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68-600: The Root-Tilden-Kern Program looks for students with a demonstrated commitment to the public interest, exceptional leadership ability, and a history of academic achievement. In assessing these criteria, the program looks at the whole person and considers previous life experience and professional work. The program values diversity and strives to select a class that is diverse in terms of race, sex, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, geographic origins, and ideology. Interested candidates should submit an application with their application to New York University School of Law. The application

136-658: A Graduate Legal Studies Program, including the Master of Laws ( LL.M. ) and the Doctor of the Science of Law ( J.S.D. ) degrees. The LL.M. Program is considered one of the best in the United States and has been ranked very highly according to private studies. Each year the law school enrolls approximately 210 graduate students from more than 50 countries with experience in all areas of the legal profession, including academia,

204-547: A café. In the summer of 2008, construction of a new floor in Jerome Greene Hall was completed providing 38 new faculty offices. Other Columbia Law School buildings include William and June Warren Hall, the Jerome Greene Annex (which Jerome Greene's representatives politely declined to have renamed after the building of Jerome Greene Hall), and William C. Warren Hall (or "Little Warren"). Lenfest Hall,

272-403: A course of study did not commence until the middle of the 19th century. The Columbia College Law School, as it was then officially called, was founded in 1858. Classes were originally held on Colonnade Row in a building once owned by John Jacob Astor . The first purpose-built law school building was a Gothic Revival structure located on Columbia's Madison Avenue campus, which also house

340-455: A law school graduate can obtain. This record gives Columbia a ranking of fifth among all law schools for supplying such law clerks for the period 2005–2017. Columbia has placed 135 clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court in its history, one of the top five law schools for clerks; this group includes Lee Bollinger , who clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger in the 1972 Term, and who was formerly the president of Columbia University . Noted faculty of

408-734: A major capital campaign to raise $ 30 million for the program. To honor Kern's generous contribution, the Law School renamed the program as the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program. Kern is the chairman of Symphony Media Systems, LLC, and was formerly a senior partner of the law firm Baker & Botts. In 2004, under the leadership of Dean Richard Revesz, the Law School successfully completed its campaign goal of $ 30 million and now offers full-tuition scholarships to 20 students each year. Arthur T. Vanderbilt Arthur T. Vanderbilt (July 7, 1888 – June 16, 1957)

476-410: A memorandum of understanding between the universities, allowing for joint publications and joint seminars between faculty at the respective universities. Since U.S. News & World Report began ranking law schools in 1987, Columbia Law had always been rated in the top five until 2023, along with Yale , Harvard , and Stanford . U.S. News & World Report consistently places Columbia Law among

544-597: A political career." Indeed, Columbia Law School was one of the few law schools established in the United States before the Civil War . During the 18th and 19th centuries, most legal education took place in law offices, where young men, serving as apprentices or clerks, were set to copying documents and filling out legal forms under the supervision of an established attorney. For example, in New York John Jay, revolutionary founding father and first Chief Justice of

612-423: A series of annual prizes was established, commencing with $ 250, and diminishing regularly by $ 50, until the sum of $ 100 was reached. These were adjudicated by leading members of the bar upon the combined merits of written answers to printed questions, and of essays upon topics selected by the instructors. None could compete for the prizes except those who had fully completed the two years' course. The questions covered

680-520: A third course on Ethics , by Professor Nairne, also of the college; and a fourth on Municipal Law, by Theodore W. Dwight, then Professor of Law in Hamilton College, New York, which at the time already had a flourishing law school. The original course of study to obtain a degree consisted of just two years, rather than the modern standard of three. The first lecture in the law school was delivered on Monday, November 1, 1858, by Mr. Dwight, at

748-617: A waiter at the inaugural dinner. Vanderbilt then attended Columbia University School of Law , graduating in 1913 with a LL.B. Many of Vanderbilt's ideas for court reform had been incorporated into the new judicial article of the New Jersey Constitution. One of those innovations was the designation of the Chief Justice as the administrative head of all courts in the state, replacing the previous system of almost completely autonomous courts. As Chief Justice, he created

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816-561: A week. Scholars met with leaders in government, industry and finance. In 1969, after a campaign by student groups, the first women were admitted to the Root Program. To date, more than 800 Root-Tilden Scholars have graduated from NYU School of Law. In 1998, then Dean John Sexton announced a precedent-setting gift of $ 5 million from an alumnus of the Root-Tilden Scholarship, Jerome H. Kern (class of 1960), that began

884-517: Is an attorney, author, avid gardener, partner in a New Jersey law firm, and former deputy attorney general of New Jersey. One of his books is Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt (1989) Columbia University School of Law Columbia Law School ( CLS ) is the law school of Columbia University , a private Ivy League university in New York City . The school

952-437: Is reviewed by a student and faculty committee before recommendation for an interview. Each year, approximately 50 applicants are invited to interview with a panel composed of a faculty member, a judge, a practitioner and third-year scholars. Twenty scholars are selected for each incoming class. Scholars are expected to work in public service for a minimum of five years after graduation or the completion of judicial clerkships. In

1020-552: Is the only law school to have graduated more than one chief justice. Ten alumni of Columbia Law School have served on the Supreme Court of the United States , including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Several alumni have served as United States Solicitor General . There are over 90 current and past members of the U.S. federal courts who have graduated from CLS. Internationally, CLS graduates also have occupied prominent judicial positions, including Shi Jiuyong , former president of

1088-1007: The American Bar Association Medal . A resident of Millburn, New Jersey , Vanderbilt had a heart attack while parking his car at the Lackawanna Railroad station in Short Hills, New Jersey , on June 14, 1957. He lingered for two days, and died at 1:20 A.M. at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey . His funeral was held at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church in Short Hills, and he was buried at Restland Memorial Park in East Hanover, New Jersey . Vanderbilt married Florence J. Althen in 1914. They had five children: William, Robert, Jean, Virginia, and Lois. His grandson, Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II,

1156-696: The International Court of Justice (ICJ); Xue Hanqin , current member of the ICJ; Giuliano Amato , current member of the Constitutional Court of Italy ; Jan Schans Christensen ('88 LL.M.), current member of the Supreme Court of Denmark ; Susan Denham , current Chief Justice , Supreme Court of Ireland ; Marvic Leonen ('04 LL.M.), current member of the Supreme Court of the Philippines ; Hironobu Takesaki , current Chief Justice of

1224-499: The Supreme Court of the United States ; numerous U.S. Cabinet members and presidential advisers; US senators; representatives; governors; and more members of the Forbes 400 than any other law school in the world. The teaching of law at Columbia reaches back to the 18th century. Graduates of the university's colonial predecessor, King's College, included such notable early American judicial figures as John Jay , who would later become

1292-1600: The University of Oxford , King's College London , University College London , and the London School of Economics in London, England; the Institut d'études politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po") and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France; the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands; and the Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) at Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. The double degree options include JD/Masters in French Law (4 year program in Paris), JD/Masters Program in Global Business (3 Year program in Paris), JD/LLM (3 year program in London), LLB/JD (4 year program in London), and JD/LLM (4 year program in Frankfurt). Columbia Law School has one of

1360-524: The University of Pennsylvania . In 1891, in response to Columbia's adoption of the case method, Dwight and a number of other professors left the law school to found New York Law School in Manhattan's Financial District . After Dwight's departure, William Albert Keener of Harvard Law School became dean of the law school from 1891 to 1901 when he was succeeded by George Washington Kirchwey. Future Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone graduated from

1428-511: The "case method" which had then been popularized by Dean Langdell of the Harvard Law School which focused on the study of individual cases and the use of inductive reasoning to distill governing legal principles from those cases with little time spent on the practical application of those principles. Dwight believed that his method was superior to the case method because it helped to create trained legal practitioners ready to enter

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1496-483: The 1950s, Dean Emeritus Arthur Vanderbilt conceived of the Root-Tilden Scholarship to transform NYU from a local law school to a nationally and internationally esteemed institution. Founded in 1951, the purpose of the program was to “train promising young men so as to help attain again for the American bar the high position which it once held as the reservoir of altruistic and competent public leadership.” The program

1564-623: The Arts , Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems , Columbia Journal of Race & Law , Columbia Journal of Tax Law , Columbia Journal of Transnational Law , Columbia Science and Technology Law Review , and the American Review of International Arbitration . Since 2005, 24 Columbia Law alumni have served as judicial clerks at the United States Supreme Court , one of the most distinguished appointments

1632-454: The Center for Constitutional Governance to "bring together a dynamic roster of constitutional scholars who are deeply engaged in the study of governmental structure and relationships, including experts on separation of powers and issues of federalism"; and the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration to "further the teaching and study of international arbitration, building on

1700-507: The Center on Corporate Governance, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, the Center for Law and Economic Studies, the Center on Global Legal Transformation], as well as several other centers and law programs. In July 2012, the law school launched the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership to "study global financial markets and their diverse, interdependent actors";

1768-611: The Chancery Division. These were joined by the Tax Court. In addition, there are Municipal Courts which handled minor criminal and ordinance violations. In the new practice, if an action is filed in the wrong court there is a procedure to transfer the matter to the proper court. Previously, filing the action in the wrong court was a fatal defect if the matter was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Professor John Lynch, who taught Constitutional Law and New Jersey Practice at

1836-618: The Class of 2021 obtained employment within ten months of graduation. Since 2014, the law school has been ranked No. 1 on the National Law Journal ' s "Go to Law Schools" ranking, which measures the percentage of graduates securing employment at the largest 100 law firms in the U.S. In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked Columbia Law No. 1 for Best Law Schools for Career Prospects as well as No. 1 for Highest Earning Law Graduates. and QS World University Rankings ranked it

1904-573: The Law School's considerable expertise in this rapidly growing area of legal practice." On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor , a Lecturer-in-Law since 1999, to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . Judge Sotomayor created and co-taught a course entitled "The Federal Appellate Externship" every semester at the law school since the fall 2000. Federal Appellate Externships and many other externships, including Federal District Externships, are offered each year at Columbia Law. Among other externships,

1972-809: The New Jersey Supreme Court, the Superior Court (Law, Chancery and Appellate Divisions), County Court, County District Court and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. The County Courts were merged into the Superior Court, Law Division, as were the County District Courts, now known as the Special Civil Part of the Superior Court, and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, now the Family Part of

2040-503: The Seton Hall School of Law in the 1970s and 1980s, told the apocryphal story of a politically sensitive case in the 1930s or 1940s, in which the plaintiffs feared that the court would find it had no jurisdiction in order to avoid the political consequences of ruling in the plaintiff's favor. To avoid this, the plaintiff filed the action separately in all 20+ courts, only to have each court rule that it lacked jurisdiction to hear

2108-1223: The Supreme Court of Japan ; Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh , current Chief Justice , Supreme Court of Sierra Leone ; Karin Maria Bruzelius , former member of the Supreme Court of Norway ; Lawrence Collins , former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ; and Francis M. Ssekandi , former justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda , among others. Notable legal academics who are graduates of CLS include Barbara Black , Lee Bollinger , Felix S. Cohen , Lawrence Collins , Robert Cover , Samuel Estreicher , E. Allan Farnsworth , Charles Fried , Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Harvey Goldschmid , Kent Greenawalt , Jack Greenberg , Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. , Benjamin Kaplan , Jessica Litman , Louis Lusky , Yale Kamisar , Soia Mentschikoff , Richard B. Morris , Paula Franzese , Robert Pitofsky , Barbara Ringer , Lawrence Sager , Michael I. Sovern , Arthur T. Vanderbilt , Charles Warren , Amy Wax , Herbert Wechsler , and Mark D. West . In 2015,

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2176-472: The Supreme Court of the United States as an associate justice. In the 1920s and 30s, the law school soon became known for the development of the legal realism movement. Among the major realists affiliated with Columbia Law School were Karl Llewellyn , Felix S. Cohen and William O. Douglas . In September 1988, Columbia Law School founded the first AIDS Law Clinic in the country, taught by Professor Deborah Greenberg and Mark Barnes . Columbia University

2244-555: The Supreme Court of the United States, read law with Benjamin Kissam, whose busy practice kept his clerks occupied in transcribing records, pleadings, and opinions. Jay was fortunate to have attentive supervision because the quality and time of learning the law varied greatly within the profession. Theodore Dwight, who had been head of the law department of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, believed formal legal education, conducted in

2312-539: The U.S. Supreme Court. Vanderbilt was the principal mentor to William J. Brennan Jr. when Brennan was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court and played an instrumental role in Dwight D. Eisenhower 's nomination of Brennan to the United States Supreme Court . Vanderbilt authored many articles and a number of books, including: For his work in law reform, he was awarded 32 honorary degrees and

2380-424: The U.S. directed by a full-time law school faculty member and dedicated to legal and public policy issues related to gender and sexuality." In 2007, Columbia opened a new program in law and technology. In December 2010, the law school announced the addition of an accelerated JD/MBA joint degree program, which allows students to obtain both a JD and MBA within three years. The accelerated program will not replace

2448-777: The United States, with over 1,000,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 7,450 journals and other serials. The Columbia Law Review is the third-most-cited law journal in the world and is one of the four publishers of the Bluebook . Columbia Law publishes thirteen other student-edited journals, including the Columbia Business Law Review , Columbia Human Rights Law Review (which in turn publishes A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual ), Columbia Journal of Asian Law , Columbia Journal of Environmental Law , Columbia Journal of European Law , Columbia Journal of Gender and Law , Columbia Journal of Law &

2516-400: The bar were held by committees appointed by the courts, who, where they inquired at all, sought for the most part to ascertain the knowledge of the candidate of petty details of practice. In general, the examinations were purely perfunctory. A politician of influence was not readily turned away. Few studied law as a science; many followed it as a trade or as a convenient ladder whereby to rise in

2584-488: The building's defining features is its frontal sculpture, Bellerophon Taming Pegasus , designed by Jacques Lipchitz , symbolizing man's struggle over (his own) wild side/unreason. In 1996, the law school was given an extensive renovation and expansion by Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects), including the addition of a new entrance façade and three story skylit lobby, as well as the expansion of existing space to include an upper-level students' commons, lounge areas, and

2652-412: The classroom with regular lectures, was far superior to casual law office instruction. At its founding, four distinct courses of lectures of this class were then established: one on Philology , offered by distinguished scholar and statesman, George P. Marsh ; a second by Dr. Francis Lieber, a standard writer upon topics of political science and of international law, then a professor at Columbia College;

2720-464: The college library. Thereafter, the college became Columbia University and moved north to the neighborhood of Morningside Heights . As Columbia Law Professor Theodore Dwight observed, at its founding the demand for a formal course of study in law was still speculative: It was considered at that time mainly as an experiment. No institution resembling a law school had ever existed in New York. Most of

2788-489: The community, including the nation's first technology-based clinic, called Lawyering in the Digital Age. This clinic is currently engaged in building a community resource to understand the collateral consequences of criminal charges . In April 2006, Columbia announced that it was starting the nation's first clinic in sexuality and gender law. The Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic "is the first law school clinic anywhere in

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2856-474: The duration of their law school studies. The school reported in December 2020 that its Center for Chinese Legal Studies will be named for Hong Yen Chang , the school's first Chinese graduate in 1886, and the country's first Chinese American lawyer. Columbia Law School's Arthur W. Diamond Library is one of the most comprehensive libraries in the world and is the third largest private academic law library in

2924-467: The existing four-year JD/MBA joint degree program. Interested students will be able to choose between the two programs. A joint degree can prove to be beneficial to law students' career objectives. To enable interested students to achieve this goal, the law school may approve a joint degree with any of the following of Columbia's graduate or professional schools: Columbia has cultivated alliances and dual degree programs with overseas law schools, including

2992-573: The fifth-best law school in the world. Columbia Law School's main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall, was designed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz , architects of the United Nations Headquarters and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (which for many years served as the site of Columbia Law School's graduation ceremonies). It is located at the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and West 116th Street. One of

3060-425: The first Chief Justice of the United States. Columbia College appointed its first professor of law, James Kent , in 1793. The lectures of Chancellor Kent in the course of four years had developed into the first two volumes of his Commentaries, the second volume being published November 1827. Kent did not, however, succeed in establishing a law school or department in the college. Thus, the formal instruction of law as

3128-605: The first state Administrative Office of the Courts in the nation. An appreciation of the changes brought to the New Jersey judicial system can be gained from a comparison between the structure of the courts before the new constitution and after. There were over 20 different courts in the system (e.g.-superior court, supreme court, court of errors and appeals, chancery, oyer & terminer, orphan's court, county court, general sessions, quarter sessions, etc.) which were replaced by

3196-450: The habit of referring back to a legal principle in disposing of a concrete case, and believed that great principles could be so stated as to win the attention of students and give them a solid basis for future detailed acquisitions. By the late 19th century, Dwight's method gave way to the case method which by the turn of the 20th century had become the standard curriculum at all of the other premier American law schools at Harvard, Yale and

3264-524: The judiciary, public service, civil rights and human rights advocacy, non-governmental organizations , international organizations, and private practice. Graduate students are an important component of the law school community. They participate in many co-curricular activities, including student journals, moot courts, and student organizations. Graduate students also organize and speak at conferences, workshops, and colloquia on current legal issues. The law school runs several clinical programs that contribute to

3332-430: The largest international alliances with China, and with Peking University, specifically, a joint exchange program that began in 2006, when students could be exchanged for a semester, which was expanded as a program in 2011 to allow faculty to teach or co-teach courses abroad, and which was expanded as a program again in 2013 when Columbia Law School dean David Schizer and Peking University Law School dean Zhang Shouwen signed

3400-466: The law school in 1898. While practicing law in New York, he began lecturing at Columbia Law School in 1899 and joined the faculty as a full professor. He subsequently became dean of the law school in 1910 and held the position until 1923 when he left to join Sullivan and Cromwell as a partner. Stone became Attorney General of the United States in 1924 and held that Office for almost a year before joining

3468-485: The law school offers a full-semester externship on the federal government in Washington, D.C., which provides students hands-on experience in government law offices. In addition to their placements at federal agencies, students in the program are also required to attend a weekly seminar and write a substantive research paper. The Federal Government Externship has the following three specific components: Columbia offers

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3536-571: The law school's premier residence, opened in August 2003. The hall was named for H. F. Lenfest '58 and his wife Marguerite. Lenfest contains more than 200 luxury student residences, including private studio apartments and one-bedroom apartments. In addition to Lenfest Hall, the majority of Columbia Law students live in the university's Graduate Student Housing consisting of single and shared apartments in buildings throughout Morningside Heights. All Columbia Law students are guaranteed housing on campus for

3604-478: The leading lawyers had obtained their training in offices or by private reading, and were highly skeptical as to the possibility of securing competent legal knowledge by means of professional schools. Legal education was, however, at a very low ebb. The clerks in the law offices were left almost wholly to themselves. Frequently they were not even acquainted with the lawyers with whom, by a convenient fiction, they were supposed to be studying. Examinations for admission to

3672-658: The matter. Professor Lynch claimed to be constantly in search of the actual case; it is not known if he was ultimately successful. Vanderbilt was President of the American Bar Association in 1937–38. He also served for many years as Dean of New York University Law School , currently housed in a building that bears his name. Vanderbilt was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936, 1940 and 1944. On two separate occasions he declined to be considered for nominations to

3740-700: The positions of Attorney General of the United States ( Eric Holder ), Solicitor General ( Don Verrilli ), and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division ( Lanny Breuer ) were all occupied by graduates of the law school. CLS alumni are also notable in the arts, business, and elsewhere. For example, civil rights activist, recording artist, and actor Paul Robeson received his law degree from CLS in 1923. Academy Award -winning lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II attended

3808-710: The profession rather than academics more suited to teaching. In support of his position, Dwight cited the example of legal study throughout the Western World since the Roman empire: It is not out of place in this connection to refer to the chosen methods of acquiring the Roman law, both as sanctioned by great jurists and by imperial authority, after an experience continuing through centuries . . . The Roman jurists had "cases" to deal with, precisely as we do. They were not mere legal philosophers, but disposed of practical and "burning" questions of their time. They were, however, in

3876-431: The railroad to earn money for college. He attended Wesleyan University , where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon , president of the student body, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . A sidelight of his Wesleyan career was the inauguration of President William A. Shanklin . Vanderbilt was one of the inauguration speakers, along with U. S. President William Howard Taft , and then startled Taft by showing up later as

3944-552: The range of studies for the whole course. Stringent rules were adopted in reference to the answers, so as to secure the absolute fidelity of the candidates in their work. Professor Dwight believed a course of legal study should focus on the application of basic legal principles, as learned through the study of legal treatises, coupled with frequent moot courts which would permit students to demonstrate their proficiency in applying those principles to new legal problems. In this way, Dwight's method of teaching diverged significantly from

4012-474: The rooms of the Historical Society. It was an introductory lecture, afterwards printed. The audience consisted mainly of lawyers. It was plain that many of them could be counted upon as friends of a system of legal education. The result was an immediate attendance of 35 students, who showed their intention of pursuing a regular course of study by at once paying a tuition fee for instruction throughout

4080-532: The school include: Theodore Roosevelt , the 26th president of the United States and the 25th vice president of the United States, and Franklin D. Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States, were students at CLS; neither graduated from CLS, but they both received honorary J.D.s in October 2008. Former President of Georgia , Mikheil Saakashvili , received his LL.M. at Columbia; Giuliano Amato , twice former Prime Minister of Italy (1992–93 and 2000–2001),

4148-455: The top law schools (for both academic reputation and national standing) and most recently ranked Columbia Law 8th (tied with University of Virginia School of Law ). For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranks Columbia Law No. 1 for Business/Corporate Law and No. 1 for Contracts/Commercial Law and No. 4 in its Law Firm Recruiters' Ranking of Best Law Schools. According to Columbia Law School's 2021 ABA -required disclosures; 98.3 percent of

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4216-402: The year. Such assurances were given of a future increase of numbers that it was determined to divide each class at the beginning of the coming year into two sections, for their convenience. The next year, the number of students was 62; in the third year, there were 103. Many of these early students were members of the bar. In 1860, in order to stimulate excellence in attainments of the students,

4284-560: Was also a CLS graduate. Graduates of the law school have served as members of the United States President's Cabinet and non-U.S. government executive cabinets, including U.S. Secretary of State , Secretary of Treasury , Secretary of War (now U.S. Secretary of Defense ), and Attorney General , among others. Three of the school's graduates have served as Chief Justice of the United States : Charles Evans Hughes , Harlan Fiske Stone , and John Jay . Columbia Law School

4352-558: Was among the first schools to establish both comparative and international law centers, as well as an effective space law department. The law school also has major centers for the study of international law, including the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the Center for Korean Legal Studies, the Center for Japanese Legal Studies , the European Legal Studies Center, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law,

4420-532: Was an American judge and judicial reformer. He served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957, the first Chief Justice under the revamped New Jersey court system established by the Constitution of 1947, in which the Supreme Court replaced the Court of Errors and Appeals as the highest court. He also was an attorney, legal educator and proponent of court modernization. Vanderbilt

4488-454: Was born on July 7, 1888, in Newark, New Jersey , to Louis and Ellen H. ( née Leach) Vanderbilt. He had one sibling, a younger brother named Leslie. He attended Newark (now Barringer ) High School where he was class president, editor of the newspaper, and a member of two fraternal groups, The Ramblers (later Omega Gamma Delta) and Lambda Tau. Following high school he took off a year to work on

4556-789: 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 . Columbia Law has many distinguished alumni, including United States presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; ten justices of

4624-422: Was named for two alumni, Elihu Root and Samuel Tilden , who exemplified Vanderbilt's ideal – lawyers dedicated to public leadership. Twenty scholars were selected for the first class from each of the country's then ten judicial circuits. Scholars were at first required to take special courses in the humanities, social sciences, history and natural sciences and required to live together and share mealtimes five days

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