Columbia Law School shapes the legal profession’s future leaders. We prepare our students for professional roles in a broad range of areas, including academia, public service, advocacy, and business. Our graduate programs give students the opportunity to develop their scholarship and specialize in fields not fully covered in their previous coursework.
Since 1858, Columbia Law School has been a world leader in legal education. Our faculty members are highly accomplished practitioners and scholars, and our vast curricular offerings provide students with unmatched opportunities to engage in the law.
Columbia Law School’s interdisciplinary faculty pursues innovative work that expands the understanding of the law and influences the global community. Their research also challenges students to think critically about their roles in addressing complex legal issues.
Columbia Law graduates are sought after by the world's top employers. Our students have attained leadership roles at eminent social justice organizations, law firms, NGOs, governmental entities and academic institutions.
Columbia Law School draws strength from the vast interdisciplinary resources of our distinguished university—as well as our New York City location—our students complete their legal training ready to engage the world’s most challenging issues.
Columbia Law School’s research centers and programs reflect the wide range of expertise encompassed by our faculty. Our centers and programs draw upon rigorous faculty scholarship to explore foundational, emerging, and interdisciplinary areas of the law. They convene policymakers, judges, business leaders, and academics from across the globe, and provide students with opportunities to work directly with faculty and experienced research professionals.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Center for Constitutional Governance
Center for Contract and Economic Organization
Center for Gender & Sexuality Law
Center for Institutional and Social Change
Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration
Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
Center for Israeli Legal Studies
Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Center for Korean Legal Studies
Center for Law and Economic Studies
Center for Public Research and Leadership
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity
Center for the Study of Law and Culture
Center on Corporate Governance
Center on Global Legal Transformation
The Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets
Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy