Class audio recordings from the Spring 2012 semester are scheduled to be deleted on Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 11:59pm ET
Please note that automated audio recordings from the Spring 2012 semester are scheduled to be deleted on Friday, June 1st, 2012, at 11:59pm ET.
If you would like to download a copy of your class recordings, you can do so by:
1. Logging into http://coursewebs.law.columbia.edu
2. Selecting the class of your choice
3. Navigating to the Class Recordings [Echo 360) link
4. Selecting the class recording you would like to keep
5. Clicking the Download media file link at the bottom of the page
For Administrative departments, Centers and Programs, please click on the links sent to your e-mail from echo360@law.columbia.edu. You will find the “Download media file” link at the bottom of the page.
Don’t know how to do any of these? Please contact us at AVRequest@law.columbia.edu and we will be more than happy to provide you with assistance.
A Graduation Gift from Lincoln Center
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A discount membership to our Young Patrons Group
$150 yearly membership (normally $250) includes invitations to:
• Select Lincoln Center performances, often paired with exclusive free receptions and opportunities to meet and mingle with the artists
• “101” events demystifying the performing arts in a casual setting (cocktails included) with members-only discounted price
• The annual YPLC Fall gala with members-only discounted price
• Members-only rehearsals throughout the season
To join at the graduation rate, please call Sarah Needham at 212.875.5236
Young Patrons of Lincoln Center (YPLC) is a membership group for arts enthusiasts in their 20s through early 40s dedicated to celebrating and supporting the world’s leading performing arts center. Through special events, arts advocacy, community outreach, and annual contributions, YPLC members build future audiences at Lincoln Center and increase access to the arts for a diverse range of New Yorkers. Offer expires Nov. 1, 2012.
Email and network account information for 2012 Graduates
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Hello Graduates and Congratulations.
Here’s some information about email and network accounts you may find helpful.
Law School Network Accounts (G and H Drive/Printer)
For the convenience of graduating students studying for the Bar Exam, Law School network accounts remain accessible through July 31st. Any personal files you wish to take with you must be copied to USB thumb-drive or emailed to another account by that date. Assuming you have printing credits available, you can also print until July 31st with your account.
CUNIX Email Accounts
Per CUIT guidelines, graduating students’ CUNIX accounts expire approximately 6 months after graduation. Any messages or address books you wish to take with you should be copied to USB thumb-drive or emailed to another account by July 31st.
Lifelong Email Forwarding
Although your CUNIX account will be disabled, you may elect to use the University’s lifelong email forwarding service. For further CUNIX email forwarding information, please visit http://alumni.columbia.edu/access/s2_2.html
Firstname.lastname@law.columbia.edu email address
Your Firstname.Lastname@law.columbia.edu email address will remain workable through July 31st. After that date, you must forward your CUNIX account to the University’s lifelong email forwarding service <<http://alumni.columbia.edu/access/s2_2.html>>
Lawnet Access
The Lawnet website can be accessed through July 31st. After that date, if you need your grades, please visit Student Services Online (SSOL) at https://ssol.columbia.edu/ to check grades, request transcripts, etc. You may also want to save your internal Lawnet grades. You can print a copy of your grades by visiting Lawnet on or before July 31st.
Computer Labs and Email Kiosks
The Law School computer labs and email kiosks are accessible to graduates with a valid Law School network account through July 31st.
Registered Laptop on Wired and Wireless Networks
Laptops registered to connect to the wired and wireless networks in the Law School will automatically be unregistered on July 31st. If you configured the G: and H: drive and printers on your laptop, you can simply remove them after the 31st. Connections to Columbia University’s wireless network (CUIT) will remain active after the 31st.
Please address any questions or concerns (before July 31st) to the Information Technology Helpdesk at:
Email: helpdesk@law.columbia.edu
Phone: 212.854.1370
Helpdesk support center: Greene Hall 731
Congratulations and Best of Luck from the IT department!!!
Debating Immigration in the American and French 2012 Presidential Elections
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, from 6-8 p.m. in the East Gallery, Buell Hall.
Roundtable on the debates around immigration laws and policies in the 2012 presidential elections in France and the U.S. with Eric Fassin, Michel Feher, Julie Saada, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Jose Moya, Rodolfo de la Garza and Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia.
Eric Fassin is a Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Normale Superieure who has written on issues of sexuality and race in contemporary France and the U.S. Michel Feher is a philosopher, the editor of Zone Books (in New York), and President of the association Cette France-là. Julie Saada is a Maître de Conférences in Philosophy at the Université d’Artois, and program director at the Collège International de Philosophie. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia.
Jose Moya is Professor of Latin American History at Barnard and director of the Barnard Forum on Migration. Rodolfo de la Garza is Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia is Senior Researcher at the Center for Political Research, Sciences Po Paris and is currently visiting Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers.
Roundtable discussion organized in partnership with the Collège International de Philosophie, in conjunction with a related event which took place on April 10 at Columbia’s Reid Hall in Paris, La question migratoire dans les campagnes présidentielles française et américaine, as part of their series of conferences on Politique au Temps Présent.
To listen to an audio recording of the April 10 Reid Hall conference, please click here.
Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Political Science Department
Opening Night at Lincoln Center: 25 Years of the Columbia University Film Festival
May 4, 2012, 7:00PM
Alice Tully Hall
Presented by Columbia University School of the Arts and The Film Society of Lincoln Center
We hope you will join us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Columbia University Film Festival. The program will consist of a selection of student shorts representing the history and progression of the Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.
In addition, excerpts from early works of Lisa Cholodenko, Nicole Holofcener, Courtney Hunt, Kimberly Peirce and many others will be included.
The Andrew Sarris Award will be presented to Malia Scotch Marmo (’88) the screenwriter of such films as Once Around and Hook.
There are other surprises in store as well.
BUY TICKETS NOW!
We also hope you can join us for other Festival events.
New York: May 4 – 10
Los Angeles: June 12 – 14
Visit cufilmfest.com for details on the films and events.
Walk-in sessions for Examsoft’s Software Installation (Laptop on Exams)
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The IT helpdesk has scheduled walk-in sessions for the Installation of Examsoft’s (Laptop on Exams) software.
New this Spring 2012 semester! Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion) is now supported!
In order to use the Examsoft software to take exams, you are required to have the latest version (version 10) of Softest installed on your notebook. Students who came to the Notebook Configuration sessions (from 8/16/11 to 8/25/11) may have the previous version of SofTest installed. If so, you must upgrade to SofTest version 10.
The SofTest installation is straightforward and you can follow the instructions sent by the Registration Services office to get this done on your own, or visit the IT helpdesk anytime.
Students can visit the IT helpdesk in Jerome Greene Hall, room 731 anytime between 09:00 am to 05:00pm, M-F for help configuring a laptop for exams. No appointment is necessary; however, please please keep in mind that helpdesk activity increases significantly, during exam period. Please visit the IT helpdesk as early as convenient and allow enough time to ensure proper laptop preparation for exams.
All students are welcomed!
Congratulations to the Columbia Vis International Arbitration Moot Court Team!
The Willem C. Vis Moot is the largest and most prestigious international arbitration moot court competition open to law students. This year, over 280 schools from 68 different countries entered the competition. Arbitrators judging the competition included the most eminent legal professionals and scholars in the field, and came from both common law and civil law backgrounds.
Last week, the Columbia team, coached by Paavana Kumar, Chao Huang and Kyndra Jamison ’13, participated both in the selective PCA Vis Pre-Moot in The Hague, and the Vis Moot final competition in Vienna. Kyndra Jamison, Chao Huang, Yi Han Goh and Paavana Kumar ’13 competed in The Hague, where Columbia placed third out of all participating schools. In Vienna, these four students was joined by Megha Kalbag and Dave Gallo ’14. The full team advanced to the break rounds of the competition, and were recognized as Team Orals Finalists, placing in the top 20% of over 280 competing schools. This represents an incredible achievement, and Columbia’s performance was highly lauded in Vienna by arbitrators who are world authorities on both arbitral procedure and the CISG.
Finally, Kyndra Jamison and Paavana Kumar ’13 were presented with speaking awards for their oral arguments in Vienna. This is a special distinction reserved for speakers who have received consistently outstanding scores in the general rounds of the competition, and who have spoken both on behalf of Claimant and Respondent.
The team would like to thank Professor Philip Genty, Professor George Bermann, and Viren Mascarenhas for their support during the year. Columbia Vis would also like to thank the law firms and organizations who hosted premoots in New York, including Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Kirkland & Ellis, and the International Center for Dispute Resolution.
The Willem C. Vis Moot Court is a worldwide competition designed to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for resolution of international business disputes through its application to a concrete problem of a client, and to train law leaders in methods of alternative dispute resolution. The problem this year dealt with a very complex commercial contract dispute under the CIETAC institution, where moot participants grappled with issues of transnational bribery, conflicts of interest between arbitrators and counsel, breach of contract and estoppel doctrines, nuanced calculations of damages, and multi-layered inquiries into exemptions of liability for sub-suppliers and manufacturers under the Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG). Further, the moot provides an unparalleled opportunity to network with leaders in the field of arbitration. Columbia’s performance this year was such that many of these arbitrators expressed eagerness to stay in touch and forge connections with the Columbia team for years to come, offering the potential for exceptional professional opportunities and further academic connections.
The Moot Court Program at Columbia Law School is made possible by a generous contribution from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.–
Loan Repayment, Financial Planning, and Investing After Law School
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Tuesday, April 10 in Big Warren L104, 12:15 pm
Come hear Alexey Sokolin (MBA ’13, JD ’13) speak about the fundamentals of paying off student loan debt, investing, and money management. His talk will focus on whether to pay off educational debt early or not (and that decision’s impact on your future employment flexibility), how to choose and evaluate 401k plans and mutual funds for your investing goals, and, more broadly, how to manage your finances responsibly after graduation while planning for retirement and other major life events.
Alexey is the founder of NestEgg (www.nesteggwealth.com), a startup devoted to simplifying investing without sacrificing quality advice. While pursuing his J.D./MBA at Columbia University, Alexey worked in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he was an assistant vice president at Barclays Wealth where he focused on the economics of new ventures and management of the group’s profitability. Prior to Barclays, Alexey was at Lehman Brothers in the investment management division. He received his B.A. cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied economics and law. Alexey has taken and passed Level I and Level II CFA examinations.
Network Maintenance and Downtime Friday April 13th, 2012 from 6pm to 11:59pm.
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The Law School computer network will be unavailable Friday, April 13th, 2012 from 6:00pm to 11:59pm.
The IT Department will perform standard system maintenance. The downtime includes the file and print servers, Lotus Notes email, and Internet connectivity from within the Law School.
The following network services will also be unavailable:
- H: & G: drives
- Computer lab workstations
- Network printers
- Courseweb
- Lawnet
- FTP
CUNIX, CubMail and PINE will be accessible from outside the Law School buildings.
Please make a note of the following dates in order to avoid conflicts between network maintenance periods and your work.
Network Maintenance Schedule for the 2011-2012 academic year, 6:00pm to 11:59pm:
- April 13, 2012
- No May downtime due to finals
For a complete listing of the 2011-2012 schedule, please visit: http://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/info_tech/IT_news
Network Maintenance and Downtime Friday April 13th, 2012 from 6pm to 11:59pm.
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The Law School computer network will be unavailable Friday, April 13th, 2012 from 6:00pm to 11:59pm.
The IT Department will perform standard system maintenance. The downtime includes the file and print servers, Lotus Notes email, and Internet connectivity from within the Law School.
The following network services will also be unavailable:
- H: & G: drives
- Computer lab workstations
- Network printers
- Courseweb
- Lawnet
- FTP
CUNIX, CubMail and PINE will be accessible from outside the Law School buildings.
Please make a note of the following dates in order to avoid conflicts between network maintenance periods and your work.
Network Maintenance Schedule for the 2011-2012 academic year, 6:00pm to 11:59pm:
- April 13, 2012
- No May downtime due to finals
For a complete listing of the 2011-2012 schedule, please visit: http://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/info_tech/IT_news