Fifty years after the establishment of Stanford’s Native American Law Students Association, the group’s incoming presidents have a forward-looking agenda.
A report from Stanford Law School Policy Lab and Bezos Earth Fund recommends climate-smart forestry practices as well as better data collection to quantify and incentivize forest carbon removals.
The halls of Stanford Law School buzzed with conversation and coding last month when 40 teams gathered for a hackathon focused on law and large language models.
As the senior policy advisor for Native affairs, Reese will work with other White House officials and executive branch agencies on issues impacting Indian Country.
Students in the Youth and Education Law Project hone their research and advocacy skills by helping kids facing disciplinary action or seeking accommodations.
Allen Weiner discusses NATO support for Ukraine, the limitations of the U.N., and the possibility that Russian officials could face prosecution for war crimes.
Scholars comment on 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
The decision in Roe v. Wade came on Jan. 22, 1973. Stanford Law faculty provide commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision, and the one that overturned it in June 2022.
Justice Breyer joins SLS Dean Jenny Martinez in MemAud
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (BA ’59), who stepped down from the high court last year, joined his former clerk, SLS Dean Jenny Martinez, for a fireside chat and Q&A with the SLS community.
David Sklansky on Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions
Stanford Law School’s David Sklansky discusses the verdict convicting members of the rightwing militia group the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy for the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The first in a Stanford Center for Racial Justice series highlighting community reform efforts, On the Ground captures the national mood following George Floyd’s murder and explores how mass protests led to calls for police reform.
Police Facebook posts disproportionately highlight crimes involving Black suspects, study finds
Researchers examined crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies and found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates.
Stanford Law School launches Neukom Center for the Rule of Law
Supported by a significant gift from Sally and Bill Neukom, the new center at Stanford Law School will conduct academic research and teaching with a sharp focus on rule of law-related issues.
Stanford’s Ralph Richard Banks on critical race theory
Stanford’s Ralph Richard Banks, co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, discusses critical race theory and why legislators and parents are trying to control what students learn about it.
How the Inflation Reduction Act affects healthcare
Michelle Mello, a leading scholar of health law, discusses the new legislation and its impact on Americans’ healthcare – including historic caps on monthly prescription costs for retirees.
Stanford criminal law expert David Sklansky discusses the theories swirling around the classified documents retrieved from the former president’s Florida residence and explains what could happen next.
Many significant moments in Black history and the struggle for racial justice across the eras have occurred in August. The Stanford Center for Racial Justice and Stanford Libraries share a snapshot.
Stanford’s Deborah Sivas on Supreme Court’s decision to limit EPA’s powers to fight climate change
Stanford law Professor and environmental law expert Deborah Sivas explains the key points of the SCOTUS decision to reduce the regulatory power of the EPA and discusses the implications for climate change.
Stanford Law School’s John Donohue on Supreme Court’s guns decision
Stanford Law Professor John Donohue, an expert in gun law, discusses the Supreme Court decision to strike down New York’s law restricting the right of individuals to carry firearms outside of the home, expanding the scope of the individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
