Columbia Law School (CLS) is the law school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university in New York City. It was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The university was known for its legal scholarship dating back to the 18th century. Graduates of the university's colonial predecessor,King's College,include such notable early-American legal figures as John Jay,the first chief justice of the United States,and Alexander Hamilton,the first Secretary of the Treasury,who were co-authors of The Federalist Papers.
Rosalyn C. Higgins,Baroness Higgins,is a British former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was the first female judge elected to the ICJ,and was elected to a three-year term as its president in 2006.
JoséAlberto Cabranes is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a former presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"). Formerly a practicing lawyer,government official,and law teacher,he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States (1979).
Louis Henkin was an American legal scholar. He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States. He was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Fionnuala NíAoláin is an Irish academic lawyer specialising in human rights law. She was the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism for the United Nations Human Rights Council from August 1,2017 - November 2023.
Russell Morris Dallen Jr. or Russ Dallen was an American economist,financial advisor,international lawyer,publisher,and journalist. From 2000 to 2007,he was head of the Latin American office of investment bank Oppenheimer &Co. in Caracas,Venezuela.
Abraham David Sofaer is an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and legal adviser to the United States State Department. After resigning from the State Department,he became the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs at the Hoover Institution.
Michael P. Scharf is co-dean,Joseph C. Hostetler –BakerHostetler professor of law,and the director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Scharf is also co-founder of the Public International Law &Policy Group (PILPG),a non-governmental organization (NGO) which provides pro bono legal assistance to developing states and states in transition. Since 1995 PILPG has provided pro bono legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations,drafting post-conflict constitutions,and prosecuting war criminals. Since March 2012,Scharf has also been the producer and host of Talking Foreign Policy,a one-hour radio program aired on a quarterly basis on Cleveland’s NPR affiliate WCPN 90.3 ideastream.
Janice Rogers Brown is an American jurist. She served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2017 and before that,Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005. She is a member of the Federalist Society and frequently features at events hosted by the organization.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law,director of its Center for Labor and Employment and co-director of its Institute of Judicial Administration. He has published dozens of articles and several books on labor law,employment law,employment discrimination law,U.S. foreign relations law,international law,and Supreme Court decisionmaking.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities.
Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University School of Law and the former Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. She has served as Special Advisor on Crimes Against Humanity to Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court since December 12,2012. Sadat is the Director of The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative,a multi-year project to study the problem of crimes against humanity and draft a comprehensive convention addressing their punishment and prevention. She has spearheaded the international effort to establish this new global convention. In 2012 Sadat was elected to membership in the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations,and in 2018 was elected as the President of the American Branch of the International Law Association for a two-year term in October 2018.
Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard,known professionally as Nina Pillard,is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2013 as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a judge,Pillard was a law professor at Georgetown University.
Women in law describes the role played by women in the legal profession and related occupations,which includes lawyers,paralegals,prosecutors,judges,legal scholars,law professors and law school deans.
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. Mendelson was recently named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
Nathan Alexander Sales is an American lawyer,academic,and government official who served as the coordinator for counterterrorism and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS within the U.S. Department of State from 2017 to 2021. Prior to public service he was an associate professor at Syracuse University College of Law,where his fields of research included national security law,counterterrorism law,administrative law,and constitutional law. Sales was also of counsel at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis.
Jennifer Gillian Newstead is an American attorney who currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer at Meta,previously Facebook,overseeing all global legal and corporate governance matters on behalf of the company.
Diane Orentlicher is a professor of international law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington,D.C.,and serves as Co-Faculty Director of its Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In the mid-1990s,she founded the law school's War Crimes Research Office,which provides legal analysis in support of international and transitional justice initiatives.
Beth Van Schaack is an American attorney and academic who serves as the United States ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice.
