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Created by global international arbitration firm Three Crowns, the scholarship is dedicated to LL.M. students interested in a career in international arbitration.

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.

Jeannine Acevedo ’05, partner at White & Case, and Myrna Pérez ’03, director of the Brennan Center’s voting rights and elections program, received Distinguished Alumni Awards.

The Jagdish Bhagwati Fellowship, underwritten by the Indian government, supports graduate students at Columbia Law School who wish to specialize in the study of international trade, trade law, public interest, and human rights.

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.

Orientation activities for the J.D. Class of 2022 and the LL.M. Class of 2020 included faculty panels and opportunities to explore Columbia’s sprawling campus.

Citing written and oral arguments made by five students, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that a Connecticut prisoner’s permanent solitary confinement violates the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

Alexandra Studwell ’19 will join the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services with support from Jim Millstein ’82 and Ira M. Millstein ’49.

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.