With the completion of our Media Control Room in Jerome Greene Hall, we now have full digital video and editing capabilities. Follow the links below to watch streaming videos of several events involving Law School faculty.
All files are in Real Media format. If you do not have Real Player installed one may download the free player for the appropriate OS from Real's website. Click here.
World Investment Prospects to 2011: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Political Risk 09.05.07 A press conference surrounding The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Columbia Program on International Investment (CPII) release of World Investment Prospects to 2011: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Political Risk. The report offers the first authoritative estimate and analysis of 2006 FDI flows and presents forecasts for 2007-2011 globally, regionally and for 82 FDI host and home countries. It includes the Economist Intelligence Unit's Business Environment Index, which measures FDI determinants.
Teaching Program Panel Discussion on Tips for AALS Job Market Candidates 10.26.06
The panelists are CLS alums in law teaching who have recent experiences with the academic law market:
Thomas Healy, CLS '99, Associate Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
Trevor Morrison, CLS '98, Associate Professor, Cornell University Law School
Patricia Seith, CLS '98, CLS Associate-in-Law.
The aim of this panel is to provide practical advice on the AALS interview process, as well as subsequent job talks, and answer any questions you may have as the AALS conference approaches.
The First-Year Electives Panel Discussion. 10.25.06 Hear short presentations by relevant Faculty, Vice Dean of Curriculum, and Dean of Registration (and Financial Services) and be informed about your Spring 2007 elective options and pre-registration.
The Future of Human Rights Law: A Tribute to Lou Henkin 9.21.06
THE HONORABLE ROSEMARY BARKETT, United States Circuit Judge, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
HAROLD HONGJU KOH, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Yale Law School
JUAN MENDEZ, President, International Center for Transitional Justice and United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Moderated by JOSE ALVAREZ, Hamilton Fish Professor of Law and Diplomacy
Careers in Teaching in Law 9.11.06
Professors Carol Sanger and Gilian Metzger discuss the chronology and curiosities of the law faculty hiring process and answer questions. The presentation is for current teaching candidates and students who are not seeking academic jobs at present but who are interested in learning as much as they can about how this part of the process works.
Sentencing: What's at Stake for the States? 1/21/05 (broadband), (56k modem)
Keynote address delivered by Judge William H. Pryor, Jr., of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Prof. Moglen v. Epstein Debate - Digital Property Rights (Intel vs. Hamidi) - 11/18/2004
A disgruntled programmer sends email to thousands of his former colleagues at Intel with a litany of complaints about company policies. When Intel asks him to cease all mass mailings, he refuses, and the company sues him for trespass. Are his digital messages physical invasions of the company's property? What is the greater injury - stifling free expression or allowing one man to clog an entire company's computer resources?
The PATRIOT Act: Keep It, Change It, or Toss It? This roundtable on the PATRIOT Act asks about the Act's surveillance provisions; the sharing of information between law enforcement and intelligence agencies; warrants for information held by third parties; and the prohibition on third parties from disclosing that they have turned over information to the authorities. It also examines the proposed SAFE Act, which would put limits on those provisions.
2004 Feminist Politics & African American Communities - The Center for the Study of Law and Culture presents the 2004 annual Paul Robeson Lecture. Delivered this year by Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, President of Bennett College, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna J. Cooper Professor of English & Director of Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College.
The Medical Liability Insurance Crisis: Colliding Realities - May 27, 2003
Sponsored by Columbia Law School and the National Law Journal.
This is a year of intensive efforts nationwide to change tort laws in Washington and state capitols. In an unusual gathering of viewpoints at the same table, six experts discuss and debate the effort in Congress to protect doctors and insurance companies from huge malpractice awards.
Columbia Goes to War, Seven lectures during Spring 2003 - The series is drawn entirely from professors at the law school - all of whom are now engaged in scholarly work devoted to contemporary issues relating to war and peace, including the ‘war' on terrorism and Iraq.
Global Markets, Domestic Institutions - Corporate Law and Governance in a New Era of Cross-Border Deals - A conference to explore the dynamic tension between the inherently domestic nature of corporate law and governance institutions, and the increasingly global markets for capital, assets, information, and managerial talent.
Prof. George Fletcher Debates Leading Legal Experts on War with Iraq - On November 15, 2002, Richard Posner, Chief Judge of the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and George P. Fletcher, Columbia Law School debated "The Rights and Wrongs of Going to War."
On November 1, 2002 Prof. George Fletcher debated Harvard Law's Alan Dershowitz on "The Morality of Attacking Iraq."
