Season’s Greetings from SLS

Season's Greetings


Campus will be closed from December 23 to January 3.

“Innovation” and “interdisciplinary” approaches are not brochure buzzwords for SLS, but galvanizing principles evident in the law school’s steadfast commitment to forging new frontiers.

Rayne Sullivan, JD '23

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One-year master's degree programs and a doctoral degree (JSD) for international graduate students who have earned a law degree outside the United States.

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Just weeks before he was elected president of the United States, during a conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump declared, “The most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff.’ And it’s my favorite word.”

In this latest episode of Stanford Legal, Stanford ...Law Professor Alan O. Sykes joins Pam and Rich to help make sense of the fascinating world of trade, tariffs, and the global economy.

🎧Listen here: https://stanford.io/4goHqMZ

Earlier this month, SLS held a swearing-in ceremony to celebrate recent graduates being admitted to the California State Bar.

George Triantis, JSD ’89, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School and Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law... were in attendance along with Alumni judges, The Honorable Sallie Kim, JD ’89, of the Northern District of California and Allison M. Danner, JD ’97, Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District. They participated in the ceremony for the recent graduates who took the state oath and also a ceremonial federal oath for the US District Court for the Northern District of California. 🥳 #congratulations #CAstatebar #SLSlife #SLSgrad #SLSalum

In a recent article, How presidents can use pardon powers, the Washington Post referenced a 2019 Stanford Legal podcast featuring SLS Professor Bernadette Meyler, a constitutional law scholar who has written extensively about the presidential pardon power, including in her book Theaters of

...Pardoning. The pardon power dates back to the British monarchy and the “godly” rights of kings, as Meyler explained. In early December, Meyler appeared on a new Stanford Legal episode about presidential pardons. Listen to it here.

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The Presidential Pardon Power, from Biden and Trump to Ancient Kings | Stanford Law School

In this episode, Pam and Rich are joined by Professor Bernie Meyler for a discussion of high-profile pardons like Hunter Biden and Donald Trump’s...

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In the remedies phase of the landmark U.S. v. Google case, the government recently set forth a host of proposals for bringing more competition to online search, including a request that Google be forced to sell Chrome. Ultimately that divestiture is unlikely to happen, according to SLS Visiting ...Fellow Douglas Melamed, former DOJ antitrust lawyer and former Intel GC. The coming decision in Google's "ad-tech" case that recently wrapped up in the Eastern District of Virginia could be big for the company, he says. That case implicates the revenue side of Google's business. "There's a lot at stake," according to Melamed.

Read more here: https://stanford.io/4iJgQjs