Jerome L. Greene Hall, home of the Arthur W. Diamond Library. September 2004

Columbia Law School is one of the professional schools of Columbia University. It is a preeminent American law school with about 1,500 students in New York, New York. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Law school is the term used in the United States to indicate an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees, mainly teaching using the socratic method. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

Historically, Columbia has stood among the world's top law schools by reputation and selectivity, and for the past decade, it has consistently ranked among Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Chicago according to various publications, including the US News and World Report. In recent years, Columbia has notably had more applicants than any other law school. Among those who have studied law at Columbia are eight United States Supreme Court Justices and two U.S. Presidents, the latter only matched by Yale Law School. Yale Law School is one of the professional schools of Yale University, based in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school of Stanford University located in Stanford, California in the Silicon Valley. ... The University of Chicago Law School is a part of the prestigious University of Chicago. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. ... Yale Law School is one of the professional schools of Yale University, based in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

One of the first law schools in the United States, Columbia Law School was established in 1858. While Columbia is widely known for its well regarded curriculum in transactional law, it also has America’s oldest programs in international and comparative law and human rights law, areas in which Columbia is considered preeminent. The Columbia Law Review is the third most widely distributed and cited Law Review in the country and is one of the four publishers of the Bluebook. 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... History and Background The Columbia Law Review is a leader in legal scholarship in the United States and around the world. ... The Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citation is a book and a widely used legal citation system for the U.S. compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association along with the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. ...

The greatly influential 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. One effect of this influence was an attempt to reorganize the Columbia curriculum in order to acquaint students with the tools of social science analysis; a first-year course on the foundations of the regulatory state was required until 2005. Legal realism is a family of theories about the nature of law, usually associated with the United States (American Legal Realism) and Scandinavia (The Scandinavian Realists). ... Felix Solomon Cohen (1907-1953) Felix Cohen was a lawyer and legal scholar who developed an interest and expertise in law concerning natural resources, statehood and economic development for American territories, Indian affairs, and immigration and minority problems. ... William Orville Douglas ( October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. ...

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 law school’s main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall, was designed by Max Abramovitz, an architect of the United Nations and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which serves 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. Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908–September 12, 2004) was a prominent architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 15 acre (61,000 m²) complex of buildings in New York City which serves as home for 12 arts companies. ...

Among the Law School's best-known faculty members are the legal philosophers Jeremy Waldron and Joseph Raz, "dotCommunist" Eben Moglen, constitutional lawyer Michael Dorf, First Amendment specialist Kent Greenawalt, Nation columnist Patricia J. Williams, tax lawyer David Schizer, criminal law scholar George Fletcher, and former Columbia University president Michael I. Sovern. Joseph Raz explores the idea of the rule of law. ... Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. ... Michael Dorf is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and a noted constitutional law scholar. ... For the township in Ontario see The Nation, Ontario. ... Patricia J. Williams is a law professor. ... David Schizer was named the fourteenth dean of Columbia Law School at Columbia University in 2004. ...

CLS Notables

See also the list of Columbia University people. Introduction This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University. ...

The Supreme Court

• John Jay 1764¹, co-author of the Federalist Papers (1788), first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1789), and governor of New York (1797-1801)
• Samuel Blatchford 1837¹, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1882-1883)
• 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 N. Cardozo 1891², judge on the New York Court of Appeals (1917-32) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1932-37); namesake of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
• 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 Reed², Soliciter 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 SEC (1936-39), and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1939-75)
• Ruth Bader Ginsberg 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)

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Politics

• Alexander Hamilton 1773-76¹, principal author of the Federalist Papers (1788) and Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington (1789-95)
• Perry Belmont 1876, congressman from New York (1880-88) and US Ambassador to Spain (1888-1889)
• Theodore Roosevelt 1880², 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), and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (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 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 1904-1907², 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 1915², 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 Soliciter 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 William Jefferson Clinton
• Gray Davis 1967, California governor (1999-2003)
• George Pataki 1970, New York governor (1994-present)
• Lewis Libby 1975, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (2001-present)
• 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)
• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg 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)
• Karenna Gore Schiff 2000, daughter of former Vice President Albert Gore

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The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ... The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ... Harrison A. Williams, Jr. ... Categories: Stub | United States Senators | 9/11 Commission | 1928 births ... Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Anita Hill Anita F. Hill (born July 30, 1956) is known primarily as the former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom she later accused of sexual harassment. ... Order: 42nd President Term of Office: January 20, 1993–January 20, 2001 Preceded by: George H. W. Bush Succeeded by: George W. 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Business

• 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 1893, 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
• Douglas Black 1918, president of Doubleday (1946-63)
• 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)
• H. F. Lenfest 1958, media proprietor and member of Forbes 400 (1999-2003)
• 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)
• 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)

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Doubleday is one of the largest book publishing companies in the world. ... Sidney Sheldon, born February 11, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American screenwriter and novelist. ... His Holiness Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his death. ... Danielle Steel (b. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: February 6, 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: June 5, 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... Alan N. Cohen (December 19, 1930 in Passaic, New Jersey - August 10, 2004 in Boca Raton, Florida) was the former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets, and chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, owner of the New York Knicks and the New... Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and sometimes simply called The Garden has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... The New Jersey Nets are a National Basketball Association team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. ... The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company, a significant part of the mass media. ... The Forbes 400 is an annual list published by Forbes magazine of the wealthiest 400 people in the United States. ... 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Arts & Academia

• 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 1883-84², writer and satirist associated with so-called "Bangsian fantasy"
• 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)
• 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 (1973-87) and dean (1987-1994) at the University of Michigan Law School, and president of Columbia University (2002-present); defendant in the Supreme Court case Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
• Barry Mills 1979, president of Bowdoin College (2001-present)
• Brad Meltzer 1996, author of legal thrillers

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Athletics

• 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"

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² Failed to complete the law degree.

External links

• http://www.law.columbia.edu/