Just Societies Highlights - September 2019

Through The Path Forward, Columbia Law highlights the scholarship, litigation, advocacy, and representation of faculty, students, and alumni who are striving to reduce mass incarceration and affirm human dignity.

On November 4, join the Columbia Club in Washington, DC, for a talk with Professor Bruce Western from the Justice Lab on the history and upshot of the US prison crisis—and where we go from here.

Read about a spring campus event that simulated the difficulties and frustrations of life on parole. The simulation was organized by the Business School's Tamer Center for Social Enterprise.

Alumni serving on the board of a nonprofit organization can volunteer with the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Apply to mentor students and support the next generation of social impact innovators.

Columbia Magazine's summer issue reviews Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara '93LAW, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The president needs to unblock his critics on Twitter to preserve free speech, a federal appeals court decided in Columbia v. Trump, a case brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute. Join the Institute's event on tech giants and public discourse in November to dig deeper.