Columbia Law School has a home worthy of its academic excellence and professional renown. Following the completion of a $140 million expansion and renewal project to ensure that our facilities are among the finest of any law school in the country, the School's physical transformation provides students with a legal community that provides innovative teaching approaches, high-technology tools, old-fashioned amenities, and student-faculty interaction.
The School's main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall, features a three-story skylit lobby, where the main staircase leads to an upper-level student commons with a café. Here, students can find lounge areas, private corners, and other spaces to accommodate anything from a student-faculty debate to a few minutes alone with a book or newspaper.
The Law School also expanded its computer infrastructure by installing dozens of terminal ports and wireless access points throughout the building - including the Lenfest Café and the outdoor terrace - enabling students to connect to research databases at the Law School and around the world.
Across the street from Greene Hall, William C. Warren Hall is home to the Columbia Law Review, Morningside Heights Legal Services (a Law School clinic), and the Center for Public Interest Law. The top floor, enclosed by glass and offering spectacular views of midtown Manhattan, is used for seminars and receptions.
William and June Warren Hall, opened in 1999, includes amphitheater-style classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art teaching resources, a center for the School's international programs, a center for student services, and conference facilities.
In 2003 Lenfest Hall, a Law School residence for students, couples, and families opened, comprising 24 one-bedroom apartments and 181 studio apartments, greatly strengthening Columbia's commitment to provide its students quality housing.
The renovation and expansion of the Law School's facilities have greatly enhanced the quality of life and learning at Columbia. Students have a superb learning environment that is conducive to community-building and social and intellectual engagement, and that reflects the changing nature of legal education in the twenty-first century.
