How to Change the World with a Law Degree: A Conversation with David Schizer

Date: Monday, August 1, 2023

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EST

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Join us at Tikvah’s New York City office for a lunch with David Schizer, whose career covers an extensive range of legal, corporate, and government legal career paths. From Supreme Court Clerk to Dean Emeritus of Columbia Law, Schizer, the author of How to Change the World in Six (Not So Easy) Steps, will discuss the variety of opportunities available to professionals with a law degree and the ways in which a young lawyer can make a difference and stand out in the legal field. How can one contribute to academia with a law degree? In what ways can a corporate lawyer make a difference beyond the corporate world? How do the private and public sectors compare in the legal field? Why should students pursue a legal career?

This lunch will take place at the Tikvah Fund’s Headquarters on the 4th floor 165 E 56th St in New York City. All attendees must be RSVP prior to the event in order to be admitted.

Please email smarks@tikvah.org if you are interested in attending.

David Schizer

David M. Schizer is Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law & Economics at Columbia Law School. He served as dean from 2004 to 2014. At 35, Schizer was the youngest dean in the Law School’s history, and the longest serving dean since 1971. During Schizer’s tenure as dean, he recruited 43 new faculty members and doubled the school’s annual fundraising. While on a three-year leave from the Law School from 2017 to 2019, Schizer served as CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a century-old international humanitarian organization. He redesigned JDC’s planning process to allocate its $365 million annual budget more strategically, while also increasing JDC’s philanthropic support. Schizer is one of the nation’s leading scholars on tax law and on the nonprofit sector. He is a founder and co-director of the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy, a founder and co-chair of the Center for Israeli Legal Studies, and a founder and co-chair of the Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1998, Schizer was a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Schizer began his career in the tax department of Davis, Polk & Wardwell.

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How to Change the World with a Law Degree: A Conversation with David Schizer

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