LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 1 Tableof Contents: features 22 42 SHOULD LAW FUTURE, TENSE SCHOOL AT BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK COLUMBIA BE Columbia Law School’s THREE YEARS? Center for Climate Change BY DAVID M. SCHIZER Law, and its Environmental Yes, but only if the second Law Clinic, provide and third years of law upper-year students with school are done right. At an opportunity to be at Columbia Law School, the the forefront of efforts upper-year curriculum to ensure that the city, benefits from unmatched country, and world are connections to the legal better prepared for future profession, interdisciplinary disasters caused by the expertise, and a focus effects of climate change. on comparative and international law. The result 46 is a wealth of opportunities DEEP DIVISIONS that makes a three-year BY PAULA SPAN law school education the Richard R.W. Brooks, who best option for students. joined the faculty this past summer, brings to 26 Columbia Law School a THREE MOVES unique blend of scholarly AHEAD interests and fields of BY AMY FELDMAN expertise. His latest work, Upper-year students which examines the studying corporate and history and lasting impact business law at Columbia of racially restrictive Law School benefit from covenants, picks up on an array of innovative and a theme that appears creative course offerings again and again in his that reflect the specific scholarship: how people demands placed on interact around differences. modern practitioners. 36 HOW MUCH SHOULD WE KNOW? BY ELISE JORDAN At Columbia Law School, upper-year students examining the legal dimensions of government secrecy and transparency quickly come to realize that this is one area of the law where easy answers are extremely hard to come by. KEEPING FOCUS BY ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN Students working with Professors James S. Liebman, Katharina Pistor, and Susan P. Sturm become experts in using their legal training and problem-solving skills to improve previously intractable situations. 32 14 departments 5 14 18 19 20 NEWS & EVENTS SEE ALSO SETTING THE BAR FACULTY FOCUS PROFILES IN Roxane Cassehgari, Lori Fisler Damrosch First Amendment, SCHOLARSHIP Rohan Grey, Lelise Philip Hamburger David Pozen Gobena, Matthew Lemle Amsterdam 52 60 64 ALUMNI PROFILES AT ISSUE ESSAY CLASS NOTES 54 THE DIFFERENCE 60 HYDRAULIC 92 MAKER FRACTURING IN MEMORIAM BY AISHA LABI BY THOMAS W. Throughout the course MERRILL AND 96 of a wide-ranging and DAVID M. SCHIZER QUESTIONS distinguished legal A sound regulatory PRESENTED career, Minna Schrag ’75 strategy will be MICHAEL A. CARDOZO ’66 has shown that private critical to managing practice and public environmental risks in service are anything the process of achieving but mutually exclusive. the economic and geopolitical benefits 56 THE MULTITASKER associated with BY PETER KIEFER hydraulic fracturing. For litigation expert Edward Soto ’78, the practice of law has helped open up doors for meaningful philanthropic work in the Miami community. 58 THE INNOVATOR BY SETH STEVENSON TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers ’79 has turned a lifelong THE EDUCATOR love for television into BY TIM FERNHOLZ a personal mission to Eric Eisner ’73, the ensure that TV viewing founder of the Young becomes a more Eisner Scholars program, enjoyable experience. is helping students from the roughest neighborhoods reach their full potential. 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Deputy ARTICLES Secretary- General Conference Discusses the Rule of Law GinsburG elected to Honors Clinics’ nation’s oldest United Nations Deputy learned 30th Anniversary Secretary-General Jan society the Law SchooL’S famiLy Law cLinicS invited graduateS eliasson visited the and expertS to morningSide heightS to diScuSS Law School to deliver Columbia Law School changeS in cLinicaL education and famiLy advocacy. a lecture on promoting Professor Jane c. peace, development, Ginsburg was recently Columbia Law School’s Child opportunity to provide their feedback and human rights elected as a member through the rule of of the American Advocacy, Prisoners and Families, through moderators, as various law. “When adhered Philosophical Society. and Family Advocacy Clinics hosted participants presented a summary of to, the rule of law The organization, a daylong conference at Jerome their sessions. Afterward, everyone at the international which is the oldest level makes the learned society in Greene Hall in late April to discuss celebrated with a closing reception. conduct of member the United States, how their work and the needs of Spinak initially began the Child states predictable was founded by families have changed during the Advocacy Clinic in 1982 to provide and legitimate and Benjamin Franklin past three decades. much-needed representation to provides a means to in 1743 to promote View More peacefully resolve any scholarship in a wide At the conference, Professor Jane children voluntarily placed in foster disputes,” eliasson range of scientific and M. Spinak and Professor Philip M. care by their parents. That mission told the crowd. humanities-driven Genty brought together experts has evolved along with shifting “It is the anchor subjects. Ginsburg, from a range of fields for panel needs. The clinic’s Adolescent WATCH VIDEOS AND and foundation of the Morton L. Janklow international peace Professor of Literary discussions covering six topics: Representation Project currently and security.” The and Artistic Property scholarship; clinical legal education; focuses on helping children as they lecture was hosted Law, is an expert on policy and practice; criminal justice age-out of foster care and other BROWSE SLIDESHOWS by Columbia Law intellectual property and prisons; interdisciplinary work; institutional settings. School’s Center on law, comparative law, Global Governance. • private international and professionalism. Panelists In 1989, the program expanded law, and legal methods. included graduates who shared to include the Family Advocacy She serves as faculty how the Law School’s clinical Clinic, which was founded by director of the Law programs influenced their work Genty to represent parents in School’s Kernochan web Center for Law, Media and career choices. administrative court proceedings. exclusive and the Arts. • In the afternoon, conference Less than a decade later, he helped Read Jan eliasson’s remarks to students. participants met in small groups to establish the Prisoners and law.columbia.edu/ designated by class years. The Families Clinic to address the legal Web mag/eliasson attendees were then given the needs of incarcerated parents. • “The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas extends a 35-year string of cases, starting with Bakke and extending through Gratz and Grutter, in which the Court has upheld or refused to invalidate diversity as a compelling state interest in college admissions.” —Professor Theodore M. Shaw Exclusives 12 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINe fALL 2013 READ ADDITIONAL 509_txt 12 8/14/13 11:11 AM WEB-ONLY PROFILES AND ARTICLES Listen In DOWNLOAD PODCASTS OF LAW SCHOOL EVENTS 4 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 News Events: DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR. AND MORTON L. JANKLOW Verrilli & Janklow Receive Medal PROFESSOR ANTHEA ROBERTS for Excellence Law School Literary agent Morton L. Janklow ’53 and U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Welcomes Verrilli, Jr. ’83 received the Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence, the Law School’s highest honor, at the 2013 Winter Luncheon. More than 300 graduates, Anthea Roberts faculty, and friends—including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. ’76 and to Faculty Judge Jack B. Weinstein ’48, both past recipients of the award—gathered at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City for the ceremony. The Medal for Excellence is given annually to graduates and faculty International law members who embody the qualities of character, intellect, and professional expert Anthea Roberts responsibility that the Law School strives to instill in its students. David M. joined the Columbia Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law; Harvey R. Miller Law School faculty this past summer. Professor of Law and Economics, praised this year’s honorees for being “Anthea’s scholarship powerful examples of the Law School’s influence on the world. in investment treaty Janklow co-founded the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 1977. law and arbitration, and international dispute He also endowed the Morton L. Janklow Chair in Literary and Artistic Property resolution, has been Law at Columbia Law School and founded the Morton L. Janklow Program recognized by ASIL, for Advocacy in the Arts at Columbia University.