarly articles, commentaries on recent developments, case notes, and bibliographical information.
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.
Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Published semi-annually under the auspices of the Centers for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Legal Studies, the Columbia Journal of Asian Law, formerly the Journal of Chinese Law, is a forum for examining the fundamental underpinnings and the rapid development of bodies of law in Asia.
The Columbia Journal of European Law
The Columbia Journal of European Law (CJEL) is published under the auspices of the Columbia University School of Law and the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, in cooperation with the Institute for Eurpoean Law of the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium.
Columbia Journal of East European Law
Columbia Journal of East European Law is dedicated to the study of legal changes in Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.
International Students and Graduates
International Students & Graduates
International Law has grown and divided. At the same time, it has cast its sheen on virtually every aspect of the law, including our student body. Our international studies, combined with our curriculum, programs, and faculty make Columbia Law School a premier site for the study of international law. Upon graduation, all of our students will encounter, literally and figuratively, a world of law, and they must be well prepared to deal with all the legal facets of that world.
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