Faculty in the Media: Recent Essays and Op-Eds

Columbia Law School faculty contribute opinion pieces to an array of media outlets on topics ranging from antitrust, financial regulation, and national security to human rights law, corporate law, and the future of democracy.
 

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In addition to their influential scholarship in books and journals, many Columbia Law faculty are committed to sharing their insights on topical issues with an audience beyond the legal academy. See a selection of their recent opinion pieces, blog posts, and essays, which have been published in the mainstream media and online publications.

Kate Andrias

Kate Andrias

Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law

Constitutional Law

“The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court” in The New York Times

Professor George Bermann

George A. Bermann ’75 LL.M.

Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law

International Law

“Why a $16 Billion Judgment Against Argentina Should Deeply Trouble the U.S.” in the New York Law Journal (subscription required)

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Anu Bradford

Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization

Digital Regulation

“Trump Wants to Let AI Run Wild. This Might Stop Him” in The New York Times 

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John C. Coffee Jr.

Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law

Financial Regulation

“Proxy Advisors Win in Court—But What Happens Next?” in the New York Law Journal (subscription required)

“Shades of Madoff! Could It Happen Again?” in the New York Law Journal (subscription required)

David Cole

David Cole

Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law

Constitutional Law

“Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier” in The Atlantic

Professor Michael Gerrard

Michael Gerrard

Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

Environmental Law

“Trump EPA’s Proposed Revocation of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Raises Tangle of Legal Issues” in the New York Law Journal

“Annual Review of SEQRA Cases and Developments” in the New York Law Journal 

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Suzanne Goldberg

Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law

Human Rights Law

“The U.S. Is Abandoning the Global Fight for Equality” with Jessica Stern in Foreign Policy

“State Department’s New Human Rights Reports Are Silent. We Refuse to Be” with Jessica Stern and Reggie Greer in The Washington Blade

Constitutional Law

“Kim Davis Wants the Supreme Court to Join Her Crusade Against Same-Sex Marriage” in MSNBC

Professor Jeffrey Gordon

Jeffrey N. Gordon

Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law

Corporate Governance

“What the Paramount Global Shareholders Are Rooting For” in The CLS Blue Sky Blog

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Bernard E. Harcourt

Corliss Lamont Professor of Law and Civil Liberties

Criminal Justice

“The Brutalizing Effect of State Violence” in Critique & Praxis

“President Trump’s Summary Execution of ‘Foreign Designated Terrorists’ in International Waters and the Coming War on Anti-Fascism in America” in Critique & Praxis 

Contemporary Critical Theory 

“What Is to Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?” in Critique & Praxis

Read more of Professor Harcourt’s essays.

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Lina Khan

Associate Professor of Law

Law and Political Economy

“A Secret to Zohran Mamdani’s Success” in The New York Times

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Dorothy S. Lund

Columbia 1982 Alumna Professor of Law

Corporate Law

“Should Corporate Law Go Private?” with Columbia Law Professor Eric Talley in The CLS Blue Sky Blog 

Ronald Mann

Ronald Mann

Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law

Constitutional Law

“Justices Debate Whether Restitution Imposed on Convicts Is Criminal, Civil, or Perhaps a Little of Both” in SCOTUSblog

Civil Procedure

“Justices Debate State Limits on Malpractice Actions for Cases in Federal Court” in SCOTUSblog

Read more of Professor Mann’s essays.

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Lev Menand

Associate Professor of Law

Financial Regulation

“The Supreme Court Made a Bad Bet” in The Atlantic

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Gillian Metzger ’96

Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law

Administrative Law

“Democracy Needs the Administrative State” in NYU Law’s Democracy Project

Professor Kerrel Murray

Kerrel Murray

Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow

Constitutional Law

“False Conflict: Colorblindness and Section Two of the Voting Rights Act” in the Election Law Blog 

Katharina Pistor

Katharina Pistor

Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law

Law and Political Economy

“Rethinking the Politics of Money” in Project Syndicate 

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Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus

George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History

Constitutional Law
“Enumeration and My Discontent” in Balkinization 

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David Pozen

Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law

Constitutional Law

“What Are We Living Through?” with Jedediah Britton-Purdy in the Boston Review 

Administrative Law

“Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed” in Balkinization 

Professor Daniel Richman

Daniel Richman

Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law

Criminal Law 

“Trump Is Discovering the Downside of a Justice Department With No Credibility” in The New York Times 

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Susan P. Sturm

George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility

Institutional and Social Change

“How Do We Celebrate the Fourth of July When American Freedom Is Disappearing?” with Deborah Archer and Song Richardson in The Guardian 

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Eric Talley

Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business

Corporate Law

“Should Corporate Law Go Private?” with Columbia Law Professor Dorothy S. Lund in The CLS Blue Sky Blog

Professor Matt Waxman

Matthew C. Waxman

Liviu Librescu Professor of Law

National Security Law

“Armed Conflict? Trump’s Venezuela Boat Strikes Test U.S. Law” for the Council on Foreign Relations

Rebecca Wexler

Rebecca Wexler

Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law

Evidence

“Courts Can Protect Trans Healthcare by Recognizing Patient-Physician Privilege” with Aziz Huq in the Los Angeles Times

Professor Tim Wu

Tim Wu

Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology

Antitrust Law

“Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean” in The New York Times

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