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Columbia Law School (CLS), located in New York City, is one of the professional schools of Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League, and one of the leading law schools in the United States. Approximately 1,500 students, pursuing J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees, are enrolled at the school. David Schizer is the institution's dean.

Based on reputation and selectivity, Columbia is and has historically existed as one of America's premier law schools, along with Harvard and Yale and, more recently, Stanford, University of Chicago, and NYU Law Schools. For the past decade, Columbia has consistently been ranked among the top five law schools by the US News and World Report and is currently ranked 4th. [link]. For the 2005 entering class, Columbia Law School had a 14.6% acceptance rate, one of the lowest in the country, as well as an LSAT range of 168-173, one of the highest in the country.

Columbia Law School has produced a large number of distinguished alumni including two Presidents of the United States and six Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, and Stanley Forman Reed, however, never formally graduated). Notably, more current members of the Forbes 400 have attended Columbia than any other law school.[link].

Columbia University appointed its first professor of law, James Kent, in 1793 and formally established the law school in 1858. The legal realism movement, which flourished during the 1920s and 1930s, is typically associated with Columbia Law School. Among the major realists affiliated with Columbia were Karl Llewellyn, Felix S. Cohen and William O. Douglas.

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Columbia Law School Today

Today, Columbia Law School is well regarded in the areas of Business Law, (John C. Coffee, Jr., Ronald J. Gilson), Criminal Law (Debra Livingston, George Fletcher, Jeffrey Fagan, James Liebman, Gerard Lynch), International Law (Michael Doyle, Jose Alvarez, Louis Henkin, Gerald Neuman), Legal Philosophy (Joseph Raz, William Simon, R. Kent Greenawalt, Charles Sable), Intellectual Property (Jane Ginsburg, Michael Heller, Eben Moglen, Tim Wu), and Legal History (Eben Moglen, John Witt, Vincent Blasi, Robert Ferguson).

Widely cited scholars in other specialties include Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (race and gender), Michael C. Dorf and Henry Monaghan (constitutional law), Thomas Merrill (administrative law, Property Theory), Robert Scott (contract law), and Patricia J. Williams (race and gender). Columbia was also among the first schools to establish both comparative and international law centers, and is also a major center for the study of Chinese, Japanese and Korean law.

In 2006, Columbia Law School embarked on an ambitious campaign to increase the number of faculty by fifty percent without increasing the number of students.

Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Library is the second largest law library in the United States, with over 1,000,000 volumes. The Columbia Law Review is the third most widely distributed and cited law journal in the country and is one of the four publishers of the Bluebook. Columbia Law School has also cultivated alliances and dual degree programs with overseas law schools, including the London School of Economics (LSE) in London, England and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”) in Paris, France. Lastly, Columbia Law School runs vigorous clinical programs that contribute to the community, including the nation's first technology-based clinic, called Lawyering in the Digital Age. This clinic is currently engaged in building a community resource to understand the collateral consequences of criminal charges.[link] In April 2006, Columbia announced that it was starting the nation's first clinic in sexuality and gender law.[link]

Columbia Law School’s main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall, was designed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, architects of the United Nations Headquarters and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (which for many years served as the site of Columbia Law School's graduation ceremonies). In 1996, the Law School was extensively renovated, including the addition of a new entrance façade and lobby, as well as the expansion of existing space to include a café and lounges.

Columbia Law School People

See also the list of Columbia University people.

The Supreme Court

Politics and Government

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President)

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Arts & Academia

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Faculty (Non-Alumni)

¹ Studied law at Columbia University prior to the founding of the Law School.

² Failed to complete the law degree.

³ Received the LL.D..

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Schools of Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation • School of the Arts • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences • Barnard College (Affiliate) • Graduate School of Business • Columbia College • School of Continuing Education • College of Dental Medicine • Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science • School of General Studies • School of International and Public Affairs • Jewish Theological Seminary (Affiliate) • Graduate School of Journalism • Columbia Law School • School of Nursing • College of Physicians and Surgeons • Mailman School of Public Health • School of Social Work • Teachers College (Affiliate) • Union Theological Seminary (Affiliate)

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