Virtual Admitted Student Program CL A S S OF 202 3 APRIL 1–2, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Message from Dean Gillian Lester See page 4 for details.
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Faculty Discussion: Contemporary Legal Issues Panel See page 5 for details. Professor Sarah Cleveland Professor Olatunde Johnson Professor Kathryn Judge Professor Daniel Richman Professor Eric Talley
12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Student Panel See page 8 for details. Andres Gutierrez, 3L Ian Harris, 2L Aileen Huang, 3L Shannon Marcoux, 2L Isaiah Strong, 1L
1:20 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Concurrent Panels Social Justice Law at Columbia and Beyond See page 11 to register and for details. Erica Smock ’95, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives and Public Service Lawyering Ibrahim Diallo, 3L Bassam Khawaja ’15 Arielle Klepach ’17 Private Sector and Professional Development & Careers See page 14 to register and for details. Marta Ricardo ’94, Assistant Dean and Dean of Career Services Lillybelle Davis ’18 Raj Krishnan ’14 Hannah Lepow ’15 Adam Sparks ’08 Zhou Zhou ’13 Judicial Clerkships See page 17 to register and for details. Andrea Saavedra ’06, Assistant Dean and Dean of Judicial Clerkships Professor Kellen Funk Tyler Becker, 3L Tyler Lee, 3L Patricio Martinez-Llompart ’18 Tola Oyeyemi ’19
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Mock Classes See page 20 for details.
Virtual Admitted Student Program: April 1–2, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Financial Aid and LRAP Q&A See page 21 to register and for details. Charles DeRubeis, Executive Director of Financial Aid Seandell James, Associate Director of Financial Aid & LRAP Administrator
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Center for Public Research and Leadership Open House See page 21 to register and for details. The mission of the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) is to revitalize public education while reinventing professional education. CPRL conducts rigorous coursework, skills training, and research and consulting projects to ready talented graduate students for challenging twenty-first century careers enhancing the education sector’s capacity to improve the outcomes and life chances of all children.
1:00 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. 3:00 p.m – 3:55 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
One-on-One Office Hours with Administrators See page 22 to register and for details Center for Gender and Sexuality Externships Housing at Columbia Joint Degree Programs Private Sector Professional Development and Careers Public Interest – General Public Interest – Government Study Abroad & International Programs
4:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 5:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Chats with Current Students Session 1 See page 23 to register and for details. Session 2 See page 27 to register and for details.
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Message from Dean Gillian Lester Gillian Lester
Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law The Law School’s 15th dean, Gillian Lester is a nationally recognized authority on employment law and policy. Dean Lester’s research focuses on exploring workplace intellectual property law, public finance policy, and the design of social insurance laws and regulations. She is the author of numerous books and articles and co-authors one of the leading casebooks on employment law. Lester is also a member of the American Law Institute and was an adviser to the ALI Restatement of Employment Law. She began her teaching career in 1994 at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. In 2006, Dean Lester joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law; co-directed the Center for Health, Economic and Family Security; and served as acting dean from 2012 to 2014. Dean Lester has held external appointments at Harvard Law School as the Sidley Austin Visiting Professor and at the Georgetown University Law Center as a Sloan Fellow and visiting professor. She also held short-term visiting appointments at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, and Radzyner School of Law Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Dean Lester holds degrees from Stanford Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia.
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Faculty Discussion: Contemporary Legal Issues Panel Sarah Cleveland
Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute Professor Cleveland is the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, and faculty co-director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, where she teaches and writes in the areas of international law, human rights, national security and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations. Professor Cleveland is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and the UK/ Canadian High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, a council member of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, and a commissioner with the International Commission of Jurists. She was formerly vice chair and member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2015-2018) and member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2010-2019), and served as co-coordinating reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2012-18). From 2009 to 2011, Professor Cleveland served as the counselor on international law to the legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State, where she helped supervise the office's legal work relating to human rights. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, she is a graduate of Brown University (A.B.), Oxford University (M.St.) and Yale Law School (J.D.).
Olatunde Johnson
Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law Professor Johnson has expertise in anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law, congressional power, and public interest law. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 2006, Professor Johnson worked on employment and education related cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including affirmative action cases in Michigan. Professor Johnson worked for Senator Ted Kennedy on civil rights, First Amendment, and judicial nominations related to his service on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. She was also a senior consultant on the Racial Justice Program for the ACLU National Legal Department. Professor Johnson earned her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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Faculty Discussion: Contemporary Legal Issues Panel (continued) Kathryn Judge
Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law Professor Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she has worked since 2009. She is an expert on financial markets, financial regulation, and regulatory architecture. She is an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a member of the Financial Research Advisory Council of the Office of Financial Research. Professor Judge has written numerous articles on the complexity of modern financial markets, how that complexity increases fragility and reduces accountability, and how financial regulation can better address these challenges. These articles have been published in leading journals, including Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, The University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Columbia Law Review. Two have been selected by peers as among the best business law articles of the year. She regularly presents her research at conferences and workshops in the United States and abroad. Prior to joining Columbia Law School, Judge clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. She also worked as a corporate associate with Latham & Watkins LLP. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. with Distinction, 2004), where she earned the Urban A. Sontheimer Honor (second in class), and Wesleyan University (B.A. with High Honors, women’s studies, 1999).
Daniel Richman
Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law Professor Richman is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (where he was an Assistant from 1987 to 1992), and has served as an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey and a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters. Professor Richman was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at Fordham Law School before joining Columbia Law School’s faculty. In 2004, Richman was appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as chairman of the Local Conditional Release Commission. He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University.
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Eric Talley
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership Professor Talley is an expert in the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance, and he teaches/researches in areas that include corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, alternative investments, game theory, and economic analysis of law. He has held permanent or visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, Caltech, University of Chicago; Harvard University; Georgetown University, RAND Graduate School, and Stanford University. In 2017, Talley was chosen by Columbia Law School's graduating class to receive the Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is current chair of the board of directors of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) and was the SELS co-president in 2013–2014. He has also served several terms on the board of the American Law and Economics Association (ALEA). Professor Talley is a frequent commentator in the national media, and he speaks regularly to corporate boards and regulators on issues pertaining to fiduciary duties, governance, and finance. Professor Talley holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was articles editor for the Stanford Law Review; a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University; and B.A. degrees in economics and political science from the University of California, San Diego. He is a native of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Student Panel Andres Gutierrez, 3L Andres Gutierrez is a third-year law student at Columbia Law School. He grew up in New York City and graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a major in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Before law school, Andres worked at Google in recruiting. He also worked in people operations at Joyable, a mental health startup that helped clients with social anxiety, depression, and stress. He volunteered with the National Queer and Trans and Therapists of Color Network as a social media coordinator. At Columbia, Andres is a diversity editor for the Columbia Law Review. He is also involved with student organizations including OutLaws; the Virtual Entertainment Society; Columbia Health Law Association; the Public Interest Law Foundation; the Society for Law, Science, and Technology; LaLSA; and First Generation Professionals. During his second year, he coached the Williams Institute Moot Court team and participated in the Southern District of New York Federal Court Clerk Externship. Andres is back in New York for his final semester after spending his fall in Amsterdam via Columbia's Semester Exchange program. He is currently the TA for the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic. He has spent the past three summers with Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. Following graduation, Andres is planning to join Debevoise & Plimpton where he hopes to work with the Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity, and Privacy groups. In his free time, Andres plays video games and board games, eats far too many sweets, and plays with his cats.
Ian Harris, 2L Ian Harris is a second-year law student at Columbia Law School originally from Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Fordham University in 2008 with a degree in Philosophy. Prior to law school, Ian was a sommelier and a managing partner for a winery. At Columbia, Ian is the president of CLS Democrats, treasurer of the Older Wiser Law Students group, and works as a research assistant with a focus on neuroscience and criminal law. Ian interned for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington during his 1L summer and will be working at the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP his 2L summer. In his free time, Ian enjoys pickleball and exploring Brooklyn.
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Aileen Huang, 3L Aileen Huang is a third-year law student at Columbia Law School. She graduated from Princeton University in 2017 with a major in Chemistry. Aileen has worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, at a patent boutique law firm, and as a research assistant in polymer chemistry and biodegradable plastics. At Columbia, Aileen is a 3L representative in Student Senate. She is also the executive submissions editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and is involved with the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and the Society for Law, Science, and Technology. She is currently doing pro bono work with the Davis Polk Asylum Workshop and has externed for the Honorable Gerard Lynch in the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit. Following graduation, Aileen will work at the New York office of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher. In her free time, Aileen enjoys exploring NYC's boutique fitness scene, trying new restaurants, and spending time in Central Park.
Shannon Marcoux, 2L Shannon Marcoux is a second-year law student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She graduated from Fordham University in 2016 with a degree in International Political Economy. Prior to law school, she spent two years teaching high school literature and economics in Chuuk, Micronesia. At Columbia, Shannon is co-president of the Student Public Interest Network (SPIN), research chair for Rightslink (CLS's human rights student group), and the student coordinator of the Human Rights Institute's 1L Advocates Program. She was a participant and coach for the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition and is an articles editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She is currently on the Human Rights Clinic's Kashmir project team and interning at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has previously held research assistant positions with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, EarthRights International, and Professor Elizabeth Scott. Shannon spent her 1L summer in Cape Town interning with Natural Justice, an indigenous rights and environmental justice NGO. This summer, she will be interning with EarthRights International, a human rights and environmental advocacy NGO, in Washington D.C. In her free time, Shannon enjoys traveling and going to concerts.
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Student Panel (continued) Isaiah Strong, 1L Isaiah Strong is a first-year law student at Columbia Law School originally from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He graduated from Butler University in 2019 with a degree in Communications and Music. At Columbia, Isaiah is a member of the Frederick Douglass Moot Court, the Black Law Students Association, and Rightslink. He is an inaugural Public Interest/Public Service Fellow. This summer, Isaiah will be in Chicago at the civil rights firm Loevy & Loevy LLP. In his free time, Isaiah enjoys watching sports, making music, and going to new places throughout the city.
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Social Justice at Columbia and Beyond Panel To register, click here.
Erica Smock ’95
Dean for Social Justice Initiatives and Public Service Lawyering Erica Smock graduated from Columbia Law School in 1995. She began her career as a law clerk to Judge Anita B. Brody on the U.S. District Court, E.D. PA and then clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. After clerking, she spent a year as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco in the litigation department, where she engaged in pro bono work around women’s rights issues and domestic violence. She then worked as a staff attorney at Legal Aid Services of Oregon serving low income clients on a range of issues; and as regional staff attorney at the Northwest Women’s Law Center (now Legal Voice) in Seattle, where she led litigation and legislative efforts on a range of women’s issues including domestic violence, reproductive rights, and employment discrimination. From 2002 to 2004, she was legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York City, where she directed the national state legislative program and engaged in advocacy on reproductive rights issues. In 2005, she joined Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School as a senior career advisor. In 2014, she returned to the Center for Reproductive Rights as a senior staff attorney for Judicial Strategy and then served as the director of Judicial Strategy; and most recently as the senior director for Judicial Strategy & Lawyers Network, where she helped lead the successful Supreme Court campaign in the 2016 abortion case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. She returned to Columbia Law School as Dean for Social Justice Initiatives in September 2017. In addition, Dean Smock has spent time as a short-term volunteer attorney focusing on human rights and women’s rights in Kenya and South Africa and with the Pascua Yaqui tribe in Arizona. She has served as a consultant to the Laura and John Arnold Foundation on access to justice issues and as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. She currently serves as vice chair of the ABA’s Rights of Women Committee in the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section, and on the Center for Reproductive Rights Lawyers Network Advisory Committee.
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Social Justice at Columbia and Beyond Panel (continued) Ibrahim Diallo, 3L Ibrahim Diallo is a 3L whose work at Columbia Law School has focused on criminal public defense and worker-side labor law. Ibrahim has served as the social consciousness committee chair of the Black Law Students Association, a special features co-editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law, and is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, the most progressive student organization at the Law School. Ibrahim was also a Davis Polk Leadership Fellow and has organized Columbia law students to get involved in the New York City taxi workers labor movement, including advocating for drivers and pursuing strategic litigation against major rideshare corporations. After graduation, Ibrahim will join the Taxi Workers Alliance—a union of taxi and app drivers in New York City—as a staff attorney. Prior to law school, Ibrahim worked various jobs including as a finance analyst in J.P. Morgan Chase’s Investment Bank division and as a New York City court interpreter, interpreting his native language, Fulani, for litigants in criminal, civil and family court proceedings. Ibrahim graduated from Trinity College with a major in International Relations and a minor in Human Rights.
Bassam Khawaja ’15
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur
Bassam Khawaja is a human rights lawyer and Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and HumanRights. He previously worked for Human Rights Watch, where he was the Lebanon and Kuwait researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division and the Leonard H. Sandler Fellow in the children’s rights division. His work has focused on refugee and migrant rights, torture, education, free speech, women’s rights, the right to health, and environmental rights. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Bassam conducted legal research and advocacy on targeted killings and drone strikes in the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic. He received a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College and a law degree from Columbia University, where he was a James Kent Scholar and editor in chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. BIO AND PHOTO FROM SPRING 19 -- OK TO REUSE?
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Arielle Klepach ’17
Assistant Attorney General, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Arielle Klepach is an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where she has worked since 2017. As an attorney in the trial division, Arielle handles a variety of cases ranging from robbery, burglary, weapons possession, domestic violence, and sex crimes from investigation to trial. While in law school, Arielle was a legal intern at various local and federal prosecutors’ offices, including the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, where she assisted in the investigation and prosecution of child pornography and sex trafficking cases. Arielle was a notes editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, as well as a member and editor of the LaLSA Moot Court. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Private Sector and Professional Development & Careers Panel To register, click here.
Marta Ricardo ’94
Assistant Dean and Dean of Career Services and Professional Development Marta Ricardo is the dean of career services and professional development. She graduated from Columbia Law School in 1994. She spent most of her professional career working as a lawyer, rating analyst, and investment banker in the structured finance industry. Prior to joining the Law School, Marta was a managing director at HSBC Securities, where she was responsible for credit card and student loan ABS origination, Latin American structured finance, and covered bond product introduction to U.S. banks. She is an active member of the National Association for Law Placement and served as the founding co-chair of the Alumni Career Services Interest Group (now Section). She also serves as Negotiation Workshop adjunct faculty member. Ricardo came to New York City in 1991 to attend Columbia Law School, where she was the Chair of Latino/a Law Students Association and the Coordinator of the Moot Court Program. She grew up in Coral Gables, Florida and attended the University of Florida.
Lillybelle Davis ’18 Lilybelle Davis is a second year associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. Following graduation from Columbia Law School in 2018, Lilybelle clerked at the Delaware Chancery Court for the Honorable Joseph Slights, III. While at Columbia Law School, she served as an articles editor on the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and as a research assistant to Professor Robert Jackson Jr. Lilybelle also studied abroad at the University of Oxford through Columbia's Global Alliance program. Lilybelle graduated from the University of Maryland in 2015, with a B.A. in Economics. In undergrad, she interned at Google in Mountain View, California and studied abroad at the London School of Economics.
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Associate, McKinsey & Company Raj Krishnan is an Associate at McKinsey & Company. Prior to attending Columbia Law School, he graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Economics. After graduating from the Law School in 2014, he worked at Debevoise & Plimpton and Kirkland & Ellis, and then joined McKinsey as a management consultant.
Hannah Lepow ’15
Associate, Covington & Burling LLP Hannah Lepow is an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., where she helps clients navigate a broad range of communications, technology, and privacy issues. Hannah regularly represents clients in negotiations regarding content distribution and those involving personal data and cybersecurity risk. She also advises technology, media, and telecommunications companies in connection with strategic transactions. A former reporter, Hannah holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
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Private Sector Panel (continued) Adam Sparks ’08
Litigation and Regulatory Associate, Krevolin & Horst Adam Sparks is a native of Watkinsville, Georgia, and an experienced litigator and politico. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Adam knew he would head to New York City to perform further studies or under the bright lights. Two degrees from Teachers College and Columbia Law School later, the jury declared a mistrial, but Adam learned a great deal and enjoyed his time nevertheless. Adam practiced law in Washington, D.C. with a civil rights nonprofit and a large international corporate law firm before heading home to offer legal and policy assistance to statewide political campaigns. He now pursues a diverse practice at Krevolin & Horst, a firm of two dozen or so litigators and transactional attorneys with a diverse skill set and a sterling reputation. He spends most of his time on election law and complex business litigation matters, while also working with the education, whistleblower, and corporate governance groups. He enjoys the bright lights of trial and hearings quite well, and lives in East Atlanta with his CLS-alumna wife, small children, and rescue mutts
Zhou Zhou ’18
Product Counsel, Google Zhou Zhou is a product counsel at Google, where he serves as the lead attorney for product and business teams on various Android and Google Play products. Previously, Zhou was a legal counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he helped guide Wikipedia and its sister projects on product and public policy issues, and an associate at Gibson Dunn, where he focused on technology and privacy litigation. Zhou holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served on the editorial board of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and studied Chinese law abroad at Peking University. Prior to Law School, Zhou was a software engineer at Salesforce.com and double majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as well as Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Zhou has been honored as a Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow and an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow and has presented on topics such as internet censorship, NSA surveillance, privacy in China, and enabling organizational diversity and inclusion at conferences around the world.
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Judicial Clerkships Panel To register, click here
Andrea C. Saavedra ’06
Assistant Dean and Dean of Judicial Clerkships Andrea C. Saavedra has over a decade of experience in corporate law, with a focus on corporate restructuring, finance, and reputational risk. Andrea began her career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where she had the opportunity to work on some of the largest Chapter 11 cases in U.S. history. She also served as a teaching assistant to Harvey R. Miller for multiple years. Andrea subsequently joined Nomura Securities as in-house counsel in its Global Markets Division, where she utilized her restructuring expertise to assist the business, legal, and credit groups on transactional and global regulatory matters (including Dodd Frank implementation). Andrea then joined Goldman Sachs as a vice president in its Conflicts Resolution Group. At Goldman, Andrea worked directly on clearing new business transactions for the firm, with a specific mandate on identifying, elevating, and addressing reputational risk. Prior to joining Columbia Law, Andrea was a law clerk for the Honorable Stacey L. Meisel of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, where she edified her knowledge of corporate law with substantive exposure to consumer and small business distress. Andrea is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Wellesley College.
Kellen Funk
Associate Professor of Law Kellen Funk joined the faculty in July 2018, after completing his Ph.D. in American History at Princeton University, where he was a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow. His first book, currently in revision, is The Lawyers’ Code: The Transformation of American Legal Practice; it explores how New York’s enactment in 1848 of the first American civil practice code (aka the Field Code) granted significant power to lawyers in the management of litigation and codified rules of civil procedure that were adopted by other states and the federal courts. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2014, Funk clerked for U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the Southern District of Texas and then for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has held legal history fellowships at Yale Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and the American Society for Legal History. Funk studies 19th-century American legal institutions, practice, and theory—the development of the legal profession, the reform of civil trial practice, the codification of the common law, and the intersection of American law and American Christianity. His work is methodologically innovative, combining historical research methods with data science; his co-authored article, “The Spine of American Law: Digital Methods and the U.S. Legal Practice,” was published in the American Historical Review in 2018. Funk’s current book project is American Bail: A History of Wealth and Pretrial Detention in the United States.
Judicial Clerkships Panel (continued) Tyler Becker, 3L Tyler Becker is a 3L from Weare, New Hampshire. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a degree in Political Science and History. Prior to law school, he was a high school teacher in Miami, Florida through the Teach for America program. At Columbia, Tyler is an Articles Editor on Columbia Law Review and Co-President of Columbia’s Federalist Society chapter. He has served as a Research Assistant for Professors Philip Hamburger and Matthew Waxman, and externed at the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York during his 2L spring. In addition, he is a member of the First Generation Professionals group on campus. Tyler spent his 2L summer at Sullivan & Cromwell’s Washington, DC office and the DOJ Civil Division’s Federal Programs Branch. Following graduation, Tyler will be clerking for Judge Steven Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Long term, he plans to pursue academia and public service.
Tyler Lee, 3L Tyler Lee is a third-year law student at Columbia Law School originally from San Diego, California. She graduated from Princeton University in 2015 with a degree in foreign languages and translation, and worked as a paralegal in New York prior to law school. At Columbia Law School, Tyler is currently the executive editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, a teaching and research assistant for Professor Tim Wu, and involved in the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, where students represent asylum seekers in immigration court. She previously served on the boards of student organizations such as the Student Public Interest Network, Criminal Justice Action Network, and Empowering Women of Color, and was an editor for the LaLSA Asylum & Refugee Law Moot Court. Tyler interned for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office her 1L summer, for the San Diego District Attorney's Office her 2L summer, and externed at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York during her 2L fall. Following graduation, she will be clerking for a district judge. After her clerkship, she plans to go directly into public service through a government honors program or as an Assistant District Attorney. In her free time, she likes to explore new restaurants and eat all the delicious food that NYC has to offer.
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Patricio G. Martinez Llompart ’18 Associate, Covington & Burling
Patricio G. Martínez Llompart is an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C., where his practice combines complex litigation, government investigations, and international arbitration. At Columbia Law School, Patricio served as the executive essays and reviews editor of the Columbia Law Review and as a student attorney in the Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration Clinic. He was also a teaching fellow for Professors Olatunde Johnson and Bernard Harcourt and assisted Professor Jeffrey Fagan in research about policing and police department reform. Before law school, Patricio was an Urban Fellow at the NYPD’s Office for Collaborative Policing and a deputy advisor for public safety and justice to the governor of Puerto Rico. He is a 2013 graduate of Cornell University, where he was an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun. Patricio clerked for Judge Juan R. Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2018 to 2019, and in 2021 he will begin a clerkship with Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Tola Oyeyemi ’19
Law Clerk, Honorable Timothy M. Reif, U.S. Court of International Trade Tola Oyeyemi is currently a law clerk for Honorable Timothy M. Reif at the U.S. Court of International Trade. Tola graduated from Columbia Law School in 2019 and was active in the Black Law Students Association and Law in Africa Student Society. She was also an Academic Coach for Constitutional Law. After clerking, Tola plans to join White & Case LLP in its litigation practice. Tola’s general career interests include international law, trade, and labor rights.
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Mock Classes Jane Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Faculty Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts Professor Ginsburg teaches legal methods, copyright law, international copyright law, and trademarks law, and is the author or co-author of casebooks in all four subjects, as well as of many articles and book chapters on domestic and international copyright and trademark law. With Professor Edouard Treppoz, she is the co-author of International Copyright: U.S. and EU Perspectives, Edward Elgar, 2015. With Professor Robert A. Gorman, she is the co-author of Copyright: Concepts and Insights, Foundation Press, 2012; with Professor Sam Ricketson, of International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2006; and with Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss and Professor François Dessemontet, Ginsburg was a co-reporter for the American Law Institute project on “Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction,” Choice of Law and Judgments in Transnational Disputes, 2008. A graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. in 1976 and a M.A. in 1977), Ginsburg received a J.D. in 1980 from Harvard University. As a Fulbright grantee, she also earned a Diplôme d’études approfondies in 1985, and a Doctorate of Law in 1995 from the University of Paris II. She is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Benjamin Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies Professor Liebman’s research focuses on Chinese courts, Chinese tort law, Chinese criminal procedure, and the impact of popular opinion and populism on the Chinese legal system. Prior to joining the Law School’s faculty in 2002, Liebman was an associate in the London and Beijing offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He also previously served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Sandra Lynch of the First Circuit. He earned a B.A. from Yale University, another B.A. from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Financial Aid and LRAP Q&A Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. To register, click here. The Financial Aid Office (FAO) is committed to assisting all students in the financial aid process. The FAO is happy to clarify any aspect of the financial aid process, so that every student can fully explore all options to help fund their legal education. Join Charles DeRubeis, Executive Director of Financial Aid, and Seandell James, Associate Director of Financial Aid Administrator, for a discussion about financial aid policies and the various options that are available. There will also be a presentation about Columbia Law School's Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which reduces the burden of educational debt with the goal of making a career in public service financially possible for graduates. With its recent expansion, Columbia
Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) Open House Thursday, April 2, 2020 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. To register, click here. Learn more about the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) through an interactive Zoom-based open house. The mission of CPRL is to revitalize public education while reinventing professional education. CPRL conducts rigorous coursework, skills training, and research and consulting projects to ready talented graduate students for challenging twenty-first century careers enhancing the education sector’s capacity to improve the outcomes and life chances of all children. CPRL immerses talented graduate students in: •
The study of P-12 organizational design, democratic accountability, and transformation
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Intensive training in a range of twenty-first century team-based problem-solving skills
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High-priority research and consulting projects on behalf of public- and social-sector education organizations nationwide
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One-on-One Office Hours with Administrators Thursday, April 2, 2020 1:00 p.m – 3:55 p.m. To register, click here. Considering a career in human rights advocacy or negotiating deals for multinational corporations? Interested in studying law in another country for a semester? Would you like to acquire some practical experience during the term? Speak with administrators to learn more about the myriad opportunities and resources that Columbia has to offer.
Administrator(s)
Topic
Time
Lilia Hadjiivanova Assistant Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
3:00–3:55 p.m.
Susan Kraham ’92 Director of Externships and Field-Based Learning
Externships
1:00–3:55 p.m.
Adrienne Leon Housing and Student Life Manager
Housing at Columbia
1:00–1:55 p.m.
Robert Ford Director of Student Services
Joint Degree Programs
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Frantz Price, Jr. ’01 (1:00–1:55 p.m.) Associate Director of Career Advising
Private Sector Professional Development and Careers
1:00–3:55 p.m.
Maddie Kurtz ’84 Director of Public Interest Professional Development
Public Interest – General
1:00–3:55 p.m.
Rachel Pauley Director of Government Programs
Public Interest – Government
1:30–2:25 p.m.
Audrey Baker Director of International Programs
Study Abroad and International Programs
1:00–3:25 p.m.
Mary Herrington (2:00–2:55 p.m.) Associate Director of Career Advising for Dual Degrees Marsha Diamond (3:00–3:55 p.m.) Associate Director of Career Advising
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Chats with Current Students: Session 1 Thursday, April 2, 2020 Session 1: 4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. To join: www.linktbd.com Meet and connect with current students in an unmoderated Zoom Meeting. You may click on each student's name to send them an email.
Isha Agarwal, 3L Hometown: Rockville, Maryland Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, College Park Extracurricular Activities: Law Revue, Science and Technology Law Review, Columbia Law Women's Association (CLWA), Domestic Violence Project (DVP) Legal Interest(s): Patent Litigation, Health Law
Jeffrey Greenberg, 3L Hometown: Parkland, Florida Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University Extracurricular Activities: Law Revue, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia Law Softball Team, Admitted Student Ambassador, Tenants' Rights Project Legal Interest(s): Financial Restructuring, International Law, Criminal Prosecution, Civil Liberties
Suz Kroeber, 2L
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Chats with Current Students: Session 1 (continued) Kodjo Kumi, 2L Hometown: Durham, North Carolina and North Potomac, Maryland Undergraduate Institution: Brown University Extracurricular Activities: Frederick Douglass Moot Court, Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Law in Africa Society (LASS), Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Jailhouse Lawyers' Manual Legal Interest(s): Litigation, White Collar
Courtney Murray
Evan Rocher, 2L Hometown: West Bloomfield, Michigan (Detroit area) Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago Extracurricular Activities: Wine Club, Domestic Violence Project, Columbia Business Law Review Legal Interest(s): Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Corporate Law
George Smith, 2L Hometown: Houston, Texas Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University Extracurricular Activities: Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Columbia Business and Law Association (CBLA), Older and Wiser Law Students (OWLS), Peer Advisor Legal Interest(s): Corporate Law/Transactional
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Elizabeth Sun, 1L Hometown: Macomb, Michigan Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University Extracurricular Activities: Columbia Law Women's Association (CLWA), Criminal Justice Action Network (CJAN), Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Columbia Business and Law Association (CBLA), DeVinimus, Columbia Gastronomy Society Legal Interest(s): Litigation, Prosecution, Public Policy, Public Office
Chizoba Ukairo, 2L Hometown: Columbia, Maryland Undergraduate Institution: Wake Forest University Extracurricular Activities: Black Law Students Association (BLSA) President Legal Interest(s): Litigation
Alondra Urbina, 2L Hometown: Los Angeles, California Undergraduate Institution: University of California at Berkeley Extracurricular Activities: Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Latinx Law Students Association (LaLSA), Columbia Journal of Race and Law Legal Interest(s): International Law, Human Rights, Immigration Law
Jenny Zhou, 1L Hometown: Cupertino, California and Shanghai, China Undergraduate Institution: Emory University Extracurricular Activities: Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Columbia Business and Law Association (CBLA), Columbia Law Women's Association (CLWA), Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) Legal Interest(s): M&A
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Chats with Current Students: Session 2 Thursday, April 2, 2020 Session 2: 5:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. To join: www.linktbd.com Meet and connect with current students in an unmoderated Zoom Meeting. You may click on each student's name to send them an email.
Corrine Forward, 1L Hometown: Oakland, California Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University Extracurricular Activities: Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Frederick Douglass Moot Court, Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), First Generation Professionals (FGP) Legal Interest(s): Litigation, Criminal Law, Tech Law
Ian Harris, 2L Hometown: Seattle, Washington Undergraduate Institution: Fordham University Extracurricular Activities: Columbia Law School Democrats, Older and Wiser Law Students (OWLS), Columbia Law School Mindfulness Program Legal Interest(s): Criminal Law, Government Regulations, Legislation
Beth Hayden, 3L Hometown: Grapevine, Texas Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas Extracurricular Activities: Jailhouse Lawyers' Manual, Student Public Interest Network (SPIN), Peer Mentor, Community Defense Externship, Criminal Appeals Externship, High School Law Institute Legal Interest(s): Criminal Defense, Public Interest, Prisoners' Rights
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AJ Howard, 3L Hometown: Los Angeles, California Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles Extracurricular Activities: Criminal Justice Action Network, California Society, Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Human Rights Law Review Legal Interest(s): Criminal Justice, Land Use, Corporate Litigation
Jeremy Lee, 1L Hometown: Seattle, Washington Undergraduate Institution: University of New Mexico Extracurricular Activities: Student Senate; Budget Committee - Assistant Treasurer); Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Academic Committee; Society for Law, Science and Technology; Columbia International Arbitration Association Legal Interest(s): International Arbitration; Artificial Intelligence; Mergers & Acquisitions; White Collar Defense
Tyler Lee, 3L Hometown: San Diego, California Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University Extracurricular Activities: Human Rights Law Review, Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Student Public Interest Network (SPIN), Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Research Assistant to Professor Wu, Latinx Law Students Association (LaLSA), Asylum & Refugee Law Moot Court (1L/2L) Legal Interest(s): Government, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Antitrust
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Chats with Current Students: Session 2 Jonathan Mitnick, 3L Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland Undergraduate Institution: Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Yeshiva University Extracurricular Activities: Society for the Advancement of Law and Talmud (SALT) - Development Chair; CLS Legal Tech - Development Chair and Acting Treasurer Legal Interest(s): Bankruptcy Law
Sherwin Nam, 2L Hometown: Loma Linda, California Undergraduate Institution: University of California at Santa Barbara Extracurricular Activities: Bar Czar Legal Interest(s): Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Tech Industry
Alexandra Nickerson, 1L
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Marica Wright, 1L Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee Undergraduate Institution: Spelman College Extracurricular Activities: Black Law Students Association (BLSA) – 1L Rep, Frederick Douglas Moot Court Team – Team Competitor, Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Student Public Interest Network (SPIN) Legal Interest(s): Administrative Law, Voting Rights Litigation, Government Practice, Public Law
Paula Zampietro, 1L Hometown: Miami, Florida Undergraduate Institution: New York University Extracurricular Activities: Latinx Law Students Association (LaLSA) – 1L Professional Development Rep; Empowering Women of Color (EWOC) – 1L Rep; Columbia Business and Law Association (CBLA) – 1L Rep; Columbia Law Women's Association (CWLA); First Generation Professionals (FGP) Legal Interest(s): Corporate; Litigation
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Administrative Resources Office of Admissions William & June Warren Hall, 5th Floor 212-854-2674 admit@law.columbia.edu Nkonye Iwerebon ’93 Associate Dean and Dean of Admissions Scott Cutrone Director of Admissions Kory Hawkins Associate Director of Admissions, Coordinator of Diversity & Inclusion Chelsea Hess Assistant Director of Admissions Christina Ross ’87 Recruitment Advisor Victoria Ng Admissions and Enrollment Administrator
Career Services and Professional Development William & June Warren Hall, 7th Floor 212-854-2683 careerservices@law.columbia.edu Marta Ricardo ’94 Nancy Merriman Mary Herrington
Assistant Dean and Dean of Career Services Director of Career Advising and Professional Development Associate Director of Career Advising for Dual Degrees
Financial Aid William & June Warren Hall, 5th Floor 212-854-7730 financial_aid@law.columbia.edu Charles DeRubeis Executive Director of Financial Aid Seandell James Associate Director of Financial Aid & LRAP Administrator Yaa Dwamena Assistant Director of Financial Aid Christina Ramirez Financial Aid Officer
Housing William & June Warren Hall, 5th Floor 212-854-1125 housing@law.columbia.edu Adrienne Leon
Housing and Student Life Manager
Information Technology Jerome Greene Hall, Room 731 212-854-1370 helpdesk@law.columbia.edu Frantz Merine
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Chief Information Officer
Mondays at Columbia: February 17, 2020
International Programs William & June Warren Hall, 6th Floor 212-854-8170 internationalprograms@law.columbia.edu Adam Kolker Dean and Executive Director for International and Comparative Law Programs Audrey Baker Director of International Programs John Tarbet Associate Director of International Programs
Office of Judicial Clerkships William & June Warren Hall, 6th Floor 212-854-1449 clerkships@law.columbia.edu Andrea Saavedra ’06 Marka Belinfanti
Assistant Dean and Dean of Judicial Clerkships Assistant Director of Judicial Clerkships
Registration Services William & June Warren Hall, 5th Floor 212-854-2668 registrar@law.columbia.edu Hazel May Christy Pastore
Assistant Dean and Dean of Registration Services Director of Registration Services
Social Justice Initiatives William & June Warren Hall, 8th Floor 212-854-3318 socialjustice@law.columbia.edu Erica Smock ’95 Maddie Kurtz ’84 Rachel Pauley
Dean for Social Justice Initiatives and Public Service Lawyering Director of Public Interest Professional Development Director of Government Programs
Student Services William & June Warren Hall, 5th Floor 212-854-2395 studentservices@law.columbia.edu Yadira Ramos-Herbert Robert Ford Jennifer Braden
Dean of Students Director of Student Services Assistant Director of Academic Counseling and Student Support
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