Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg transformed the law and society. We are proud to share our in memoriam issue honoring the life and legacy of our former editor:
Columbia Law Review is now accepting abstract submissions for our Fall 2024 Symposium on the Law of Protest! Please submit your abstracts to Shaunak Puri, our current Symposium & Book Review Editor, at symposium
@columbialawreview
.org.
#LRSubmissions
@ScholasticaLR
@ColumbiaLaw
Justin Fairfax (VA) & Sheila Oliver (NJ) are historic victories in that both mark only 2nd time African Americans have prevailed in statewide office in their states. (Gov. Wilder & Sen.
@CoryBooker
being the 1st respectively)
@DrMamaEsq
In "White Cities, White Schools," Professor Erika Wilson (
@Erika_K_Wilson
) argues that historic sundown towns are microclimates of racial meaning, a reality that courts should account for when considering whether school district lines are discriminatory.
In “Algorithmic Wage Discrimination,” Veena Dubal
@veenadubal
identifies the material and moral harms of wages determined by black box algorithms. Professor Dubal bases her findings on years of ethnographic research.
The Columbia Law Review is delighted to present our June symposium, "Property and Education." Thank you to Professors Tim Mulvaney (
@Tim__Mulvaney
) and LaToya Baldwin Clark (
@DrMamaEsq
) for proposing the topic and organizing the event.
"Weaponizing the First Amendment: How Free Speech Became a Conservative Cudgel" -- Today's New York Times highlights Professor Louis Micheal Seidman's forthcoming Columbia Law Review article "Can Free Speech Be Progressive?"
Introducing our 2018 symposium, in collaboration with
@knightcolumbia
and
@ColumbiaLaw
's Center for Constitutional Governance: "A First Amendment for All? Free Expression in an Age of Inequality:"
The Columbia Law Review strongly urges the U.S. Senate to confirm Arun Subramanian to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Arun's exceptional capabilities, character, and commitment to public service make him supremely qualified for the bench.
We are excited to announce the publication of our first book in the new school year, the sixth issue of our 123rd volume! The pieces can all be accessed here:
We're very excited to announce the publication of our 2018 Symposium issue, featuring essays from Professors Jeremy K. Kessler & David E. Pozen,
@jackbalkin
, Catherine L. Fisk,
@lckendrick
, Genevieve Lakier,
@JedediahSPurdy
, Bertrall Ross, and Louis Michael Seidman!
We're excited to announce our 2019 Symposium: Common Law for the Age of AI! Join us and
@DSI_Columbia
at
@ColumbiaLaw
on Friday, April 5th for a day of conversation and debate with a wonderful cast of legal scholars and technologists. Register here:
Shoutout to
@AJosephOConnell
's CLR Article, “Actings,” in the
@NewYorker
! Professor O'Connell's article discusses temporary leaders in federal agencies, commonly known as “actings,” now a fixture of the modern administrative state.
In Portland, we are watching the perfect and perhaps inevitable combination of a domestic-security superagency and a President who rejects all mechanisms of accountability,
@mashagessen
writes.
With much excitement, the Columbia Law Review Articles & Essays Committees would like to announce that it will be reopening its submission window on Monday, August 1, 2022, at 12pmET.
Please be on the lookout for a follow-up Tweet on Monday outlinining submission instructions.
In “Participatory Law Scholarship,” Rachel López (
@Rachel_E_Lopez
) reflects on writing with coauthors whose expertise on the law comes from lived experience. Columbia Law School welcomed Professor López, two of her coauthors, and guest speaker Amy Kapczynski earlier this month!
Only 4 days away from our Common Law in the Age of AI Symposium, addressing pressing practical challenge courts will face: adapting the concepts of the common law to the novel forms of individual and corporate behavior arising in this age of AI. Reg here:
Columbia Law Review is proud to announce that the Corporate Practice Commentator has selected
@K_Eichensehr
&
@cathyhwang47
's National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions (123 Colum. L. Rev. 549 (2023)) as one of its 10 best corporate and securities articles of 2023.
Our Volume 118, No. 1 is now live! Take a look at . It features "Partisan Balance With Bite," by
@BrianDFeinstein
and
@DanielJHemel
, and Clare Huntington's "The Empirical Turn in Family Law." The issue also honors the legacy of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam.
Our March book is now available at ! It features articles by
@marty_lederman
,
@Tim_L_Meyer
, and an essay by I. Bennett Capers. The issue also honors the memory of
@ColumbiaLaw
's Robert A. Ferguson.
Our Symposium book honoring the life & legacy of Judge Constance Baker Motley is now up at . It features remarks by Judges Denny Chin, George B. Daniels, and Raymond Lohier together with a series of essays on the future of civil rights law.
These are dark days, but a bit of sunshine has broken through: my colleagues voted today to offer me tenure and promotion to full professor. There are further steps. But I am grateful to them and to my family. This is an extraordinary privilege, not taken lightly. Nii'kinaaganaa.
Today and over the coming weeks, we are publishing essays in a collection titled Reckoning and Reformation: Reflections and Legal Responses to Racial Subordination and Structural Marginalization
Registration is now open for "A First Amendment for All? Free Expression in an Age of Inequality," our March 23 symposium in collaboration with
@knightcolumbia
and
@ColumbiaLaw
's Center for Constitutional Governance:
Introducing our 2018 symposium, in collaboration with
@knightcolumbia
and
@ColumbiaLaw
's Center for Constitutional Governance: "A First Amendment for All? Free Expression in an Age of Inequality:"
Attention authors! Our Articles and Essays Scholastica portals will reopen for new submissions on Sunday, August 1 at 12pm ET. Our Forum portal is currently open and will remain open after August 1. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!
The Review’s May issue is dedicated to former Editor-In-Chief and long time Columbia Law Professor R. Kent Greenawalt, and includes memorial pieces written by Professors Peter Strauss, Jeremy Waldron, and Paul Horwitz
In “Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief,” Andrea Katz
@ascoseriakatz
and Noah Rosenblum
@narosenblum
excavate the history of Myers v. United States and show that it is not an originalist panacea for the unitary executive theory.
In "The Right to Contest AI,"
@MargotKaminski
and Jennifer Urban call for an individual right to contest AI decisions, arguing that establishing the right to contest AI decisions in the United States would be in keeping with a long tradition of due process theory.
In “The Specter of Indian Removal,” Tanner Allread (
@tannerallread
) argues that the theory of state supremacy, which developed but were not adopted by the Court during the Removal Era, finally made its way into the Court’s doctrine in the recent Castro-Huerta decision.
In “A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Enforcement,” Eric Goldman
@ericgoldman
articulates how loopholes in the Rules of Civil Procedure allow poorly pled, frivolous lawsuits to extract lucrative settlements from large numbers of IP defendants.
The Columbia Law Review is pleased to announce its 2L staff editors for the 2022–2023 academic year!
Please join us in congratulating the following new members:
In Chapter 11's Renegotiation Framework and the Purpose of Corporate Bankruptcy,
@Tony_J_Casey
challenges the creditor's bargain theory of bankruptcy, and articulates a theory of Chapter 11 centered on ex post bargaining and preventing hold up from incomplete contracts.
Our final book of 2017 is now available. It features contributions from Abraham Bell and Gideon Parchomovsky, Richard Fallon Jr., and Zayn Siddique. Take a look at . Until next year!
Please join the Columbia Law Review for a discussion of "The New Abortion Battleground" with co-authors Rachel Rebouché and David S. Cohen moderated by Katherine Franke and Carol Sanger!
Check out the latest contributions to Colum. L. Rev. Online from Professors Sharon Oded and John M. Greabe (who responds to
@danepps
's recent
@HarvLRev
piece)!
Professor Brandon Hasbrouck (
@b_hasbrouck
) draws inspiration from George Orwell in "1983," his Piece imagining a future in which constitutional rights protections have been eroded to such a degree that section 1983 and the qualified immunity doctrine become obsolete.
Earlier this week, Columbia Law Review welcomed
@narosenblum
&
@ascoseriakatz
to discuss their recently published Article, "Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency." Thanks so much for joining us!
Start 2019 the right way: Head on over to for great new contributions from Professors
@ksabeelrahman
and John Rappaport, as well as student notes from Dennis Chu, Scott Glass, and Dorothy Weldon!
In "Surveilling Disability, Harming Integration," Professor Prianka Nair demonstrates that contemporary surveillance of people with disabilities isolate people with disabilities and violate the ADA's community integration mandate under the Supreme Court's Olmstead jurisprudence.
Head on over to to read our October 2018 issue, Vol. 118 No. 6, featuring contributions from
@omribenshahar
& Ariel Porat,
@DanielJHemel
& Dorothy S. Lund, and
@paulmschwartz
, as well as student notes from E. Maddy Berg, Jason Koffler, and
@ZachPiaker
!
Please check out our April issue on ! This month we're featuring contributions from Jonathan Abel, Daniel J. Capra, Liesa L. Richter, Joseph Fishkin, and David E. Pozen.
William Eskridge (
@EskridgeBill
), Brian Slocum, and Kevin Tobia (
@kevin_tobia
) argue in “Textualism’s Defining Moment” that, even after committing to textualism, judges must make at least twelve subsequent choices, calling into question textualism’s rule-of-law value.
Check out today's
@washingtonpost
for a feature on
@proffontana
and
@nschoenbaum
's "Unsexing Pregnancy"!
@ChristineEmba
calls the piece's extension of removing sex-based barriers from parenting and care work to pregnancy "startingly common sensical."
🚨Our decades-long experiment with alternative citation is coming to an end. In 2021, our Law Review will switch to the
@LegalBluebook
. Sometimes, efficiency doesn't win out.🤔But just to be clear, we still
#bleedmaroon
.🚨
In “Methodology and Innovation in Jurisprudence,” Kevin Tobia
@kevin_tobia
reviews Julie Dickson’s
@dicksonjulie1
“Elucidating Law” and argues for expanded use of empirical jurisprudence to evaluate common understandings of legal concepts.
So glad to see a draft of this paper by
@mjblawrence
online.
@ColumLRev
, you got a good one. Definitely worth a close read for
#adlaw
and
#legislation
nerds (as well as those otherwise following the
#SCOTUS
ACA risk corridor case).
Rachel Harmon (
@rharmonlaw
) explores the law underlying the pervasive, widely misunderstood, and often devastating role of commands in policing in her Article: Law and Orders
Head over to to check out new CLR Online contributions from Adam M. Katz () and
@ProfDBernstein
() (responding to Professor Pozen & Fishkin's "Asymmetric Constitutional Hardball")!
Can't be with us today at
@ColumbiaLaw
for our symposium with
@knightcolumbia
on the First Amendment and inequality? Join the conversation via livestream:
Columbia Law Review has signed the Joint Law Review Statement on Data and Code Transparency, which commits CLR to publish all data and code used in empirical legal scholarship (with limited exemptions). Here's a link to the statement and its signatories:
In “The Secret Life of a Text Message,” Tejas Narechania (
@tnarecha
) explains the dangers of the Federal Communication Commission's decision to classify text messages as an information service, which places text-messaging-based services outside the Agency's regulatory ambit.
In "The Corporate Governance Machine,"
@dorothy_s_lund
&
@elizpollman
explore corporate governance's emergence as a shareholder-focused system supported by law, markets, and culture, & argue that the Machine will constrain future development and innovation in corporate governance
In “False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping,” Daniel Epps
@danepps
and Alan Trammel
@Alan_Trammell
articulate the unpredictability, ineffectiveness, and shortsightedness of jurisdiction stripping as a substantive policy tool.
CLR Articles Editor Mary Claire Bartlett argues that the Court’s decision in Ruan counsels for a subjective mens rea requirement for doctors prosecuted under post-Dobbs laws that prohibit abortions except for the life or the health of the parent in her Note, “Physician Mens Rea.”
The study, to be published in The Columbia Law Review, examined diversity policies over 58 years at the main law reviews of the 20 most prestigious law schools. It found that the articles the editors chose were cited markedly more . . .
Dean Gillian Lester announced that Lina Khan will join the Columbia Law faculty as an associate professor of law this fall.
Khan is one of the leaders of an antitrust movement challenging some of the world’s most powerful corporations.
My new article on sex robots, in
@ColumLRev
symposium on
#AI
is online: . Symposium also features pieces by Bert Huang, Jeanne Fromer, Scott Hemphill, Frank...
Congrats to Berkeley Law Prof. Tejas Narechania (
@tnarecha
), whose article on SCOTUS' Certiorari Process—published earlier this year in CLR's Vol. 122, No. 4—was recently highlighted by the New York Times. Links below:
NYT: …
CLR:
In "Whose Child Is This?," Professor Baldwin Clark (
@DrMamaEsq
) explores how belonging, rather than residence alone, determines whether a student has access to educational property.
In light of SCOTUS arguments on affirmative action today, we encourage you to revisit “Assessing Affirmative Action’s Diversity Rationale” by Professors Chilton, Driver, Masur, and Rozema:
@adamschilton
@jonathanmasur
@kyle_rozema
The 2019 Columbia Law Review Symposium—“Common Law for the Age of AI”—is two days away! Join
@ColumLRev
and
@DSI_Columbia
on Friday for a day of conversation and debate about how the law can and should adapt to the rise of
#ArtificialIntelligence
.
What fun seredipity!
@OrlyLobel
, we're equally excited about your Article's potential to shift how we think about pay equity and its move from the litigation context to a broader governance scheme. Draft here: