Columbia University Law School is a professional graduate school of Columbia University, who is also a member of the Ivy League. Schools were established in 1858 is one of the first schools set up two centers and international comparative law.
The Law School also has a major center for the study of international law, including the Chinese Legal Studies Center, Center for Korean Legal Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies Law (the first and only center of its kind in the United States), the Centre for European Legal Studies, as well as the center for Governance company, Climate Change Law, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, fourteen other legal centers, and many legal programs.
Columbia is mainly famous for its strength in corporate law and labor law firm placement in the nation's elite. According to Columbia Law School 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 95% of the workforce in 2013 obtained a full-time, long-term, JD-needed work nine months after graduation. In addition, Columbia is also well known and regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in this country and always ranked in the top five by US News and World Report.
Columbia has produced a large number of alumni important and famous around the world, including two US Presidents (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt), nine US Supreme Court Justices, the majority of the US Cabinet member and advisor to the President; US Senators, Representatives, and Governor; and members of the Forbes 400 more than the other law schools.
The total cost of attendance (demonstrated tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Columbia Law School for the 2014-2015 academic year is $ 85,755. The Law School Transparency estimated cost of which is funded by the presence of debt over three years is $ 313,097.
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Quick facts about Columbia Law School
* In 2006, the School of Law begin an ambitious campaign to increase the number of lecturers to fifty percent without increasing the number of students.
* On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who has been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia since 1999, became Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Sotomayor made and co-teaching a course entitled "The Federal Appeals externship" each semester at the School of Law since the fall of 2000. The Federal Appeals externships externships and many others, including the Federal District externships, which is offered every year at Columbia.
Among other externships, School of Law offers a full externship half of the federal government in Washington, DC, which allows students to get hands-on experience in government law offices. In addition to their placement in federal agencies, students in the program are also required to attend a weekly seminar and write a research paper that is substantive.
The Federal Government has externship three specific components:
1. Field PlacementStudents are required to work a minimum of 30 hours a week to perform substantive legal work in a federal agency. With options that include, among others, some part of the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, theEnvironmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland Security.
2. Seminars
Students perform in-depth analysis of the rules and the role of lawyers in the federal office. Each seminar is taught by a faculty of Columbia Law and lecturer based in Washington. Each seminar is also equipped with guest speakers and have a substantive component of the writing.
3. Research supervised
Students are required to produce research papers with the arrangement that reaches up to 8,000-10,000 words on topics closely related to their externship and field placement. Externs are encouraged to consult with the institution where they work to develop their topic.
* In July 2012, the Law School launched three new centers:
1. Ira M. Millstein Center Global Markets and Corporate Ownership to "study the global financial markets and diverse, interdependent actors they",
2. Constitutional Government to "unify the dynamic list of constitutional scholars who are very involved in the study of governance structures and relationships, including expert separation of powers and federalism issues"
3. Center of International Trade and Investment Law Arbitration to "promote the teaching and study of international arbitration, build expertise in the School of Law is a rapidly growing area of legal practice".
Arthur W. Diamond Library
Arthur W. Diamond Library of Columbia Law School is one of the most complete library in the world and is the second largest academic law library in the United States, with more than 1,000,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 7,450 journals and other serial.
The Columbia Law Review and other student journals
The Columbia Law Review is a legal journal third most widely quoted in the world and is one of the four publishers of the Bluebook. Columbia also issued another thirteen, journal-students who have been edited, including the Columbia Business Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Columbia Journal of European Law, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Journal of Law and Social Problems, Columbia Journal of Race & Law, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia Science and Technology Review, and the American Review of International Arbitration.
Joint degree program
In December 2010, the School of Law announces the addition of accelerated JD / MBA joint degree program, which allows students to earn a degree, both JD and MBA in three years. This accelerated program will not replace the four-year program in the JD / MBA joint degree program. For students who are interested can choose between two programs. A joint degree may prove to be useful for a career destination for law students. And to enable students who are interested in achieving this goal, the Law School may approve a joint degree with one of the following graduate or professional school of Columbia:
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D. in selected program)
• School of Business (MBA) (three-year or four-year program)
• School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (MIA, MPA, and special programs through the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and The Harriman Institute)
• Graduate School of Journalism (MS)
• School of the Arts (MFA)
• School of Public Health (MPH)
• School of Social Work (MSW)
• School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Source: law.columbia.edu/
