Columbia Law School faculty

James Brien Comey Jr. is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his termination in May 2017.

Amal Clooney is a Lebanese and British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

American legal academic (born 1959)

American law professor and free software advocate

Lina Maliha Khan is a British and American legal scholar who was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate professor at Columbia Law School.

Israeli philosopher (1939–2022)

Japanese diplomat

American diplomat (1895-1971)

New Zealand legal philosopher

American presidential advisor

American diplomat (1927-2019)

American legal scholar

American political scientist

American lawyer and educator

Brazilian judge

American legal scholar (1932–2010)

American judge (1831-1914)

American essayist and political scientist (1948-)

American attorney

American legal academic

American law scholar (1917–2010)

United States federal judge

American human rights lawyer

American judge

United States Solicitor General

Finnish-American legal scholar

American academic

Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas; Member of the New York Assembly (1816–1899)

German jurist