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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.

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.

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

The director of the Columbia Law Immigrants’ Rights Clinic says federal policies toward asylum-seeking families and detained migrant children are “cruel” and inhumane.

In oral arguments, five members of Professor Brett Dignam’s Mass Incarceration Clinic sought injunctive relief for their client, a man who has been in solitary confinement for 24 years.

Graduates will work on issues involving the environment, voting rights, immigration, human rights, and more.

The Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law and the students in her Immigrants’ Rights Clinic represent individuals and families seeking asylum and advocate for migrants across the country.

Students help participants in the NYC/NYCHA Food Business Pathways Program form limited liability companies and finalize legal contracts.

The Columbia Law Review honors the legacy of the civil rights advocate and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge in the United States.