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In the first episode of Columbia Law School’s new limited-series podcast—hosted by Professor Michael B. Gerrard—former EPA administrator Catherine McCabe ’77 and Professor Jedediah S. Purdy discuss the Biden administration’s plan to restart U.S. efforts to combat climate change. 

Despite COVID-19 restrictions, students in Columbia Law School clinics have been gaining real-world experience as advocates, educators, litigators, mediators, and researchers.

Can lawyers save the planet? Professor Michael B. Gerrard and leading experts go beyond the headlines and political ping-ponging to discuss combating the climate crisis using one of the most important and effective tools at our disposal: the law.

Can lawyers save the planet? Host Michael B. Gerrard introduces the new limited-series podcast from Columbia Law.

Livingston, the chief judge of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, receives the Learned Hand Award for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence.

Park has used her legal education to support the Asian American community in New York through extracurricular activities and as a Davis Polk Leadership fellow.

Gert Jan van den Bergh ’91 LL.M. seeks justice for artworks and their owners. 

Faculty whose expertise includes labor law, criminal defense, election law, comparative constitutionalism, information privacy, and health care access will introduce new courses and clinics to the curriculum.

Oscar Lopez is the interim director of the Education Advocacy Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California.

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.