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Columbia Law School faculty contribute opinion pieces to an array of media outlets on topics ranging from antitrust, financial regulation, and national security to human rights law, corporate law, and the future of democracy.
 

Law and business students learn to combine legal expertise and financial trading skills—and face a Shark Tank-style final project. 

The popular podcast returns: Co-hosts and law professors Eric Talley and Dorothy S. Lund are joined by experts to explore complex economic events affecting workers, investors, and companies.

As a member of the Academy’s class of 2024, Talley joins a distinguished group of scholars, artists, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

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.

How a ’77 Olds with a junk transmission put a musician on the road to success in the law school classroom.

The high-risk, high-reward venture capital industry is also highly white and highly male. But could V.C. deals be structured differently to mitigate implicit bias and give an equal shot to women and people of color?

Climate change and racial justice are issues on the boardroom table as shareholder activists try to force corporations to act on environmental and diversity matters. Anne E. Robinson ’94, Vanguard general counsel, talks about the priorities of institutional investors when ESG questions are put to a vote. 

Professors Eric Talley and Julian Arato collaborate with Judge Jed Rakoff to bring a classic contract law case to life.

With a stock trading app on their phones and a lot of time on their hands, individual investors flooded into the market during the pandemic—with wild results. Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 talk to Professor Joshua Mitts about pandemic meme trading and what it means for market regulation.