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Columbia Law School

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Part of Columbia University.

Location:
Manhattan, NY

Founding Date:
1858

Enrollment:
1300

Official Website:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bella Abzug
Politician
24-Jul-1920 31-Mar-1998 Feminist and former Congresswoman
Tom A. Alberg
Business
c. 1940   Madrona Venture Group
Emily Altman
Business
1955   Morgan Stanley
Kofi Appenteng
Attorney
14-Jun-1957   Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Richard Ben-Veniste
Attorney
3-Jan-1943   9-11 Commission member
Gary G. Benanav
Business
c. 1946   Vice Chairman of New York Life, 1999-2005
Roland Betts
Business
25-May-1946   Longtime friend of George W. Bush
Karan K. Bhatia
Government
?   Deputy US Trade Representative
Frank Blake
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Home Depot
Lee C. Bollinger
Educator
c. 1946   President of Columbia University
William Bush
Attorney
c. 1946   Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski
Walter L. Carpeneti
Judge
1-Dec-1945   Justice, Alaska Supreme Court
John D. Clark
Economist
26-Sep-1884 6-Nov-1961 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53
Roy Cohn
Government
20-Feb-1927 2-Aug-1986 Joseph McCarthy's henchman
Bainbridge Colby
Government
22-Dec-1869 11-Apr-1950 US Secretary of State, 1920-21
William Colby
Spy
4-Jan-1920 27-Apr-1996 CIA Director 1973-75
J. Barclay Collins II
Business
21-Oct-1944   General Counsel for Hess Corporation
William W. Colville
Business
c. 1935   General Counsel at Owens Corning, 1984-94
John W. Conway
Business
1945   CEO of Crown Holdings
Howard E. Cox, Jr.
Business
c. 1933   Greylock Partners
Philippe P. Dauman
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Viacom
Eugene I. Davis
Business
c. 1953   Pirinate Consulting Group
Gray Davis
Politician
26-Dec-1942   Governor of California, 1999-2003
James H. DeGraffenreidt, Jr.
Business
8-May-1953   CEO of WGL Holdings
Thomas E. Dewey
Politician
24-Mar-1902 16-Mar-1971 Did not defeat Truman
Wild Bill Donovan
Government
1-Jan-1883 8-Feb-1959 Founded the OSS
William O. Douglas
Judge
16-Oct-1898 19-Jan-1980 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75
Martin L. Edelman
Attorney
c. 1941   Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Richard S. Emmet
Attorney
8-Apr-1897 5-Oct-1969 Counsel to the Bank of New York
Alan D. Feld
Attorney
c. 1937   Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Russell J. Frackman
Attorney
c. 1945   RIAA, MPAA Attorney
Charles Fried
Government
15-Apr-1935   US Solicitor General, 1985-89
Stephen Friedman
Business
21-Dec-1937   Former Partner, Goldman Sachs
Ellen V. Futter
Educator
21-Sep-1949   President of Barnard College, 1980-93
Charles P. Garcia
Business
c. 1961   Sterling Financial Investment Group
James Rudolph Garfield
Politician
17-Oct-1865 24-Mar-1950 US Secretary of the Interior, 1907-09
Gordon Gee
Educator
2-Feb-1944   President, Ohio State University
Robert A. Gerard
Government
c. 1945   Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1974-77
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Judge
15-Mar-1933   US Supreme Court Justice
Harvey J. Goldschmid
Government
6-May-1940   SEC Commissioner, 2002-05
Slade Gorton
Politician
8-Jan-1928   US Senator from Washington, 1981-2001
Oscar Hammerstein
Musician
12-Jul-1895 23-Aug-1960 Rodgers and Hammerstein
Edward Stephen Harkness
Philanthropist
22-Jan-1874 29-Jan-1940 Philanthropist
David W. Heleniak
Business
c. 1946   Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Government
21-Jan-1951   Deputy Attorney General, 1997-2001
Charles Evans Hughes
Politician
11-Apr-1862 27-Aug-1948 US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate
Roderick L. Ireland
Judge
3-Dec-1944   Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
Merit E. Janow
Educator
13-May-1958   Professor of Int'l Affairs, Columbia University
Matthew H. Kamens
Attorney
6-Dec-1951   Of Counsel, Wolf Block
John W. King
Politician
10-Oct-1918 9-Aug-1996 Governor of New Hampshire, 1963-69
Melvyn N. Klein
Attorney
c. 1941   GKH Partners LP
W. H. Knight
Educator
c. 1954   Law Professor, University of Washington
Kenneth B. Kopelman
Attorney
21-Jan-1952   Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Orin Kramer
Business
c. 1945   Chair, New Jersey State Investment Council
William Kunstler
Attorney
7-Jul-1919 4-Sep-1995 Civil rights attorney
Sidney Lapidus
Business
c. 1937   Warburg Pincus
Lewis Libby
Government
22-Aug-1950   Cheney's former Chief of Staff
Charles MacVeagh
Attorney
6-Jun-1860 4-Dec-1931 US Ambassador to Japan, 1925-28
Franklin MacVeagh
Government
22-Nov-1837 6-Jul-1934 US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13
Vilma S. Martinez
Attorney
17-Oct-1943   Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson
Douglas H. McCorkindale
Business
c. 1939   CEO of Gannett, 2000-05
Cynthia McFadden
Journalist
27-May-1956   Primetime Live
Robert B. Meyner
Politician
3-Jul-1908 27-May-1990 Governor of New Jersey, 1954-62
Brad Miller
Politician
19-May-1953   Congressman, North Carolina 13th
Matthew Miller
Columnist
c. 1962   The Two Percent Solution
Barry Mills
Attorney
8-Sep-1950   President, Bowdoin College
Ira M. Millstein
Attorney
c. 1925   Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Mark E. Mlotek
Business
c. 1956   EVP at Henry Schein
Wayne Morse
Politician
20-Oct-1900 22-Jul-1974 US Senator from Oregon, 1945-69
Annette L. Nazareth
Government
c. 1956   Securities and Exchange Commission
Louis Nizer
Attorney
6-Feb-1902 10-Nov-1994 My Life in Court
Flemming L. Norcott, Jr.
Judge
11-Oct-1943   Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
George Pataki
Politician
24-Jun-1945   Governor of New York, 1995-2006
David A. Preiser
Business
c. 1957   Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Bruce Ratner
Business
23-Jan-1945   New York City developer
Mitchell B. Reiss
Government
?   Director of Policy Planning, 2003-05
Lawrence R. Ricciardi
Business
14-Aug-1940   General Counsel for IBM, 1995-2002
David B. Rivkin
Government
?   Former Reagan, Bush 41 lawyer
Paul Robeson
Singer
9-Apr-1898 23-Jan-1976 20th Century renaissance man
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
Business
2-Jul-1954   Telecom executive
Charles F. C. Ruff
Attorney
1-Aug-1939 19-Nov-2000 Clinton's impeachment attorney
Thomas G. Saylor
Judge
14-Dec-1946   Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
James H. Scheuer
Politician
6-Feb-1920 30-Aug-2005 Congressman from New York, 1965-93
John F. Seiberling
Politician
8-Sep-1918   Congressman from Ohio, 1971-87
Robert B. Shapiro
Business
4-Aug-1938   CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000
Robert Shaye
Business
3-Mar-1949   Co-CEO of New Line Cinema
Sid Sheinberg
Business
14-Jan-1935   President and COO of MCA, 1973-95
Richard D. Simmons
Business
30-Dec-1934   President of Washington Post Co., 1981-91
Robert S. Smith
Judge
31-Aug-1944   Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Michael I. Sovern
Educator
1-Dec-1931   President of Columbia University, 1980-93
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Diplomat
6-Oct-1892 28-Mar-1950 US Ambassador to USSR, 1939-41
David J. Stern
Basketball
22-Sep-1942   Commissioner of the NBA
Marc I. Stern
Business
c. 1944   Chairman, GIMS North America
Harlan Fiske Stone
Judge
11-Oct-1872 22-Apr-1946 US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46
Oscar S. Straus
Diplomat
23-Dec-1850 3-May-1926 Thrice Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
James Symington
Politician
28-Sep-1927   Congressman from Missouri, 1969-77
David K. Y. Tang
Attorney
?   Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Franklin A. Thomas
Business
27-May-1934   President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96
Edward T. Wailes
Diplomat
16-Feb-1903 1969 US Ambassador to Iran, 1958-61
Lawrence E. Walsh
Government
8-Jan-1912   Independent Prosecutor for Iran-Contra
Rob Walton
Business
1945   Wal-Mart Chairman, world's 10th richest man
Alan H. Washkowitz
Business
c. 1940   Former Partner, Lehman Brothers
Wesley S. Williams, Jr.
Attorney
13-Nov-1942   Former Partner, Covington & Burling

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Floyd Abrams
Attorney
9-Jul-1936   First Amendment lawyer
Harvey J. Goldschmid
Government
6-May-1940   SEC Commissioner, 2002-05
Scott Horton
Attorney
11-Aug-1955   Human rights attorney
Orin Kramer
Business
c. 1945   Chair, New Jersey State Investment Council
David W. Leebron
Educator
1956   President, Rice University
Eben Moglen
Attorney
c. 1959   Shareware law
Bernard W. Nussbaum
Attorney
23-Mar-1937   White House Counsel for Bill Clinton
David Schizer
Educator
c. 1968   Dean of Columbia Law School
Robert S. Smith
Judge
31-Aug-1944   Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Michael I. Sovern
Educator
1-Dec-1931   President of Columbia University, 1980-93
Harlan Fiske Stone
Judge
11-Oct-1872 22-Apr-1946 US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46
William C. Warren
Educator
3-Feb-1909 11-Sep-2000 Dean of Columbia Law School, 1952-70
Patricia J. Williams
Scholar
28-Aug-1951   The Alchemy of Race and Rights

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
David W. Leebron
Educator
1956   President, Rice University
David Schizer
Educator
c. 1968   Dean of Columbia Law School
Harlan Fiske Stone
Judge
11-Oct-1872 22-Apr-1946 US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46
William C. Warren
Educator
3-Feb-1909 11-Sep-2000 Dean of Columbia Law School, 1952-70


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