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Students praise Funk for his enthusiasm, intellect, and compassion. He will receive the honor, which is awarded annually by the Columbia Law graduating class, and speak at graduation on May 15.

Metzger is one of nearly 270 members—drawn from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science—elected in 2023.

The fourth dean of Columbia Law School and 12th chief justice of the United States is the namesake of the Law School’s prestigious Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition held every spring.

From Columbia Law School and the Millstein Center, the popular podcast returns. Co-hosts Professors Eric Talley and Talia Gillis are joined by experts to explore complex economic phenomena impacting workers, investors, companies, and communities.

As he resumes teaching at Columbia Law School, after spending nearly two years in the Biden administration, antitrust and tech scholar Tim Wu talks about his work to overhaul competition policy and his hopes for lasting change—despite Congress. 

The prominent scholar of philosophy and the law and longtime Columbia University Professor dies at 86.

Professors Jamal Greene and Gillian Metzger begin positions within the U.S. Department of Justice, and Professor Tim Wu resumes teaching after serving in the Biden administration.

The first-year curriculum often strikes students as unrelated to the most pressing legal issues of the day. On a panel this fall, faculty teaching 1L courses “taught their subject” through the lens of the right to abortion, showing how their subject is critical to the legal questions surrounding a right to abortion, reproductive autonomy, or sexual liberty.

A lawyer who uses economic theory and empirical tools in his research joins the faculty as an associate professor of law.

Increasing reliance on the Federal Reserve to prevent financial panics and manage economic cycles shows the need to lighten the load on the central bank by strengthening banking regulation and developing new fiscal policy tools, the former U.S. Treasury official says.