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Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) is taking over
@selenagomez
’s Instagram account today!
Follow along:
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Happy birthday to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59! 🎂 A brilliant legal strategist, litigator, and judge, she graduated tied for first in her class and, in 1972, became the first woman to join the Law School as a tenured faculty member.
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Chicago hospital resident says his VISA revoked after airport saw a Muslim prayer app on his phone. Prof
@BernardHarcourt
fighting case.
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Chicago hospital resident says his VISA revoked after airport saw a Muslim prayer app on his phone.
@BernardHarcourt
fighting case now.
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“When I talk about my mother, I sometimes ask the question, ‘What is the difference between a bookkeeper in the Garment District and a Supreme Court justice?’ [The answer:] One generation.” –Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59. ?
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“When I talk about my mother, I sometimes ask the question, ‘What is the difference between a bookkeeper in the Garment District and a Supreme Court justice?’ [The answer:] One generation.” –Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59. ?
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The Columbia Law School community mourns the loss of legendary legal visionary Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59, our first female tenured professor and the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Meet Professor
@LinaMKhan
, one of the newest members of Columbia Law’s faculty and a leading voice in the antitrust movement that aims to combat Big Tech’s monopolistic practices.
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Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks ’68 (
@JillWineBanks
) says Donald Trump’s presidency is unprecedented. “I never thought I’d live to see someone engage in more criminal conduct in public than Nixon did in secret.”
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White feminism forgets all about
#intersectional
feminism,
@rowblanchard
says, citing
@sandylocks
http://t.co/3Brj7S2Lvu
@jawnita
@Jezebel
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46 years ago, alumna politely suggests female pronouns be added to fundraising appeal. Guess who?
#NotoriousRBG
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 was a trailblazing gender-equality advocate, litigator, scholar, and judge.
She was also a compassionate classmate, colleague, mentor, professor, and friend to many in the Columbia Law community.
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NEW online tool to track Trump administration's attempts to roll back
#humanrights
policies, protections
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In the face of resegregation in Alabama, U.W. Clemon '68 is not backing down (via:
@NYTmag
).
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After decades of negotiating blockbuster movie deals for celebrities like
@ReginaKing
and
@ava
, Nina L. Shaw ’79 used her clout last year to help found the Time’s Up movement. Shaw is one of two recipients of CLS’s 2019 Medal for Excellence.
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Congratulations to Roberta Kaplan ’91 (
@kaplanrobbie
), founding partner of
@KaplanHecker
, who received
@NYLawJournal
’s Attorney of the Year award last month!
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“We just had to win this one,” says
@ACLU
attorney
@leegelernt
’88, who argued that Trump administration family-separation policies were unconstitutional. “It cannot be that the government can take children, babies, and toddlers away from their parents.”
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Entrepreneur,
@Fwd_Party
founder, and former candidate for New York City mayor and U.S. president
@AndrewYang
’99 will address members of the Class of 2022 during Columbia Law School’s graduation ceremony on May 16.
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“Accept the things you don’t expect, and don’t try plot out your career from beginning to end." Judge Pamela Chen,
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*Specifically, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 was the first woman to serve on both
@ColumLRev
and
@HarvLRev
.
She also graduated tied for first in her class, and later became the first woman to join Columbia Law as a tenured faculty member. 👩⚖️
While Ruth Bader Ginsburg was studying at Harvard, the Dean of Harvard Law asked her, "How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?"
She later transferred to Columbia Law School and became the first woman to be on two major law reviews.
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Prof. Elora Mukherjee and her students in the CLS Immigrants’ Rights Clinic are working with state Rep. David Dreyer (
@DDreyer
) to prevent the deportation of immigrants who survived or witnessed coercive gynecological procedures at a detention center in Georgia. (Tweet 1/3)
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Visiting Professor and
@CLSHumanRights
Senior Fellow Amal Clooney and George Clooney, co-presidents of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, introduce the
#TrialWatch
Initiative: “Without the fair administration of justice, it is not possible to hold the powerful to account.”
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Joe Biden, the 47th vice president of the United States, will address students in the Class of 2020 during Columbia Law School’s virtual graduation celebration on May 20.
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Columbia Law's site is down at the moment. We are working on a solution. Stay tuned.
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📚 Hot of the press: 📚 “Law in the Time of COVID-19,” a free e-book by Columbia Law scholars, delves into legal issues around
#COVID19
, including elections, privacy, prisoners’ rights, bankruptcy, force majeure in contracts, public health law, and more.
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Meet Tomi Williams '19, the new editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review.
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Professor Gillian Metzger ’96, a widely recognized constitutional and administrative law scholar, has been named senior counselor at
@TheJusticeDept
.
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College Walk in the fall is almost unbe-leaf-able. 😍🍂
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Students in Amal Clooney’s int'l human rights class had the opportunity to interview Edward Snowden via Skype. When asked about his decision to leak, Snowden said, “The system of rules is important. But we need to realize that there are always moments when the system fails.”
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A practicing lawyer in Nigeria, Afam Ikeakanam (
@Famefuna
) ’23 LL.M. spent his year at Columbia Law immersed in U.S. corporate law and taking advantage of experiential learning opportunities to put theory into practice.
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Columbia Law School announced the creation of an endowed professorship and two scholarships in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59.
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Meet Madhav Khosla (
@MadKhosla
), who joined Columbia Law’s faculty in January.
A leading thinker on comparative constitutionalism, he has written extensively about the seminal role of the Indian Constitution in the evolution of democracy around the globe.
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#ThrowbackThursday
to 1971, when the Columbia Law faculty voted to appoint Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘59 as its first female tenured professor.
#RBG
#SCOTUS
#InternationalWomensDay
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Dean Gillian Lester announced today that the Center for Chinese Legal Studies will be named in honor of Hong Yen Chang 1886, the Law School’s first Chinese graduate and the first Chinese American to be admitted as a lawyer in the United States.
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“People who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.” –Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59.
#Pride2018
#Pride
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SAVE THE DATE: "A National Agenda for Racial Justice Litigation" Dennis Parker,
@ACLU
atty:
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“When you're in a
#NationalSecurity
job, our intelligence community and their analysis are your eyes and ears. If you don't believe them, if you don't pay attention to it, you're flying blind,” said Jeh Johnson ’82 in conversation with
@PreetBharara
'93.
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“We wanted to show this case is not narrowly about criminalizing sex acts... It’s about love and life,” says Arundhati Katju ’17 LL.M. She &
@MenakaGuruswamy
were the prime architects of a multi-year advocacy campaign to rid India of
#Section377
.
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Today, Dean Gillian Lester announced that Columbia Law School will no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of best law schools.
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Meet Justin Fairfax '05 (
@FairfaxJustin
), one of the youngest lieutenant governors in the country, and only the second African-American to hold statewide office in Virginia.
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In 1972, Ginsburg joined the Columbia Law School faculty as our first female tenured professor.
She introduced the Law School’s first Sex Discrimination Law course and seminar.
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Former State Department lawyer and international law expert
@MonicaHakimi
joined the CLS faculty in July. “I want to change how [people in positions of power] think about international law in their jobs, not try to do their jobs for them,” she says.
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.
@TheAdvocateMag
named Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 its “Woman of the Year” for her “long history of fighting for the rights of women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and other marginalized groups.”
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What is critical race theory and why is it sparking outrage across the country?
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
), who coined the term, explains on “Beyond the Scenes With
@TheDailyShow
” with
@RoyWoodJr
and
@GoCJHunt
➡️
We go deep on critical race theory with Professor
@sandylocks
in the latest episode of Beyond the Scenes, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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All of the lights viewed from Morningside Heights ✨🌇
📸 by Ting Wei ’22 LL.M.
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Prof. Suzanne Goldberg: "The point of non-discrimination law is that employees doing similar work should be paid equally ... "In this instance, where the women's team is outplaying the men's team, there is an argument that they should be paid more than their male counterparts."
The U.S. women's national team is facing the Netherlands on Sunday to defend their status as champions in the World Cup.
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L.A.
@Dodgers
president Stan Kasten ’76 might just have the inside pitch on tonight’s decisive
#NLDS
Game 5 against the Washington
@Nationals
. Why? Because he was president of that team earlier in his career.
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This
#MothersDay
, we’re sharing the stories of Ayelet Tbeile BC ’18, LAW ’21 and Juliana Henriques ’21 LL.M., two Columbia Law moms who welcomed their newborns just weeks before graduating.
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Congratulations to
@CFigueres
, who was honored by
@ColumbiaJTL
at the 48th annual Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award Banquet for her climate change diplomacy work.
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How did
@KamilahVMoore
’19 become chair of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans? She leveraged her knowledge of international human rights law along with her experience in the CLS Human Rights Clinic.
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“Along our southern
#border
, today & every day, children are being forcibly separated from parents & other family members as a result of cruel policy choices made by this administration,” Prof. Elora Mukherjee testified for
@OversightDems
before the House Oversight Committee.
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Meet Justin Fairfax '05 (
@FairfaxJustin
), one of the youngest lieutenant governors in the country, and only the second African-American to hold statewide office in Virginia.
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“Whiteness’s hope now lies in nursing its resentments and extending its boundaries. Will Democrats finally realize that they cannot afford to fight this dynamic with a color-blind strategy?” writes Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) in
@newrepublic
.
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“Stay the person who cares about important problems and can show up on someone’s doorstep and say, “I’m here to help you,” says keynote speaker Andrew Yang ’99 (
@AndrewYang
).
#CLSgrad2022
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“[The Clooney Foundation for Justice is] proud to partner with Columbia Law School and the
@ABAesq
as we work to advance justice around the world,” said Amal Clooney, a Columbia Law visiting professor.
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In the
@HBO
documentary
#OntheRecord
, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) offers commentary on the historical use of sexual assault allegations against Black men as a tool of white supremacy, and also on concerns among Black women about speaking out about sexual assault.
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In an excerpt from her book, The Code of Capital, Professor
@KatharinaPistor
explains how the law shapes financial structures and codes: “The fact that capital is coded in domestic law poses a puzzle for our global system of financial capitalism.”
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“Public entertainment has never been understood to be one of the functions of the presidency, and yet is clearly a significant function of the Trumpean expressive presidency,”
@benjaminwittes
,
@lawfareblog
EiC & co-author of Unmaking the Presidency, said at CLS on January 23.
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Congrats
@DjokerNole
for advancing to
#Wimbledon
4th round this weekend. With a coach like
@AncicMario
'13 LL.M., we're not surprised.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, '59, on her experience vs her daughter Prof Jane Ginsburg's:
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The Columbia archives are filled with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's letters, remarks, & memos. For the first time, we are sharing a portion of this material to honor Justice Ginsburg ’59 on the 25th anniversary of her investiture to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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30 years after Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) coined the term
#intersectionality
, she sits down with
@BBCNewshour
to discuss what it means and why it’s so important. LISTEN:
#Intersectionalityat30
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Happy first day of classes, Columbia Law! Are you ready to defend your favorite study spot? 📚
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Columbia Law School welcomed back Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her investiture as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Watch her conversation with Dean Gillian Lester and a panel of experts.
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Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) spoke with
@AliVelshi
this weekend about protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd.
“One of the things that is such a condition of this possibility, frankly, is that this political establishment has...allowed police officers to have free reign to do what they want to do. This is not just a natural outcome.“ -
@sandylocks
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59: "There’s work to be done. I will remain to do it as long as I can, full steam."
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“So much of why I love the law is that you can really litigate freedom,” says
@MenakaGuruswamy
who, along with Arundhati Katju ’17 LL.M., successfully fought against India's
#Section377
. “You can use your country’s constitution to expand freedom.”
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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.
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We welcome U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59LAW back to campus for the first-ever University-wide women’s conference, She Opened the Door. Watch Justice Ginsburg's session LIVE on 2/11 at 1:15 p.m.
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Prof. Sarah H. Cleveland was nominated by
@POTUS
as legal adviser to the
@StateDept
.
A preeminent expert on human rights and U.S. foreign relations law, she previously served as counselor on international law at
@StateDept
. She co-directs
@CLSHumanRights
.
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First week of spring vibes in Morningside Heights ☀️🌸
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Meet the Columbia Law students organizing the NYC March for Our Lives.
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After the
#MarjoryStonemanDouglas
shooting in
#Parkland
, Alex Clavering ’20 knew he had to act. Soon, he and a few CLS classmates were the de facto organizers of NYC's
#MarchForOurLives
, working with
@MomsDemand
,
@Everytown
, and more.
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"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59
#TuesdayThoughts
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“Brilliant beyond measure.”
“Made of magic.”
“Came in with a floodlight and lit up the world.”
Read more praise from students for Professor Maeve Glass ’09, the recipient of the 2021 Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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“Public entertainment has never been understood to be one of the functions of the presidency, and yet is clearly a significant function of the Trumpean expressive presidency,”
@benjaminwittes
,
@lawfareblog
EiC & co-author of Unmaking the Presidency, said at CLS on January 23.
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Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
): “Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes & collides, where it interlocks and intersects. ... We try to take ideas & make them into hands-on tools that advocates & communities can use.”
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From Columbia Law to the
#SupremeCourt
:
@CNBCMakeIt
explores the enduring legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 as a champion for gender equality .
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”A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.” —Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59
#ConstitutionDay
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⚡️ Columbia Law honors the life, career, and impact of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59.
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ICYMI: Columbia Law alum Justin Fairfax '05 (
@FairfaxJustin
) just became one of the youngest lieutenant governors in the country, and only the second African-American to hold statewide office in Virginia. Congratulations!
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"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59
#MondayMotivation
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Prof.
@mattwaxman1
& Prof. Richard K. Betts propose a safeguard for nuclear launch processes, "the most momentous national security decision imaginable." (via:
@lawfareblog
)
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LISTEN:
@ColumbiaCAPI
’s Berit Berger and
@MSNBC
’s
@AriMelber
moderate a discussion between five former U.S. Attorneys who led the Southern District of New York prosecution office.
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Prof.
@mattwaxman1
tells Senate: When cyber attacks constitute act of war are "gray areas of unsettled law"
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Congratulations to Jillian Williams ’21 for receiving a 2021 Campbell Award from
@ColumbiaAlumniA
!
Presented annually to a graduating student at each
@Columbia
school, the award recognizes Williams for their exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.
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After
@ACLU
attorney
@leegelernt
'88 finished talk, Columbia Law students lined up to hear more.
@ColumbiaSJI
#travelban
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ICYMI: The Columbia Law community congratulates
@FairfaxJustin
'05 on his election as Virginia's new lieutenant governor.
#Election2017
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.
@PoppyHarlowCNN
: “There will be enough female justices on the Supreme Court when there are...”
#RuthBaderGinsburg
’59: “You know the answer. When there are nine, of course.”
#InternationalWomensDay
#RBG
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We miss you, RBG. 💙
Memorials for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 have sprung up across Columbia’s campus, including in front of Alma Mater, who watches over the Morningside Heights campus, and at Ginsburg’s portrait in Jerome Greene Hall.
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@MayaWiley
’89 delivered the keynote address at the seventh annual Alumni of Color event, where she encouraged students and alumni to speak Martin Luther King Jr.’s “unarmed truth” and as lawyers, to be “a force for good.”
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.
@Slate
has named Professor Tim Wu’s The Master Switch (2010) as one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years: “The intervening years have only underlined how prophetic Wu was.”
@superwuster
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