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Columbia Law School professors tackle environmental policy, reparations, economic insecurity, and more in recent publications. 

For the first time, the four competitors argued before the judges remotely. Christen E. Hammock ’20 took home the coveted Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for best oral presentation and the prize for best final-round brief.

The free e-book, published on April 20, features contributions by 18 Columbia Law scholars and delves into the legal issues around COVID-19—including elections, privacy, prisoners’ rights, bankruptcy, the environment, force majeure in contracts, and public health law.

Task force members John Coffee Jr. and Judge Jed S. Rakoff say a new statute would end conflicting criteria for insider trading prosecutions.

As a visiting Leader-in-Residence, Krane offered students insider strategies for managing a team and succeeding as in-house counsel at a multinational corporation.

A conference on technology and the markets looks at the balance between innovation and regulation.

The co-executive chairman and head of sports law and antitrust practices at Winston & Strawn discusses going to bat for athletes and how current—and future—cases have the potential to change everything for players and fans.

In her Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, Pantin teaches students transactional lawyering skills that they draw on to promote social justice, provide pro bono legal services to small businesses, and prepare for corporate careers.

The law and economics scholar says that asking the right questions produces the most illuminating answers.

Law faculty testify to Congress on cryptocurrency, breaking up Facebook, and separating families at the southern border.