Story Archive

Books written and edited by Columbia Law School faculty during the 2021–2022 academic year explore free speech, the climate crisis, Chevron deference, and why you should skip that online order and go directly to the source instead. 

Intellectual property scholar Shyam Balganesh explains why the “Stairway to Heaven” case is taking copyright law in the wrong direction. 

In her new book, Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source, the Columbia Law professor weaves together her expertise in financial regulation and her experiences as a conscientious yet conflicted consumer.

These exceptional scholars, teachers, and clinicians will build on the Law School’s continued excellence in both fundamental and emerging areas of the law. 

Professor Christopher Morten explains why the Biden administration has the right and responsibility to share the Moderna formula with countries with shortages of COVID-19 vaccine doses. 

Publications written and edited by members of the Law School’s faculty in 2020-2021 explore ownership and authorship, constitutional controversy, foreign policy, urban planning, and more.

In Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom, the Columbia Law professor argues that the government sometimes subverts the Constitution by using its largess to buy the cooperation—even the constitutional rights—of individuals, businesses, and the states.

Powerful institutional investors are the reason wages have been flat for decades, stifling competition for workers and worsening income inequality, the Columbia Law School professor says. 

Professor Sarah A. Seo ’07 explains how the development of police discretionary power in traffic stops gave rise to “driving while Black.”

In his new book, Lakefront, Merrill traces how lawsuits, court rulings, and political machinations from the 1850s to the present have resulted in an urban coastline that’s the pride of Chicago and the envy of other cities.