Established in 2011 with a visionary gift from Richard Paul Richman, JD '72, MBA '73, the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University is a joint venture of Columbia’s Business and Law Schools.
The goal of the Richman Center is to foster collaboration among Columbia University’s distinguished business and legal scholars in order to generate curricular innovations and advanced research that has the potential to inform public policy as well as the theory and practice of business and law.
In pursuing this goal, the center promotes broad-ranging dialogue with alumni and other leaders from industry, government, media, and academia—all of whom can provide unique insights and expertise.
Established in 2011 with a visionary gift from Richard Paul Richman, JD '72, MBA '73, the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University is a joint venture of Columbia's Business and Law Schools. The Richman Center promotes evidence-based public policy and fosters dialogue and debate on emerging policy questions where business and markets intersect with the law.
The Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy supports Columbia University’s JD/MBA program, offered jointly by Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School.
The Public Lecture Series aims to bridge theory and practice by inviting distinguished practitioners and policy makers to share their perspective and engage in active dialogue on social, political, and economic issues.
The Richman Center sponsors invitation-only conferences and symposia that address emerging issues at the intersection of business and law. Invited participants include academics, policymakers, attorneys, industry members and journalists.
The Richard Paul Richman Center
Columbia Business School, Geffen Hall
645 West 130th Street, New York, NY 10027
212-853-8588
The Federalist Society hosts Professor David Schizer and Yale Law School's Professor Akhil Reed on a panel moderated by Corinne Snow from Vinson & Elkins.
In December, Columbia impaneled a Task Force on Antisemitism. It’s a classic bureaucratic response to a crisis—other Ivies have done the same—but one of the panel’s three co-chairmen, David Schizer, speaks of the problem with clarity and force.
Read the compelling op-ed by David Schizer, Dean Emeritus at Columbia Law School and Co-Director of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. In this piece, Professor Schizer discusses the rise of antisemitism at Columbia University and outlines the proactive steps the university is taking to combat it.
As a global minimum tax attracts growing support around the world, discussion about it continues to unfold in the United States. Our panel, which included Dean Emeritus and Columbia Law School Professor David Schizer, thoroughly examined this multifaceted and controversial issue -- discussing the pros and cons of such a tax and encompassing the perspectives of both legislators and industry leaders.
Edward Morrison is a law professor at Columbia University and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a director of Columbia’s Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy.
Congress refused to enact the Pillar 2 agreement that requires all countries to tax large corporations.
On Wednesday, April 17, Richman Center Co-Director David M. Schizer joined Columbia University President Shafik, and Board of Trustees Chairs David Greenwald and Claire Shipman to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce. The panel discussed the increasing incidents of antisemitism on Columbia's campus and explored effective measures to address this serious issue.
His opening statement begins at 36:15.
David's Schizer's statement can be found at 2:42:55. In addition, he answered questions during the following times:
In addition to the video of the hearing, his written testimony can be found here.
