MESSAGE FROM THE CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS Thank you for joining us during this crucial time for the Law School— and the world. Our resolve, especially during this pandemic, enables us to address the challenges, persevere, emerge even stronger, and create lasting benefits for future students. Your support for the ambitious, five-year Campaign for Columbia Law allows the School to make a difference, when and where it matters most. Your generosity has propelled us more than two-thirds of the way toward our $300 million goal. The campaign’s impact is felt throughout the Law School. We are providing more students with more scholarship aid than ever before, offering innovative new courses, and hiring distinguished, accomplished faculty. Students receive even more hands-on, real-world legal experiences through our expanded experiential education programs. Importantly, Columbia Law students become leaders—across disciplines, sectors, industries, and borders—who are prepared to act wisely during the pivotal moments that affect generations to come. It takes vision and resources for a law school to prepare students for such a dynamic marketplace—and world. Our gifts, of all sizes and types, make this possible. The campaign gives all of us the chance to reflect on how much the Law School has helped define the course of history. For 160 years, the Columbia Law School community has influenced key advances in civil and human rights, the regulation of our economy, governance and the rule of law, and conflict and the search for peace. Our leadership in these and other important areas of the law continues today. Columbia Law School helped prepare all of us for successful and purposeful careers and lives. By coming together, through this campaign, we can help secure this tradition of excellence and innovation for generations to come. Thank you again for your ongoing support. Sincerely,
campaign.law.columbia.edu 26 ANNUAL REPORT 2019
Alison S. Ressler ’83
Brad Smith ’84
Kathy Surace-Smith ’84
