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Columbia Law School students collaborate with formerly incarcerated participants to leverage legal experience into employment.

Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux ’10 is deputy director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. 

The award-winning documentary filmmaker says her experiences at Columbia Law focused her work on systemic injustice.

Illegal child labor and exploitation in the United States are leading to a crisis in protecting children on the job, say two of Columbia Law’s faculty experts on labor law and immigrants’ rights. 

Columbia Law School honored the centennial of the graduation of artist and activist Paul Robeson 1923 with an exhibit and special lecture.  

Columbia Law School graduates have received prestigious fellowships that support positions in public interest and public service organizations.

Two programs awarded funding through the inaugural round of Anti-Racism Grants—the Black Men’s Initiative and the Law School Pathways Program—are designed to help current and future law students. 

Morgan is one of only two law students in the nation to receive the prestigious Phillips Fellowship in the Office of the Solicitor General.

Allan Van Fleet ’77 continues to build a legacy of public interest work alongside a robust private practice.

The pathbreaking entertainment lawyer tells students that “art is a societal changing force.”