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Stewards of Freedom in Every Generation

On May 1, Columbia Law School held a dinner at the American Museum of Natural History celebrating David M. Schizer’s service as dean. These are his remarks from that occasion.

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 10 YEARS have passed so quickly. said that “[l]iberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies We all know that I was pretty young when I began my service as there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, dean. Not long ago, an Israeli friend mentioned that there was a no law, no court can even do much to help it.” Columbia Law School running joke about me there just after I had been appointed: The has put liberty in the hearts and minds of thousands of leaders of the joke was that I had been given the deanship as a Bar Mitzvah bar throughout the world. present. I was sorry he couldn’t be here tonight, since this party This is a timeless mission, since we need these stewards of freedom feels a bit like a Bar Mitzvah to me. in every generation. Edmund Burke famously said that “[s]ociety is And this is the perfect place for it. Two of my children are here a contract between the past, the present, and those yet unborn.” The tonight. They can tell you that my family loves the American same is true of a great law school. Our reputation and influence today Museum of Natural History. We call it the “Whale Museum,” and I depend on the good work of past generations of faculty and students. am grateful to the Whale Museum’s president, Ellen Futter, Class of In the same way, our community’s successes today define the contri- 1974, for hosting us here tonight. I also want to thank Sonja Carter, bution we can make tomorrow. Daria Sidlauskas, Lynn Beller, and the rest of our talented team for Columbia Law School is fortunate, since it has been a great law all their work in arranging this wonderful evening. school for 156 years. Ten years ago, I inherited an institution that One of the things I love in this museum is the statue of Theodore was thriving. I owe a lot to the 13 deans who came before me. I espe- Roosevelt, Class of 1882. Roosevelt once said that “[f]ar and away cially want to thank my immediate predecessor, David Leebron, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work who brought me onto the faculty and has always been a mentor and worth doing . . . .” That’s the way I feel about our work together for the friend. I really appreciate that David is here tonight. Law School. Roosevelt also believed in pursuing lofty goals in prag- Like the deans who came before me, my goal was to pass on an even matic ways. As he put it, “Keep your eyes on the stars but remember stronger institution to the next dean, Gillian Lester. I am very proud of to keep your feet on the ground.” Those words also help to sum up what we’ve achieved in the past 10 years. We’ve hired a record number the past 10 years for me. of faculty (43 so far), including distinguished senior faculty and the Columbia Law School stands for something precious and rare in strongest cohort of young faculty of any law school in the world. We’ve the world: freedom under law. We believe that a wise and just legal added a floor to Jerome Greene Hall to house these new hires. This system makes the world better, translating our highest ideals into expanded faculty has given us the lowest student-faculty ratio in the the flesh and blood of working institutions. Our School is indispens- School’s history, while also enabling us to launch a host of new initia- able to this effort. We advance the state of knowledge about law, and tives to enrich our curriculum. We’ve also significantly strengthened train new generations of stewards for the rule of law. Learned Hand the School’s support for public interest programs. Opposite page: Meredith Wolf Schizer and David M. Schizer. This page, clockwise from top left: On May 1, Dean David M. Schizer was honored at the American Museum of Natural History; Jonathan D. Schiller ’73 read a citation to the dean; Zila Reyes Acosta ’15 and her father, Rolando T. Acosta ’82, pictured at the reception; Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. presented the dean with a bobblehead doll made in his likeness; H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest ’58 addressed the crowd at the event.

To do all of this, we’ve transformed the School’s fundraising, raising finance. In his understated way, Ed works tirelessly to make sure the $353 million in our capital campaign. In seven of the past 10 years, we School runs well. His problem-solving skills add enormous value to raised more than twice what the School used to raise before I became the School. Third, I was very fortunate to have Bruno Santonocito as dean, engaging a host of new donors who had not supported the our head of development for seven of the past 10 years. He brought School before. We’ve achieved all of this during turbulent times, while such creativity and excellent judgment to our work, and rallied our also ensuring that a student who graduated in 2009 had the same colleagues with his warmth and good cheer. professional opportunities as someone who graduated in 1999. Finally, I’ve left the most important person for last: my wife and Many people deserve credit for these successes. Ten years is a long best friend, Meredith Schizer. It’s been an exciting and fulfilling 10 time to be dean. Some of you know that I’m the longest-serving dean years, but it has not always been easy. I’ve relied heavily on Meredith’s since 1971, and the first to be governed by the 10-year term limit advice and unfailing support, and also on her tireless devotion to our enacted by the faculty then. Serving longer means depending on three children. I could never have done what I’ve done in the past 10 more people. I’ve had the privilege of working with 10 Vice Deans, years without Meredith. 10 appointments committee chairs, an outstanding (and growing) By the way, some of you have asked what we are doing to celebrate faculty (which now is 93 people), a dedicated team of nearly 200 when I finish my service as dean. The answer is, “We are going to administrators, an extraordinary group of alumni leaders, and a Disney World.” Can you picture the TV commercial? “You’ve just community of talented deans and administrators at the University. completed your term as dean of Columbia Law School. What are you Many are here tonight, and our School’s successes in the past decade going to do now? . . .” depended on your talent and commitment. I wish it were possible to But as much as I look forward to that, it’s hard to think that anything thank all of you individually, but we would be here all night. Instead, I can top this wonderful evening. Thank you for joining me tonight, and will briefly mention four people. The first is Gerry Lenfest. I am pro- for your support and friendship over the past 10 years. foundly grateful to Gerry for his wise counsel and steadfast friendship. Gerry’s commitment to our Law School is truly inspiring. Second, we all owe a great deal to Ed Moroni, our head of administration and

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24 42 TEN YEARS OF SIGN OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES LEADERSHIP BY AMY SINGER BY ADAM LIPTAK With its innovative 64@50 For the past 10 years, series of programs and Dean David M. Schizer events, Columbia Law has helped Columbia Law School is celebrating the School reach extraordinary 50th anniversary of the heights and worked hard Civil Rights Act of 1964 by to ensure that an even asking us all to examine brighter future lies ahead. how far the nation has A few short months before progressed during the past the end of his tenure, Dean half century, and what can Schizer paused to reflect be done to achieve the civil on his decade of leadership rights goals that remain. in Morningside Heights. 36 THE MIDDLE OUT OF THE SHADOWS GROUND BY ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN BY KRISTINA DELL Columbia Law School’s new Professor Alexandra Immigrants’ Rights Clinic provides Carter ’03 is training students with the opportunity to Columbia Law School represent clients who have been students to become detained by the U.S. government masters of mediation. and have nowhere else to turn. The Her program focuses on clinic is part of an expanded focus on the fine art of assessing immigration law training that has helped complex legal disputes the Law School become a national and working to solve leader in a legal field that grows more previously intractable important with each passing day. problems through open, productive dialogue. 32 16 departments

5 16 20 21 22 NEWS & EVENTS SEE ALSO SETTING THE BAR FACULTY FOCUS PROFILES IN Christopher Burke, Global Justices, Immigrants’ Rights, SCHOLARSHIP Gloria Golmohammadi, George A. Bermann Elora Mukherjee Robert A. Ferguson Lizzie Gomez, and Sarah H. Cleveland Gexu “George” Zhang

50 60 ALUMNI PROFILES CLASS NOTES 52 THE EQUALIZER 78 BY KELLY CARROLL IN MEMORIAM For U.W. Clemon ’68, working as a young 80 civil rights lawyer QUESTIONS in the Deep South PRESENTED resulted in a lifetime of Michael I. Sovern ’55 lessons he has drawn upon throughout a distinguished career of service. 58 FINANCIAL REGULATION BY KATHRYN JUDGE 54 THE MEMORY KEEPER BY AMY FELDMAN More than five years As general counsel after the recent U.S. of the World Jewish financial crisis, there is Congress, Menachem still much to learn about Rosensaft ’79 works to what exactly went fight anti-Semitism wrong and how best and to ensure that to ensure that history Holocaust victims will does not repeat itself. never be forgotten. 56 AT ISSUE ESSAYS THE CHANGE AGENT BY SETH STEVENSON 56 AN IMPROBABLE LIFE Public interest attorney and BY MICHAEL I. SOVERN former Legal Aid Society In an excerpt from his General Counsel Susan recently published Lindenauer ’64 has devoted memoir, Professor her career to helping those Michael I. Sovern ’55 most in need. recalls an especially memorable series of correspondences he engaged in as a young Columbia Law School student. 50 Cover photographed by Patrick Harbron

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GILLIAN LESTER Lester Named Law School’s

PROFESSOR ROBERT E. SCOTT Next Dean Scott to Head BERKELEY LAW PROFESSOR GILLIAN LESTER WILL BECOME DEAN OF COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL IN JANUARY. American Law and Columbia University President Lee C. a visiting professor at Harvard Law Bollinger ’71 recently announced the School, the Georgetown University Economics appointment of Gillian Lester as the Law Center, and the Interdisciplin- Association next dean of Columbia Law School. ary Center Herzliya, Israel. Lester Lester, an expert on employment law was co-director of Berkeley Law’s and policy, and the acting dean of the Center for Health, Economic and Robert E. Scott, the University of California, Berkeley, Family Security, as well as an asso- Alfred McCormack School of Law, will officially begin her ciate dean for the J.D. program and Professor of Law and tenure on January 1, 2015. curricular planning. incoming interim dean, has been “I believe this is a great appointment In addition to these academic named president for the School, and promises over roles, Lester is a co-author of of the American the coming decade to help Columbia one of the leading employment Law and Economics Law School flourish at a time of law casebooks, Employment Law Association. Scott assumed his new both challenge and opportunity Cases and Materials. She is also role at the group’s in the field of legal education,” an adviser to the American Law annual meeting in said Bollinger when announcing Institute Restatement of Employment May of 2014. He is the appointment. Law. Lester, who holds a J.S.D. a founding member of the association, Lester will be the 15th dean of from Stanford Law School and which is dedicated to the Law School, succeeding David an LL.B. from the University of advancing economic M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Toronto Faculty of Law, focuses understanding of Moses Professor of Law; Harvey R. her scholarship on issues such as law, public policy, and regulation. Scott Miller Professor of Law and Eco- workplace intellectual property will begin his term nomics. Going forward, Schizer, and social insurance programs. as interim dean at whose 10-year term as dean ends on “I’m honored to take on the Columbia Law School on July 1 and will serve June 30, will continue to serve as a leadership of Columbia Law School David M. Schizer celebrates until Gillian Lester member of the Law School faculty. at this pivotal time,” she said after takes over as dean on Lester began her teaching career the announcement. “I’m looking January 1, 2015. • in 1994 at UCLA School of Law. forward to working with its distin- 10 She joined the Berkeley Law fac- guished faculty, talented students, YEARS AS DEAN ulty in 2006 and has also served as and accomplished alumni.” •

“Two trends are currently emerging in the Chinese legal system. One is serious discussion about the need for deeper reform. The other is a tightening of political control and a crackdown on activist lawyers and academics seeking to use law to protect individual rights.” —Professor Benjamin L. Liebman

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New Faculty Members to Join the Law School HARCOURT, KESSLER, AND KNUCKEY ADD TO A ROBUST AND EXPANDING FACULTY ROSTER.

Distinguished scholar Bernard E. Punishment and the Myth of Natural Harcourt, legal historian Jeremy K. Order, and he is currently editing Kessler, and international human a collection of French philosopher rights expert Sarah Knuckey recently Michel Foucault’s lectures. accepted faculty appointments from Knuckey will become a faculty Columbia Law School. Harcourt, co-director of the Human Rights who currently serves as the Stephen Institute this summer and join and Barbara Friedman Visiting Mukherjee in clinical teaching at Professor of Law, and Knuckey the Law School. Knuckey will serve will officially join the faculty on as director of the Human Rights PROFESSOR EDWARD R. MORRISON July 1. Kessler will clerk for Judge Clinic and as the Lieff Cabraser Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Associate Clinical Professor of Law. Ed Morrison Appeals for the 2nd Circuit during She arrives at Columbia Law School Returns to the 2014–2015 term, and will join from New York University School Columbia the faculty in July of 2015. With the of Law, where she served as director addition of Professors Ed Morrison of the Center for Human Rights and Elora Mukherjee, a total of five and Global Justice’s Initiative on legal scholars have accepted full-time Human Rights Fact-Finding. Bankruptcy law expert Edward R. Morrison will faculty appointments at the Law Kessler specializes in First Amend- return to the Columbia School this past year. ment law, administrative law, and Law School faculty this Harcourt previously served as the constitutional law. He previously July after spending Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and served as the David Berg Foundation two years at the University of Chicago Political Science at the University Scholar at the Tikvah Center for Law Law School. A former of Chicago Law School. He focuses & Jewish Civilization at New York co-director of the his scholarship on social and political University School of Law. He also Richard Paul Richman 43 theory, the sociology of punishment, writes about law and history for a Center for Business, NEW FACULTY Law, and Public Policy, ADDED and penal law and procedure. Har- broad range of publications, includ- Morrison serves as an 2004–2014 court is the author of several books, ing The Los Angeles Review of Books editor of the Journal including The Illusion of Free Markets: and The New Republic. • of Legal Studies and as a director of the American Law and Economics Association. His current research TORREY NAMED LEGAL COUNSEL OF THE focuses on the causes and consequences of UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT both consumer and corporate insolvency. • Columbia Law School graduate Ethan V. Torrey ’99 began serving as legal counsel of the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. In that role, Torrey provides assistance to all of the justices on a wide range of issues related to cases that come before the Court, as well as legal support for the Court as an institution. Torrey previously served as a partner focusing on complex business litigation at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston. He is a former Massachusetts special assistant district attorney. •

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JONATHAN D. SCHILLER Schiller to Chair Board of Trustees JONATHAN D. SCHILLER, A DISTINGUISHED LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE, HAS SERVED ON THE BOARD SINCE 2009. SCHRAG Columbia University recently announced that Jonathan D. HONORED AT Schiller ’73 will become chair of the University’s Board of BRADWELL Trustees. Schiller, a co-founder and managing partner of Boies, DINNER Schiller & Flexner, graduated from both Columbia College and Columbia Law School. Human rights advocate “Jonathan Schiller is deeply dedicated to Columbia and brings Minna Schrag ’75 received the Myra both great personal insight about the institution and admired PROFESSOR VICTOR P. GOLDBERG Bradwell Distinguished professional experience to this important new role,” said University Alumna Award from President Lee C. Bollinger ’71 when making the announcement. the Columbia Law Goldberg Throughout the course of a 40-year career, Schiller, who Women’s Association specializes in complex litigation and international arbitration, has at the organization’s Elected to represented U.S. and international corporations in high-profile annual dinner this American Law complex commercial disputes. During the past several years, he spring. Schrag, a former senior trial Institute has won key victories for companies such as Goldman Sachs, attorney at the Barclays, and Bank of New York Mellon. International Criminal “Jonathan is an extraordinarily talented lawyer, and he’s also Tribunal for the former deeply loyal to Columbia,” said Dean David M. Schizer. Yugoslavia, was Columbia Law School As an undergraduate student, Schiller was a member of recognized for her Professor Victor P. the Columbia men’s basketball team that won an Ivy League trailblazing legal career, Goldberg was elected Championship in 1968. He was later inducted into the Columbia which included stints to the American Law as a federal prosecutor University Athletic Hall of Fame. In 2006, Columbia College Institute (ALI) this and as a partner at spring. The ALI, which honored Schiller with its John Jay Award for distinguished Proskauer Rose. Schrag was founded in 1923, professional achievement. Six years later, he received the College’s currently serves as a works to clarify, simplify, highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Medal. Schiller has served board member for the and modernize law as a trustee of the University since 2009, and he is also a member International Center through scholarship. of the Columbia Law School Dean’s Council. for Transitional Goldberg, the Jerome Justice, a human “I’m honored to take on this responsibility at an institution that L. Greene Professor of rights organization Transactional Law, is has meant so much to me and my family,” said Schiller. “I know she helped to found a renowned expert on that in order to maintain Columbia’s impressive momentum, we in 2001. • law and economics. cannot pause in our collective efforts to help this great University He is also one of the prepare for the future.” developers of Columbia Schiller will succeed former Board of Trustees Chairman William Law School’s popular V. Campbell upon the latter’s retirement from the board. Until Deals course. Goldberg view more writes extensively then, he will serve alongside Campbell as co-chair. See photos from the on issues relating to “The University is extremely fortunate to have a person of Myra Bradwell Dinner. law.columbia.edu/ antitrust, commercial Jonathan’s talent and character to take on this leadership role,” mag/bradwell-14 litigation, regulation, Campbell said. • and contracts. •

“In recent years, the cost of obtaining convictions with death sentences is two- to five-times higher per case than sentencing a killer to life without parole. When you consider just the small group of cases that end in execution, it’s significantly greater.” Professor— Jeffrey A. Fagan

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PROFESSOR SARAH H. CLEVELAND Sarah Cleveland

Nominated for MEL M. IMMERGUT BRIFFAULT CONFIRMED AS HEAD OF Immergut U.N. Committee NYC ETHICS Instructs IF ELECTED, SARAH H. CLEVELAND WILL SERVE A FOUR-YEAR BOARD TERM ON THE UNITED NATION’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE. Students on Professor Richard Deal-Making Columbia Law School Professor Sarah adviser. In 2010, she was appointed Briffault was recently H. Cleveland was recently nominated to serve as the U.S. expert on the confirmed as chair to serve as an independent expert on European Commission on Democracy of New York City’s Conflicts of Interest the United Nations’ Human Rights Through Law, also known as the Venice Mel M. Immergut ’71, Board, an enforcement former chairman of Committee, which monitors imple- Commission, a constitutional advisory agency that oversees Milbank, Tweed, Hadley mentation of the International Cov- body. Cleveland is also a member of the ethical conduct of & McCloy, returned to enant on Civil and Political Rights the Secretary of State’s Advisory Com- the city’s employees. Columbia Law School Briffault, the Joseph P. by state parties. Elections to confirm mittee on International Law. During this past fall to teach a Chamberlain Professor course on transactional new committee members will take the past several years, she has advised of Legislation, is an law. Immergut called place June 24 in New York City. the government of Bahrain on human expert on public on his two decades “The Human Rights Committee is rights issues and worked as an indepen- integrity. He serves of experience leading as the reporter for one of the premier international bodies dent legal expert in U.S. dialogues with Milbank while guiding the American Law students through a responsible for interpreting interna- China, among many other endeavors. Institute’s Principles role-playing exercise tional human rights law and promoting If elected, Cleveland will serve a of Government Ethics involving the merger of state compliance,” said Cleveland, the four-year term, succeeding former project, and as a two fictional law firms. member of the board Louis Henkin Professor of Human Columbia Law School faculty mem- He also invited experts of advisers for the Law from several Fortune and Constitutional Rights and faculty ber Gerald L. Neuman. The position School’s Center for 500 companies and co-director of the Human Rights Insti- was also once held by renowned the Advancement of major firms to share tute. “I have long followed the com- human rights scholar and Columbia Public Integrity, which their professional studies corruption at mittee’s work as a scholar, as a teacher, Law School Professor Louis Henkin. experiences with the municipal level in students. Those visiting and as a human rights lawyer inside “Sarah has all the virtues that jurisdictions around the class included and outside of government. It would are needed for the varied roles of a the world. • William P. Lauder, who be a great privilege to contribute to the Human Rights Committee member,” serves as Estée Lauder chairman, and Dan committee’s work, and I look forward said Neuman. “She has wide knowl- DiPietro, chairman of to discussing my qualifications with edge and broad experience in the the law firm group at states in the period before the election.” field, dedication to the promotion 7:1 Citi Private Bank. • STUDENT- From 2009 to 2011, Cleveland of human rights, superb legal skills, FACULTY served as the counselor on international and practical understanding of how RATIO law to the U.S. State Department’s legal governments work.” •

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Pistor Creates Global Finance Network THE NEW NETWORK FOCUSES ON THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAW AND FINANCE. STANLEY LUBMAN Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor recently established the LAW SCHOOL Global Law in Finance Network, an international group of academics and REMEMBERS Lubman doctoral students interested in analyzing the paradoxical relationship between PROFESSOR JAMES KENT Named law and finance. Participants in the network, which is also known as GLawFiN, Distinguished work to critique and debate Pistor’s “Legal Theory of Finance”—which states Columbia Law School that government action during a fiscal crisis can limit economic damage—in an recently celebrated Columbian in attempt to help prevent future economic disasters. the 220th anniversary Teaching “The financial system has been transformed in the last 30 years, yet no one has of James Kent’s appointment as the political will to restructure it, unlike what was done in the 1930s,” said Pistor, Columbia College’s the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law and director of the Law School’s Center on first professor of Stanley Lubman ’58, Global Legal Transformation. “If we don’t do that, we at least have to change the law. Kent taught a renowned Chinese regulation system. . . . and that hasn’t been done either.” Roman law and logic legal studies at the College, and Pistor, who received a Max Planck Research Award in 2012 for her work scholar, received his lectures were the Columbia Law analyzing the regulation of international financial markets, is using the published in the book School Association’s award’s prize money to help support the network, which is also sponsored by Commentaries on Distinguished the Institute for New Economic Thinking. She also brought together a team American Law in 1826. Columbian in Teaching Kent, who went on to of academics and practitioners—including John Armour, a UniCredit Visiting Award this past winter. serve as chief justice Lubman serves as a Professor of European Legal Studies at Columbia Law School, and Jeffrey N. of the New York State distinguished lecturer Gordon, the Law School’s Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law—to serve Supreme Court and in residence (retired) as chancellor of New on the GLawFiN advisory board. at the University of York, returned to teach Prior to GLawFiN’s first official meeting in January, Pistor co-taught an inten- California, Berkeley, at Columbia after School of Law and as sive four-day class on law and finance at the Columbia Global Center in Paris.• retiring from the bar. • a senior fellow at the school’s Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. He has specialized in Chinese JUSTICE KAGAN VISITS LAW SCHOOL legal studies for more than 40 years, and has U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Judge Carlos F. Lucero of taught at Columbia the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Judge Raymond J. Lohier Law School, as well as Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit presided over the 2014 at several other top Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition this spring at Columbia Law law schools. Dean School. The judges heard arguments from Beatrice C. Franklin ’14, Benjamin David M. Schizer and A. Cornfeld ’14, Phillip Cushing ’15, and Dinah M. Manning ’14. Franklin was Professor Benjamin awarded the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for the best oral presentation. • L. Liebman honored Lubman during a view more Browse full coverage of the competition. reception at the Law law.columbia.edu/mag/moot-14 School in January. •

“[The U.S. Supreme Court case ABC Inc. v. Aereo] asks a central question relevant to cloud computing—just who is accountable when you act through the cloud? Depending on how it turns out, Aereo will be remembered for decades, or forgotten by the fall semester.” —Professor Tim Wu

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Law School Hosts Arbitration Day

Practitioners and scholars from around the world visited Jerome Greene Hall PROFESSOR THEODORE M. SHAW this past March to partake in the fifth annual Columbia Arbitration Day. The Shaw Honored daylong event, which was hosted by at SJI Dinner the Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), focused on the interplay between national courts, arbitral tribunals, and legal regimes. Professor Theodore M. The conference featured four panels, PROFESSOR GEORGE A. BERMANN Shaw ’79 received the each concerned with a different aspect Distinguished Public of arbitration. Participants discussed and considered issues relating Interest Graduate of the to jurisdictional overlaps; the role of interim relief and emergency Year Award from Social arbitrators; standards of review; and the utilization of investment Justice Initiatives at the organization’s 2014 treaties to compel or reverse the enforcement of commercial Honors Celebration. awards. Rocio Digon, counsel at the International Chamber of The award is presented Commerce in New York City, moderated the day’s first panel, while each year to a Law Robert H. Smit ’86, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and an School graduate adjunct professor at the Law School, led the second. Sarah Grimmer, who demonstrates senior legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The an exceptional commitment to Hague, and Julian Arato, an associate-in-law at the Law School, each social justice. Shaw, a moderated one of the afternoon discussions. longtime civil rights Since 2010, CIAA has annually hosted Arbitration Day, attorney, worked for the LAW SCHOOL bringing the world’s preeminent arbitration experts to Jerome NAACP Legal Defense RAISED Greene Hall. George A. Bermann ’75 LL.M., Columbia Law and Educational Fund School’s Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Walter Gellhorn for 23 years, including Professor of Law, serves as director of the CIAA. The student four years as director- $353 co-chairs for this year’s event were James Cheng ’15, Camilla counsel. He was also million instrumental in drafting Gambarini ’14 LL.M., Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta ’14 LL.M., 2004-2014 the admissions policy and Laura Yvonne Zielinski ’14 LL.M. • that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision. • LAW SCHOOL BRINGS TOGETHER ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS IN BEIJING

go beyond Earlier this year, Columbia Law School hosted a daylong interdisciplinary forum at Peking University Law Explore an School in Beijing to foster discussion relating to large-scale shale gas development. Dean David M. Schizer interactive timeline of formally opened the conference, which included a range of energy and environmental experts from civil rights milestones. Columbia University, including Columbia Law School Professors Michael B. Gerrard and Edward Lloyd. law.columbia.edu/ mag/sji-timeline Forum participants focused on the barriers to Chinese shale development, the economic impacts of the North American shale revolution, and lessons from the U.S. shale gas experience. •

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JEH C. JOHNSON

NOVAK DJOKOVIC Johnson Named Djokovic Gives Students Homeland Advantage

Security Secretary Six-time Grand Slam GARDNER, champion Novak THE FORMER GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE THIS PAST WINTER. KENNEDY Djokovic discussed TAPPED the business and legal aspects of professional Jeh C. Johnson ’82 was recently Prior to joining the Department FOR KEY DIPLOMATIC tennis with members named head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Johnson ROLES of the Law School of Homeland Security. In this role, he served as general counsel of the U.S. community this spring. Djokovic, a Davis Cup leads the country’s national security Department of Defense, where he Anthony Luzzatto winner and Olympic efforts, including protection against oversaw more than 10,000 military Gardner ’90 and medalist, spoke at foreign and domestic terrorism, and civilian lawyers. From 2009 to Caroline Kennedy ’88 Jerome Greene Hall, were recently chosen cyberattacks, and border threats. 2012, he developed the legal facets of where he was joined by President Barack by longtime friend “I am honored to assume the U.S. counterterrorism policy, and, in Obama to serve as and former tennis rival important responsibilities of this 2010, he co-authored a report that is U.S. ambassadors. Mario Anci´c ’13 LL.M., office,” Johnson said during his widely credited with paving the way Gardner, the former ’15 J.D. and legendary director for European swearing-in ceremony. “The men for the repeal of the U.S. military’s tennis coach Nick affairs at the U.S. Bollettieri. Columbia and women of the Department of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. National Security Law School Professor Homeland Security deserve strong Prior to joining the Defense Council and an Mark Barenberg, leadership, and I look forward to Department, Johnson was a investment finance co-director of the Law specialist, was named supporting them every day as we partner and litigator at Paul, Weiss, School’s Program on U.S. ambassador to Labor Law and Policy, work together to make our com- Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the European Union. and a former collegiate munities and our nation safer, more New York City. He also previously Kennedy, who spent tennis player, led the secure, and more resilient.” served as an assistant U.S. Attorney the past several discussion, which years working in Since assuming his post, Johnson for the Southern District of New focused on an array of the nonprofit and sports law topics. • has worked on initiatives related to York and as general counsel of the philanthropic sectors, U.S. border security and emergency Department of the Air Force. was sworn in as ambassador to Japan preparedness and response. He In 2012, Columbia Law School this past November. recently traveled to Poland to attend awarded Johnson the Medal for She is the first woman view more the G6 ministerial meeting, and has Excellence, the Law School’s highest to serve in that role. • See photos from met with state and local officials to honor. He received the Lawrence A. Djokovic’s visit. law.columbia.edu/ ensure continued coordination of Wien Prize for Social Responsibility mag/djokovic homeland security efforts. in 2009. •

“In McCutcheon v. FEC, the Supreme Court invalidated the aggregate contribution limits that were part of federal campaign finance law for the past 40 years. [The decision] confirms and deepens the Roberts Court’s profound hostility to most campaign finance regulation.”Professor — Richard Briffault

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ROBERTA A. KAPLAN

GERRARD DISCUSSES COAL ASH Kaplan Named Robeson LEAK ON RACHEL Conference MADDOW Top Litigator Focuses on SHOW THE AMERICAN LAWYER RECOGNIZED KAPLAN’S WORK ON THE Legal SUPREME COURT CASE THAT STRUCK DOWN PARTS OF DOMA. Professor Michael Activism B. Gerrard visited MSNBC’s The Rachel Roberta A. Kaplan ’91, a partner same-sex partners in states where the Maddow Show to at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton marriages are legal. The ruling is one discuss the recent & Garrison in New York City, was of the most significant victories in the criminal investigation Columbia Law School’s recently named “Litigator of the history of the gay rights movement. Black Law Students into a coal ash leak Year” by The American Lawyer. In addition to this work, Kaplan Association hosted the in North Carolina. 2014 Paul Robeson Gerrard, the Andrew Kaplan was recognized for her suc- also litigates cases involving credit Conference this spring Sabin Professor of cessful representation of Edith rating opinions, structured finance Professional Practice at Jerome Greene Windsor in the U.S. Supreme Court transactions, and mortgage-backed Hall. The conference, and director of the which is held to Law School’s Center case United States v. Windsor, which securities. She has represented commemorate the for Climate Change struck down key components of the companies such as Fitch Ratings, Law, talked with life and advocacy of Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Airbnb, and JPMorgan Chase in Maddow about the Paul Robeson ’23, the federal government’s ban on complex, high-profile matters. explored the role unusual and quick of legal activism in steps taken by the marriage for same-sex couples. Kaplan serves on the board of creating transformative federal government Kaplan sued the federal government directors of the Gay Men’s Health policy. Discussion to investigate the matter—including the on behalf of Windsor in 2010, after Crisis and was a member of panelists included Windsor received a large estate New York Chief Judge Jonathan Angela Fernandez ’98, subpoena of the executive director of state government— tax bill from the government upon Lippman’s Task Force on Commer- the Northern Manhattan as well as the the death of her same-sex spouse. cial Litigation in the 21st Century. Coalition for Immigrant effectiveness of lawsuits brought by Kaplan argued that spouses in She is also a lecturer-in-law at Rights, and Jessica government-recognized marriages Columbia Law School, where she Attie, an attorney the Environmental with the New York Protection Agency. • would not be subject to the same co-teaches the course Advanced State Attorney tax, and, more broadly, that DOMA Civil Procedure: Scholarly and General’s Civil Rights was unconstitutional. Judicial Perspectives. Bureau. Professor The Supreme Court ruled in Wind- In 2011, Columbia Law Women’s Olatunde Johnson view more provided the closing Watch a video of sor’s favor, striking down the section Association named Kaplan its remarks at the event. • Professor Gerrard on of DOMA that defined marriage as distinguished alumna of the year. The Rachel Maddow Show. a union between one man and one This May, she served as the keynote law.columbia.edu/ woman. It also allowed for the federal speaker at Columbia Law School’s mag/gerrard-maddow recognition of marriages between graduation ceremony. •

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PROFESSOR BRETT DIGNAM AMATO NAMED TO ITALIAN Clinic Defends HIGH COURT Former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato ’63 M.C.L. was Wrongfully JOE LIEBERMAN recently appointed as a justice of the Constitutional Court Joe Lieberman Imprisoned Man of Italy. Amato served Co-Teaches as the country’s prime minister from 1992 to National Students in Columbia Law School’s Mass Incarceration Clinic recently gained a 1993, and again from favorable ruling for Scott T. Lewis, who was convicted of a double murder in 1995 2000 to 2001. He Security Law but has maintained his innocence. Under the guidance of ProfessorBrett Dignam, was also a member of Italy’s parliament for Course a team of eight students working on behalf of Lewis presented testimony and 18 years, and served as examined witnesses during a two-week federal hearing. As a result of their efforts, both the minister for Judge Charles S. Haight of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New the treasury and as the York determined that Lewis had been denied his constitutional right to a fair trial. minster of the interior. Former U.S. Senator From 2012 to 2013, Joe Lieberman recently When Lewis was convicted, he was sentenced to 120 years in prison. For 14 Amato was president joined Columbia Law years, he represented himself in post-conviction proceedings in an effort to prove of the Sant’Anna School Professor he was framed. Dignam began assisting Lewis in 2009, arguing that his rights School of Advanced Matthew C. Waxman in teaching a course on were violated through the suppression of exculpatory evidence. That work led to Studies of Pisa. • congressional power Haight’s most recent ruling, which mandated Lewis be freed within 60 days unless and national security the state of Connecticut decided to retry him. Lewis has since been released from Columbia law. The course, prison pending the state’s appeal of that decision. Law School Congress in American Foreign and Defense In recent years, more than 40 students in the Mass Incarceration Clinic have #1 Policy, covered topics worked on the case and, through the experience, have learned the principles of ranging from the IN JOB recent crisis in Ukraine client-centered lawyering. “Achieving an order that vindicated their client’s consti- PLACEMENT tutional rights was the finest form of victory,” Dignam said.• to decisions about military force in Iraq, as well as economic sanctions, foreign aid, and counterterrorism. Lieberman, the GENTY HONORED AT COLUMBIA former chairman UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Professor Philip M. Genty received a Presidential Award for Outstanding Governmental Affairs Teaching during Columbia University’s 2014 Commencement exercises. Committee, offered Genty, the Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor in students an insider’s Professional Responsibility and director of the Law School’s Prisoners and perspective on how Families Clinic, was one of just five University professors to receive the the executive and award. This past summer, he also participated in a White House conference legislative branches of dealing with the topic of parental incarceration. The event was hosted by the U.S. government the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation. • handle these issues. •

“New York City is now among the nation’s leaders in preparing for sea level rise and other impacts of climate change. After Superstorm Sandy, the City Council passed, and Mayor Bloomberg signed, a remarkable 31 laws to enhance preparations for, and recovery from, major storms.” —Professor Michael B. Gerrard

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NYC Mayor CAREER SERVICES LAUNCHES Selects Alumni to NEW PROGRAM Columbia Law Serve as Advisers School’s Office of GLAZER, GLEN, AND WILEY WERE ALL APPOINTED TO KEY Career Services ADVISORY ROLES BY NEW MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO. and Professional Development recently Columbia Law School graduates Elizabeth Glazer ’86, Alicia K. PROFESSOR THOMAS W. MERRILL established its Partners in Residence program, Glen ’93, and Maya Wiley ’89 earned prominent appointments in New Merrill Wins which connects York City government earlier this year, joining first-term New York City third-year students with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration as high-ranking advisers. Property retired and practicing Glazer, a former chief adviser on criminal justice to New York Rights Prize Law School graduates Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, was named head of de Blasio’s who can provide Office of Criminal Justice, which oversees New York City’s criminal career guidance. Students meet with justice policy. Glazer serves as the mayor’s chief representative these experienced to courts, district attorneys, and criminal justice agencies. She The William & Mary law firm partners for is also the mayor’s senior criminal justice policy adviser. Glazer Property Rights Project one-on-one discussions has previously served as special counsel to the New York State recently awarded focused on career attorney general. the Brigham-Kanner strategies, professional Mayor de Blasio appointed Glen deputy mayor for housing and Property Rights Prize to life, and other related Columbia Law School issues. Each academic economic development. In that role, she leads the administration’s Professor Thomas W. year, three to five efforts to invest in emerging industries, re-target unsuccessful Merrill, the Charles individuals will be corporate subsidies, and expand affordable housing opportunities Evans Hughes Professor invited to serve as within the city. Glen previously served as head of Goldman of Law. Lynda Butler, partners in residence. Sachs’ Urban Investment Group. From 1998 to 2002, she was the a professor of law at This year, Stephen assistant commissioner for housing finance within New York City’s William & Mary Law , Buchman ’62 LL.B. Department of Housing Preservation and Development. School and director of Michael H. Diamond the project, noted that ’69, Eric H. Joss ’76, Wiley was named counsel to the mayor and advises de Blasio Merrill was honored Rob Williams ’83, and on legal matters related to the executive staff, City Hall, policy, and for his academic work Lorraine McGowen ’86 administrative issues. She also spearheads special projects, such in the field and for hold these positions. • as efforts to invest in New York City’s technology infrastructure. inspiring others “to Wiley has spent her career as a civil rights and social justice think about property’s relationship to the advocate. She is the founder and former president of the Center human condition, and for Social Inclusion, a New York City–based nonprofit organization its importance to our web that identifies and supports policy strategies that aim to combat social, economic, and exclusive social inequity and exclusion. Wiley spent 12 years leading political systems.” • Get involved with the the organization before stepping down to join the de Blasio Partners in Residence program. administration. This spring, Columbia Law School’s Black Law law.columbia.edu/ Students Association named Wiley its 2014 Paul Robeson Gala mag/pir distinguished alumni honoree. •

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Graduates Begin Clerkships at the Supreme Court THE RECENT GRADUATES WILL SERVE AS U.S. SUPREME COURT CLERKS BEGINNING IN THE OCTOBER TERM OF 2014.

Three Columbia Law School graduates much better understanding of how a will soon begin prestigious clerkships record gets developed.” Law School at the U.S. Supreme Court. Jennifer Musico also boasts clerking Honors Four B. Sokoler ’10, a legal fellow at the experience at the circuit and district Distinguished Center for Reproductive Rights in court levels. He clerked for Judge Graduates New York City, will serve as a law Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of clerk to Supreme Court Associate Appeals for the 1st Circuit and for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mark Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the Musico ’11, an associate at Susman U.S. District Court for the District New York State Court Godfrey, will clerk for Associate of Massachusetts. Musico won the of Appeals Associate Justice Sheila Abdus- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59, John Ordronaux Prize for highest Salaam ’77 and and James W. Crooks ’13 will spend academic average when he gradu- Rolando T. Acosta ’82, a the term as a clerk for Associate ated from the Law School in 2011. judge for the New York State Supreme Court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Crooks, who most recently Appellate Division, Sokoler previously served as a clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of First Department, clerk for Judge Robert A. Katzmann the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, each received the of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, was the recipient of Columbia Law Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social as well as Judge Denise L. Cote ’75 School’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Responsibility this of the U.S. District Court for the Prize, which is awarded annually to past autumn. Three Southern District of New York. “I J.D. degree candidates who earned months later, Ira M. feel very fortunate to be clerking James Kent academic honors for all Millstein ’49 and Edgar G. Rios ’77 again after having had a few years three years of law school. He also 22 NEW RESEARCH received the Medal of practicing law,” she says. “What served as the articles editor of the CENTERS ADDED for Excellence during I’ll take from the experience will be Columbia Law Review during his 2004-2014 the 2014 Winter different now that I feel like I have a time in Morningside Heights. • Luncheon. Millstein is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, specializing in government regulation PILF AUCTION RAISES MONEY TO SUPPORT and antitrust law. Rios is the co-founder and STUDENTS PURSUING PUBLIC INTEREST WORK managing partner of SHD Oil & Gas, and Columbia Law School’s Public Interest Law Foundation hosted the 22nd annual Bid for Justice co-founder of the Los Auction this spring at Columbia University’s Roone Arledge Auditorium. Professor Robert J. Padres Foundation, Jackson Jr. and Dean of Students Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin ’99 served as auctioneers for the an organization event. Items up for bid included several weekend getaways, a private chamber music concert dedicated to performed by Professor Susan P. Sturm, and a martini-making class with Professor Philip C. helping economically Bobbitt. The auction raised approximately $65,000, which will help fund guaranteed stipends disadvantaged for students working in public interest summer jobs. • Latino youths. •

“A new law in Mississippi gives anyone in the state a license to discriminate—on any ground—so long as the discrimination is ‘substantially motivated by one’s sincerely held religious belief.’ [Laws such as this] seem to reflect a determined effort to take us off the path toward equality.” Professor— Suzanne B. Goldberg

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 15 SeeColumbia Law School students excel outside the classroomAlso: BY KELLY CARROLL AND JOY Y. WANG Christopher Burke CLEARING THE WAY

After earning a bachelor’s degree from George Wash- ington University in 2008, Christopher Burke ’14 stayed in D.C. to work at a nonprofit organization dedicated to education policy. While he was passionate about the organization’s goals, Burke often found himself frus- trated by the number of roadblocks that seemed to be impeding progress. “When you’re doing nonprofit work, a lot of the time you’re not able to do the things you want to do, because you’re dependent on other people funding it,” Burke explains. “I think there is a lot of value in recognizing the ways in which people can create important social changes from different angles.” Burke enrolled at the Law School to gain the training needed to become a lawyer at a large firm, while also maintaining a public interest focus. He spent much of his time working on immigration issues, serving as a represen- tative for the Law School’s chapter of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, which organizes legal services for Iraqi refugees, and as presi- dent of the Society for Immi- grant and Refugee Rights. Later this year, Burke will join Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he will hone his litigation skills and take on as many pro bono cases as he can. “Sometimes people mak- ing a lot of difference work in business and use their resources and training to contribute to the greater good,” he says.

16 16 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 2012 PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID YELLEN Gloria Golmohammadi FROM THE BENCH

Before arriving at Columbia Law School in 2013, Gloria Golmohammadi ’14 LL.M. spent six months as an associate judge for the Administrative Court of Stockholm. While serving on that bench, she ruled on the involuntary institutional- ization of mentally ill defen- dants, calmly explained to parents why they were being denied custody of their children, and issued more than 150 rulings on a wide variety of cases that included everything from immigration matters to appeals by financial firms. “There are some cases that are more difficult to adjudicate from an emotional perspective, and some that are more difficult from a legal perspective,” she explains. “As a young judge, I really had to reflect about that balance between being empathetic and also being credible.” Golmohammadi, who previously worked as a legal attaché for the Swedish Mis- sion to the United Nations, spent two years serving as a law clerk at the administrative court and gained a reputa- tion for offering unexpected, creative perspectives on complex legal issues. “There was a huge, complicated tax case, and I set up the argument as a three-course meal, with an appetizer, main dish, and dessert,” she says. Her mentor at the court appreci- ated the fresh approach and encouraged Golmohammadi to apply for the associate judge training program. On a leave of absence from the court to obtain her LL.M., she worked with the Center for Public Research and Leadership to study public sector reform efforts in education. Golmohammadi also analyzed how normative values define human rights issues. “The year at Columbia gave me a platform to take what I’ve learned and explore the issues that interest me in more of an international framework,” she says.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 17 Lizzie Gomez BUILDING COMMUNITY

As a summer associate in the Buenos Aires office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton this past year, Lizzie Gomez ’14 immersed herself in a world of cross-border transactions, capital markets, and joint ventures. But one of the most valuable lessons she took away from her experi- ence in the six-lawyer workplace was how much she could learn in a tight-knit, hands-on environment. “[The summer associ- ates] were really integrated into the smaller office,” explains Gomez, who was born in Peru and raised in Los Angeles. “There was no hesitation in giving us feedback from the start.” Gomez applied a similar managerial philosophy to her role as executive editor for the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, where she oversaw the jour- nal’s publication process. This past academic year, Gomez helped implement a new management approach, which she refers to as “com- munity groups.” Each staff member was appointed to a team and tasked with pro- moting the journal through one of several avenues—such as fundraising, social media, or web development. The new system offers students more opportunities to par- ticipate in the online-only publication, while simulta- neously helping to raise the profile of the journal. “The work we did at the journal was not just about publishing articles—it was about building your own little network and mentoring students,” she says. Later this year, Gomez will return to Cleary as a corporate law associate in New York City, though she would like to spend time in one of the firm’s Latin American offices. “Every deal that Cleary works on is so different and has an interesting twist in it,” she says. “There’s always a new aspect to it. I think that’s incredibly fun.”

1818 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 2014 Gexu “George” Zhang ON THE ROAD

As Student Senate president, Gexu “George” Zhang ’14 was always on the go. When he was not in class or presid- ing over meetings at the Law School, he regularly raced down Morningside Drive on his 10-year-old LeMond road bike, bound for Central Park. “I enjoy biking in New York City because it allows me to go really fast,” he says, adding that he often logged more than 30 miles while zooming around the park. “Everyone else is a little slower because they’re run- ning or biking more casually.” Zhang, who intends to pursue a career in corporate law, confesses to a competi- tive streak. When asked what sparked his interest in that field, he answers without hesi- tation: “I like the fast pace.” This past year, Zhang served as a summer associ- ate in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s New York City and Singapore offices, where he provided support on complex aircraft finance deals and other business law matters. He particularly enjoyed interacting with clients and colleagues, and points to that element of legal practice as one reason why he decided to pursue a career in law after studying physics and economics at Cornell. At the Law School, Zhang applied his networking and organizational skills to his work with the Student Sen- ate. He served as treasurer before becoming president of the group this past year, and he cites the organiza- tion’s fall blood drive as one of the events he enjoyed working on the most. “Columbia University as a whole is ninth or 10th ranked in the city by annual amount of blood contributions,” Zhang says, with a smile that hints at his competitive nature. “I really want to see us move up in the rankings.”

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 19 setting the bar COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL INNOVATIONS

Global Justices professors george a. bermann ’75 ll.m. and sarah h. cleveland recently joined five supreme court justices for a pathbreaking judicial journey

BY AMY FELDMAN

WHEN SEVERAL CURRENT and retired Supreme Court justices Alito, Jr., and Sandra Day O’Connor, who left the Court in 2006—flew made the transatlantic voyage from the U.S. to Luxembourg a few to Europe to join the discussions. European Court of Justice President months ago in order to convene with judges from the European Vassilios Skouris, the court’s vice president, Koen Lenaerts, and U.S. Court of Justice, a select group of hand-picked scholars were on-site to Ambassador to Luxembourg Robert Mandell helped organize and greet the distinguished jurists. Among those selected to help facili- host the four-day event, which was attended by more than two dozen tate discussions between members of both the U.S. and European European judges and advocates general. Union’s highest courts were Columbia Law School Professors During the conference, participants examined the similarities and George A. Bermann ’75 LL.M. and Sarah H. Cleveland, as well as differences between the two judicial bodies, bearing in mind how Adjunct Professor Harold Hongju Koh. increased globalization has created the need for a better understanding The professors served as part of an elite six-person academic team of other countries’ legal systems. “This was an exercise in pure compara- chosen to help frame dialogue occurring under the auspices of the newly tive law in action and in context,” says Bermann, who currently serves created Luxembourg as president of the International Academy of Comparative Law and as Forum, a first-of-its-kind co-director of Columbia Law School’s European Legal Studies Center. conference that aims to Discussion centered on how U.S. courts approach conflicts between increase communication the states and the federal government, versus how European courts and mutual understand- address issues between the EU and its member states. The judges ing between members of exchanged their views on procedural issues, including standards of the two courts. Bermann, review and docket management. the Law School’s Jean The conference also offered an opportunity for the American jurists Monnet professor of EU and academics to sit in on a case being argued before the European Law and Walter Gellhorn Court of Justice. Prior to oral arguments, forum participants received a Professor of Law, served detailed briefing on the case, which involved the licensing of lawyers by as head of the forum’s member states, and its implications for EU law. Afterward, members academic group. of the Court of Justice answered questions from the guests. “Both courts oversee With the inaugural Luxembourg Forum concluded, Cleveland spoke systems of divided legal enthusiastically about the prospects for future meetings. She says mem- authority,” says Cleve- bers of the forum hope to convene more regularly—perhaps every few land, the Law School’s years—for ongoing discussions that could benefit all involved. Louis Henkin Professor “It’s important for each of the courts to have a basic understanding of Human and Constitu- of the function, operation, and jurisprudence of the other court,” tional Rights. “The basic idea was to explore the ways in which the two Cleveland says. “The world is sufficiently integrated now that the U.S. courts confront similar challenges, the ways in which they apply similar Supreme Court can hear issues that at least tangentially involve matters or different solutions, and what they can learn from each other.” of EU law, and the U.S. Supreme Court has always prided itself on The February meeting in Luxembourg—which is home to the being a court that other countries and other courts cite.” 28-member European Court of Justice—served as the group’s first full, official session. Five Supreme Court justices—Chief Justice John G. AMY FELDMAN has written for The New York Times, Money, and Time, Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. among other publications.

20 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM MCCAULEY faculty focus IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

Providing Hope as the head of a new immigrants’ rights clinic, elora mukherjee connects students with clients who have nowhere else to turn

BY ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN

IN 1970, Elora Mukherjee’s father arrived in among other things, paper and pencils were New York City from India on an engineering banned from individual cells after a 9-year-old scholarship with $7 in his pocket. After her Canadian boy who was born to Iranian parents mother joined him six years later, the two created a heartbreaking and colorful drawing of them traced a familiar pattern—working that was taken out of the facility. (The drawing’s multiple jobs and long hours in the hopes of first line, written in bright orange marker, providing their daughters with the opportuni- stated, “I don’t like to stay in this jail.”) In 2007, ties they never had. During her childhood trips Mukherjee and her ACLU colleagues negotiated back to Patna, the capital of the Indian state of a far-reaching settlement, which improved con- Bihar, Mukherjee began to understand what it ditions at the facility and shortened the length of meant for her to grow up in America. time that families were detained. All 26 children “Patna has just unbelievable poverty,” says represented by the ACLU team were released. Mukherjee, who will oversee a new immigrants’ Before joining Columbia Law School as a clini- rights clinic at Columbia Law School beginning cal teaching fellow in May of 2013, Mukherjee also this fall. “Growing up and seeing the very stark worked as an ACLU staff attorney on impact litiga- contrast between how people lived in Patna and tion involving everything from racial profiling in how I lived in the U.S. made me realize at a young age that the world Texas to ballot access issues in Nebraska to debtors’ prisons cases in is unfair, and I should do what I could, as I got older, to make even a Michigan, as well as on several cases challenging state laws restricting small difference in people’s lives.” immigrants’ rights. During the past year, she has co-taught, with Pro- In her teaching at the Law School, Mukherjee draws not only from fessor Brett Dignam, the Law School’s Mass Incarceration Clinic. her years of experience working on immigration and criminal justice At the helm of the new immigrants’ rights clinic, Mukherjee will issues with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she guide students in representing individual clients at two detention served as a staff attorney, but also on her personal history. “My clients centers in New Jersey and oversee advocacy work on immigration have been pursuing the same dream that my parents had when they policy issues. She will also advise students participating in a new came to America,” she says. “And that is the opportunity to create a better Law School partnership with Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit life for themselves, for their families, and especially for their children.” organization that provides legal representation to unaccompa- After graduating from law school in 2005, Mukherjee clerked for nied minors in immigration proceedings. Judge Jan E. DuBois of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then “These are two wonderful new opportunities for students at moved on to the ACLU as a Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow in the organi- Columbia who are interested in immigrants’ rights work and public ser- zation’s Racial Justice Program. In that role, she litigated her first cases vice,” Mukherjee says. “It’s a very exciting time to be here at Columbia.” involving immigrant children: those detained at T. Don Hutto, a former prison near Austin, Texas, that is now a detention center for immigrant ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN has written for The Atlantic, The New York families. She investigated the grim conditions at the facility, where, Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

MUKHERJEE WILL GUIDE STUDENTS IN REPRESENTING CLIENTS AT DETENTION CENTERS AND OVERSEE WORK ON IMMIGRATION POLICY.

ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL AUSTIN LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 21 profiles in scholarship ROBERT A. FERGUSON

Towering Inferno professor robert a. ferguson has crafted a magnum opus that uses literature and philosophy as lenses for examining criminal punishment in america

BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Professor Robert of degradation in the American prison system, A. Ferguson was struck by a realization while and he argues for conditions of serving time teaching his perennially popular course on the that meet the essential requirement of human art of legal persuasion. During a practicum in punishment: that “the life of the recipient of which students recommended punishments for punishment must continue to be worth living.” hypothetical criminal defendants, he noticed the As with so much of Ferguson’s scholarship, gulf that often separated students’ strong emotions Inferno relies on a masterfully tailored fusion of about punishment from their intellectual grasp of legal, philosophical, and literary sources. “Litera- the human and social costs of that punishment. ture is better at explaining the psychology of the What’s more, believed Ferguson, this gulf was at punished than the law is,” says Ferguson, the the root of a dysfunctional national system. George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Diminishing that disconnect and dysfunction Literature, and Criticism. “So each chapter of became a focal point for Ferguson’s research dur- Inferno deals with a piece of literature, from ing the years that followed, and his thinking on the Bible to contemporary fiction.” the topic ultimately coalesced into the form of Ferguson believes there are practical benefits to an acclaimed new book, Inferno: An Anatomy of the study of literature for young lawyers and, more American Punishment (Harvard University Press: 2014). The work generally, anyone who plans to argue cases before judges and juries. “The argues that although the urges toward cruel punishment are rooted in same devices are used in both legal and literary texts: point of view, nar- human nature, it is both possible and morally imperative to stop them rative,” he says. “They’re just used in the law in a more subtle way.” from finding reflection in our penal codes and mores.The Atlantic Though Inferno is not the first time Ferguson has deployed his described the book as “potentially transformative” in a recent review. humanities expertise to better understand the role of law in American “I see the law as a humanistic enterprise,” says Ferguson, whose life, it does represent the first time he has so pointedly aimed the result interdisciplinary approach to legal history helped pioneer the at nonacademic readers. “I wanted this book to bridge the distance now-thriving law and literature movement. “But while law schools between legal experts and a general, literate audience,” he says. teach people how to punish, they don’t do much with the punished. FERGUSON ADVOCATES FOR REDUCING THE AMOUNT Every theory of punishment, even the most liberal, has an inclination OF DEGRADATION IN THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM. to make punishment more intense, especially if it isn’t working. We’ve moved from torturing the body as It does not hurt that the work takes its name from a poet who much as possible, to torturing the soul, essentially. It’s a radical shift.” has achieved considerable success with everyday readers over the In Inferno, Ferguson uses seven chapters to examine a central ques- centuries: Dante Alighieri. It is the second book of Dante’s famous tion: Are our punishment regimes the way they are because we want trilogy that Ferguson says offers a kind of guiding spirit for prison them to be that way, or because of contingencies that have produced a reform in our own time. “In Purgatory, Dante has people helping perfect storm of punishment? “Most good projects begin with a burning each other,” he says. “Dante recognizes his fellow humanity with question,” says Ferguson. “That was my question.” The answer is, as people who are suffering. Something like that has to happen again.” one would imagine, complicated. But the solutions Ferguson offers in the book are straightforward. He advocates for reducing the amount ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK has written for Wired and Details.

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2004–2014

10YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP As he prepares to wrap up a highly successful 10-year term as dean of Columbia Law School, David M. Schizer joins graduates and faculty members in examining how the Law School confronted the unprecedented challenges of the past decade and how it has emerged on the other side—bright future intact and stronger than ever

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24 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 During his 10 years as Columbia Law School’s dean, David M. Schizer has broken fundraising records, significantly reduced the student-faculty ratio, and assembled one of the strongest junior faculties of any law school in the nation.

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T IS A FRIDAY afternoon on the first full Columbia Law School. He day of spring, and Dean David M. Schizer should be exhausted. It has been a long week and a hard winter, and his momentous 10-year term increased the size of the is winding down. Instead, he is exhilarated. “I just presented a paper today on the influence of tax on cor- faculty from 74 to 93, and Iporate governance,” he says brightly, settling into his corner office overlooking the Columbia campus. “It’s been a while since I’ve writ- decreased the student-faculty ten about that, since my writing lately has focused on other issues, like energy and tax expenditures.” ratio, while also overseeing Dean Schizer is characteristically focused on the future, on the challenges and satisfactions that will come from his return to the creation of 20 new full-time teaching and scholarship. But he does not seem tired or stale. “It was a very satisfying, interesting, and appealing thing professorships and 22 new to do,” he says of being dean. “We have a 10-year term limit. My joke about that is that I’ve been fired by the 1971 Columbia Law faculty research centers, School faculty.” During the course of an hour-long conversation, Dean including those focused on Schizer reflects on his extraordinary run. He was tested by challenges he could not have anticipated when he became, at national security law, the age of 35, the youngest dean in the Law School’s history. It started with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depres - transactional studies, Israeli sion, which all but wrecked the economy. On top of that, the crisis created distinctive challenges for the legal profession and law, and climate change law. the legal academy. In the face of those savage headwinds, he achieved exceptional successes, measured by both hard num - bers and by the estimation of faculty members and alumni. Dean Schizer was an indefatigable fundraiser, working to bring in more than $350 million in the most successful fundraising cam- “His 10 years as our dean were outstanding in every respect,” says paign in the history of Columbia Law School. That money helped Jonathan D. Schiller ’73, a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner and increase the size of the faculty, from 74 to 93, and to drive down the co-chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees. the student-faculty ratio to 7-to-1, or approximately 40 percent Dean Schizer’s skills turned out to be ideally suited to his lower than when he arrived. The gifts led to the creation of 20 times, adds Thomas W. Merrill, the Charles Evans Hughes new professorships and 22 new faculty research centers, includ- Professor of Law. “David is emblematic of a new generation of ing those focused on national security law, transactional studies, deans,” he says. “He is much more the manager of a complex Israeli law, and climate change law. He has also forged a new part- institution rather than just a distinguished scholar. He’s a great nership with Columbia Busi- problem solver.” ness School that included the While the problems he was faced with during his tenure were Three-Year J.D./M.B.A. Pro- large, so were Dean Schizer’s solutions. “Few people are given the gram. Throughout his tenure, opportunity to reshape an institution,” says Geoffrey J. Colvin ’77, a go beyond Dean Schizer kept a keen eye partner at CEW Partners, an investment firm. “Even fewer have Explore an interactive timeline detailing on students’ needs, notably by the skills and leadership to successfully accomplish that task. Dean Schizer’s accomplishments. ensuring through relentless David has done that. He has transformed the Law School and law.columbia.edu/mag/ effort that they found employ- enabled it to regain its preeminent position in American and schizer-timeline ment at very high rates. international legal education.”

26 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 allowed to use the client’s computers for a half-hour of pretend trading. “Nobody lost a lot of money,” Raskolnikov says. “A few people made a little. And David made an enormous amount of money.” That capacity to intuitively understand and navigate through complex situations served Dean Schizer well at the Law School, where he often offered fresh and ultimately successful solutions to new challenges. But that sort of problem solving, several gradu- ates said, was just one aspect of a leader who was both exceptionally competent and deeply principled. Max W. Berger ’71, a partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, says that Dean Schizer has been businesslike in his approach to leading the Law School, but he has also been savvy and engaged. “It’s a political job, and it has to be,” Berger says. “This is one school in a very large and very rich university that has its own level of intrigue.” He recalled with admiration Dean Schizer’s criticism of a 2007 speaking invitation from the School of International and Public Affairs to then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Dean Schizer issued a statement con- demning the move. “Mr. Ahmadinejad is a rep- rehensible and dangerous figure who presides over a repressive regime, is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holo- caust, and calls for the destruction of Israel,” he said at the time. “It would be deeply regrettable if some misread this invitation as lending pres- tige or legitimacy to his views.” That, Berger says, “showed a fair amount of independence.”

ACROSS AMSTERDAM AVENUE, students Dean David M. Schizer quickly developed a reputation as an exceptionally competent and are enjoying the fine weather and preparing deeply principled problem solver. for the weekend. I point to them and ask Dean Schizer whether there is time in his famously And he did so in a tumultuous time, says Anne E. Cohen ’85, crowded schedule for relaxation and reflection. a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. “David turned out to be the “How do I spend my time?” he says, rephrasing my question. “My right dean for the challenges of the financial crisis, which could not joke is that I spend half raising money, half hiring faculty, and half have been imagined when he took the job,” she adds. “In addition on everything else.” to the fundraising challenges, which he more than met, David was I ask him to think back to 2004. Were the challenges he antici- personally tireless in helping students get jobs in what remains a pated then the ones that materialized over the next decade? tougher market than that of 2004.” “I was right about the most important one and certainly wrong Alex Raskolnikov, the Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law, about other things,” he replies. The most important task, he says, joined the faculty that year, taking over Dean Schizer’s tax class. was improving the school’s financial situation. According to Raskolnikov, the young dean quickly adapted to his Thomas Merrill agrees. “He had to devote enormous energy in new role. “It was not an easy place to start,” Raskolnikov says. rebuilding the fundraising,” he says. “Of course, the faculty is sort “He was very young. He had no management experience. But of oblivious to this.” he’s very smart.” Dean Schizer ticks off some numbers. “When I started, our Like Dean Schizer, Raskolnikov joined the Law School from endowment was $300 million,” he says. “Now, it’s more than Davis Polk & Wardwell. Lawyers there, he recalled, occasionally $600 million.” Before he became dean in 2004, the school was visited big clients to learn more about their businesses. On one raising $16 million or $17 million a year in new cash and pledges. such visit, Raskolnikov says, Schizer and other lawyers were He has at least doubled that number in seven of his 10 years as

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 27 dean, and, in one year, he tripled it. When he became dean in Judging by the results, it seemed to work. “I may have something 2004, the school had launched a fundraising campaign with a of an idiot savant’s talent for this,” he says, smiling. goal of $200 million, a significant increase over the $150 million Dean Schizer’s results would have been exceptional in ordinary campaign the school had recently completed. But Dean Schizer times. But the times were especially difficult during the past 10 raised the goal to $300 million, and when the campaign ended in years, Merrill says. “It was a series of great challenges, starting 2013, the school had raised more than $353 million. with the financial crisis,” he explains. “The financial crisis was That number was the product of relentless activity and wide then followed, after a lag, by the bottom falling out of the legal job outreach. Of the 121 campaign gifts of $500,000 or more, 92 came market. And once prospective students and their parents realized from donors who had, until then, given modestly or not at all. that the bottom had fallen out of the job market, the applications “Professional fundraisers think it’s a lot to have 70 individ - to law schools collapsed.” ual meetings a year,” Dean Schizer says. “I’ve done 200 or more Dean Schizer did not foresee the downturn in legal hiring, and he development meetings a year. I just made it a real priority to seemed to take it personally. It appeared to him to be an assault on mold my schedule so that, when the development people need the implicit bargain offered by a legal education at Columbia Law me, I am available.” School, and he fought back. “Boy,” he says, “I never expected to have

DEAN SCHIZER AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL Building on a legacy that stretches back to 1858, Dean David M. Schizer has spent the past decade strengthening and expanding Columbia Law School’s reputation as a leading institution of legal education. As the 14th dean of Columbia Law School, he began his tenure by reshaping the first year curriculum. Since then, Dean Schizer has focused on five core elements that enhance Columbia Law School’s strengths and ensure its future. Those core areas of focus are: admissions, faculty additions, fundraising, interdisciplinary learning opportunities, and international perspectives.

July 2004: David M. Schizer becomes 2003: Professor Schizer the 14th dean of Columbia Law School. founds Columbia Law He is the youngest dean in the history School’s Transactional July 1, 1998: of the Law School. He begins his Studies Program, which tenure by restructuring the first-year David M. Schizer later becomes the Charles curriculum. The change is celebrated in joins the Law Evans Gerber Transac- the Columbia Law Revue performance 1998 School faculty. tional Studies Center. “Suddenly Schizer.”

2000–2002: Professor Schizer serves 2004–2014: The Columbia Law School as chair of the Law School’s clerkships faculty includes 74 full-time professors Summer 2005: committee. In the summer of 2002, in 2004. During the following 10 years, Dean Schizer travels he becomes a member of the Law Dean Schizer hires an additional to Beijing, Hong Kong, School’s appointments committee and 43 legal scholars and increases the co-chair for entry-level candidates. By number of full-time faculty members to Taipei, and Tokyo 2014, Columbia Law School will host 93. The number of students decreases with faculty members one of the strongest junior faculties of during this time, dramatically lowering to promote Columbia any law school in the nation. the student-faculty ratio. Law School’s presence in Asia. He will return to Asia about half a dozen times in the next nine years.

28 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 to spend any time, let alone as much time as I ended up spending, on job placement.” The worst period, he adds, was the summer of 2010. In a typical summer, nine out of 10 students would secure second-summer jobs at law firms. That year, the number had dropped to seven of 10. “I started calling graduates who are gen- eral counsels,” he says, explaining how he pressed them to hire Columbia Law School students and graduates. “Our job placement numbers for that year ended up about where they’ve always been. It just took a lot of effort, including from me personally. Hap- pily, I haven’t had to do that so much since.”

DEAN SCHIZER’S SUCCESSES in student placement and fundraising meant that Columbia Law School has not had to face the wrenching choices confronting much Faced with challenges in legal hiring after the recent financial crisis, Dean David M. Schizer of the rest of the legal academy. But eco- worked tirelessly to ensure that graduates had the same opportunities as past generations. nomic realities did require him to bring fiscal discipline to the school’s budget. Invitations to visiting Dean Schizer says. He also added a ninth floor to Jerome Greene professors grew more selective and support positions were cut. Hall to house these new recruits. “We eliminated 31 non-faculty jobs,” he says. “We had 200 And he resisted calls to make law school two years long. “My people [beforehand, losing] 16 through attrition and 15 through view is that the J.D. program at Columbia should be three years,” layoffs. It was definitely the hardest thing I’ve had to do.” he wrote in this magazine last year, “as long as we use the second But he continued to invest in the school’s faculty, which was and third years the right way.” The Law School’s upper-year cur - already studded with stars. “We’ve hired, I think we’re up to 43 riculum is rich, rigorous, and fulfilling, he wrote, with courses people on my watch, and the net growth is about half of that,” that build professional, interdisciplinary, and international

2008: Columbia Law School celebrates 150 years with a dinner at the U.S. Supreme Court and a Sesquicentennial Gala. Both are hosted by Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 and Dean Schizer. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. presides over the Law School’s moot court final competition. September 2005: In Additional celebrations also include a global response to Hurricane reunion in London and alumni events Katrina, the Law School throughout Asia. opens its doors to February 2007: students from Tulane. Dean Schizer Six third-year students drafts a letter are accepted to asking Congress Columbia Law School, Fall 2006: to authorize a and their tuition is Columbia Law substantial increase waived. The Law School 2006: The dean School launches in compensation for also welcomes Tulane spearheads the the federal judiciary. Law School Professor creation of the the nation’s first One hundred thirty Jonathan Nash as a Center for Israeli Sexuality and law school deans visiting scholar. Legal Studies. Gender Law Clinic. sign the letter.

2005–2006: The Law School raises 2006–2007: The Law January 2007: The 2008: Dean Schizer significantly a record $36.3 million in new cash School recruits the Guaranteed Public enhances Columbia Law School’s and pledges, doubling previously best-credentialed J.D. Service Summer Loan Repayment Assistance Program established fundraising levels. In the class in its history. By Funding Program by doubling the income threshold, two following years, the amount 2008, more than half is established accelerating loan forgiveness, and raised increases to $37.5 million and of the entering J.D. to reinforce the increasing benefits to working parents. $37.9 million, respectively. class has scored in the Law School’s 99th percentile on the public interest commitment. LSAT exam, with a median score of 172.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 29 not happened at Columbia for 25 years. He focused especially on assembling a cohort of younger scholars as a way to build for the future. “David made hiring at the entry level a pri- ority right from the start of his deanship, and it has paid off,” says Professor Jamal Greene, who joined the faculty in 2008. “Columbia has the best group of junior and recently tenured scholars of any law school in the country.” Anne Cohen adds that Dean Schizer’s ini- tiatives partly reflected his understanding of students’ needs, his willingness to draw on the school’s network of accomplished practitio- ners in the nation’s financial capital, and his dedication to forging a sense of community. “David inherited and added to programs and changes in the physical plant,” she says, With Columbia Law School now in a stronger position than ever, Dean David M. Schizer “which have made Columbia not only a great will return to full-time teaching and scholarship starting this fall. law school, but also an excellent place to learn, with a true sense of community.” skills. Allowing students to sample those offerings widely, and Justice Kathryn E. Zenoff ’71, a state appeals court judge then deeply, he added, ensures “that our students are better pre - in Illinois, says Dean Schizer has successfully managed to pared for the wide range of opportunities awaiting them when include Law School graduates, many of them scattered around they leave us.” the country and the world, in the school’s community. “Dean Alumni were impressed by Dean Schizer’s commitment to Schizer has shown an extraordinary ability to relate in a very building the faculty and to energizing students. personal way to those alums working with the Law School,” she “He has attracted scholars to Columbia Law School from says. “Whatever one’s level of involvement, Dean Schizer has peer institutions and revitalized the faculty and the curricu - made it his business to know who we are, and thus, when we are lum offerings,” Geoffrey Colvin says. For example, he hired in touch with him, to communicate on a very personal level, as four faculty away from Yale Law School, something that had if we had been seeing him every day.”

2010: Dean Schizer establishes the Three-Year J.D./M.B.A. Program at the Law School, giving students the oppor- tunity to earn degrees from both the Law School and the Business School a year earlier than usually possible.

2009–2010: Columbia Law School begins to set records for the number of applications received: December 2011: Dean Schizer Fall 2008: The Law School 8,505 for the J.D. class of 2012 announces the creation of a completes construction on an and 1,675 for the LL.M. class of new faculty exchange program additional floor in Jerome Greene between Columbia Law School Hall, creating 38 new faculty 2010. The following academic and Peking University Law offices, as well as conference and year, applications for the J.D. School. The partnership is seminar rooms. program increase to 9,012. expanded in 2013.

January 2009: Columbia Law School March 2010: 2010: Columbia Law School launches April 2010: India endows a chair launches the Center for Climate Change The Law School the Externship on the Federal devoted to Indian constitutional law Law. The center works closely with announces a Government in Washington, D.C., and the Jagdish Bhagwati Fellowship, the scientists at Columbia University’s partnership with the and the Roger Hertog Program on Earth Institute, with the Law School’s University of Oxford Law and National Security. both at Columbia Law School. Environmental Law Clinic, and with to educate students governmental, nongovernmental, and in law and finance. academic organizations.

30 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 admitting slightly fewer stu- dents helped. Indeed, the student-faculty ratio dropped view more sharply during the Schizer years, Watch a video in which Dean from approximately 13:1 to 7:1. Schizer and six other deans discuss the Law School’s legacy. Dean Schizer seemed That was part of a more law.columbia.edu/mag/ general focus on student deans-video to take the downturn in life, according to Colvin. “By reducing the student-teacher ratios and improving the physi- legal hiring personally. cal plant, he has improved the quality of life for students,” he says. “He has strengthened the career center, with the result It appeared to him to be that the school has among the highest job-placement records among its peers.” an assault on the implicit Zenoff notes that Dean Schizer has been attentive to the needs of students with diverse aspirations. “Especially meaningful to me bargain offered by a has been his work in increasing the financial support by the Law School for students and graduates working in government and Columbia legal education, public interest jobs,” she says. “This allows not just a small cadre of students to enter the public interest field, but a wider range of and he fought back. talented people in the Law School to consider that career path.” The approach has collateral benefits, Zenoff adds. “It has also made Columbia Law School even more attractive to prospective students who already have an interest in this area of the law,” she says. “We as a society all benefit, as the problems in our world are Like all law schools dealing with the realities of the contempo- ever more complex. We need the best-trained lawyers and legal rary era, Columbia Law School must manage a slackening demand minds to address them.” for legal education. “We had an unbelievable spike in application Dean Schizer is just 45. I ask him about his plans. numbers up through the class that just graduated,” Dean Schizer “Will I do another academic administration job?” he asks. “Very says. “Then we had three years of double-digit declines. possibly. Will it be right away? Ideally, no. Time is on my side there.” “There’s a way in which we were lucky,” he adds. Since 2004, the dean had been working on reducing the student-faculty ratio, and ADAM LIPTAK is the Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times.

2013–2014: The student-faculty ratio of 7:1 becomes the 2013: The number of students lowest in the Law clerking has increased by more than School’s history. It 2011–2013: During Dean Schizer’s tenure, a total of 50 percent since 2010 and remains 22 new centers are launched, including the Richard at record levels. Columbia Law School is approximately 40 Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public is ranked number one by Forbes percent lower than it Policy, and the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global for graduate earnings potential and was in 2004. During Markets and Corporate Ownership. In August first by the Princeton Review for the past 10 years, 2013, he announces the launch of the Center for the best career prospects. In 2014, The Dean Schizer has Advancement of Public Integrity, which represents a National Law Journal describes the partnership between the Law School and New York Law School as the “gold standard” for hired an additional City’s Department of Investigation. law associate placement. 43 faculty members. 2014

2011–2012: The Law School sets a new 2012: From the class of 2012, 98 October 2013: The Law School partners June 2014: fundraising record: $51.3 million in percent of graduates secure full-time with the University of Fortaleza in Justice Ginsburg new cash and new pledges during its jobs or are pursuing full-time graduate Brazil to launch the Edson Queiroz hosts a dinner 2011–2012 fiscal year. This is 35 percent degrees within nine months of gradu- Foundation Mediation Program, which at the U.S. more than the prior fundraising record, ation. Among those, 93 percent are in works to expand the teaching and Supreme Court and triple the level of support the Law jobs that require a J.D., compared to practice of mediation in the United in Washington, School received prior to 2004. (In 56 percent nationally. States and Brazil. D.C., for seven of the past 10 years, the Law Columbia Law School’s level of philanthropic support School’s alumni has been at least double what it was leadership. before David Schizer became dean.)

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 31 OF OUT THE SHADOWS With a new immigrants’ rights clinic and an innovative partnership to assist children facing deportation from the U.S., Columbia Law School

has set the standard for immigration law training

he last major landmark a visitor from New York City sees along the New Jersey Turnpike on the way to the Elizabeth Detention Center is a massive Ikea, where shoppers can choose from 92 different curtain

options, and Ikea Family Card holders are entitled to free coffee at the store’s Swedish restaurant. Exiting the turnpike, those intent on visiting T the detention facility descend into an industrial landscape of nearly indistinguishable freight depots, warehouses, and FedEx trucks. Windowless and clad in beige brick, the center, a converted warehouse, blends easily into its environs. But a few important traits set it apart from the cargo buildings down the street: the absence of trucks in the parking lot, the security fence surrounding the structure, and, most importantly, the fact that approximately 300 detained immigrants—many of whom are seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing persecution, violence, or worse back in their home countries—are being held within its confines. The vast majority of detainees at the Elizabeth Detention Center, like most of the approximately 400,000 immigrants who cycle annually through the U.S. Immigration

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 33 and Customs Enforcement (ICE) system, face the deportation process by phone multiple times a day, and they schedule late-night calls to go alone because there is no right to counsel in immigration proceedings. over the cases or rehearse potential real-world scenarios. (She recently These immigrants are physically isolated, often speak no English, and coached two students until 11 p.m. on how to interact with a lawyer from need legal assistance that can be especially challenging to provide, even the Department of Homeland Security if they saw him at the deten- when there are lawyers available to help. tion center the following morning.) The practical consequences of these “It is extraordinarily difficult to represent detained asylum-seekers,” efforts could not be more evident. “[It] is high-stakes,” says Mukherjee. says Columbia Law School Associate Clinical Professor of Law Elora “Our clients have been persecuted in their home countries. If we don’t Mukherjee, who launched the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at the Law win, they will be forced to return there. The students really feel how School this past fall. “To name one example of the logistical difficul- important their work is, and they’re deeply invested in doing it right.” ties, we can’t even have legal phone calls with our clients in immigra- tion detention, in stark contrast to the relatively easy availability of legal lora Mukherjee is quick to point out that phone calls for those convicted of crimes and incarcerated in prison.” immigration detention is at a historic, all-time The new clinic aims to provide high-quality legal representation high in the U.S. “Never before has America to immigrants detained at Elizabeth and another New Jersey facility, seen anything like the current 34,000 average Delaney Hall. In its first semester, the clinic has represented seven daily detention mandate,” she says. That num- detainees, including four asylum seekers, and one individual seeking E ber is up from 18,000 just a decade ago. While a U visa, which offers a pathway to legalization for victims of crime. most detainees are in state and county jails, This May, clinic participants won their first asylum case for a detainee nearly 13,000 are held in privately run facilities operated by the at the Elizabeth Detention Center. Students represented the man in two largest ICE contractors, Corrections Corporation of America his trial—handling everything from opening and closing statements to and Geo Group, Inc., according to a 2013 report from the National defending the cross examination. When the client left the facility as a Immigration Forum. The Department of Homeland Security has free man on the path to U.S. citizenship, a Columbia Law School student allocated nearly $2 billion in 2014 for custody operations alone. drove him to a long-awaited reunion with his family in Connecticut. Mukherjee notes that once they are detained, immigrants face an In addition to representing individuals, the clinic also offers students uphill battle against deportation. “The Columbia Law School clinic is opportunities to collaborate with local or national immigrants’ rights providing a vital service to some of the most vulnerable immigrants organizations. They take on projects that involve regulatory or legislative caught in the system,” she says. reform, impact litigation, grassroots advocacy, and strategic planning. This past semester, Mukherjee’s students collectively spent hundreds The clinic is part of an expanded focus on immigrants’ rights issues of hours doing legal work at the New Jersey detention centers—often at the Law School that also includes a partnership with Kids in Need leaving New York City at 6 a.m. in order to meet with their clients before of Defense (KIND), a nonprofit organization providing legal repre- classes, or spending large chunks of their weekends there. Jenna Wrae sentation for minors who have arrived in the U.S. unaccompanied and Long ’15, one of the clinic’s first participants, is training for a career in are facing removal proceedings. In November of this past year, KIND criminal prosecution and applied for the clinic to better understand moved its New York City offices into a room leased by the Law School how the immigration system works. She reasoned that, as someone who on Columbia University’s East Campus. Since that time, 14 law students would one day be responsible for exercising governmental authority, she have been trained to represent these children, some of whom are as should try to understand the experiences of those subject to that power. young as two, as part of an innovative model that places the students at It was in the shadow of that authority, meeting with detained clients at large law firms that have committed pro bono hours to KIND’s mission. both the Elizabeth and Delaney Hall detention centers, where she expe- rienced the moments she will remember most from the clinic. s head of Columbia Law School’s new Immi- grants’ Rights Clinic, Elora Mukherjee oversees students working in groups of two and three. “This work is high-stakes,” The students conduct client interviews, draft legal filings, and appear in court (under says Mukherjee. “The students A Mukherjee’s law license) on behalf of their clients. Mukherjee, who focused on racial jus- really feel how important tice and immigration cases as a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union before arriving at the Law School in 2013, provides their work is, and they’re detailed feedback on their written work and meets with each group at least weekly to discuss the progress of their cases. deeply invested She is also working to develop relationships with a broad range of Columbia University scholars and departments. “We’re trying to in doing it right.” connect our clients with physicians, for example, to get a psychiatric evaluation, by building connections with the medical school,” says Katherine Park ’14, one of the students who participated in the clinic’s inaugural semester. Such connections, Mukherjee notes, can benefit clients, while at the same time ensuring that clinic students become adept at working with professionals in other fields. The day-to-day work being done by clinic participants is hands-on, intense, and consuming: Mukherjee and her students email and speak

34 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 s if working on behalf of detained adults is not difficult enough, representing minors in deportation proceedings adds another layer of complexity and brings its own set of unique chal- lenges, according to Microsoft General Counsel A Brad Smith ’84, a co-founder (along with actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie) of KIND. “Part of being an effective lawyer definitely involves learning someone else’s story and learning how to tell it effectively to a court, and that’s sometimes more challenging when the client is a minor,” says Smith, who recently worked with KIND board member and Columbia Law School Dean of Students Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin ’99 to find Law School office space for the organization. “Their ability to think about their story may not be as well-developed as when they’re an adult, so there’s a certain skill required to help them figure out what it is about their story that’s most compelling.” The new partnership with Columbia Law School enables stu- dents to be matched up with one of KIND’s law firm partners and spend time working on KIND cases in-house, under the supervi- sion of experienced attorneys. Smith notes that representing children, especially when translating the details of a case to a young person unfamiliar with U.S. law, can be particularly helpful in strengthening advocacy and com- munication skills. “If you can take a complicated legal issue and connect with a child, a teenager, or somebody who’s younger, you can connect with anybody,” he says. “Part of being a successful lawyer is taking this wonderful intellectual capability and con- necting it with other people.” Kids in Need of Defense, which was co-founded by Brad Smith ’84 (top), is partnering with the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, led by Professor And the uniquely vulnerable situation of these younger clients, Elora Mukherjee (bottom). Law School students working with the he adds, galvanizes the lawyers and students who work with KIND. nonprofit organization will help represent minors facing deportation. “As a lawyer, you serve other people, and when you have the opportunity to represent a child, it’s actually a very special “You’re speaking with clients during what can be the most ter- relationship,” Smith says. “It’s a lot of pressure, because someone’s rifying experiences of their lives, but you can also offer hope,” she life—their freedom, their ability to stay in the U.S.—may effec - says. “Because of you just visiting them, you just caring, because you tively be, at least in part, in your hands. And I think that’s one agree to take on their case—it helps these individuals understand of the reasons people are so motivated to do such good work that not only is someone in this country going to fight for them, but on these cases.” they feel a little bit less alone.” In the six years since KIND’s founding, its work representing For third-year student Katherine Park, the clinic has been a immigrant children has spread to eight cities. But the organiza- critical step on a path toward practicing immigration law full tion’s growth has been outpaced by the steep rise in the number of time after graduation. As a second-year law student, she pursued unaccompanied minors seeking safety in the U.S. In 2013, nearly externships with The Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit 25,000 children entered U.S. custody, up from 13,625 in 2012. And and The Bronx Defenders, working alongside attorneys who spe- that number could more than double to 60,000 in 2014, according cialized in immigration and criminal defense. During her clinic to predictions from the U.S. government. work, Park learned from Mukherjee’s emphasis on “client-centered Because of the new clinical offering, and the partnership with lawyering,” which challenged her to put aside her own notions of KIND, Mukherjee notes, with evident pride, that Columbia Law what the desired outcome should be, in favor of really listening to School students will have more opportunities than ever to repre- her clients’ needs. sent immigrants of all ages. “There’s always a question of how much the lawyer should guide “This is an important moment for legal education at Columbia decision-making in a lawyer-client relationship,” says Park, who will Law School,” says Mukherjee. “We have committed to train our serve as a fellow for the Immigrant Justice Corps students with real lawyering skills in the con- beginning this fall. “Elora has been so helpful text of high-stakes immigration cases for chil- in [getting us to] think through what it means dren and those who are detained. The need for when, for example, a client says, ‘All I want is to web exclusive legal representation is greater than ever.” be deported,’ and how, even if we think there are Learn more about KIND and avenues for relief, to be supportive of what [our how to get involved. ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN has written for The New client] wants. We’re advocates, but it doesn’t mean law.columbia.edu/mag/kind-vol York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street we’re there to push an agenda on our client.” Journal, among other publications.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 35 36 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 THE MIDDLE GROUND

Students in Professor Alexandra Carter’s mediation program learn to take thoughtful, nuanced approaches when addressing previously intractable disputes. In the process, they become better advocates, more agile problem solvers, and expert communicators.

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 37 ne windy Thursday afternoon in March, nine second- and adds: “You mentioned putting up a partition between the halfway third-year law students take their seats in a horseshoe house and whatever else you use the space for. Could you see any way Oconfiguration around an oblong table. Preeta Reddy ’15 in which the halfway house and a community center could coexist?” and Rami Totari ’15 have settled in at the front of the group. As Appealing to parties’ interests while suggesting ideas that can move the student mediators leading a Columbia Law School mediation a conversation forward is an age-old mediation tactic that Carter clinic role-play exercise in Jerome Greene Hall’s Case Lounge, emphasizes often, and one that Reddy and Totari use repeatedly they serve as neutral parties driving the discussion in the hope of throughout the role-play. Even their physical positioning is strategic. reaching a resolution to a thorny multiparty dilemma. The issue: “We had you all sitting next to an opposing party so it didn’t become whether an empty school building in Northampton, a fictitious one side of the room versus the other,” says Reddy over a plate of and decaying manufacturing town in the Midwest, can be rented Caribbean-style chicken, courtesy of Carter, who ordered in dinner for to a nonprofit corporation that would use it to operate a halfway the group. “We always came back to the basic questions of: ‘Why are house. Parental groups are not happy about the pro- you all here? How does your interest in what you want to posal, but the city needs the money. As Reddy and do with the school affect your interest in the com- Totari lay out the details of the hypothetical, munity? How do you want to move forward?’” Professor Alexandra Carter ’03, the director All the while, Carter, a clinical professor of Columbia Law School’s Edson Queiroz “There are a wide of law and the director of clinical programs Foundation Mediation Program, which range of roles lawyers can at the Law School, was paying close was developed in partnership with occupy over a lifetime—lawyer, attention to whether her students were the Edson Queiroz Foundation and mediator, policy maker, even using critical mediation skills—such Brazil’s University of Fortaleza, sits designer of the actual legal as stroking (confidence building), silently, barely noticeable in the systems. It’s going to take a reflecting (repeating back what back of the classroom, studiously someone said using more visual new, flexible, innovative type of taking notes. terms), and reality testing (asking “We’re concerned about the safety lawyer to address the problems how likely a proposal is to hap- of the neighborhood,” says Russell that arise. That’s the kind of pen, or how likely it will hold up in Mawn ’15, who is representing a local lawyer the mediation clinic court)—as ways to move beyond the PTA group that opposes the halfway seeks to produce.” impasse and get at the heart of what was house. “The city isn’t doing very well, —Professor Alexandra Carter at stake. She stresses that those methods and we’re worried this will help the transcend mediation work because they decline.” Tiffany Woo ’15, who represents help lawyers understand their clients better, the center that would run the halfway house, negotiate more effectively, and maneuver past responds with information showing that the stalemates. Right before the students launched creation of halfway houses in other areas did not tend into the mock mediation exercise, Carter shared to negatively impact crime rates in those communities. this zinger with the group: “At the end of the semester, I will tell you After all the parties air their differences, Reddy and Totari call sepa- how your mediation skills will affect every room you enter.” rate caucuses with the groups opposing the halfway house and the groups who are for it. “Let’s brainstorm,” Totari says to the opposition ater, back in Alexandra Carter’s ninth-floor office in Jerome groups. “Is there any way you can use the extra space from the school Greene Hall, the former Fulbright Scholar provides a sneak that the halfway house doesn’t need to your advantage?” Reddy L preview of what she hinted at in class. “What students don’t often realize is that the skills they learn in the clinic will transform how they operate as lawyers, counselors, leaders in organizations, and as a person in society,” she says. “There are a wide range of roles lawyers can occupy over a lifetime—lawyer, mediator, policy maker, even designer of the actual legal systems—and it’s going to take a new, flexible, innovative type of lawyer to address the problems that arise. That’s the kind of lawyer the mediation clinic seeks to produce.” Carter is speaking from firsthand experience. In 2002, she participated in the mediation clinic as a third-year student, and the following semester she served as a teaching assistant to Professor Carol B. Liebman, who founded the clinic in 1992. “For me,

As director of Columbia Law School’s mediation program, Professor Alexandra Carter ’03 teaches skills relevant to nearly every area of law and life.

38 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 Under Professor Alexandra Carter’s guidance, students in Columbia Law School’s mediation program recently mediation gave me the tools to understand what people were saying had the opportunity to help develop mediation skills to me in a different way,” says Carter. “That could include clients who with the employees of various nonprofit organizations. are communicating their goals, coworkers, family, friends. I learned to respond by moving disputes forward rather than creating an impasse.” That approach gets at one reason why Carter has become so popu- lar among students: She takes the art and practice of mediation and as students support them on calls with judges and participate in the makes the skills underlying it applicable to almost every area of the sit-down mediations, which can take several days. In class, students law—and to life. “She is always trying to keep mediation relevant and talk about the cases they mediated and engage in interactive exer- make it interdisciplinary,” says Clara Wee ’15, who took the mediation cises that help them master important mediation techniques. clinic this past fall and worked as a teaching assistant for Carter during At the beginning of each semester, Carter teaches a 35-hour the spring semester. Jessica Lee ’14 adds that Carter even encourages her mediation training over two weekends, when a handful of New York students to practice mediation techniques in their personal lives. “One City employees interested in honing their mediation skills join stu- of the techniques useful in mediation is making a concerted effort to dents in role-play scenarios. During those sessions, employees of the verbally acknowledge people’s feelings,” says Lee, who also served as a New York Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates and teaching assistant for the clinic. “I’ve found that the skills developed as mediates complaints against police officers, and employees from the a mediator are useful even in my personal relationships.” Center for Court Innovation, a nonprofit organization that functions When they are not rehearsing negotiation strategies with friends as the court system’s research and development arm, learn to ask on the weekend, clinic participants undertake a hefty weekday medi- broader questions and sharpen their communication skills. “The ation schedule. Students mediate civil cases in teams of two, heading community members bring different perspectives,” says Watts. “It to Manhattan or Brooklyn civil court at least once a week. Every helps us have a better understanding of the issues out there that we will other Thursday, a team goes to the Harlem Community Justice Center face.” All involved tend to enjoy those interactions, and according to to mediate cases before they reach court. Lisa Grace Cohen ’93, director of mediation at the The biggest and most complicated mediations New York Civilian Complaint Review Board, Carter’s the class undertakes involve federal agency cases impact on those she trains cannot be overstated. from the Equal Employment Opportunity Com- view more “I have had investigators take her training See additional photos of mission (EEOC) and the Occupational Safety students participating course and go on to become mediators, or move and Health Administration (OSHA). Carter and in Columbia Law School on to law school,” says Cohen. “And [they] say mediation exercises. Shawn Watts ’12, associate director of the mediation law.columbia.edu/mag/mediation they want to pursue alternative dispute resolu- program, take the lead in organizing the legwork tion because of her class.”

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 39 During training sessions, nonprofit professionals work with students During the three years since that initial trip, Carter has traveled to practice mediation techniques, such as confidence building, to Brazil six additional times, in some cases accompanied by other repetition, and reality testing. Columbia Law School professors. “[The exchange] is more than making mediation happen in court,” says Sales. “It impacts society lexandra Carter’s capacity to inspire those she teaches—along when we implement the culture of mediation. You change the way with her enthusiasm and ability to get parties talking—has you do law when you study mediation. A judge who had been prac- Ahelped her expand the clinic’s reach, both at the Law ticing for more than 20 years took Alex’s training and told me he School and to real-world practitioners on the international stage. saw ways he could improve his work.” Three years ago, at the request of the United Nations Institute for In addition to introducing an international focus, the partnership Training and Research, Carter began a first-of-its-kind training with Brazil has helped grow the clinic at home, too. Funding for program for female U.N. delegates. More recently, she was instru- the program allowed Carter to hire Shawn Watts as associate mental in forming a partnership between Columbia Law School and director. Watts grew up in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma the University of Fortaleza in northeast Brazil. This past October, and was president of the National Native American Law Students Brazil’s Edson Queiroz Foundation presented Columbia Law School Association while a student at Columbia Law School. He par - with more than $533,000 in funding to help expand the teaching and ticipated in Carter’s mediation clinic, and, for his final project, practice of mediation and conflict resolution in the two countries. he designed a pilot program to train Law School students in Carter’s connections with mediation efforts in Brazil began peacemaking. Carter liked the ideas behind Watts’ project so when she was contacted by Lilia Sales, vice president for much that, in 2013, the two teamed up and created the Native research and graduate programs at the University of Fortaleza, Peacemaking class, which the faculty approved as a regular, who was working on an in-depth review of how the U.S. han - four-credit course offering with a clinical component. One dles mediation in courts. The two scholars hit it off, began an highlight: a field trip to Oklahoma to be trained in peacemaking email dialogue, and later met a few times in Manhattan. Soon, by members of the Chickasaw Nation. they implemented an exchange between the two universities, Like Watts, other students have embarked on final projects with Brazilian lawyers traveling to New York City to learn from that have expanded the mediation clinic experience. “We just Columbia Law School professors. Eventually Carter headed to had a student develop a project where the residential life coor - Fortaleza to host a series of mediation trainings for lawyers, dinator [at Columbia University] would refer first to the media- judges, public defenders, law school students, and those practicing tion clinic any residential disputes they get,” Watts says. “That’s mediation in the corporate sector. great for us because it means we can pick up more cases and

40 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 prove ourselves to be more of a service to our immediate com - s odd as it may seem in retrospect, Alexandra Carter’s munity, which is the University.” passion for mediation started as a bit of a fluke. She And students looking for guidance on how best to work through Aapplied to the mediation clinic in her third year of law real-life predicaments, like those that arise in an on-campus residen- school on the advice of a classmate who thought she would love it. tial housing community, tend to realize quickly that there is no “The first time I mediated a case as a Columbia student I thought better mediation mentor than Carter. Her passion for the field to myself, ‘This is what I should be doing for the rest of my life,’” is infectious, clients respect her, and, most importantly, she gets Carter says. “I had a very clear moment where I felt as though I results. “I find that people who go before Professor Carter have a had found my calling within the legal profession.” good experience and both sides are happy with the results,” says After law school, Carter clerked for Judge Mark L. Wolf of the Judge Lisa Sirkin, who serves as an administrative law judge for U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts before heading the EEOC, which refers cases to the clinic. Sirkin adds to Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where she worked on a team that two other law schools and an organization defending against a multibillion-dollar securities to which she also assigns mediations tend to class-action lawsuit related to the Enron collapse. not produce as many positive outcomes Even while practicing as a litigator, Carter as Carter’s clinic: “She resolves more Carter was says she found herself returning again and cases than the others.” instrumental in forming again to the tenets of mediation because Both Michael Burros, regional a partnership between of its focus on providing people with supervisory investigator for the U.S. Columbia Law School and the the opportunity to solve problems for Department of Labor, and his boss, University of Fortaleza in northeast themselves. When the mediation Teri Wigger, assistant regional Brazil. In October of 2013, Brazil’s process works as it should, she says, administrator for whistle-blower Edson Queiroz Foundation it is fulfilling for both parties, and protection programs, refer OSHA the satisfaction that goes along with presented Columbia Law School cases to the mediation clinic. Bur- facilitating such agreements is one ros and Wigger noted indepen- with more than $533,000 in funding of the main reasons why Carter left dently that they turn cases over to to help expand the teaching and firm life to teach mediation full time. Carter and her students so she can practice of mediation and “When people stop becoming passive “work her magic.” conflict resolution in the participants in a litigation and transform “Anyone who has been to a mediation two countries. themselves into active problem solvers, with Alex, regardless of whether they there is a change that occurs, even outside leave with the outcome they anticipated, the mediation room,” she says. “It builds a speaks so highly of her, how she comes to sense of community values.” the resolution, and how respectful she is,” When Carter became director of the Law School’s Wigger says, adding that even those cases mediation clinic in 2008, Professor Carol Liebman, the clinic’s founder, that don’t reach a settlement after being assigned to the clinic for was among those most proud. “Alex went up against really senior peo- mediation come back to her in much better shape than before. ple and blew the search committee away with her vision for the clinic,” “Usually the parties have a sharper understanding of the issues, says Liebman, who co-taught the clinic with Carter for two years. “She so it is easier for them to resolve their dispute.” has great energy and poise, and connects fabulously with the students.” Those connections between instructor and student are on display Students in the mediation program work on real-life cases and during each session of the mediation clinic Carter leads. use mediation techniques in order to work through impasses and Back in the classroom, on that chilly Thursday afternoon in achieve mutually acceptable outcomes. March, the role-play exercise about the old school building in the fictional Midwest town ends with the parties on the cusp of reaching an agreement. In providing feedback, second-year student Rami Totari, one of the mock mediators, asks the group how far they think he could have gone in making tough recommendations. “I tried to ask questions that would force the parties to think critically about their positions,” he says, addressing Russell Mawn, who represented the PTA. The group confides that he could have gone even further, and Carter agrees. “You could push even more,” she says, noting that he should try to lace questions with acknowledgements of parties’ concerns so the difficult points become easier to accept. “You just need to make sure you’re subtle about it.”

KRISTINA DELL has written for Time and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

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SIGN TIMESOF THE Fifty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, the Columbia Law School community is marking the legislation’s anniversary by hosting a yearlong, multidimensional series of celebrations and events. With 64@50, Law School faculty members and students are examining how far the nation has progressed on issues of civil rights, while also assessing strategies for addressing the challenges that remain. BY AMY SINGER Illustration by Josh Cochran

43 ven before President Lyndon changes with respect to voting, education, changed the American workplace with its B. Johnson signed the Civil and employment in the United States. last-minute inclusion of the word “sex.” Rights Act on July 2, 1964, Jack Fifty years after its historic signing, the The act provided a powerful legal tool Greenberg ’48 was mapping Civil Rights Act remains “probably the in the struggle for racial and economic out the ways he would use single biggest legislative commitment to justice—a struggle that has resulted in Ethe landmark legislation to help spur promote anti-discrimination, equality, much progress, but one that still faces a change. Within days of its passage, and inclusion,” says Professor Olatunde wide range of challenges. Its details, its Greenberg had already filed his first Johnson, who uses the act as a foundation legacy, and its limitations are discussed lawsuit asserting a violation of the act—a text in her Legislation class. “It ushered in often in Columbia Law School classrooms, case involving the refusal by Lester Mad - a sense of possibility.” and, throughout 2014, a series of Law dox, the owner of Pickrick Restaurant It also led to tangible results. Title School events organized under the title in Atlanta, to serve African-Americans. VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 64@50 offers an opportunity to examine Less than three weeks later, on July 22, which mandated that federal funding the legislation in even greater detail. The a federal court ordered the restaurant to be cut from institutions that discrimi - 64@50 gatherings provide a chance to stop refusing service to customers based nated against individuals, fostered more reflect on the act’s meaning, celebrate its on their race. school integration in one year than had accomplishments, and determine what The Civil Rights Act of 1964, in addi- occurred in the 10 years following Brown advances must still be realized in order tion to barring discrimination based on v. Board of Education. Title VII, which to fully achieve the law’s goals. race, color, religion, or national origin at created the Equal Employment Opportu- “We’re not just going to remember this public accommodations such as restau- nity Commission (EEOC), provided new as past and ancient history,” says Johnson. rants and hotels, also ushered in broad legal protections for women and forever “These are statutes that we litigate and that we use every day. What we want for 64@50 is for the Columbia community to “We’re not just going to remember this as past come together and understand the story of and ancient history. What we want for 64@50 the creation of the act, to understand its legacy, and to understand its life today.” is for the Columbia community to come together That life has evolved over a half-century, and understand the story of the creation and the anniversary of the act’s passage has offered a way to tie together a range of the act, to understand its legacy, and of work being done at Columbia Law to understand its life today.” School on issues such as immigration, —Professor Olatunde Johnson education, marriage equality, the envi- ronment, criminal justice, and economic equality. “Columbia is thinking about this in very new and forward-looking ways,” says Susan P. Sturm, the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and director of the Center for Institutional

From left: Professors Kendall Thomas, Theodore M. Shaw ’79, and Suzanne B. Goldberg teach students how to use the law to effect social change.

44 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 and Social Change. “Faculty and students in a wide range of fields are engaged in activities that are connected to the vision of a society that enables people to fulfill their dreams regardless of their race, gender, class, or where they live.”

iven his central role in the fight for civil rights, it is fitting that the kickoff event for 64@50 highlighted the work of Jack Greenberg. G“Crusading for Justice: A Symposium Honoring Jack Greenberg’s Contributions to Civil and Human Rights Law and Lawyering” brought together former col- leagues and students who celebrated Greenberg’s legal battles, his teaching, and his ongoing commitment to human rights. “Jack is an American icon,” says Pro - fessor Theodore M. Shaw ’79, a former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), who organized the symposium with Kendall Thomas, the Nash Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. “If you look at the photographs of civil rights leaders meeting with President Johnson and advocating for the Civil Rights Act, there was Martin Luther King and Whitney Young and Roy Clockwise from top: Norma McCorvey (left), known as Jane Roe in the 1973Roe v. Wade case, Wilkins—the leadership of the civil rights and her attorney Gloria Allred at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989; a gay rights demonstration brain trust—and there was Jack.” during the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City; Martin Luther King Jr. (left) Greenberg has argued 40 cases before and President Lyndon B. Johnson during a 1963 meeting at the White House. the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education and Griggs v. Duke Change takes time, of course, and the “The agency has played a major role in Power Company, in which the Court held Civil Rights Act of 1964 had yet to be inter- developing the meaning of sex discrimina- that written tests and other employer preted by the courts when Greenberg first tion, from sexual harassment guidelines practices that screened out minorities were began using it in his litigation efforts. But in 1980 to its acceptance of discrimination illegal when they were not job-related. He from the moment of its passage, the act claims by transgender individuals starting led the LDF for 23 years and has served broke down barriers. In doing so, it laid the in 2012,” says Suzanne B. Goldberg, the as a professor at Columbia Law School groundwork for landmark legislation and Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Pro- for 37 years. Greenberg has also devoted anti-discrimination efforts in other critical fessor of Law. “At important times in its his- much of his career to addressing human legal realms, including those involving vot- tory, the EEOC has helped lead the way.” rights issues in the U.S. and abroad, most ing rights, housing, disabilities, and sexual As part of 64@50, the Law School’s Center recently on behalf of the Roma, whose orientation. The EEOC, established under for Gender & Sexuality Law, which Goldberg marginalization in Europe he has called Title VII, has been especially effective in leads with Professor Katherine M. Franke, “one of the gravest humanitarian and fleshing out and expanding workplace pro- sponsored the symposium “Marriage Equal- economic crises of our time.” tections during the past 50 years. ity and Reproductive Rights: Lessons Learned On matters at home or abroad, Greenberg and the Road Ahead.” The event brought possessed “a vision that allowed him to look together practitioners and students and fea- beyond what was at issue in any particu- tured a talk by Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in lar case and to see a bigger picture,” says the 2013 Supreme Court case that struck down Shaw, who, at an annual dinner spon - critical sections of the Defense of Marriage Act. sored by the Law School’s Social Justice WEB EXCLUSIVE “The point of the Civil Rights Act was to

Initiatives, recently received the Distin- Professor Ted Shaw ’79 discusses make clear that we should not tolerate dis- guished Graduate of the Year Award for the civil rights movement. crimination based on characteristics that don’t his ongoing dedication to public interest law.columbia.edu/mag/shaw affect a person’s ability to contribute to society,

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 45 commitment to freedom, a more constant pursuit of justice, and a deeper respect for human dignity.” Title VI, for instance, which was meant to promote integration in schools by withholding federal funds from institutions that discriminate against individuals, has been used effectively in environmental cases against local agencies for issuing permits to indus- trial facilities that disproportionately impact minority populations. It has also been used to ensure that municipal transit authorities consult with, and consider the transporta- tion needs of, minority populations. “It shows the power, the potential, that’s there in legislation to take broad ideas such as equal protection and develop specific remedies,” says Olatunde Johnson.

till, even considering the substan- tial progress attributable to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and despite achievements that were barely imaginable 50 years ago, Sincluding the election of America’s first black president, much of the full potential and promise of the act remains unfulfilled, says Kendall Thomas. Thomas, who was 7 years old when the act CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: AFP/GETTY IMAGES; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES; © BETTMANN/CORBIS was signed, recalls walking in picket lines with his mother in Oroville, Calif., to protest a local grocery store that employed no black workers. “The Civil Rights Act and the anti-discrimi- nation principle that it announced were as much about economic justice as about racial justice, and I think that part of it is sometimes forgotten,” he says. In 2013, 50 years after the seminal 1963 March on Washington, he notes, black unemployment in the U.S. was 13.1 percent, up from 10.9 percent in 1963. Thomas laments the gradual fading Clockwise from top: Edith Windsor (left) and her lawyer Roberta A. Kaplan ’91 at the away of community-based mobilization U.S. Supreme Court prior to oral arguments in the United States v. Windsor case in 2013; efforts that followed the passage of the protestors during a 1965 civil rights demonstration; a 1964 fair housing protest in Seattle; Civil Rights Act, as activists such as Bayard the picket line at a 1963 NAACP school segregation demonstration in St. Louis, Mo. Rustin urged a move away from protests and toward politics. “The idea was that, essentially the same argument that is driv- of issues, including zero-tolerance school through the exercise of these political and ing much marriage equality work today,” says discipline policies and the use of stop-and-frisk civil rights, we will gain economic equality,” Goldberg. “This is ongoing work to fulfill the practices by police officers. As he did with the he says. “And that has not happened.” promise of equality for all, of which the Civil “Crusading for Justice” event, Thomas helped Thomas points to the continuation of Rights Act was a critically important piece.” organize and plan the Robeson Conference. “I deep divisions and inequities in several areas, This past April, the Black Law Stu- encouraged students to think about what the including criminal punishment, immigra- dents Association (BLSA) took the lead Civil Rights Act and its legacy means to them,” tion, and education. “Public education in this in organizing another 64@50 event—the he says, “and to think about their connections country is as segregated in some parts of the Paul Robeson Conference, which, this year, to the students who were actively involved in country as it was 60 years ago,” he says. focused on “Exploring the Role of Student the civil rights movement.” The persistence of segregation is something and Lawyer Activism in the Creation of Part of the act’s legacy is rooted in change Theodore Shaw spent 23 years at the LDF Transformative Policy.” In a discussion mod- that was never anticipated when Lyndon B. working to eliminate. While on the faculty erated by BLSA chair Jeffrey Skinner ’15, Johnson told the American people that the at the University of Michigan Law School, panelists detailed work being done on a range time had come “to promote a more abiding Shaw helped craft the admissions policy

46 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 that was upheld by the Supreme Court in and full participation on the campuses of lib- Grutter v. Bollinger. He supports efforts eral arts colleges and research universities by to diversify educational institutions and building pathways for college undergraduates is disappointed that the Court has moved to progress to graduate school and onto liberal away from supporting remedial-based GO BEYOND arts faculties. Another project seeks to revital- Browse an interactive timeline affirmative action policies. with historical photos from the ize communities affected by incarceration by “I fought tooth and nail for diversity,” says civil rights movement. making educational opportunities meaningful Shaw. “But the original purpose for adopting law.columbia.edu/mag/civil-rights for those groups and their families. “The idea these practices and policies was to address is to ask these deeper questions about what it this legacy, which still remains with us.” takes to change our institutional cultures and Shaw and others at the Law School are practices so that they actually advance the increasingly looking for ways to advance the That approach defines much of Sturm’s vision behind the Civil Rights Act,” Sturm says. civil rights agenda outside the courtroom work with the Law School’s Center for Institu- Other nations are asking similar ques- arena. “The next chapter is to look at how a tional and Social Change. The center promotes tions, and the ideals embodied in the Civil piece of legislation that focused on helping what Sturm calls “full participation” by bring- Rights Act of 1964 are providing lessons people get educated, have jobs, and vote ing parties from multiple institutions together that have led to progress around the world. can create new opportunities for collab- for collaborative problem solving. One of her The European Union, for example, has orative work toward social justice goals,” current projects, called the Creating Connec- expanded its anti-discrimination laws, says Susan Sturm. tions Consortium, aims to foster diversity which, prior to 2000, only prohibited discrimination based on sex. “One lasting value of the U.S. civil rights From the moment of its passage, the Civil Rights idea is evident in the way it’s been taken Act of 1964 broke down barriers. In doing so, up in human rights struggles abroad,” says Thomas. “Lawyers and activists in other it laid the groundwork for landmark legislation countries have used the American civil rights and anti-discrimination efforts in other critical story as a model and metaphor to work for progressive legal and social change in very legal realms, including those involving different national settings than our own.” voting rights, housing, disabilities, Of course, that story is still evolving, and the and sexual orientation. aspirations embodied in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have not been fully realized even in the fundamental areas that the act sought to address. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama highlighted the need to strengthen the Voting Rights Act, provide equal pay to women, and make educa- tion—from preschool to college—affordable and accessible to all. So, without question, there remains much work to be done—on many fronts. The good news: There is much energy for doing it, and the next generation of civil rights advocates is working to expand on the progress of the past. “It’s amazing to me how many students see LGBT equality as their civil rights issue,” says Suzanne Goldberg. “I couldn’t have imag- ined that 20 years ago. At the same time, there are other forms of discrimination that persist and still more that society is only now starting to see more clearly. Columbia Law School students and alumni will surely be at the forefront of identifying and advocating on these new and still-unknown frontiers.”

AMY SINGER teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Jack Greenberg ’48 (left) and Katherine M. Franke, a director of the Law School’s Center for Gender and Journalism and has written for The Sexuality Law, have spent their careers advocating for equal rights. New York Times.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 47 48 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 At Issue Essays in 56 focus: The people, personalities, and perspectives making an impact this season

ALUMNI PROFILES 50

AT ISSUE ESSAYS 56

CLASS NOTES 60

IN MEMORIAM 78

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 80

U.W. Clemon ’68 page 52

PHOTOGRAPHED BY JASON WALLIS LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 49 susan b. lindenauer: THE CHANGE AGENT

Throughout the course of a successful career in public interest law, Susan B. Lindenauer ’64 has improved countless lives as a devoted advocate and mentor BY SETH STEVENSON

When Susan B. Lindenauer ’64 change agent,” she says, “and I saw Legal Aid Society. “She’s a pleasure and is a recipient of the Law entered Columbia Law School in the late ’60s as an opportune time to work with, very supportive, and School’s Medal for Excellence. As the fall of 1961, having recently to participate in change through very knowledgeable on a wide president of the Columbia Law graduated magna cum laude the practice of poverty law.” range of legal issues.” School Association, Lindenauer from Smith College, she was one At Legal Aid, Lindenauer Over the years, Lindenauer initiated an oral history project in of only 11 women in a class of 280. fought on behalf of clients who has amassed a mountain of acco- the early 1990s that preserved the There were no female professors were poor, underprivileged, and lades for her work. She has taken memories of female graduates teaching at the Law School, and usually female, helping them to on multiple leadership roles at of the 1930s and ’40s. In 2002, the number of female lawyers deal with faceless bureaucracies, the New York State Bar Associa- she chaired the 75th anniversary in the United States was remark- nasty landlords, and endemic tion, and her relationship with celebration that recognized the ably small—accounting for less gender discrimination. She Columbia Law School has only admission of the first woman to than 2 percent of the profession. bolstered the rights of parents strengthened since graduation. Columbia Law School. When she applied to law firms seeking to regain custody of She is a trusted adviser to deans, In retirement, Lindenauer after graduation, Lindenauer their children from the foster serves on the Board of Visitors, has made it a priority to devote says she became accustomed care system, and helped shift a significant portion of her free to receiving the same stock domestic violence cases involving “MY ASPIRATION time to mentoring women who response: “With your record, we couples with children under the WHEN I ENTERED LAW are beginning their careers. would make you an offer on the family law umbrella, where they SCHOOL WAS TO BE A She is a board member of Legal spot—if you were a man.” could be better handled. A 1976 Momentum, a legal defense and CHANGE AGENT,” Lindenauer refused to be case saw Lindenauer aiding the educational fund for women. In disheartened or to question successful effort to grant preg- SAYS LINDENAUER. addition, Lindenauer serves on her abilities. She likes to quote nant women disability benefits the board of the New York State Robert Frost when she describes under New York state law. Interest on Lawyer Account Fund, the career that she built after By the late 1970s, Lindenauer which helps low-income indi- receiving those disappointing had become general counsel at viduals obtain civil legal services, rejections: “Two roads diverged The Legal Aid Society. She and as co-chair of a statewide task in a wood, and I—/I took the continued to serve there until force on the family court. one less traveled by/And that has her retirement, undertaking a Her convictions about social made all the difference.” variety of legal and adminis- justice, she notes, were ingrained After a brief but educa- trative duties and functioning at a young age. “By the time tional apprenticeship at Cleary as “an ethical backstop” for the Brown v. Board of Education Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, thousand-odd lawyers at the was decided,” Lindenauer says, “I Lindenauer secured a staff attor- nonprofit organization. “Susan looked at it and said, ‘If that’s what ney job doing a variety of trial, has been a fervent advocate for lawyers do, I want to be a lawyer.’” appellate, and legislative work women and minorities in the at The Legal Aid Society in New legal profession,” says Seymour SETH STEVENSON has written for York City. “My aspiration when James, the attorney-in-charge Slate and The New Republic, I entered law school was to be a of the criminal practice at The among other publications.

50 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 PHOTOGRAPHED BY FABRICE TROMBERT LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 51 u.w. clemon: THE EQUALIZER

As a crusading civil rights attorney and a widely respected federal judge, U.W. Clemon ’68 has crafted an inspiring, influential careerBY KELLY CARROLL

U.W. Clemon ’68 says he first is unmistakable, and, even coach, Paul “Bear” Bryant, for gation. Yet, he was unanimously knew that he wanted to become today, the sense of duty he felt not recruiting black players. confirmed by the U.S. Senate. a civil rights lawyer when, in toward ending segregation in In 1974, Clemon was elected Clemon served as a federal 1956, at the age of 13, he wit- Birmingham as a young man to the Alabama State Senate. judge in the Northern District of nessed white police officers could not be more evident. During the next five years, Alabama for nearly 30 years. Dur- threatening one of his friends, an That passion for justice and he fiercely butted heads with ing his seven-year tenure as chief African-American teenager, dur- fairness is what led Clemon to Governor George Wallace, judge, he oversaw the court’s ing a stroll near his hometown of Columbia Law School, which resulting in many public and transition to an all-electronic Fairfield, Ala. Less than a decade maintained deep-rooted con- hostile arguments. When case filing system, as well as its later, as a student at Miles nections to the NAACP Legal Clemon was later nominated overhaul of the jury selection College, Clemon led a boycott Defense and Educational Fund for a federal judgeship in process—which increased of Birmingham’s downtown (LDF). His adviser, Professor the Northern District of minority representation. He stores to protest against segre- Walter Gellhorn ’31, encour- Alabama, he says, with a points to his role as the trial gation in that city. It resulted aged by Clemon’s desire to prac- tinge of pride, that it was “the judge in Lilly Ledbetter v. in a 40 percent decrease in tice civil rights law in the heart most controversial judicial Goodyear as his crowning sales for business owners of Alabama, helped the young appointment in the state,” given judicial achievement. and helped to spark Martin scholar secure a part-time posi- his history of working against Now retired from the bench, Luther King Jr.’s interest in tion at the LDF and arranged a government-mandated segre- Clemon serves as a shareholder organizing what became his meeting with Jack Greenberg ’48, at White Arnold & Dowd in famous Birmingham campaign. who was then serving as the AS A YOUNG Birmingham. During the past “I remember the commitment LDF’s director-counsel. ATTORNEY, CLEMON several years, he has worked he inspired in me,” Clemon says After graduation, Clemon FOUGHT TO END on cases involving Alabama’s of King, recounting the time returned to his home state to congressional redistricting, the RACIAL SEGREGATION he met the American icon, work on cases in conjunction bankruptcy of Jefferson County, along with civil rights leader with the LDF. The organiza- IN HIS CHILDHOOD Ala., and the investigation Ralph David Abernathy, at a tion provided him with an Earl SCHOOL DISTRICT AND into possible financial fraud at Birmingham coffee shop in Warren Scholarship—a stipend SUED ALABAMA HEAD Alabama State University. “Life is April of 1963. That day, King that, at the time, helped young FOOTBALL COACH totally interesting,” he says. referred to Clemon as “a leader.” civil rights lawyers establish their Looking back on a career Fast forward 50 years, and own offices. “Jack Greenberg PAUL “BEAR” BRYANT that spans six somewhat Clemon, who in 1980 became made it easy to come back to FOR NOT RECRUITING tumultuous decades, Clemon the first African-American Alabama,” Clemon says. BLACK PLAYERS. recalls fondly his earliest judge to ascend to the federal In one of his first cases, goals relating to equality and bench in the state of Alabama, Clemon fought to end racial seg- fairness—the ones that were talks about these experiences regation in his childhood school inspired during that fateful walk with a firm, matter-of-fact air. district. He also famously filed a near his Alabama hometown. The extent to which equality lawsuit against the University of “I think I’ve come a long way issues have influenced his life Alabama and its revered football down that road,” he says.

52 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 PHOTOGRAPHED BY JASON WALLIS LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 53 menachem rosensaft: THE MEMORY KEEPER

World Jewish Congress General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft ’79 works tirelessly to ensure Holocaust remembrance efforts strengthen with the advancement of time BY AMY FELDMAN

Menachem Rosensaft ’79 keeps prior to taking on his current role Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, Union College-Jewish Institute a grainy, black-and-white, 1943 at the WJC, but he has always which works on rebuilding of Religion and is also the daugh- photo of his paternal grandfather pursued Holocaust remembrance Jewish communities in Cen- ter of survivors—maintains a full on the desk in his office at the activities—serving as an advocate tral and Eastern Europe. When plate of extracurricular activities. World Jewish Congress (WJC). for children of survivors—through Lauder became the WJC’s presi- He serves on the United States In the picture, culled from a his writings and his nonprofit dent in 2007, he recruited Rosen- Holocaust Memorial Council German-made film depicting the leadership. That work has taken saft, first to redraft its constitu- and is senior vice president of the ghetto of Bedzin, Poland, where on heightened relevance today as tion, then as general counsel. American Gathering of Jewish Rosensaft’s father was born, his the number of survivors dwindles. “I’m enormously grateful to him,” Holocaust Survivors and Their grandfather is shown wearing “This is a transitional moment Rosensaft says. “He’s given me the Descendents. He also teaches a white armband that identifies in history,” Rosensaft says. “We opportunity to blend my profes- classes on the law of genocide at him as Jewish. Rosensaft, whose have to make sure that what we sional life with my passions.” Columbia Law School and Cor- parents both survived the Nazi received from the survivors’ gen- In addition to his work with nell Law School, drawing parallels concentration camps, and who eration is passed on.” the WJC, Rosensaft—whose wife, between the Holocaust and other was born in the displaced persons After completing a federal Jean Bloch Rosensaft, directs genocides of the 20th century. camp at Bergen-Belsen, has car- clerkship, Rosensaft worked as a communications at Hebrew Rosensaft’s latest project is a ried that photo with him since securities litigator and as a mem- forthcoming book from Jewish he was a child in Switzerland. ber of the legal department at HISTORY WEIGHS Lights Publishing titled God, “It reminds me of where I come Chase Manhattan Bank. Later, HEAVY ON CHILDREN Faith and Identity in the Ashes: from,” he says, “and why I am he was a partner at a national OF HOLOCAUST Perspectives of Children and doing everything that I am doing.” law firm and general counsel Grandchildren of Holocaust SURVIVORS, AND History weighs heavy on chil- of a New York Stock Exchange Survivors. It is a labor of love dren of survivors, and Rosensaft, financial services firm. ROSENSAFT HAS for Rosensaft, who wants to 66, has made it his life’s work to His second career dates to a MADE IT HIS LIFE’S ensure that survivors are viewed remember. As the WJC’s general chance conversation with Ronald WORK TO REMEMBER. as role models, rather than vic- counsel since 2009, he oversees Lauder, the cosmetics heir and tims. “They could have given up the organization’s legal work and current WJC president, on the in 1945 after everything that serves on its 47-member execu- shuttle back from Washington, happened,” he says. “Instead, tive committee. The WJC func- D.C., in 1995. While the two they rebuilt families and created tions as the diplomatic arm of had known each other casually communities in other countries, the Jewish people, focusing on through their work with Jewish and provide an insight into how anti-Semitism, the legacy of the organizations, sitting on the to constructively approach life Holocaust, interfaith relations, plane that day, Lauder encour- after catastrophes.” and other issues of relevance to aged Rosensaft to call him. A Jewish communities worldwide. few days later, Rosensaft did AMY FELDMAN has written for Rosensaft enjoyed a long career so, and accepted a job as senior The New York Times and Time, as a litigator in private practice international counsel for the among other publications.

54 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 PHOTOGRAPHED BY CARDONI LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 55 at issue: AN IMPROBABLE LIFE

Professor Michael I. Sovern ’55 recounts some memorable exchanges with Professor Elliott Evans Cheatham, Justice Felix Frankfurter, and Professor Walter Gellhorn ’31 in an excerpt from An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures BY MICHAEL I. SOVERN, CHANCELLOR KENT PROFESSOR OF LAW AND PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

On a visit to Professor Cheatham I was struck by his profound sense of moral respon- sibility. A college classmate of mine, Jack Molinas, had just been arrested for fixing basketball games. Jack was an extraordinarily gifted athlete who starred first for Columbia and then for the National Basketball Association’s Pistons. He was expelled from the N.B.A. for betting on his own team. The fixing charge came next. Years after he finished serving his prison sentence, he was gunned down in front of his home.

The conversation I am to his face, but among ourselves The contrast with my friend eight issues a year, and we had a remembering took place the the consensus was that he really Richie’s experience in medical considerable backlog of authors day the news of Molinas’s arrest should find a law partner named school was striking. To my horror, seeking space. (Half of each issue broke. The moment remains Ketcham so that they could he was taught not to intervene in was devoted to student work.) vivid. Professor Cheatham was form a firm called Ketcham an accident lest he be sued. Later I wrote Justice Frankfurter: “As standing in front of the window & Cheatham. We heard that I came upon a sociological study much as we would like to devote of his office, a chiaroscuro figure Professor Louis Loss of Harvard that found that over the course to Mr. Justice Jackson the large in shadow and sunlight, when was the subject of similar con- of their education law students amount of space he obviously he said, sadly: “We failed that versations: his partner would become less cynical and more deserves, commitments to impor- boy.” He believed without reser- be named Proffitt. idealistic while medical students tant authors make it impossible vation that education should be Professor Cheatham’s reac- move in the opposite direction. for us to provide the sort of cov- moral as well as intellectual and tion to Molinas’s crime was the . . . erage you suggest. . . . I hope, that Columbia’s teachers had let most dramatic demonstration of then, that you will reconsider your Molinas down. That didn’t mean my teachers’ ethical sensibilities. I had two mildly intimidating reluctance to go it alone, and that Molinas was to be excused, only Some would address our ethical experiences as a law review editor. you will do Mr. Justice Jackson that his teachers had also failed responsibilities explicitly, others The first followed upon the death and ourselves the honor of writ- in their responsibilities. by their examples of public ser- of Justice Robert Jackson. I was ing a few words.”1 That Elliott Cheatham was the vice and other pro bono activi- rash enough to resist Justice Felix Justice Frankfurter was not most honorable of men did not ties. They reached me: I have no Frankfurter’s suggestion that we to be persuaded by a brash stu- protect him from student jokes doubt I left law school a better publish a memorial issue in honor dent. He replied: “No doubt about his name. Not, of course, man than the one who entered. of Jackson. We published only authors whose contributions

56 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 have been accepted are ‘impa- unprecedented leave of absence We were delighted to publish tient,’ but presumably they are from the Supreme Court. He also a piece by Gellhorn. My working mature and reasonable men and, could be funny: when an advocate it over was not a mark of disre- therefore, would understand that before the court discovered to his spect. It may seem presumptu- editors are not automata, that great joy that Jackson as attorney ous for a third-year student to planning about intellectual general had issued an opinion tak- be editing a giant, but that was matters is not a mechanical ing precisely the position the advo- the nature of the Law Review. process, and that an event in cate was urging, he made a point After receiving his edited arti- the history of law like the death of invoking it; Jackson replied: cle, Gellhorn telephoned me: of a significant member of the “I am amazed that a man of my “Mr. Sovern, I’d like to talk to Supreme Court is not to be intelligence should have been you about your article.” Clearly disregarded because it has not guilty of giving such an opinion.”3 only one of us thought I had been scheduled.” And he could craft phrases with improved his work. But he Ken Jones, who was clerk- the best of them. In Michelson didn’t pull rank and club me ing at the Supreme Court at the Professor Michael I. Sovern ’55 v. United States, responding to into submission. He deputized time, called to underscore Justice an argument that one aspect of a young collaborator of his to go Frankfurter’s displeasure. I beat a freedom in saying them. Writ- a much criticized rule should be over the article with me section hasty retreat, munching crow all ing under wraps is not condu- reformed, he wrote: “To pull one by section. Some of my changes the way: cive to writing. misshapen stone out of the gro- actually survived. I am troubling you with tesque structure is more likely . . . Professor Arthur Nussbaum, Dear Mr. Justice: my difficulties in order to to upset its present balance . . . a great scholar, who came to Mr. Kenneth Jones was explain what may seem to you than to establish a rational edi- Columbia as a refugee from kind enough to call us an absurd delay in sending fice.”4 All of this made it relatively Nazi Germany, found the Amer- yesterday to reiterate your you the promised little piece. easy to recruit first-rate people to ican law review tradition seri- dissatisfaction with our While I could talk by the hour write about him. Years later, one ously defective. He complained stand on the issue of Mr. about Mr. Justice Jackson I of them—Telford Taylor, who was that it was not “pleasant for a Justice Jackson. Perhaps find myself constrained as I also a Nuremberg prosecutor and mature scholar to be subjected we have overestimated our do in writing something that who wrote the portion of the issue to the supreme and irrevoca- obligation to those authors to may take only a few minutes about that aspect of Jackson’s ble judgment of incompletely whom we have already com- to read. The point of this letter career—would become my col- trained students.”5 When, as a mitted ourselves, and I hope is to tell you that you ought not league, friend and tennis partner. twenty-three-year-old assistant you will forgive our mistaken to hold up the pagination of My other brush with authority professor, I submitted a piece sense of proportion. … your leading articles to await came when I brought a heavy edi- to the Columbia Law Review my small Foreword. What I tor’s pen to an article by Professor and an editor from the class In the end I was forgiven for shall finally send you will, I Walter Gellhorn. Gellhorn was following mine changed a few my “mistaken sense of propor- know, absorb three pages. This one of Columbia’s giants. Much words, I drew upon Professor tion.” Not only did the Justice assurance will I hope enable honored for his scholarly shap- Nussbaum, lamenting that an agree to write a foreword for the you to go ahead without ing of the unruly field of admin- “incompletely trained student” issue, but I was treated to the fol- further delay and at the same istrative law, he also wrote about was presuming to edit the work lowing letter: time enable me to stew some the Swedish ombudsman and of a “mature scholar.” more in my own difficulty. was responsible for bringing February 3, 1955 Cordially yours, that institution to America. FOOTNOTES: My dear Mr. Sovern: 1 Justice Felix Frankfurter After Cheatham retired, it was Frankfurter-Sovern correspondence, “It won’t write” is an old Gellhorn who placed Columbians Felix Frankfurter Papers, Library of phrase down here to describe Note the closing: no longer in teaching positions all over Congress Box 131. the recalcitrancy of an opin- was the Justice only “Sincerely” America. This was a natural evo- 2 Felix Frankfurter, “Foreword,” Columbia ion to get itself on paper. I do mine. And the issue turned out lution: he was already serving as Law Review 55 (1955): 435. not think I ever attempted a to be one of the best for which I a one-man placement office for 3 He acknowledged borrowing the piece of writing that was so was responsible.2 his students. One of his notable riposte from Lord Westbury, McGrath stubbornly resistant as my placements was a response to v. Kristensen, 340 U.S. 162, 177 (1950). attempt to say something Jackson was a great subject—a Thurgood Marshall’s search for 4 Michelson v. United States, 335. U.S. briefly about Mr. Justice small-town lawyer (Jamestown, an assistant when he was head 469, 486 (1948). Jackson. There are two rea- New York) who rose to be attor- of the NAACP Legal Defense 5 Arthur Nussbaum, “Some Remarks sons for this. One is the dis- ney general of the United States Fund. Gellhorn offered Jack About the Position of the Student-Editors cretion under which I labor and then a justice of the Supreme Greenberg, a young Navy veteran of the Law Review,” Journal of Legal as a member of the Court; the Court. He was also the chief pros- and recent graduate, who would Education 7, (1955): 381-382. other, my deep feeling about ecutor at the Nuremberg war ultimately succeed Marshall and the late Justice. My trouble is crimes trials, an assignment he argue dozens of cases before Reprinted with permission from Columbia not want of things to say but managed by taking an almost the Supreme Court. University Press.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 57 at issue: FINANCIAL REGULATION

Much has changed since the 2007–2009 financial crisis, but the more we learn about what triggered the downturn, and the actions taken to stem the tide, the clearer it becomes that there is still much work to do BY KATHRYN JUDGE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

With the stock market regularly surpassing record highs, housing prices surging 13.6 percent in 2013 alone, and unemployment down to 6.7 percent, it is easy to forget just how dire the economic outlook appeared just five years ago. It is also tempting to assume that we have figured out what went wrong and have made the changes necessary to address the fragilities the crisis revealed. After all, financial reporters, academics, and others have produced a deluge of articles and books about the crisis, and Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, the most sweeping financial reform bill since the 1930s. A closer look at the progress made, however, reveals a far more bleak picture. We remain a long way from understanding, much less addressing, the causes of the crisis and the moral hazard engendered by the government’s response to it.

One challenge is that many on them. Many, for example, hazard. Banks that originated vehicle rather than holding them of the early narratives about viewed the crisis as an inevi- mortgages had no reason to to maturity. The Dodd-Frank the causes of the crisis were table by-product of securitiza- care about their subsequent Act sought to counter this woefully incomplete, raising tion. Proponents of this view performance, we were told, moral hazard by requiring significant doubts about the claimed that securitization when they could sell those banks to retain a direct interest advisability of reforms based gave rise to rampant moral mortgages to a securitization in the performance of mortgages

58 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 that they originate and sell banks actually sought liquidity for securitization. when market sources of liquidity Yet, subsequent events and dried up during the early analysis have cast doubt on both stages of the crisis paint a the narrative and the response. very different picture. It turns out that the inves- In lieu of going to the Fed’s tors buying mortgage-backed discount window, banks increased securities were not dupes. their reliance on two other Investors understood well forms of government-backed the moral hazard that could liquidity. First, banks dramati- result when banks originated cally increased their use of loans for distribution. Inves- secured loans from the Federal tors had addressed this issue Home Loan Bank system, a little- by requiring banks to make known government-sponsored extensive representations and enterprise that ballooned in size warranties about the quality to more than $1 trillion during of the loans they were selling the crisis. Second, when banks and the procedures they had got into trouble, they used the undertaken in connection lure of exceptionally high inter- with originating the loans. est rates to retain and attract new These representations and insured deposits. As a result, it warranties became more lax was not until after Bear Stearns in the overheated market of failed and the Fed implemented the mid-2000s, but they were a number of emergency lending still sufficiently robust that programs that the Fed surpassed investors (and others) have the Federal Home Loan Banks collected billions of dollars in in terms of crisis-related lend- damages from banks that sold ing, and, even then, the Federal subpar mortgages. The banks, Home Loan Banks remained the it turns out, had skin in the primary liquidity facility for U.S. game all along. Just as trou - realized that those mortgages WE REMAIN A depository institutions. bling, recent academic analysis were worth less than previ - LONG WAY FROM Perhaps we should not be suggests that Dodd-Frank’s ously believed. Securitiza- surprised that there is so much UNDERSTANDING, retention requirement might tion also gave rise to a host of that we still do not understand not just be unnecessary, but agency costs, many of which MUCH LESS about the recent crisis. After all, downright harmful. probably contributed to the ADDRESSING, THE three decades passed between Securitization, to be sure, declining quality of the mort- CAUSES OF THE the Depression and the pub- contributed to the crisis we gages issued and the dramatic CRISIS AND THE lication of Milton Friedman just experienced. By slicing, rise of subprime lending. The and Anna Schwartz’s influen- MORAL HAZARD dicing, and redistributing problem is that early accounts tial analysis of its causes. Even economic interests in a home purported to provide a com- ENGENDERED BY then, the unearthed lessons loan to numerous investors, plete diagnosis and treatment THE GOVERNMENT’S remained sufficiently plenti- securitization made it more dif- without a comprehensive RESPONSE TO IT. ful for Ben Bernanke, as an ficult to renegotiate underwater understanding of the ailment. ambitious young scholar in mortgages, fueling the wave A related challenge is that the 1980s, to earn tenure and a of foreclosures and further we still lack a complete pic- national reputation by helping depressing home values. It also ture of what actually happened us to better understand how contributed to massive uncer- before and during the crisis. For bank failures contributed to tainty about the distribution example, the Federal Reserve that crisis. Nonetheless, given of exposures to subprime and is widely viewed as the lender the incredible pace of modern other mortgages, setting the of last resort in the United finance and the lack of any stage for panic when investors States. Accordingly, when indication that the recent crisis Congress sought to enhance has led to widespread risk aver- transparency with respect to sion of the type that followed when and how the government the Depression, we would be web exclusive provides financial institu- well served to remain diligent Read more about financial regulation on the tions liquidity support, it in our efforts to understand, CLS Blue Sky Blog. exclusively targeted the Fed. and address, the lessons the law.columbia.edu/mag/blue-sky Yet recent analyses of where recent crisis could teach.

ILLUSTRATION BY CURTIS PARKER LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 59 class notes: STAYING IN TOUCH

Columbia Law School graduates from around the world share news of their professional and personal accomplishments

1950 KARL CONNELL recently Hyman & Stahl, which is also of Law. Psarakis specializes in disciplinary committee of the published Burr, Clinton and located in New Brunswick. employment law matters. New York State Supreme the Falls of General Benjamin Court, Appellate Division, Hovey, which focuses on tensions 1957 1961 First Department. Bernstein between the federal government ALBERT MOMJIAN recently SPEIGHT JENKINS retired after serves as a partner at Bond, and the states since the time of received a lifetime achievement 31 years as general director of Schoeneck & King in New York the American Revolution. The award from the Pennsylvania the Seattle Opera. During his City. He specializes in labor book, which is Connell’s second, Bar Association’s family tenure, Jenkins was named one and employment law. also chronicles the canal and law section. Momjian, a of the 150 most influential people land booms following the war. Pennsylvania family law to have shaped the character STEPHEN BUCHMAN, LL.B., was pioneer, serves as a retired of Seattle and King County by named a partner in residence 1952 partner at Schnader Harrison The Seattle Times, and one of in Columbia Law School’s GENE ROSSIDES recently Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia. the 25 most powerful names in Office of Career Services and published Kissinger & Cyprus: He also received the Judge American opera by Opera News. Professional Development. A Study in Lawlessness Learned Hand Award from the He received an NEA Opera In this role, he conducts (American Hellenic Institute: Philadelphia/Southern New Honors award from the National one-on-one sessions with 2014). The book focuses on Jersey chapter of the American Endowment for the Arts in 2011. third-year students seeking Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in Jewish Committee. career advice and guidance. 1974 and U.S. Secretary of State 1962 Buchman, the assistant Henry Kissinger’s role in that DAVID PADWA recently director of career advising at invasion. Rossides is a former published the novel Incident the Law School, has worked assistant secretary of the U.S. at Lukla. The story is cen- in the career services office Treasury. He also served in the tered on a fictional armed for the past two decades. Eisenhower administration. revolution in Nepal. Padwa, He also serves as ombudsman a foreign affairs analyst, and attorney adviser at 1953 has worked for the United Chadbourne & Park. JACK BORRUS was appointed Nations and the Council on chairman of the Robert Foreign Relations. 1964 Wood Johnson University IRA S. NOVAK was named to Hospital Foundation Board 1960 The Best Lawyers in America in New Brunswick, N.J. EMANUEL N. PSARAKIS, LL.M., list for 2014. He serves as a Borrus serves as president was named a distinguished member of Norris McLaughlin and senior partner at Borrus, practitioner in residence at MICHAEL I. BERNSTEIN was & Marcus in Bridgewater, N.J. Goldin, Foley, Vignuolo, Quinnipiac University School appointed to the departmental (continued on page 62)

60 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 class of: ’74

FERNANDO DE MELLO BARRETO ’74 LL.M. GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

When Saõ Paulo native Fernando de Mello Barreto ’74 LL.M. While reflecting on the changes he has seen over the accepted an offer to head the Brazilian Ministry of External course of his career, Barreto points to Brazil’s transition from Relations office in his hometown this past year, it seemed a military regime to a democratic government in the early like an ideal opportunity to serve his country while setting 1980s, and the stabilization of its economy, as important up shop in a city filled with family and friends. Little did developments that have helped the country become more the longtime diplomat know that the new position would influential in the international political arena. send him on a detour to Moscow instead. Now in Saõ Paulo, Barreto is enjoying the chance to serve Barreto doubled as Brazil’s interim ambassador to as a diplomat in his native country, but he does not see his Russia for more than four months while the Brazilian role at the Ministry of External Relations as the final stop of his Senate worked to approve a permanent replacement. peripatetic career. “Diplomatic retirement age in Brazil is 70,” All the while, his family remained in Boston—where he he says, “so I still have time for one more posting abroad.” recently held the position of that city’s consul general of Brazil—so that his chil- FOR MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS THIS PAST dren could finish school there. (His son was YEAR, BARRETO DOUBLED AS BRAZIL’S INTERIM recently accepted to Columbia University AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA. as an undergraduate.) Barreto, who also served as Brazil’s ambassador to Australia from 2006 to 2010, explains that his legal training has proven consistently useful in his various postings around the world. “Whether you’re talking about trade, environmental issues, or human rights, having the vocabulary and the mindset of a lawyer helps,” he says.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 61 Novak specializes in health BENNETT G. PICKER was named & Frankel, and as head of the National Legal Aid & Defender care and hospital law. the top arbitration lawyer firm’s litigation department. Association. Greenberg, who in Philadelphia by The Best serves as special counsel at 1965 Lawyers in America. This is GERALD SHEA was recently Schulte Roth & Zabel in New KENNETH T. CASCONE recently the fourth consecutive year nominated for the National York City, was honored as part published the historical he has received the honor. Book Critics Circle John of a pro bono team from the novel River of Triumph. The Picker serves as senior counsel Leonard Award, an honor that firm that is working alongside book chronicles the adven- at Stradley Ronon Stevens & recognizes first-time authors. the New York Civil Liberties tures of a Native American Young, and he is also a full-time Shea’s memoir, Song Without Union to ensure that indigent who serves as a rebel militia mediator and arbitrator. Words: Discovering My criminal defendants receive officer, spy, and doctor dur- Deafness Halfway through legal representation. ing the American Revolution. 1967 Life, which chronicles his Cascone, who is CEO of the early struggles with partial 1971 advisory firm Cascone & Collyer deafness and his discovery of in Newburgh, N.Y., works with the impairment at the age of entrepreneurs and small- to 34, was published in 2013. medium-sized companies seeking equity financing. 1968 U.W. CLEMON recently received STUART J. FREEDMAN a lifetime achievement award received the Rutgers Alumni from B-Metro, a magazine Association Loyal Sons and based in Birmingham, Ala. Daughters Award, which Clemon, a civil rights lawyer honors volunteers for their and former federal judge, extraordinary service to the was recognized for his university. Freedman, who JANE C. BERGNER was recently groundbreaking work in civil recently served as president recognized by the John F. rights law. He serves as a PETER M. GERHART published of the Rutgers alumni class Kennedy Center for the shareholder at White Arnold the book Property Law and of 1962, is a partner at Norris Performing Arts as a generous & Dowd in Birmingham. Social Morality (Cambridge McLaughlin & Marcus in and longtime benefactor to the University Press: 2014), which Bridgewater, N.J. organization. She was profiled 1969 analyzes property law with on the Kennedy Center’s MICHAEL H. DIAMOND began respect to social obligations 1966 website and featured in a serving as a partner in resi- and responsibility. Gerhart STEVEN P. COHEN recently brochure mailed to 18,000 dence with Columbia Law serves as a professor at Case published The Practical households. Bergner practices School’s Office of Career Western Reserve University Negotiator: How to Argue law in Washington, D.C., where Services and Professional School of Law. He specializes Your Point, Plead Your she specializes in tax law and Development. In this role, he in torts, property law, and Case, and Prevail in Any estate planning. provides one-on-one career legal theory. Situation. In the book, he advice to third-year students provides advice on how to GARY P. NAFTALIS received a at the Law School. Diamond HAROLD M. ICKES was named address real-world problems lifetime achievement award is a former litigation partner chairman of the board at through negotiation. Cohen from the legal directory at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley Meyer, Suozzi, English & has worked as a negotiation Benchmark Litigation. Naftalis & McCloy. He also served as Klein. Ickes, a longtime consultant to companies was recognized for his more a partner at Skadden, Arps, member of the firm, also and government agencies than 40 years representing Slate, Meagher & Flom. manages its Washington, around the world. He also individuals and corporations D.C., office. He serves as serves as an adjunct profes- in complex criminal, civil, and DANIEL L. GREENBERG recently co-chair of the firm’s labor sor at Brandeis International regulatory cases. He serves as received the Beacon of and government relations Business School. co-chair of Kramer Levin Naftalis Justice Award from the practice groups, as well.

62 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 class of: ’84

PENELOPE ANDREWS ’84 LL.M. ON THE FOREFRONT

For Albany Law School President and Dean Penelope she is the author of From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Andrews ’84 LL.M., studying human rights issues at Strategies for Pursuing Women’s Human Rights, and has Columbia Law School in the early 1980s was an especially taught law for nearly three decades. Andrews served as enriching experience. The anti-apartheid movement was the City University of New York School of Law’s associ- gaining momentum at the time, and the South African ate dean of academic affairs before her appointment at native remembers the Morningside Heights campus as a Albany Law School. hotbed of protests. During her time as president and dean, Andrews has “When I was politically active in South Africa’s focused on guiding the independent, non–university anti-apartheid movement, there was always a fear of affiliated law school through a complicated, challenging persecution,” says Andrews. “Being at Columbia felt time for legal education. “I’ve genuinely tried to create a so much freer. I really saw what it was like to live in a student-centered culture here,” she says, “and to develop country and to do human rights work without the fear a shared responsibility for the professional development of state-sponsored repression.” of our graduates.” Andrews, who was the first of her siblings to graduate from high school, returned to Johannesburg in the late ’80s ANDREWS DECIDED TO SETTLE IN to work at the Legal Resources Centre with its founder, THE UNITED STATES, WHERE SHE Arthur Chaskalson, a former Columbia Law School visiting SAW CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SOUTH professor who went on to become the first president of AFRICA’S STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL the South African Constitutional Court. After a teaching career that led her to Australia, Scotland, EQUALITY AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL Canada, and Germany, Andrews decided to settle in the RIGHTS MOVEMENT. United States, where she saw connections between South Africa’s struggle for racial equality and the American civil rights movement. A scholar specializing in equality issues,

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 63 1972 1975 T. MERRITT BUMPASS JR., LL.M., LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. LINDA A. BAUMANN was Office of Career Services and was elected to serve as a This distinction is reserved recently named head of the Professional Development. member of the management for attorneys who have health care practice group In this role, he provides committee at Frantz Ward in demonstrated leadership at Arent Fox in Washington, personalized career advice Cleveland, Ohio. Bumpass qualities, as well as proven D.C. Baumann serves as to third-year students at the serves as a partner at the firm legal ability and high ethical a partner at the firm. She Law School. Joss is a former and specializes in labor and standards. Shapiro serves as focuses her practice on mat- partner at Paul Hastings, employment matters. The a member of Meyer, Suozzi, ters involving False Claims where he specialized in labor management committee con- English & Klein in Garden Act investigations, and fraud relations and employment sists of three members and is the City, N.Y. He is currently and abuse compliance, as law for 35 years. first of its kind at Frantz Ward. co-chair of the firm’s corporate well as on Medicare and law practice group. Medicaid reimbursements. ROGER S. CLARK, LL.M. ’68, J.S.D. ’72, celebrated his 50th 1973 REX S. HEINKE was named year in teaching this past OWEN D. NEE JR. was named one of the top 10 attorneys in December. Clark serves as the one of the “Top 50 Big Law Southern California by Super Board of Governors Professor Innovators of the Last 50 Lawyers magazine. Heinke of Law at Rutgers School of Years” by The American serves as a partner at Akin Law—Camden. He teaches Lawyer. Nee was recognized Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in courses on international law, for his work in China, where Los Angeles. He is also co-head foreign relations, national he created approximately 100 of the firm’s Supreme Court security law, and criminal law, joint ventures and established and appellate practice. among other topics. more than 150 subsidiaries for foreign investors. He serves 1976 BENJAMIN F. MANN was named RUSSELL M. GERTMENIAN was as of counsel at Greenberg PHILIP P. CROWLEY recently a fellow of the American named to The Best Lawyers Traurig in both New York City celebrated his 31st year working College of Bankruptcy. in America list for 2014. and Shanghai. in the law department at Johnson Mann serves as managing Gertmenian, who serves as & Johnson in New Brunswick, partner of Husch Blackwell’s managing partner at Vorys, 1974 N.J. Crowley currently serves as Kansas City, Mo., office. He Sater, Seymour and Pease in STEPHEN L. DREYFUSS was the company’s environmental law is a member of the firm’s Columbus, Ohio, specializes in named president of the counsel and director of Johnson technology, manufacturing, corporate compliance law and Union International des & Johnson’s online compliance and transportation practice corporate governance law. Avocats, the world’s oldest training center. group, and he specializes in international lawyers’ asso- bankruptcy, restructuring, ciation. Dreyfuss serves as a BRUNO DE VUYST, LL.M., was and creditors’ rights issues. partner at Hellring Lindeman recently appointed director of Goldstein & Siegal in Newark, the Brussels Legal Aid Bureau. SIMONE SONG recently merged N.J. He focuses his practice on De Vuyst serves as counsel at her Upper Manhattan real international business litigation Janson Baugniet, a multidisci- estate company, Simone Song and transactions. plinary and multilingual busi- Properties, with Coldwell ness law firm in Brussels. He Banker Bellmarc. The com- CHRISTOPHER K. HU recently is also an associate professor pany is currently known as joined Blank Rome as of at Vesalius College and a dep- Bellmarc-Simone Song Inc. counsel in the firm’s New York uty judge at the Commercial Song serves as manager of the City office. Hu concentrates Tribunal in Brussels. Hudson Heights office. his practice on intellectual BARRY R. SHAPIRO was named property litigation. He previ- ERIC H. JOSS was named a JAMIE STERN recently pub- a “Top Rated Lawyer” in ously served as a partner at partner in residence with lished the poetry collection banking and finance by Dickstein Shapiro. Columbia Law School’s (continued on page 66)

64 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 class of: ’90

MONICA JAHAN BOSE ’90 STORYTELLING WITH SARIS

In 2013, environmental law expert and artist Monica Jahan be used to draw attention to how the issue is impacting Bose ’90 traveled to Katakhali, Bangladesh, to begin a the people of Bangladesh. printmaking project with 12 women who recently survived While exhibiting the saris around the U.S.—and recounting a devastating cyclone. Bose—who serves on the board of how Samhati has worked to improve female literacy rates Samhati, an American nonprofit organization dedicated and health care in Katakhali—Bose also addresses the need to helping indigent women in Bangladesh—developed the to help villagers prepare for future environmental changes. idea to highlight health care and education initiatives that She received a grant from a Washington, D.C.–area art the organization spearheaded in the village. initiative for one of her exhibits and is also presenting the “I practice ‘artivism,’” she explains, “which is the idea of women’s stories at climate conferences. This year, Bose will using any means to get the story out there, to get marginal return to Bangladesh to meet with climate scientists there. voices heard.” “These communities have to be empowered and Bose spent nine days in Katakhali, helping the women involved,” she says. “They need to have a voice in the use wood-block and painting techniques to design saris international arena.” for exhibition in the United States. While there, she also spoke with locals about the “I PRACTICE ‘ARTIVISM,’ WHICH IS THE IDEA recent cyclones, which have grown in inten- OF USING ANY MEANS TO GET THE STORY OUT sity over the years, as well as storm surges, THERE, TO GET MARGINAL VOICES HEARD.” soil salinity, and decreases in the area’s fish —MONICA JAHAN BOSE population. As a former attorney adviser for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bose was familiar with these indicators of cli- mate change, and she decided the saris could

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 65 1980 Chasing Steam. The book BARDEN N. GALE joined JO ELIZABETH BUTLER was focuses on the life of Stern’s Mack Real Estate Group as named “Woman of the grandmother, who was born vice chairman. He is also a Year” by the Organization in Poland and immigrated to member of the company’s of Women in International New Jersey at a young age. investment committee. Gale Trade. Butler serves as Stern serves as a managing previously served as chief execu- deputy director of the United director specializing in global tive officer at JER Partners, Nations Conference on litigation at UBS, a financial a real estate investment firm Trade and Development’s services company. based in Virginia. Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries, and 1977 MITCHELL C. HOCHBERG was Special Programmes. She is ROBERT I. FIELD recently pub- recently appointed president also founder of the Ethiopian lished Mother of Invention: and chief operating officer of Children’s Appeal, a grassroots How the Government Created the Lightstone Value Plus Real charity that raises funds to LISA PEARSON was recently “Free-Market” Health Care. Estate Investment Trust II. purchase food and school selected by Managing The book argues that the pri- Hochberg also serves as presi- supplies for children in Intellectual Property magazine vate health care sector rests dent of the Lightstone Group, a Ethiopia. The organization as one of the nation’s top 250 on a foundation of federal real estate company headquar- recently won a UN21 Award, women practicing intellectual support dating back more tered in New York City. which recognizes outstanding property law. Pearson serves as a than half a century, and that U.N. staff initiatives. partner at Kilpatrick Townsend without it, modern health 1979 & Stockton in New York City. care would not exist. Field PAUL N. SAMUELS recently RICHARD E. GREENBERG was She specializes in the litigation of serves as Professor of Health received the Justice named to The Best Lawyers copyright, trademark, and unfair Management and Policy at Leadership Award from in America list for 2014. competition disputes. Drexel University School Treatment Alternatives He was recognized for his of Public Health, and as a for Safe Communities, a work in criminal defense TOM ROTHMAN recently entered professor of law at Drexel Chicago-based nonprofit and white-collar litigation. into a joint venture with Sony University School of Law. organization that advocates Greenberg serves as an offi- Pictures Entertainment to for alternatives to incarcera- cer at Greensfelder, Hemker launch TriStar Productions. SHELDON M. FINKELSTEIN tion for people dealing with & Gale in St. Louis, Mo. He Rothman, who was named was reappointed co-chair substance-use problems is a member of the firm’s chairman of the new venture, of the book publishing and mental health issues. litigation and environmental will serve as a producer for board for the American Samuels currently serves as practice groups. TriStar and will also help develop Bar Association’s litigation president and director of TV programming for Sony section. Finkelstein serves the Legal Action Center, a ELLIOTT J. HAHN, LL.M., was Pictures Television. He served as a director at Podvey, nonprofit public interest law re-elected first vice president as co-chairman and CEO of Fox Meanor, Catenacci, Hildner, firm focused on civil rights of the AEA International Filmed Entertainment before Cocoziello & Chattman in advocacy for people with histo- Lawyers Network, an asso- moving to Sony Pictures at the Newark, N.J. He specializes ries of addiction, HIV/AIDS, or ciation of more than 2,500 beginning of 2013. in commercial litigation. criminal records. law offices from around the world. Elliott, who serves as TOM TEICHOLZ recently DAVID E. WARREN was named managing partner at Hahn received a Southern California to The Best Lawyers in Law in Torrance, Calif., was Journalism Award from America list for 2014. Warren also named a top lawyer in the Los Angeles Press Club serves as senior counsel at the labor and employment for his Jewish Journal col- Follow us Verrill Dana in Portland, law field by American Lawyer umn “Lessons from Arthur on Twitter Maine. He focuses his practice Media in 2013. This past Schnitzler’s Vienna.” Teicholz @ColumbiaLaw on general corporate law and November, he married Leah is a writer and film producer transactional matters. Ellenhorn Stromberg. in Los Angeles. His work has

66 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 appeared in The New York on environmental law mat- ously served as bishop of the Times Magazine, Interview, ters involving real estate, Diocese of Gaylord, Mich. and The Huffington Post, development, and land use among other publications. issues. He practices at Wolff ROBERT HERBST was named & Samson in West Orange, N.J., a semifinalist for the AAU ALAINE S. WILLIAMS, LL.M., was and serves as co-chair of the James E. Sullivan Award, named to The Best Lawyers firm’s environmental group. which honors the nation’s in America list for 2014. outstanding amateur athlete. Williams serves as a partner at JACE WEAVER recently pub- Herbst is a 26-time national Willig, Williams & Davidson lished The Red Atlantic: powerlifting champion. He in Philadelphia. She focuses American Indigenes and the recently earned first place her practice on labor and Making of the Modern World, in the 50 to 54 age-group at employment law. 1000-1927 (University of the AAU World Powerlifting CRAIG W. WEINLEIN, LL.M., was North Carolina Press: 2014). Championships. Herbst 1981 named the executive director The book focuses on the piv- serves as an attorney at of The Sedona Conference, otal role Native Americans Hogan Law Associates in a nonprofit research and throughout the Atlantic region New York City. educational institute focused played in shaping the course on the areas of antitrust of history. Weaver serves as SAMUEL C. HOI was named law, complex litigation, and the Franklin Professor of president of the Maryland intellectual property rights. Native American Studies at the Institute College of Art. He will He also serves as chairman University of Georgia. begin serving in that role this of its board of directors. summer. Hoi is currently presi- Before joining the organiza- 1983 dent of Otis College of Art and tion full time earlier this year, PAULA FRANZESE was one of Design in Los Angeles. Weinlein served as a partner at 26 law professors recently Carrington, Coleman, Sloman featured in the book What the DANIELLA LEVINE recently & Blumenthal in Dallas. Best Law Teachers Do. The announced her campaign for MARK W. BAYER was named publication is the result of a county commissioner in District co-chair of the trial practice 1982 four-year study to identify the 8 of Florida’s Miami-Dade group at Gardere Wynne Sewell TOM AMIS recently joined Mercer methods, strategies, and per- County. Levine is the founder of in Dallas. Bayer, who serves as Thompson as a partner in the sonal traits of professors whose Catalyst Miami, a nonprofit a partner at the firm, specializes firm’s Washington, D.C., office. students are exceptionally organization that helps com- in complex commercial litiga- Amis focuses his practice on successful in the classroom. munities develop strategies tion. He was also recently rec- the renewable energy sector, Franzese serves as the Peter for social, educational, and ognized as a top lawyer by The helping infrastructure com- W. Rodino Professor of Law economic improvement. Best Lawyers in America, Texas panies develop and finance at Seton Hall University Super Lawyers magazine, and projects, with a particular School of Law. STACY D. PHILLIPS was named Chambers USA. emphasis on electric power to the 2012 “Women Leaders projects. He previously served BERNARD A. HEBDA was in Law” list by The Recorder, JAMES M. MARGOLIN was as a partner at Cooley. recently named the coadjutor a legal newspaper based in named chief public information archbishop of the Archdiocese San Francisco. Phillips is a officer at the U.S. Attorney’s DENNIS M. TOFT was recently of Newark, N.J., by Pope founder of Phillips Lerner, a Office for the Southern District named one of New Jersey’s top Francis I. As coadjutor, law firm based in Los Angeles. of New York. Margolin previ- five real estate attorneys by The Hebda will automatically She serves as managing princi- ously served as a public informa- News Funnel, a website that become archbishop upon pal of the firm, and her prac - tion officer at the Federal Bureau highlights real estate, public the retirement, transfer, or tice is focused on family law, of Investigation’s New York field relations, and marketing news. death of the archdiocese’s custody matters, arbitration, office for 18 years. Toft was selected for his work current archbishop. He previ- and mediation.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 67 1987 HARRY T. WALTERS was Arista Power, a Rochester, N.Y., practice. He is also a mem- MICHAEL A. LEHMANN received named a managing director at company that develops and sells ber of the firm’s estates and the Lawyers Alliance for New Morgan Stanley in New York power management systems, personal practice. Zirinis York’s 2013 Cornerstone City. Walters, who also serves as renewable energy storage sys- specializes in family business Award. He was honored co-head of wealth management tems, and solar energy systems. governance and transition, for his work advocating on litigation at Morgan Stanley, Greenstein serves as president of trust and estate litigation, behalf of the organization previously served as an execu- Genie Energy in Newark, N.J. and international estate and in connection with the New tive director at the company. trust planning. York legislature’s 2013 revi- RICHARD KREINDLER joined sion of the Not-for-Profit ROB WILLIAMS recently began the Frankfurt office of Cleary 1986 Corporations Law. Lehmann serving as a partner in resi - Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as NANCY J. LABEN was recently serves as a partner at Manatt, dence with Columbia Law a partner this past summer. named executive vice president Phelps & Phillips in New School’s Office of Career Kreindler specializes in and general counsel of Booz York City. He is a member of Services and Professional international arbitration and Allen Hamilton in McLean, the firm’s tax, employee ben- Development. In this role, he litigation. He also serves as a Va. She was also appointed efits, and global compensa- helps to mentor third-year Law professor at the University of as a member of the com- tion practice group. School students seeking career Münster in Germany. pany’s executive management advice and guidance during committee. Laben previously JOSEPH A. SULLIVAN recently their search for employment. PHILIP N. MEYER, LL.M., recently served as general counsel at received the Pro Bono Williams, a former partner published Storytelling for AECOM Technologies, an Services Award from the at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Lawyers (Oxford University engineering, design, and Legal Services Corporation, McCloy, currently serves as a Press: 2014). In the book, architecture company. a nonprofit organization that consultant to that firm. which is intended for legal funds civil legal aid for those practitioners, teachers, law MATT MILLER announced his in financial need. Sullivan, 1985 students, and interdisciplinary campaign to become the U.S. who serves as special counsel academics, he explains how representative for the 33rd con- and director of pro bono litigators can improve their gressional district of California. services in the Philadelphia arguments by constructing Miller, a columnist for The office of Pepper Hamilton, and implementing cohesive Washington Post and host of the was honored for coordinating narratives. Meyer serves as a weekly radio show “Left, Right, all aspects of his firm’s pro professor of law at Vermont & Center,” made the announce- bono legal services, as well Law School. ment this past February. If as for his work with several elected, he will fill the seat left public interest organizations JAMES A. WILSON was named vacant by Congressman Henry and committees. to The Best Lawyers in Waxman, who will retire later America list for 2014. Wilson this year. 1988 serves as a partner at Vorys, JAN SCHANS CHRISTENSEN, Sater, Seymour and Pease in JONATHAN JACOB NADLER LL.M., was named a justice ELIZABETH CLARK recently Columbus, Ohio. He specializes recently traveled to Myanmar of the Supreme Court of joined Allen Matkins as in antitrust litigation and to help advise that country’s Denmark. He previously served senior counsel in the firm’s antitrust law. government on the selec- as a professor of corporate law San Francisco office. Clark, tion and licensing of two at the University of Copenhagen. a member of Allen Matkins’ BASIL P. ZIRINIS III recently operators required to deploy Christensen is also a member real estate department, previ- joined Sullivan & Cromwell’s nationwide telecommunica- of the board of the Danish ously served as a partner at London office. Zirinis, who tions networks. Nadler cur- Arbitration Association. Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley. previously served as a partner rently serves as a partner in in the firm’s Manhattan office, the Washington, D.C., office of JEFFREY R. PILKINGTON IRA A. GREENSTEIN was named leads Sullivan & Cromwell’s Squire Sanders. He specializes in was recently appointed as a to the board of directors for international private client telecommunications regulation. (continued on page 70)

68 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 BETSY PEARCE ’91 IN STYLE

As a legal adviser to fashion designers and luxury in the world of high fashion provided a catalyst for Pearce brands, Betsy Pearce ’91 maintains a client list that mir- to start her own firm in 2003. rors the labels found in a style maven’s closet. She rep - Pearce now divides her time between New York City resented Alexander McQueen when his company was and Paris, where her office is located on the top floor of acquired by the Gucci Group. Pearce advised designer a 17th-century building and offers sweeping views of the Carolina Herrera, as well as designers for Christian Dior, city. A presence in both locations is a great asset, she Louis Vuitton, and Balenciaga. She also worked with says, as most transactions she works on take place in the management teams in the acquisitions of Bally and Europe, and clients are usually European or American. Jimmy Choo. Pearce adds that striking out on her own with a focus “This job requires an unusual package of skills and inter- on law and fashion allowed her to create a unique pro- ests,” says the Minnesota native from her office in Paris. fessional niche. “I’m fortunate to work with top talent in “Representing a designer selling his namesake company an industry without layers of agents and managers,” she involves more than corporate, employment, and trademark says. “The combination of professional challenges and the issues. The relationship can also be deeply personal when clients’ appreciation is very fulfilling. I love what I do.” the client is facing a critical life transition.” Pearce began her legal career as a clerk at the STRIKING OUT ON HER OWN WITH A FOCUS federal district court level before becoming an ON LAW AND FASHION ALLOWED PEARCE TO associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She then CREATE A UNIQUE PROFESSIONAL NICHE. moved to a boutique entertainment law firm, where she worked extensively with its client Prada on legal issues related to its global adver- tising campaigns. That professional experience

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PHOTOGRAPHED BY GREGG DELMAN LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 69 Colorado district court judge GLADE A. JACOBSEN was association and manages MACK PAUL was recently named for the state’s 1st Judicial recently named a managing law firm programs for the to The Best Lawyers in America District. Pilkington previ- director at Goldman Sachs INTA. Hamburg practices list. Paul was recognized for ously served as a partner in the in New York City. He also law at Norris McLaughlin his work in land use issues, Denver office of Davis Graham currently serves as the com- & Marcus in New York City. zoning matters, and real estate & Stubbs. While at the firm, he pany’s vice president and She specializes in litigation, law. He serves as a partner at specialized in complex litiga- assistant general counsel. intellectual property, and Morningstar Law Group in tion, including products liabil- Internet law. Morrisville, N.C., and is a ity matters, personal injury S. WHITNEY RAHMAN joined frequent writer and speaker on claims, and environmental Blakinger, Byler & Thomas in LISA A. LEVY received the 2013 urban planning, transportation, toxic torts cases. Lancaster, Pa., as chair of the Cornerstone Award from the and policy matters. firm’s employment and labor Lawyers Alliance for New 1989 law practice. She previously York. She was honored for her 1992 ASHBY D. BOYLE II was named served as a partner at Roland work providing tax exemption president of George Wythe Stock in Reading, Pa. and incorporation guidance University in Salt Lake City. to nonprofit organizations, in He also serves as Professor SIMONE WU was recently recog- addition to providing these of Constitutional Studies, nized in The Legal 500 United organizations with advice on Religion, and Society at the States—Corporate Counsel governance and intellectual school. Boyle previously 100, a publication listing the property law matters. Levy worked as an attorney adviser top 100 in-house counsels in serves as a tax partner at at the U.S. District Court for the United States. Wu serves Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver the District of Utah. as senior vice president, gen- & Jacobson in New York City. eral counsel, and corporate GEORGE S. CANELLOS recently secretary at Choice Hotels 1991 joined Milbank, Tweed, International, one of the world’s JAMES I. COHEN was recently Hadley & McCloy as a partner largest lodging franchises. named to The Best Lawyers RAYMOND R. FERRELL was and global head of the firm’s in America list for 2014. recently named executive litigation department. He 1990 Cohen, who serves as a vice president-general counsel previously served as co-chief AVRAHAM AZRIELI, LL.M., partner at Verrill Dana in and corporate secretary at of enforcement at the U.S. recently released the novel Portland, Maine, was also Dex Media, a marketing firm Securities and Exchange Thump (CreateSpace named one of New England’s in Dallas. Ferrell is also a Commission. Before joining Independent Publishing: top attorneys by Super member of the company’s the SEC, Canellos was a liti- 2014). The book focuses on a Lawyers magazine. He spe- executive committee. He gation partner at Milbank. sexual harassment trial set in cializes in banking and finan- previously served as vice Baltimore. Azrieli has written cial services, public utility president-associate gen- CAROLYN HOCHSTADTER DICKER seven other books, including regulation, government and eral counsel for commercial served as a judge and moder - The Mormon Candidate, The public relations, and alterna- operations at SuperMedia, ator at the Wharton Business Jerusalem Inception, and The tive dispute resolution. an advertising agency also and Law Association’s Masada Complex. located in Dallas. second annual confer- ANTONIO D. MARTINI was ence. Hochstadter Dicker, JEANNE M. HAMBURG was elected president of the MICHAEL F. SILVA was recently a lecturer at the Wharton appointed chair of the National Association of Bond named vice president, chief School, also planned the con- International Trademark Lawyers. Martini, who serves regulatory officer, and com- ference’s Case Competition. Association’s (INTA) law as head of the public finance pliance leader at GE Capital She currently works as a solo firm committee. The com- tax practice at Edwards in Norwalk, Conn. Silva practitioner specializing in mittee works to provide Wildman Palmer in Boston, previously served as senior business law, employment member-benefit advice to will begin his one-year term supervisory officer at the matters, and bankruptcy. law firms affiliated with the in September. Federal Reserve Bank.

70 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 class of: ’94

RICHARD HSU ’94 STREAMLINED CONCEPTS

When attorney Richard Hsu ’94 first decided to create in San Francisco, which provided professional lighting and intellectual property law tutorials for his blog, sound, as well as a translucent drawing table for Maya. www.hsutube.com, he enlisted the services of an Since then, the blog has garnered industry atten - unlikely assistant—his 13-year-old daughter, Maya. tion. The Recorder, a California-based legal newspaper, Though his teenager has no legal expertise, she is a featured Hsu’s website this past summer in a story on talented artist, and Hsu hoped Maya’s drawings could innovative law firm blogs, and he recently presented a help summarize complicated IP concepts that can lecture for the Legal Marketing Association. But Hsu notes sometimes be hard to understand. that the project was also an important father-daughter “I’m always thinking about how I can illustrate points to bonding experience. my clients,” he says. “I always try to think of things in the “When we first started,” he says, “[Maya] was like, ‘Is simplest terms.” this what you do? Your job seems pretty simple!’” Hsu, a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Palo Alto, began blogging in 2011 as a way to learn about new technologies. HSU HOPED HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER’S The former programmer says he had fallen out of touch with DRAWINGS COULD HELP SUMMARIZE the tech industry after several years primarily focused on COMPLICATED IP CONCEPTS THAT CAN practicing law. His first posts on HsuTube were no-frills SOMETIMES BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. written summaries of various legal topics. In 2012, Hsu began creating a set of videos, each explaining a specific IP law concept in three minutes or less. - Henar rated while Maya illustrated the concepts on a piece of paper. The videos were initially homemade—Hsu shot the footage with his own digital camera—but as the tutorials grew more popular, the duo moved to a production studio

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 71 1993 1997 JEFFREY A. GREENBAUM was Partnership, a state agency ously worked as of counsel at recently elected chairman that works to protect and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. of the Global Advertising restore the ecosystem of Lawyers Alliance, a network Washington’s Puget Sound. PAUL H. COHEN recently of independent law firms She previously served as a city joined Perkins Coie as a with expertise in com- administrator in Bellevue, partner in the firm’s New plex legal issues affecting Wash., and as a policy adviser. York City office. He focuses advertisers and market- In her previous role, she his practice on international ers. Greenbaum serves as worked on the creation of arbitration matters, includ- the managing partner at environmental indicators and ing both commercial and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & targets, as well as on issues investor-state oil and gas Selz in New York City. He is a involving environmental and disputes. He is also a member member of the firm’s adver- corporate responsibility. of the firm’s business litiga- tising, marketing, and public ARTHUR F. MCMAHON III was tion practice group. Cohen relations practice group. KAARINA STÅHLBERG, LL.M., named to The Best Lawyers previously served as a partner was named general counsel in America list for 2014. in the New York City office of of Fortum Corporation, an McMahon serves as a partner Thompson & Knight. energy company based in at Taft Stettinius & Hollister Finland. Ståhlberg was also in Cincinnati. He specializes appointed to Fortum’s man- in corporate governance and agement team. She previously securities matters. served as assistant general counsel at Nokia. TZVI ROKEACH was named partner at Kramer Levin 1996 Naftalis & Frankel in New KEITH AGISIM was recently York City. Rokeach currently named one of the country’s specializes in real estate law, top 100 in-house counsels by with a focus on real estate ALYCIA M. VIVONA was recently The Legal 500. Agisim, who financings, workouts and named partner at Stradley serves as chief IP counsel at restructurings, large-scale Ronon Stevens & Young in Bank of America, was hon- development and construc- GEOFFREY T. MUKAE joined Washington, D.C. Vivona ored for his work in estab - tion projects, joint ventures, the Honolulu office of Alston focuses her practice on corpo- lishing widely used patent and acquisitions. He previ- Hunt Floyd & Ing as of rate matters, including complex procurement policies, and for ously served as a special counsel. Mukae specializes mergers and acquisitions, cor- assisting Congress with the counsel at the firm. in corporate and business porate restructurings, secured Patent Reform Bill, among transactions, banking and lending, and intellectual property other accomplishments. 1998 finance issues, and mergers licensing. She has represented DENISE E. BACKHOUSE recently and acquisitions. He previ- foreign and domestic clients BRAD MELTZER recently pub- joined the New York City office ously served as a partner at in cross-border transactions lished the children’s books of Littler & Mendelson as a Carlsmith Ball in Honolulu. involving numerous countries, I Am Amelia Earhart and I shareholder and eDiscovery including China, France, and Am Abraham Lincoln (Dial: counsel. Backhouse also serves 1999 Japan. Vivona previously served 2014). The books are part of as a guest lecturer and adjunct THOMAS HEALY recently as of counsel at the firm. the literary series “Ordinary professor at the Benjamin published The Great Dissent, People Change the World.” N. Cardozo School of Law, which focuses on U.S. 1995 Meltzer is a New York Times where she teaches courses Supreme Court Justice Oliver SHEIDA R. SAHANDY was best-selling author and host on international eDiscovery, Wendell Holmes’ journey recently named executive of the television show Brad data protection, and informa- from free-speech opponent director of the Puget Sound Meltzer’s Decoded. tion governance. She previ- (continued on page 74)

72 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 LIVIA ANGIOLILLO ’11 COMMON GROUND

As the co-founder and director of operations for Shortly after Uncommon Collegiate opened its doors, Uncommon Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn’s 98 percent of the school’s ninth-grade students passed Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Livia Angiolillo ’11 their geometry Regents exam, compared to the overall greets each of her 111 students every morning by name. New York City average of 58 percent. Angiolillo credits “I’m the first person they see,” Angiolillo explains, noting successes like these to Uncommon’s focus on individu- the inclusive approach the high school has implemented alized attention and its emphasis on the importance of since its founding in 2012. “I don’t go five minutes without earning admittance to a four-year college. talking to a student.” “At the end of the day, you realize ‘our kids are going Uncommon Collegiate is part of Uncommon Schools, to make it,’ and that’s what everyone is working towards,” a network of 38 charter educational institutions in she says. “There’s a lot of hard work, but a lot of joy.” underperforming school districts and low-income areas throughout the Northeast. Angiolillo, who holds an M.A. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU REALIZE and an Ed.M. from Teachers College, in addition to her ‘OUR KIDS ARE GOING TO MAKE IT.’” law degree, became involved with Uncommon as a —LIVIA ANGIOLILLO summer operations fellow in 2009. During the next few years, she worked closely with Uncommon administrators to establish multiple schools throughout Brooklyn and was awarded a yearlong fellowship to build Uncommon Collegiate. In her current role, Angiolillo is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the school, including overseeing its annual budget, supervising staff hiring, and maintaining relationships with students and families.

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 73 2003 to First Amendment advo- ARIN GREENWOOD recently complex white-collar crime FAISAL BALOCH, LL.M., was cate. The book was selected published her second book, cases. From 2003 to 2007, named counsel at Davis Polk as a New York Times Book Save the Enemy, which is her Boulware worked for the in Hong Kong. Baloch, who is Review “editor’s choice” and debut in the young adult novel Federal Defenders of New a member of the firm’s corpo- was named one of the 15 best genre. Greenwood serves as York, a nonprofit organi- rate department, specializes nonfiction books of 2013 an editor at HuffPost DC in zation that provides free in U.S. securities laws and by The Christian Science Washington, D.C. representation throughout international capital markets. Monitor. Healy serves as a the Southern and Eastern He previously served as an professor of law at Seton Hall SAM LICHTMAN was named a Districts of New York. associate at the firm. University School of Law. partner at Haynes and Boone in New York City. Lichtman JOSHUA A. KAUFMAN was DIANA M. ENG was recently 2000 specializes in mergers and named counsel at Skadden, named of counsel at Blank STACEY A. BELL was named a acquisitions, corporate Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Rome in New York City. partner at BakerHostetler in restructurings, and joint ven- in New York City. Kaufman Eng, who previously served New York City. Bell specializes tures, with an emphasis on represents U.S. and foreign as a senior associate at Weil, in complex commercial litiga- international transactions. private issuers, investment Gotshal & Manges, is a mem- tion, including white-collar banks, and institutional ber of Blank Rome’s consumer defense, securities class action 2001 investors in a wide variety of finance litigation group. She lawsuits, products liability cases, GLEN A. KOPP recently joined securities transactions. He is represents mortgage loan and fraudulent conveyance the New York City office of a member of the firm’s cor - servicers and lenders in all actions. She previously served Bracewell & Giuliani as a porate finance practice. aspects of litigation across as an associate at the firm. partner. Kopp is a member multiple jurisdictions. of the firm’s white-collar, VANDANA RUPANI, LL.M., was JEREMY A. COHEN recently internal investigations, and recently named a partner received a distinguished service regulatory enforcement prac- at Norton Rose Fulbright. award from the New York State tice. He specializes in regula- Rupani, who is based in the Bar Association’s committee tory enforcement matters, firm’s Dubai office, assists cli- on law, youth, and citizenship. criminal proceedings, and ents in establishing business He was recognized for his 16 litigation and internal inves- presences in the United Arab years of volunteer service at tigations relating to financial Emirates. She also advises on Legal Outreach, Inc., a nonprofit institutions, among other joint ventures, acquisitions, organization that helps New matters. Kopp previously corporate governance issues, York City high school students served as an assistant U.S. and other matters. from underserved populations Attorney for the Southern to develop legal skills—includ- District of New York. IRA K. TEICHER was named a ing persuasive writing, critical partner at Stroock & Stroock & JAMILA M. HALL MCKNIGHT thinking, and public speaking. 2002 Lavan in Miami. Teicher, who was named a partner at Cohen serves as an associate RICHARD F. BOULWARE II previously served as an associ- Jones Day in Atlanta. Hall at Kramer Levin Naftalis & was recently nominated by ate at the firm, is a member of McKnight specializes in Frankel in New York City. President Barack Obama to Stroock’s real estate practice white-collar crime mat- serve on the United States group. He currently focuses his ters and business litigation. District Court for the District practice on the representation Before joining Jones Day of Nevada. Boulware cur- of developers and investors in in 2012, she served as an rently serves as an assistant connection with a wide array assistant U.S. Attorney in the attorney at the federal public of real estate matters, including Northern District of Georgia. Follow us defender’s office in Las the acquisition, disposition, on Twitter Vegas. He has worked as development, financing, and YAKOV MIROCZNIK was recently @ColumbiaLaw a federal public defender management of commercial and named managing director at since 2007, focusing on residential real estate assets. Barclays Capital in New York

74 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 2006 City. Mirocznik, who joined Prior to joining Frankfurt Anyetei also welcomed her REBECCA L. AVITIA was the company more than Kurnit, Pisacane served as an son, Stephen Christian Leak, recently appointed execu- five years ago, is also the associate at Sloss Eckhouse this past year. tive director of the National Americas head of Barclays Brennan LawCo and at Hispanic Cultural Center in Investment Bank’s financial Cravath, Swaine & Moore. MATTHEW J. BACAL was named Albuquerque, N.M. Avitia pre- structuring group. counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell viously served as a shareholder in New York City. Bacal, who is a at Montgomery & Andrews, GAIL D. STEINER married Roger member of the firm’s corporate also in Albuquerque. She S. Levine this past winter department, focuses his practice specialized in business, real at the New York Botanical on intellectual property, technol- estate, insurance, health law, Garden. Steiner, who has ogy matters, and media-related and employment litigation at worked as general counsel at issues. He previously served as the firm. the Nashville-based media an associate at the firm. company Young Broadcasting, THEODORE S. GEIGER married has also served as assistant Deborah Leiderman this counsel to New York Governor past winter in New York City. Andrew M. Cuomo. Geiger serves as an associ- ate at Hahn & Hessen in 2004 BENJAMIN L. STEWART recently Manhattan. He specializes in SAYAN BHATTACHARYYA was joined the Dallas law firm commercial litigation matters. named a partner at Stroock Bailey Brauer as counsel. & Stroock & Lavan in New Stewart, who previously DAN KROCKMALNIC recently York City. Bhattacharyya served as senior counsel in joined Arrowood Peters, specializes in corporate and the Fort Worth, Texas, office a Boston-based boutique financial restructuring. He of Kelly Hart & Hallman, litigation firm, as an asso- previously served as an asso- focuses his practice on com- ciate. Krockmalnic previ- ciate at the firm. plex commercial litigation JAMES P. BURNETT was named ously served as an associate and bankruptcy matters. partner at Latham & Watkins at Ropes & Gray, where he in London. Burnett serves as specialized in business and 2005 a member of the firm’s cor - securities litigation. porate department. He spe- cializes in the representation JASON SENGHEISER, LL.M., of investment banks, private received the National equity firms, and companies Outstanding Young Lawyer in public and private debt, Award from the American as well as equity offerings, Bar Association’s Young bridge loans, acquisition Lawyers Division. Sengheiser financing, and liability serves as a law clerk for the management transactions. Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and as an MAGGIE PISACANE was named CHRISTOPHER WIMMER founded adjunct faculty member at a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Emergent Legal this past Fontbonne University. Klein & Selz in New York City. October in San Francisco. The Pisacane serves as a member MELISSA ANYETEI was named law firm represents new and 2007 of the firm’s entertainment partner at Mayer Brown established businesses in the SYLVIE C. GOURSAUD group. She specializes in in Chicago. She specializes Bay Area. Wimmer previously recently received the 2013 film and television develop- in patent litigation, patent served as a senior associate at Cornerstone Award from the ment, financing, production, portfolio strategy, and intel- Taylor & Company Law Offices Lawyers Alliance for New distribution, and branding. lectual property licensing. in San Francisco. York. She was recognized

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 75 for her pro bono work with in Brooklyn. Kornreich serves as a litigation associate. He previ- several nonprofit organiza- a litigation associate at Skadden, ously served as an associate tions, including the New York Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in at Connors & Vilardo, which Immigration Coalition and Manhattan. Podolsky joined the is also located in Buffalo. He the New York State Immigrant New York City office of Davis has taught courses related to Action Fund. Goursand serves Polk & Wardwell as a litigation health law and public policy as a senior associate at Hogan associate in December. at Canisius College and the Lovells in Paris. She specializes University at Buffalo. in litigation. MATTHEW O. WILLIAMS mar- 2008 ried Paul J. Berg this past winter in Manhattan. Williams serves as an asso- ciate at Cravath, Swaine & MARY U. IROZURU was named Moore in New York City. He a 2014 “Rising Star” by Texas specializes in tax law. Super Lawyers magazine. The honor recognizes young 2010 lawyers who have attained a DONNA AZOULAY ZWECKER high degree of peer recognition married Randy Zwecker and professional achievement. DILEN KUMAR was recently this past November at the Irozuru serves as an associate honored as a 2014 “Rising Temple Israel of Lawrence at Bell Nunnally & Martin in Star” by Texas Super Lawyers in Lawrence, N.Y. Azoulay Dallas. She currently focuses magazine. The recognition Zwecker recently completed her practice on the representa- KEVIN T. CREWS was recently highlights the work of attor- a clerkship with Justice tion of clients in a broad range named to the 2014 “Rising Star” neys who have practiced for Marcy S. Friedman of the of transactional issues, business list by Texas Super Lawyers mag- a decade or less. Kumar cur - Commercial Division of New contract dealings, and entity azine. The list includes attorneys rently serves as an associate York County Supreme Court. governance matters. with a high degree of professional at Weil, Gotshal & Manges She previously served as a lit - achievement who have practiced in Dallas. He focuses his igation associate in the New 2012 law for 10 years or less. Crews practice on public and private York City office of Faust, EVAN R. KREINER married serves as an associate at Weil, acquisitions, divestitures, Goetz, Schenker & Blee. Rachel Suzanne Berkowitz this Gotshal & Manges in Dallas. He and investment transactions. past November in Manalapan, focuses his practice on a wide 2011 Fla. Kreiner also recently began range of mergers and acquisitions MARK HOBEL recently joined serving as a law clerk for Judge and private equity transactions. the U.S. Justice Department’s Cathy Seibel of the Southern National Security Division District of New York. He previ- 2009 as an attorney in the divi- ously worked as an associate at PHILIP ELLENBOGEN married sion’s law and policy office. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Rachel Emma Weitzner this In this role, Hobel helps to & Flom in New York City. past summer in Livingston, develop and implement the N.J. Ellenbogen serves as an Justice Department’s policies associate specializing in litiga- with regard to intelligence, Join Columbia tion at Kramer Levin Naftalis counterterrorism, and vari- Law School Alumni on & Frankel in New York City. ous other national security Facebook to matters. He was also selected receive news and updates. MOLLIE MELISSA KORNREICH ERIC M. SOEHNLEIN joined as a member of the Justice law.columbia.edu married MATTHEW DAVID Lippes Mathias Wexler Department’s Attorney /mag/fb PODOLSKY ’09 this past autumn Friedman in Buffalo, N.Y., as General’s Honors Program.

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between government work in before joining Polier Midonick & Gerard Arnoth Weiss ’34 Washington, D.C., and his private Zinsser as a name partner in 1946. Freda Silbowitz DECEMBER 2, 2013 practice in Tarrytown, N.Y. Midonick became a family Hertz ’38 Predeceased by Emily, his wife court judge in 1962. A cham- DECEMBER 11, 2013 Gerard (Gerry) Arnoth Weiss ’34 of 68 years, Weiss is survived by pion of the rights of children and was a skilled lawyer specializing his daughters, Star, Emily, and women, he famously criticized Freda Silbowitz Hertz ’38 was a in corporate law who investigated Bonnie; his sons, John and a New York statute that made it Manhattan family court judge the war crimes of German chemi- Rod; 11 grandchildren; and virtually impossible to prosecute and former president of the New cal conglomerate IG Farben. He three great-grandchildren. violent sex offenders. Elected to York Women’s Bar Association. passed away on December 2, the Surrogate’s Court in 1972, She passed away on December 2013, at the age of 100. Midonick handled hundreds of 11, 2013, at the age of 98. Weiss grew up in Irvington and high-profile estate cases. The best Born in the Bronx in 1915, North Tarrytown, N.Y. By 1934, known of these was a dispute Hertz graduated Phi Beta Kappa he had graduated from both between the children of abstract from Hunter College in 1935. Columbia College and Columbia expressionist Mark Rothko and When she earned her J.D. from Law School. That same year, at the executors of his estate. In Columbia Law School in 1938, the age of 21, Weiss became one 1975, Midonick found in favor Hertz was one of 16 women in of the youngest lawyers ever of the Rothko children. He also her class. After being admit- admitted to the New York State presided over disputes involving ted to the bar that year, Hertz bar. He then began private prac- the estates of poet W.H. Auden began practicing law in New tice in Westchester County, N.Y. and composer Igor Stravinsky. York City, focusing on matri- Beginning in 1945, Weiss spent Midonick joined Willkie Farr monial and family law. In 1973, two years in Berlin as chief of the Millard L. Midonick ’36 & Gallagher as of counsel after then-New York City Mayor Alien Property Custodian Mis- JANUARY 18, 2014 stepping down from the bench in John Lindsay appointed her sion in the Office of the Military 1982. He then served as of counsel as an interim civil court judge Government of the U.S. The Millard (Will) L. Midonick ’36 at both Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon in Manhattan Family Court. department administered the was a judge for both Manhat- & Kaplan and Fensterstock & Hertz continued to practice law restitution of property belonging tan family and surrogate courts, Partners. Maintaining lifelong in New York City after stepping to America’s wartime enemies. and a longtime member of the ties to Columbia Law School, down from the bench. As head of the investigation that Columbia Law School Board Midonick was an adjunct profes- A longtime member of the New uncovered the chemical cartel of Visitors. He passed away on sor from 1980 to 1982 and served York Women’s Bar Association, IG Farben’s involvement in war January 18, 2014, at the age of 99. on the Law School’s Alumni she served as the organization’s crimes, Weiss questioned Nazi Midonick was born in Man- Association board of directors president from 1963 to 1964. The war criminals such as architect hattan in 1914. He served in the from 1970 to 1978. He was also chair of several committees, Hertz Albert Speer, who had overseen Coast Guard during World War II a member of the Law School’s also organized a United Nations the Third Reich’s production of as the commanding officer of the Board of Visitors from 1997 until reception for visiting members of weapons and war supplies, and IG U.S.S. Brownsville. After graduat- the time of his death. the British bar. Farben CEO Hermann Schmitz. ing from Columbia College and Midonick is survived by his Hertz is survived by her nieces Following his return to the the Law School, he worked at the wife, Jill Claster Midonick, and and a nephew, as well as members U.S., Weiss divided his time National Labor Relations Board several nieces and nephews. of her extended family.

78 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 Pike was instrumental in cases, led environmental advo- honorary director of the Colum- Otis G. Pike ’48 passing legislation that created cacy groups, and taught envi- bia Journal of Environmental JANUARY 20, 2014 New York’s Fire Island National ronmental law at Columbia Law, Sive contributed greatly to Seashore in 1964. In 1980, Law School. He passed away on the Law School’s leadership in Otis G. Pike ’48 was a nine-term Congress designated 1,380 acres March 12, 2014, at the age of 91. the field of environmental law. U.S. congressman from Long of that area the Otis Pike High Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in A committed environmental Island. He passed away on Jan- Dune Wilderness. 1922, Sive was a World War activist and former chairman uary 20, 2014, at the age of 92. Pike was predeceased by his II veteran and a Purple Heart of the Atlantic chapter of the Pike was born in Riverhead, first wife, Doris Orth, and his recipient. After earning his J.D. Sierra Club, he helped found N.Y. He served as a fighter pilot son Robert. He is survived by in 1948, he joined Seligson, the Natural Resources Defense during World War II before his second wife, Barbe Bonjour Morris & Neuberger. In 1962, Council, the Environmental earning his J.D. from Columbia Pike; his son Douglas; and Sive co-founded the leading Law Institute, and other nota- Law School. After making his two grandchildren. environmental law firm known ble environmental groups. initial bid for the House of Rep- today as Sive, Paget & Riesel. Sive is survived by his wife, resentatives in 1958, Pike was In the 1960s, Sive was a Mary Robinson Sive; his sons elected as a Democrat in 1960. He member of the legal team that Alfred, Walter, and Theodore; went on to represent New York’s blocked construction of a power his daughters Rebecca and predominantly Republican 1st plant at Storm King Mountain on Helen; and six grandchildren. congressional district until 1979. the Hudson River. Spurred by his As a congressman, Pike drew love of the wilderness, Sive then public attention to the inflated worked on a landmark case that prices the Pentagon was paying stopped construction of the pro- please email for hardware. His efforts pushed posed Hudson River Expressway. In Memoriam notifications to the Defense Department to He also argued before the U.S. [email protected] reform its purchasing policies. As Supreme Court against a 1971 with “In Memoriam” in the subject line. chairman of the House Select nuclear test explosion in Alaska. Committee on Intelligence, he David Sive ’48 That case helped lead the U.S. to As part of this email, please be certain to include the MARCH 12, 2014 also led the first significant House cease conducting such tests. full name of the deceased, investigation into CIA abuses, As an adjunct faculty member the year of graduation from which, at the time, ranged from David Sive ’48, who was known at Columbia Law School, an origi- the Law School, and the approximate date of death. illegal spying on citizens to as the father of modern envi- nal member of its Environmental assassination attempts. ronmental law, argued landmark Advisory Committee, and an

ASHLEY B. CARRICK ’35 WARREN E. HEWITT ’50 REMBERT SAM REA ’55 LL.M. H. JOSEPH FLATAU ’59 NORMAN C. BENSLEY ’69 May 18, 2013 September 3, 2013 January 10, 2014 December 5, 2013 October 28, 2013

JEROME B. SHERMAN ’40 ARTHUR L. KIMMELFIELD ’51 EUGENE F. SCOLES ’55 J.S.D. FRANCIS P. KING ’59 BARRY S. WILLDORF ’69 September 1, 2013 September 8, 2013 October 11, 2013 July 19, 2013 February 1, 2014

TOBIAS WEISS ’41 ELIOT H. LUMBARD ’52 ALFRED E. SIIK ’55 WALTER C. REID ’59 ARMAND L. ANDRY ’74 July 14, 2013 November 6, 2013 January 16, 2014 June 6, 2013 June 6, 2013

JOHN M. RENNELL ’44 ROBERT P. BRISSON ’53 BARBARA E. STEIN ’55 IRA L. SHARENOW ’59 LINDA BRACKINS-WILLETT June 10, 2013 July 7, 2013 July 24, 2013 August 23, 2013 ’77 LL.M. July 29, 2013 ROBERT M. BOR ’47 RODNEY J. COLLINS ’53 KARL ASCH ’56 DAVID ELIOT LEVINE ’60 May 3, 2013 September 25, 2013 January 28, 2014 June 3, 2013 CLAIRE L. COONS ’77 October 4, 2013 DONALD J. LUNGHINO ’47 LAWRENCE K. FEITELL ’53 JOHN S. CLARK ’56 RUSSELL E. BROOKS ’63 February 18, 2014 October 1, 2013 August 21, 2013 June 8, 2013 BARRETT L. BRICK ’79 September 22, 2013 FERRIS A. ALBERS ’48 DONALD R. LAWRENCE ’53 JOHN A. MITCHELL ’56 DALE S. COLLINSON ’63 October 8, 2013 June 5, 2013 May 12, 2013 JAMES V. HYATT ’80 September 28, 2013 July 1, 2013 ROBERT L. MARLOW ’48 BARBARA CUSHMAN WILLIAM RUBIN ’56 HOWARD L. STEVENS ’63 October 18, 2013 WAXLER ’53 July 25, 2013 LAWRENCE A. KLETTER ’82 September 14, 2013 June 3, 2013 May 12, 2013 WILLIAM LEE AARON D. BERNSTEIN ’57 ROBERT K. ADIKES ’64 MCLANE ’48 LL.M. HERBERT F. DESIMONE ’54 February 9, 2014 SHAWN BERNSTEIN ’88 November 13, 2013 July 16, 2013 November 27, 2013 December 20, 2013 JOEL A. CIBENER ’57 LEONARD N. KALCHEIM ’64 CLYDE EVERETT SHOREY ’49 SAMUEL F. FORTUNATO ’54 June 23, 2013 JONATHAN P. RICH ’88 May 22, 2013 July 23, 2013 January 8, 2014 August 21, 2013 PHILIP T. TEMPLE ’57 JOHN A. FOWLER ’67 WILLIAM A. SUTTON ’49 DOUGLAS M. PHILLIPS ’54 August 16, 2013 DIRK L. VINCENT ’91 June 13, 2013 February 2, 2014 May 3, 2013 February 14, 2013 RICHARD LEE PETER C. SIEGFRIED ’68 JOHN C. BIERWIRTH ’50 MARTIN ZUCKERBROD ’54 RUSSELL ’58 ANDREW M. LOTTMAN ’93 July 23, 2013 May 26, 2013 July 29, 2013 August 10, 2013 May 22, 2013

EDWARD T. BURNS ’50 EDWIN S. BERNSTEIN ’55 WALTER X. STANTON ’58 YALE DAVID TAUBER ’68 GENA VIRGINIA MASON ’10 December 27, 2013 November 27, 2013 January 20, 2014 September 4, 2013 June 28, 2013

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 79 QUESTIONS PRESENTED alumni spotlight Michael I. Sovern ’55

A member of the faculty for nearly six decades, Professor Michael I. Sovern ’55 served as dean of Columbia Law School from 1970 to 1979 and as president of Columbia University from 1980 to 1993. He continues to teach Legal Methods each fall.

WHO HAS BEEN YOUR GREATEST INSPIRATION? My parents. My first and most influential role models, they taught both by example and by explicit guid- ance. Loving and supportive, they gave me confidence. When my father died, my mother had to earn a living while raising my 8-year-old sister and me, a 12-year-old, by herself. Selflessly devoted to us, she still left us ample room to grow. Unlike her son, she was a modest woman and wouldn’t have dreamed of calling herself an inspiration. But she was, a truly extraordinary one.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? Getting up each morning and looking forward to the day.

WHY DID YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL? There was nothing high-minded about my decision. I entered law school thinking that if I didn’t like it, I would shift to a Ph.D. in political science, but I fell in love with the law and decided I wanted to be just like my professors.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE LAWYER OF ALL TIME? Charles Evans Hughes. He would be my choice even if he wasn’t one of our alumni. His record of public service has never been matched.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: YOU WOULDN’T CATCH ME DEAD WITH- OUT . . . My glasses. I can’t read without them, and reading is not merely cen- tral to our profession, it is also one of life’s great joys.

ONE THING YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST DO BEFORE YOU DIE? Finish getting my affairs in order. My papers are a mess.

THING FOR WHICH YOU ARE MOST THANKFUL? My family. I am blessed with a nearly perfect wife and children I can happily both love and respect, who have blessed us with grandchildren we naturally think are wonderful.

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