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The Columbia Law professor will become one of 15 members of the United Nations’ main judicial body, which adjudicates cases between nations on disputes that increasingly involve human rights issues. 

A decision in two combined cases being argued at the Supreme Court in January could overturn a 40-year-old doctrine that allows federal agencies to interpret ambiguous statutes. That shouldn’t undo decades of decisions, says the Columbia Law expert on administrative and constitutional law.

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.

Colleagues toasted the Harold R. Medina Professor Emerita of Law as “a giant in the field” of family law and juvenile justice.

Understanding the effects of trauma is critical to providing representation, says the Clinical Professor of Law.

In her new book, the Columbia Law professor explores the emerging battle between techno-democracies and techno-autocracies that will shape the future of our digital society.

How much is artificial intelligence—and the algorithms it generates—changing the experience and nature of work? What does that mean for employees’ privacy and the future of the legal profession?

Longtime Columbia Law School faculty member and renowned environmental activist dies at 74.

Dozens of new faculty—representing both entry-level and mid-career scholars—who are experts in a wide array of disciplines have joined the Law School.

The prolific scholar joins the faculty as a professor of law to research and teach about the role of corporations in the world.