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As the 2024–2025 academic year comes to an end, Dean Daniel Abebe shares a special message with the Columbia Law community.

The second annual event, sponsored by the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, explored recent developments in the finance and governance of large public corporations.

Sanctions, trade and investment restrictions, and tariffs are increasingly deployed to advance U.S. national security—but they pose challenges for the banking system and its regulators, say Professors Matthew C. Waxman, Lev Menand, and Kathryn Judge.

Andrew Markquart ’12 investigates criminal convictions for miscarriages of justice as the head of the newly created Conviction Integrity Unit of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis.

Cheers of pride and tears of joy greeted J.D., LL.M., E.LL.M., and J.S.D. students, who—along with their families and friends—celebrated graduation at the Law School’s 2025 Class Day ceremony, featuring a keynote address by former Montana Governor Steve Bullock ’94.

A soaring, spacious reading room and ample group study areas and seating will create “a special place to be students.” 

Dean Abebe shares a message announcing adjustments to Columbia's LRAP, which are designed to simplify the benefit calculation and give students and alumni greater flexibility to determine the post-graduate financial position that maximizes their career aspirations and best reflects their personal circumstances and family status.

Members of the Class of 2025 share what Columbia Law School and their classmates have meant to them.

Members of the alumni society gathered on May 6 to honor Jeffrey L. Kessler ’77 for his commitment to justice and connection to his Columbia roots.

The general counsel of the World Intellectual Property Organization shared her perspectives on a career in diplomacy, working in a multilateral setting, and the human rights dimensions of intellectual property law.