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Columbia Law School Today

Today, Columbia Law's faculty is well regarded for its teaching and scholarship in a number of different areas. Several of the faculty are recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". The following list of disciplines enumerates some—but not nearly all—of Columbia Law School's notable scholars:

  • Corporate Law, U.S. Securities Regulation:
    • John C. Coffee, Jr.
    • Harvey Goldschmid
  • Criminal Law and Procedure:
    • Debra Ann Livingston
    • George P. Fletcher
    • Gerard E. Lynch
    • Jed S. Rakoff
  • Intellectual Property:
    • Jane Ginsburg
    • Michael Heller
    • Thomas Merrill
    • Eben Moglen
    • Tim Wu
  • International and Comparative Law:
    • Michael Doyle
    • George Bermann
    • Sarah Cleveland
    • Richard N. Gardner
    • Louis Henkin
    • Benjamin L. Liebman
    • Curtis J. Milhaupt
  • Legal History:
    • Barbara Aronstein Black
    • Eben Moglen
  • Legal Philosophy
    • Joseph Raz
    • William H. Simon
    • R. Kent Greenawalt
    • Charles Sabel
  • Human Rights, Civil Rights Law
    • Elizabeth F. Emens
    • Jack Greenberg
  • Administrative Law:
    • Thomas Merrill
    • Gillian E. Metzger
    • Peter L. Strauss
  • Constitutional Law
    • Philip Bobbitt
    • Lee C. Bollinger
    • Philip Hamburger

Widely cited scholars in other specialties include Jody Kraus, Robert E. Scott (contract law); Lance Liebman (employment law); Michael I. Sovern (labor law); Matthew Waxman (national security law); Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia J. Williams (critical race theory, gender ); Michael A.Heller (real estate law); Henry P. Monaghan (federal courts and civil procedure); and Marvin Chirelstein, Michael Graetz, and David Schizer (tax law). Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor of Economics and Law.

For the year ending December 2009, Columbia Law School’s faculty ranked #2 in the nation for the number of academic papers authored and downloaded on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), according to cumulative statistics, exceeded only by Harvard Law School's faculty. In 2007 (the prior such ranking by SSRN) Columbia Law School's faculty also was the #2 most downloaded law faculty in the United States.

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