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The practitioner, scholar, advocate, and new member of the Columbia Law faculty is an authority on juvenile justice and founder of the Family Defense Clinic.

A new clinical professor brings her experience in water access to the challenge of climate change and green jobs.

Philip Genty, vice dean for experiential education, is working to integrate Columbia Law School’s experiential learning with the broader curriculum.

The former public defender is launching the new Criminal Law Clinic at Columbia Law School.

A lawyer with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, Morten is the founding director of Columbia Law School’s new Science, Health, and Information Clinic.

The opportunity to represent clients in a courtroom and the chance to ensure equal representation inspired Kumi to pursue the law.

Students use their legal skills to help small-business owners, incarcerated individuals, unemployed workers, immigrants, and others affected by the crisis.

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.

In her Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, Pantin teaches students transactional lawyering skills that they draw on to promote social justice, provide pro bono legal services to small businesses, and prepare for corporate careers.

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.