Speeches

Keynote Address: ESPAS Annual Conference, October 15, 2019

"We can expect the extraordinarily successful system of the American research university to continue thriving, to become more and more academically focused on very real and practical problems of the modern, global world..."

August 25, 2019

"Our essence is in the sense of wonder, curiosity, and the steadfast pursuit of understanding things better than we know now."

May 22, 2019

"The idea of the academy, as something separate and discrete, removed from ordinary daily life, is as old as human civilization."

May 14, 2019

"...and all this made him more naturally the very embodiment of a “humanist,” in the true sense of that word, as a person who relished the realities of the diversity of humanity."

May 13, 2019

A wide-ranging discussion in a student-focused event at The Forum building on Columbia's Manhattanville campus. 

Launch of CU and Clooney Foundation's TrialWatch Initiative

April 25, 2019

Commitment to human rights is embedded “deep in the culture of [Columbia] Law School.”