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The five fellowship recipients—all members of the Class of 2024—are dedicated to pursuing careers in social and racial justice.

Kamilah Moore ’19 is chair of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.

Dean Gillian Lester sent a message to the Columbia Law School community following the jury’s verdict in the case of the Minneapolis police officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd. 

The Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Steering Committee provides an update on its work during the Spring 2021 semester. 

Long before intersectionality became a watchword, Florynce Kennedy ’51 identified the confluence of race and gender discrimination, bringing to second-wave feminism a Black voice that was impossible not to hear. But first, she took on Columbia Law School.

His novel Interior Chinatown tackles issues of Asian American identity in culture and law.  

Columbia Law alumni are working to diversify the legal industry’s demographics.

The first out gay professor at Columbia Law School and the second African-American member of the faculty, Thomas has brought a pioneering spirit and a critical perspective to his work over nearly four decades as a teacher, scholar, activist, and artist.

Legal reforms can hold police more accountable for violent acts, but Americans need to acknowledge the nation’s history of racism, the former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund lawyer says.

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.