David M. Schizer, Dean of Columbia Law School and former Tax Prof, has been named by the National Law Journal as one of America’s Top 40 Lawyers Under Age 40:

For the Columbia Law Revue’s Spring Show this year, a student play called Suddenly Schizer, the playbill featured Superman with the face of David Schizer. Schizer, 36, is the youngest dean ever at Columbia Law School — and his popularity is evident. Schizer’s course on tax law became one of the most popular classes in the law school when he taught it….

"When I was clerking for Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, I asked for her advice [on a legal career], and she is very careful about not influencing people too much. The answer she gave me is ‘You should do what you want to do.’ So I said, ‘Justice, what do you think I would want to do?’ And she said, ‘Well, have you talked to Marty [her husband, also a lawyer] about tax?’ So I did, I talked to Marty and found that I did love it."