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Maya Alkateb-Chami, managing director of the Human Rights Institute, and Sarah Knuckey, Lieff Cabraser Clinical Professor of Law and director of the Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Institute, delve into the institute’s initiatives to respond to COVID-19, including their virtual event series held throughout the spring.

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

Students use their legal skills to help small-business owners, incarcerated individuals, unemployed workers, immigrants, and others affected by the crisis.

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.

Columbia Law School faculty weigh in on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on law, policy, business, and society.

Accompanied by Elora Mukherjee, director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, four students spent a week counseling refugees stranded in shelters.

The first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in North America 400 years ago. To commemorate the anniversary, the Law School held a series of programs focused on the enduring effects of slavery in the United States.

Clare Skinner ’20 LL.M. and Ellie Dupler ’20 report on their recent trip to Beirut where they attended a workshop tied to the Human Rights Clinic's ongoing advocacy work on the right to mental health in Yemen.

Every year, the Columbia Law LL.M. Program, in conjunction with the school’s Human Rights Institute, recruits and awards fellowships to jurists who demonstrate extraordinary potential in the field of international human rights.

Bamisope Adeyanju ’20 LL.M., an economic and social rights advocate, was awarded $50,000 by the global law firm.