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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.
Intellectual Property
  
Columbia Law School has hired three new professors of intellectual property law in the past two years, a clear signal that the School will play a significant role in the theory and development of laws and regulations that govern the world's marketplace of creativity. While Columbia's IP faculty would be considered first rate at any school in the nation, their teaching and scholarship is greatly enhanced by the school's location in New York.
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Alumni Profiles
Three Different Routes to Exciting Careers
How have alumni arrived at their present jobs? Here are the classes they took and their career paths.
From Law Partners to Movie Producers
Many CLS alumni began their IP careers as firm associates doing patent prosecution or trademark litigation before building careers as corporate general counsels, literary agents, or film-makers. Other graduates have chosen to work in government or nonprofit positions. Click here to see what some alumni are doing.
Career Services
Office of Career Services
Columbia Law School was recently highlighted by the National Law Journal for having placed the largest number of students in the top 50 firms in the United States. Moreover, more than two-thirds of the students in a recent class reported that they were working for their "first-choice" employer. Columbia students are chosen for private sector and public interest jobs because of the school's premier reputation in Intellectual Property law and because of the outstanding preparation they receive from the Office of Career Services.
Curriculum
Classes and Seminars in Intellectual Property
Columbia Law School offers a wide array of classes in copyright, trademark, and patent law taught by full-time and adjunct professors. This year, in order to respond to the increasing interest in IP law, Columbia changed its curriculum to enable first-year students to study IP law at an earlier point in their school careers , as well as to allow 2L and 3L students to begin engaging with our exciting slate of upper-class offerings beginning in the fall of their second year.
Faculty Publications
Faculty Publications
Columbia's IP professors publish a wide variety of books and articles. Click here for details.
Faculty
Click Below to Read About IP Faculty
Harold Edgar
Jane Ginsburg
Michael Heller
Scott Hemphill
Clarissa Long
Tom  Merrill
Eben Moglen
Timothy Wu
Centers and Programs
Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts
New York City is home to renowned cultural institutions and creative artists and is the headquarters of major media and entertainment companies. There is also a substantial group of attorneys - including many Columbia Law School graduates - and law firms that specialize in legal problems involving these entities. With such resources at hand, Columbia's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts was established to contribute to a broader understanding of the legal aspects of creative works of authorship, including their dissemination and use.
The Program on Law and Technology at Columbia Law School
Is the patent system spurring an unprecedented era of medical advances, or impoverishing the developing world and hurting software development? We take for granted e-mail, the web, and blogs, but is a neutral Internet crucial to what we've come to expect? We are blessed with the ability to copy and distribute content around the world -- but can authors survive in a world of free copying? Such issues of law and technology are some of the hardest questions of our era. They are the ongoing concern of Columbia's Program on Law and Technology, directed by Professors Scott Hemphill, Clarisa Long, and Timothy Wu.
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