Story Archive

To help celebrate this year’s graduates, alumni offer words of counsel and encouragement.

A pioneering civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.

His pathbreaking career was nearly crushed by McCarthy-era ostracism, but Paul Robeson’s voice, in song and speech, continues to be heard in support of Black freedom.

The Columbia Law School Black Law Students Association honored Judith Browne Dianis ’92 and Marcia Sells ’84 at this year’s gala and hosted a two-day conference on Black political power.

Explore a selection of original articles and videos featuring exceptional women from the Columbia Law community.

Eric H. Holder Jr. ’76 delivered the keynote address at the event held at Rainbow Room on January 31.

For Valentine's Day, meet five alumni couples who met and fell in love as students at the Law School.

Over the past year, alumni have published nonfiction books covering legal topics from climate change to voting rights to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Put down the casebook! This year, alumni published a shelf’s worth of new fiction.  

Citing the importance of pursuing our core scholarly, pedagogical, and programmatic objectives without constraints, Dean Gillian Lester announces that Columbia Law School will no longer submit data to the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of best law schools.