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Columbia Law School faculty weigh in on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on law, policy, business, and society.

Task force members John Coffee Jr. and Judge Jed S. Rakoff say a new statute would end conflicting criteria for insider trading prosecutions.

The Columbia Law professor’s European and American sensibilities inform The Brussels Effect, her analysis of the European Union’s outsize influence on global issues, including antitrust law, data privacy, food safety, and climate change.

The first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in North America 400 years ago. To commemorate the anniversary, the Law School held a series of programs focused on the enduring effects of slavery in the United States.

Columbia Law School Clip Report, November 16–30, 2019

Columbia Law experts explain how impeachment works, what is a high crime or misdemeanor, and what other legal and constitutional governance issues impeachment raises.

Professor Vincent Blasi gathered leading First Amendment scholars at Columbia Law School for an illuminating symposium on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famous dissent on free speech.

A conference on technology and the markets looks at the balance between innovation and regulation.

Columbia Law School Clip Report, November 1–15, 2019

This comprehensive collection of data will provide researchers, lawyers, journalists, and policymakers with the means to assess the economic impact of laws across borders.