, located in , LL.M. , and J.S.D. degrees, are enrolled at the school.
Columbia is one of America's premier law schools along with Harvard and Yale , based on reputation and selectivity (although in the 1960s and 70s, Stanford and, in the 1990s, NYU Law Schools both grew to rival the original three). For the past decade, however, Columbia has continued to rank among the top five law schools according to the US News And World Report
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Among those who have studied at Columbia Law School are two Presidents Of The United States and six Justices of the Supreme Court Of The United States , though several of Columbia Law School's most famous students, Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Theodore Roosevelt , Benjamin Nathan Cardozo , and Stanley Forman Reed , never formally graduated.
Columbia University appointed its first professor of law, James Kent , in 1793 and formally established the law school in 1858. The Legal Realism movement, which flourished during the 1920s and 1930s, is typically associated with Columbia Law School. Among the major realists affiliated with Columbia were Karl Llewellyn , Felix S. Cohen and William O. Douglas .
Today, Columbia Law School is well regarded in the areas of Business Law, ( John C. Coffee , Jr., Ronald J. Gilson ), Criminal Law ( Debra Livingston , George Fletcher , Jeffrey Fagan , James Liebman , Gerard Lynch ), International Law ( Michael Doyle , Jose Alvarez , Louis Henkin , Gerald Neuman ), Legal Philosophy ( Joseph Raz , William Simon , R. Kent Greenawalt , Charles Sable ), Intellectual Property ( Jane Ginsburg , Michael Heller , Eben Moglen , Tim Wu ), and Legal History ( John Witt , Vincent Blasi , Robert Ferguson ).
Widely cited scholars in other specialties include Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (race and gender), Michael C. Dorf and Henry Monaghan (constitutional law), Thomas Merrill (administrative law, Property Theory), Robert Scott (contract law), and Patricia J. Williams (race and gender). Columbia was also among the first schools to establish both comparative and international law centers, and is also a major center for the study of Chinese, Japanese and Korean law.
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Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Library is the second largest law library in the United States , with over 1,000,000 volumes. The Columbia Law Review is the third most widely distributed and cited law journal in the country and is one of the four publishers of the Bluebook . Columbia Law School has also cultivated alliances and dual degree programs with overseas law schools, including the London School Of Economics (LSE) in London, England and the '' Institut D'études Politiques De Paris '' (“Sciences Po”) in Paris, France. Lastly, Columbia Law School runs vigorous clinical programs that contribute to the community, including the nation's first technology-based clinic, called Lawyering in the Digital Age. This clinic is currently engaged in building a community resource to understand the Collateral Consequences Of Criminal Charges . In April 2006, Columbia announced that it was starting the nation's first clinic in sexuality and gender law.[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/04/lawschool.html
Columbia Law School’s main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall, was designed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz , architects of the United Nations Headquarters and Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts (which for many years served as the site of Columbia Law School's graduation ceremonies). In 1996, the Law School was extensively renovated, including the addition of a new entrance façade and lobby, as well as the expansion of existing space to include a café and lounges.
''See also the List Of Columbia University People ''.
- Samuel Blatchford 1837¹, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1882-93)
- Charles Evans Hughes 1884, New York governor (1907), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1910-1916), Republican nominee for President of the United States (1916), Secretary of State under Presidents Warren Harding (1921-23) and Calvin Coolidge (1923-29), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1930-41)
- Benjamin Nathan Cardozo 1891&2, judge on the New York Court of Appeals (1914-32), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1932-38)
- Harlan Fiske Stone 1898, professor (1902-05) and dean (1910-23) at Columbia Law School, Attorney General under President Calvin Coolidge (1924-25), Associate Justice (1925-41) and Chief Justice (1941-46) of the Supreme Court
- Stanley Forman Reed &2, Solicitor General (1935-38) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1938-57)
- William O. Douglas 1925, professor at Yale Law School (1928-34), Chairman of the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (1936-39), and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1939-75)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1959, law professor at Rutgers University (1963-72) and Columbia Law School (1972-80), ACLU attorney (1972-80), judge on the DC Circuit (1980-93), and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1993-present)
- John Kean 1875, senator from New Jersey (1899-1911)
- Perry Belmont 1876, congressman from New York (1880-88) and US Ambassador to Spain (1888-1889)
- Theodore Roosevelt 1880&2, hero of the Spanish-American War , New York governor (1899-1901), 25th Vice President of the United States (1901), 26th President of the United States (1901-1909), Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1906)
- Bainbridge Colby 1891, founder of the United States Progressive Party (1912); Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson (1920-21)
- Henry Morgenthau, Sr. , US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1913-16)
- Alva B. Adams 1899, senator from Colorado (1923-24, 1933-41)
- John Purroy Mitchell 1899, New York City mayor (1914-17)
- Luke Lea 1903, senator from Tennessee (1911-17)
- William Donovan 1905, World War I hero, head of the OSS during World War II, and US Ambassador to Thailand (1953-54)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1904-1907&2, New York governor (1929-33) and 32nd President of the United States (1933-45)
- Charles Ruthenberg 1909, founder of the Communist Party Of America (1919)
- Emanuel Celler 1912, congressman from New York (1923-1973)
- Tracy Voorhees 1915, Undersecretary of the Army (1948-53)
- Lister Hill 1915&2, congressman (1923-38) and senator (1938-69) from Alabama
- Colgate Darden 1923, congressman from Virginia (1933-37, 1939-41), Virginia governor (1942-46), and president of the University Of Virginia (1947-59); namesake of the Darden Graduate School Of Business Administration
- Thomas E. Dewey 1925, Manhattan district attorney (1937-42), New York governor (1942-55), and Republican nominee for President of the United States (1944, 1948)
- Clifford P. Case 1928, congressman (1945-53) and senator (1955-79) from New Jersey
- Wayne Morse 1932, senator from Oregon (1945-69)
- Robert Baumle Meyner 1933, New Jersey governor (1952-62)
- Constance Baker Motley 1946, attorney for the NAACP (1945-64); Manhattan Borough president (1964-66); first African American woman appointed to the federal bench (1966-86)
- Roy Cohn 1947, anti-communist attorney who was an influential aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy and was active in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Jack B. Weinstein 1948, professor at Columbia (1952-98) and federal judge (1967-93)
- Harrison A. Williams 1948, congressman (1953-57) and senator (1959-82) from New Jersey
- Slade Gorton 1953, senator from Washington (1981-87, 1994-2001)
- John D. Hawke, Jr. 1960, Comptroller of the Currency (1998-2004)
- Charles Fried 1960, professor at Harvard Law School (1961-87, 1989-95, 1999-present), US Solicitor General (1985-89), and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1995-99)
- Charles F.C. Ruff 1963, Washington attorney who represented Anita Hill and President of the United States Bill Clinton
- Gray Davis 1967, California governor (1999-2003)
- Michael Cardozo 1966, corporation counsel of New York City (2002-present)
- George Pataki 1970, New York governor (1994-present)
- Mary Jo White 1974, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Of New York (1993-2002)
- Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby 1975, Novelist , chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney (2001-2005), Indicted on Obstruction Of Justice charges for his role in the Plame Affair (2005)
- Richard Ben-Veniste 1976, federal prosecutor (1968-73), chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Special Prosecutor's Office (1973-75), and member of the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004)
- Margery Bronster 1982, Hawaii attorney general (1995-99)
- Rocky Delgadillo 1986, City Attorney of Los Angeles ; first Latino in over 100 years to be elected city-wide in Los Angeles
- Caroline Kennedy 1988, daughter of President John F. Kennedy
- Mikhail Saakashvili 1994, president of Georgia (2005-present)
- Li Lu 1996, leader of the Tiananmen Square Protests (1989), first student at Columbia to simulataneously receive B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees.
- Karenna Gore Schiff 2000, daughter of former Vice President Albert Gore
- William Waldorf Astor 1875, Anglo-American financier, son of John Jacob Astor, US Minister to Italy (1881-1885)
- Henry Clay Folger 1881, president of the Standard Oil Company (1911-1923) and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
- John William Sterling 1893³, founder of the Manhattan law firm Shearman & Sterling ; major donor to his undergraduate alma mater, Yale University ; namesake of Yale's library, law building, and its most prestigious endowed chair
- James T. Lee 1899, prolific manhattan real estate developer/magnate; grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Douglas Black 1918, president of Doubleday (1946-63)
- Edward S. Harkness 1928³, Standard Oil Company heir, donated funds used to construct Butler Library at Columbia and most of the undergraduate dormitories at Yale and Harvard , as well as to Phillips Exeter Academy
- Russell E. Train 1948, founding trustee, CEO, president, and chairman of the World Wildlife Fund
- David Sive 1948, pioneer in environmental law; founding partner, Sive, Paget & Riesel, PC
- Morton L. Janklow 1953, literary agent to Sidney Sheldon , Pope John Paul II , Danielle Steele , Ronald Reagan , and J.K. Rowling
- Alan N. Cohen 1954, chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation (1974-77), principle owner of the New Jersey Nets , and principle owner of the Boston Celtics (1983-2004)
- Herbert Sandler , founder of Golden West Financial (1963), philanthropist, member of Forbes 400 (2003-present)
- H. F. Lenfest 1958, Media Proprietor and member of Forbes 400 (1999-present)
- Stephen Friedman 1962, chairman of Goldman Sachs (1990-1994) and director of the National Economic Council (2004-Present)
- Michael Lynne 1964, president (1990-2001), co-CEO (2001-present) and co-chairman (2001-present) of New Line Cinema
- Douglas H. McCorkindale 1964, CEO (2000-present) and chairman (2001-present) of Gannett
- Robert Shaye 1964, founder, chairman/co-chairman and CEO/co-CEO of New Line Cinema (1967-present)
- David Stern 1966, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (1984-present)
- Ted Forstmann 1965, co-founder of Forstmann Little & Company , chairman and CEO of Gulfstream Aerospace (1990-1999), and member of Forbes 400 (1998-2003)
- Gary P. Naftalis 1967, co-chairman of the Manhattan law firm Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel
- S. Robson Walton 1969, chairman of Wal-mart (1992-present) and member of the Forbes 400 (1992-present)
- Bruce Ratner 1970, founder (1985), president, and CEO of Forest City Ratner ; principal owner of the New Jersey Nets , which he hopes to move to Brooklyn
- Roland W. Betts 1978, investor, film producer, lead owner in George W. Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership (1989-1998), and developer and owner of Chelsea Piers (1989-present)
- Mark Attanasio 1982, investment banker and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers (2004-present)
- Randolph Lerner , CEO of MBNA (2002-present), owner of the Cleveland Browns (2002-present), and member of Forbes 400 (2002-present)
- Isaac Hollister Hall 1865, famed Orientalist and curator of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art (1885-96)
- Charles Chaille-Long 1880, soldier and explorer of Africa
- John Kendrick Bangs 1883-84&2, writer and satirist associated with so-called " Bangsian Fantasy "
- William Ivins, Jr. 1907, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art (1916-1946)
- Paul Robeson 1923, All-American athlete, actor, singer, and civil rights activist
- Felix S. Cohen 1931, expert on Native American law, legal philosopher, and professor at Yale Law School , the City College Of New York , The New School , and Rutgers University ; early proponent of Legal Realism
- Herbert Wechsler 1931, professor at Columbia Law School (1933-1978) and director of the American Law Institute (1963-84); argued in front of the Supreme Court in the seminal libel case '' New York Times V. Sullivan '' (1964)
- Jack Greenberg 1948, counsel for the NAACP (1949-84), in which capacity he argued '' Brown V. Board Of Education '' (1954); professor at Columbia Law School (1984-present)
- Robert L. Carter , LL.M. 1941, Civil Rights activist, NAACP general counsel, in which capacity he argued '' Brown V. Board Of Education II'' (1955); judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District Of New York
- E. Allen Farnsworth 1952, expert on the law of contracts and professor at Columbia Law School (1952-2004)
- Yale Kamisar 1955, expert on criminal law and professor at the University Of Michigan Law School (1965-present)
- Michael I. Sovern 1955, professor (1957-present) and dean (1970-79) at Columbia Law School, president of Columbia University (1980-93), and chairman of Sotheby's (2002-present)
- Edward Packard , children's author who developed the "choose your own adventure" style of storytelling
- Robert Cover 1968, professor at Columbia Law School (1971-72) and Yale Law School (1972-86); scholar of history, philosophy, literature, and law; author of the multidisciplinary analysis ''Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process'', and ''The Structure of Procedure''
- Lee Bollinger 1971, professor (1973-1994) and dean (1987-1994) at the University Of Michigan Law School , Provost of Dartmouth College (1994-1996), President of the University Of Michigan (1996-2002) and president of Columbia University (2002-present); defendant in the Supreme Court case '' Grutter V. Bollinger '' (2003)
- Rod MacDonald 1973, singer/songwriter
- Barry Mills 1979, president of Bowdoin College (2001-present)
- Brad Meltzer 1996, author of legal thrillers
- John Montgomery Ward 1883, played baseball for the Providence Greys (1878-82), New York Giants (1883-1889, 1893-94), Brooklyn's Ward Wonders (1890) and Brooklyn Grooms (1890-91); president of the Boston Braves (1911-1912); advocate for player's rights; member of the Baseball Hall Of Fame (1964)
- Moe Berg 1930, light-hitting catcher for the Brooklyn Robins (1923), Chicago White Sox (1926-1930), Cleveland Indians (1931, 1934), Washington Senators (1932-34) and Boston Red Sox (1935-39); able to speak twelve languages; spy for the OSS ; according to Casey Stengel , "the strangest man ever to play Major League Baseball"
- James Kent , first professor of law at Columbia University (1793-98, 1823-26), chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery (1814-23), author of ''Commentaries on American Law''
- Karl Llewellyn , professor at Columbia Law School (1925-51)
¹ ''Studied law at Columbia University prior to the founding of the Law School.''
&2 ''Failed to complete the law degree.''
³ ''Received the LL.D. .''
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