New York, April 26, 2012—Columbia Law School’s chapter of the National Native American Law Students Association (NNALSA) was named 2011–2012 Chapter of the Year at the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference this month in Santa Fe, N.M.
Columbia Law School’s Immigration Defense Externship program was honored by the New York City Council for its service to New York City’s immigrants. Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Daniel Dromm, chair of the Council’s Committee on Immigration, presented representatives of the Law School with a Proclamation at a City Council meeting on April 18, coinciding with Immigration Heritage Week.
Benjamin Liebman, the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, and Sarah Cleveland, the Louis Henkin Professor in Human and Constitutional Rights and faculty co-director of the Human Rights Institute, are in Beijing this week as part of the United States delegation to the latest round of the U.S.-China Legal Experts Dialogue.
Columbia Law School has established the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration Law to further the teaching and study of international arbitration, building on the school’s well-established expertise in this rapidly growing legal practice.
The new center will be led by George A. Bermann ’75 LL.M., the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, the Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, and director of European Legal Studies.
In conjunction with his new essay in the scholarly journal <em>Dædalus</em>, Professor Michael Graetz speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, about America’s three decades of energy policy misfires and gridlock.