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The Academic Scholars Program identifies and provides academic and financial support for admitted and current J.D. candidates with strong potential and the ambition to become law professors.

As vice chair and president of Microsoft, Smith navigates the often choppy waters “where technology and society meet.” He will receive the 2022 Columbia Law Medal for Excellence on October 28.

As the longtime president of the American Museum of Natural History and former president of Barnard College, Futter, one of this year’s Medal for Excellence recipients, has devoted her career to expanding and burnishing the reputations of two of New York City’s most prominent institutions.

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. 

The $17.5 million gift, the largest single commitment in the history of Columbia Law, will help support the design and construction of the Law Library renovation.

McKissick served as the 2021–2022 OutLaws president and was the recipient of the 2021 Manne Prize at the 8th Annual Stanley M. Grossman Innovators Invitational at the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship.

Dean Gillian Lester shares updates about Columbia Law School’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP).

As the first chief diversity officer for the nearly 140-year-old Metropolitan Opera, Sells will use her experience at institutions from the NBA to Harvard to foster inclusion.

Dean Gillian Lester shares updates and welcomes the community back to campus. 

Established in 2015, the need-based scholarship is awarded annually to a Columbia Law School LL.M. student, with priority consideration given to students who are from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe and demonstrate academic success and promise.