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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.
 

Members of Columbia Law School’s full-time faculty have written and edited books published this year on timely topics including affirmative action, the new Cold War, social parenthood, and cooperative democracy.

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

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.

The Columbia Law professor receives the Norman J. Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service Award for his longtime advocacy on behalf of individuals on death row.

What is cruel and unusual?

Columbia Law Professors Tackle Free Speech, Climate Engineering, Open-Data Policies, and More

Professor Bernard E. Harcourt Dismantles the Data and Assumptions Behind an Influential But Controversial Theory of Criminal Justice.

What is a grand jury and what does it usually do?

Harcourt's Body of Work Includes Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Social and Political Thought, Critical Theory, the Political Economy of Punishment, and Penal Law and Procedure