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Winter Luncheon
The Medal for Excellence
The Medal for Excellence, Columbia Law School’s most prestigious award, is presented annually to alumni and past or present faculty who exemplify the qualities of character, intellect, and social and professional responsibility that the Law School seeks to instill in its students.
Friday, February 1, 2013
The Waldorf Astoria New York
Honored
Morton L. Janklow ’53
Chairman and Literary Agent, Janklow & Nesbit Associates
In the early 1970s, Morton L. Janklow ’53 negotiated a book advance for a client at a then unheard-of book dollar figure and then successfully sued when the publisher tried to back out of the deal. That legal victory marked the beginning of a new era in the protection of writers’ interests.
Today, as chairman of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Janklow heads one of the foremost literary agencies in the world, representing leading authors in their relationships with publishers and motion picture, television, and multimedia companies.
Janklow has maintained a strong commitment to the arts and to education throughout his career. Among the initiatives his gifts have established are the Morton L. Janklow Professorship of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School and the Janklow Arts Leadership Program at Syracuse University. He also serves on the advisory board for the Law School’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, and he is a frequent visiting lecturer on the subject of intellectual property law.
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Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. ’83
Solicitor General of the United States
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. ’83 is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. In that position, he is responsible for representing the government before the U.S. Supreme Court. Since being sworn in on June 9, 2011, Verrilli’s docket has included high-stakes cases on issues such as health care reform and immigration. His defense of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act resulted in a June Supreme Court decision upholding the majority of the law.
Widely recognized as one of the top litigators in the nation, Verrilli first joined the Justice Department in 2009 as associate deputy attorney general, focusing on domestic and national security policy. He was appointed deputy White House counsel the following year. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Verrilli handled high-profile cases at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., where he was a longtime partner and co-chair of the firm’s Supreme Court practice. Throughout his career in private practice, Verrilli was active in pro bono work, and he has received numerous awards for his service.
Past Recipients
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1964 *Hon. Joseph M. Proskauer, 1899
1965 *Hon. Harold R. Medina, 1912 1966 *Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, ’25 1967 *Hon. Stanley H. Fuld, ’26 1968 *Whitney North Seymour, ’23 1969 *Dean William C. Warren 1970 *Hon. Frank S. Hogan, ’28 1971 *Professor Walter Gellhorn, ’31 1971 *Professor Herbert Wechsler, ’31 1972 *Hon. Stanley Reed, ’09 1973 *Hon. William O. Douglas, ’25 1973 *Hon. Simon H. Rifkind, ’25 1974 *Hon. Clifford P. Case, ’28 1974 *Hon. William T. Gossett, ’28 1975 *Hon. Charles D. Breitel, ’32 1976 *Professor Milton Handler, ’26 1976 *Professor Richard R.B. Powell, ’14 1977 *Hon. Philip C. Jessup, ’24 1978 *Hon. Paul R. Hays, ’33 1978 *Hon. Leonard P. Moore, ’22 1979 *Hon. Harold Leventhal, ’36 1979 *Hon. Carl McGowan, ’36 1980 *Harriet F. Pilpel, ’36 1981 Hon. Lawrence E. Walsh, ’35 1982 *Professor Louis Henkin 1983 *Wilbur H. Friedman, ’30 1984 *Hon. Oscar H. Davis, ’37 1984 *Justin A. Stanley, ’37 1985 *Professor Willis L.M. Reese 1986 *Hon. James D. Hopkins, ’33 1986 *Hon. Benjamin Kaplan, ’33 1987 *Hon. Marvin E. Frankel, ’48 1987 *Hon. Constance Baker Motley, ’46 1988 *Edith I. Spivack, ’32 1988 *Morton Stavis, ’36 1989 *Professor Harry W. Jones, ’39 1989 *Professor Albert J. Rosenthal 1990 Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, ’43 1990 Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, ’48 1991 *Hon. Frank C. Newman, ’47, ’53 1991 *Professor Oscar Schachter, ’39 *deceased
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1992 Hon. Vilma S. Martinez, ’67
1993 Hon. Hong-Choo Hyun, ’69 1993 *Hon. Eugene Nickerson, ’43 1994 *Hon. Giles Sutherland Rich, ’29 1994 *Professor Maurice Rosenberg, ’47 1995 Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ’59 1996 *Hon. Kathryn Austin McDonald, ’63 1996 Professor Arthur W. Murphy, ’48 1997 Hon. Marie L. Garibaldi, ’59 1997 Professor Michael I. Sovern, ’55 1998 Sidney J. Sheinberg, ’58 1998 Mary Jo White, ’74 1999 Professor Jack Greenberg, ’48 O 1999 Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., ’54 2000 *Professor John M. Kernochan, ’48 2000 Hon. Felice K. Shea, ’50 2001 Hon. Dickinson R. Debevoise, ’51 2001 Harvey R. Miller, ’59 2001 Ken Tsunematsu, ’63 2002 President Lee C. Bollinger Jr., ’71 2003 Susan B. Lindenauer, ’64 2003 Judith R. Thoyer, ’65 2003 *Judith P. Vladeck, ’47 2004 *Professor E. Allan Farnsworth, ’52 2004 *Stanley L. Temko, ’43 2005 *Professor Louis Lowenstein, ’53 2005 Michael D. Ratner, ’69 2006 Wei Sun Christianson, ’89 2006 Professor R. Randle Edwards 2007 Michael E. Patterson, ’67 2007 Esta Eiger Stecher, ’82 2008 H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, ’58 2009 Steven Epstein, ’68 2009 *Jerome L. Greene, ’28 2010 Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr. ’76 2010 Henry Paul Monaghan 2011 Max W. Berger, ’71 2011 Stephen H. Case, ’68 2012 Hon. Jeh Charles Johnson ’82
2012 Richard Paul Richman ’72 J.D., ’73 M.B.A.
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