The door of Stanford Law School Professor Nathaniel Persily is completely covered by red and blue. Upon closer inspection, you’ll see it’s papered with electoral maps of the United States showing results from the 2022 November general election broken down by county. There’s also a map ...detailing U.S. Senate and House election results, showing how each district voted. If you haven't guessed, elections are his thing.

The maps that are central to his work are also central to the decor of his office, which is lined with framed maps of the districts he’s helped redraw over the years. “Each one of them has a story behind it,” said Persily during a tour of his office, in which he reflected on the painstaking process of districting planning.

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Nate Persily’s Mini Museum of Election History | Stanford Law School

The legal scholar’s office is a trove of artifacts of the democratic process, from the cartoon that inspired the term “Gerry-mandering” to the m

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Colombia’s Rodrigo Botero Garcia, who has worked for decades to preserve large swaths of land in the Amazon region, received Stanford University’s Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability during an Oct. 8 lecture and ceremony at Stanford Law School. The event marked the 12th anniversary of... the award, established by a gift from SLS alumnus and lifelong conservationist Raymond E. Bright, JD ’59, who passed away in 2011.

“Engaging with the local population in their daily lives, understanding their struggles and constraints, and observing their interactions with one another, provides a unique opportunity to establish connections with other levels of the state, business, and decision-making entities,” Botero said.

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Stanford Law School Lecturer Glenn Fine was featured in Washington Monthly for his new book, "Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government." Fine served as inspector general in the Justice and Defense Departments, and was not just present but had ...investigative authority in the big events of the young millennium: 9/11; an FBI scandal; the Karl Rove–orchestrated mass firing of U.S. attorneys; the hecatomb of taxpayer waste in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the Trump administration’s criminally incompetent response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In "Watchdogs," Fine examines the numerous bureaucratic failures and poor communication between agencies that have almost universally been impugned as the cause of the intelligence failure that led to the tragedy of September 11.

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Who Will Protect the Watchdogs? | Washington Monthly

Inspectors general have fought for accountability in U.S. government for decades, with varying success. They will be prime targets in a second Trump...

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Stanford Law School recently named seven students Sallyanne Payton Fellows. The fellowship, now in its third year, supports SLS students who are contemplating a career in legal academia. The fellowship is named for Sallyanne Payton, JD ’68 (BA ’64), the first African-American student to ...graduate from SLS. In addition to individual mentorship and guidance, fellows convene with sponsoring faculty to discuss research methods, research design, interdisciplinary approaches to legal thought, present work in progress, and engage in other supportive programming.

"What I cherish the most about my Stanford experience is that its network has created opportunities that may have never occurred to me elsewhere," Payton said. "My hope is that this fellowship will help open doors for other people, and the existence of it will help make Stanford Law School students aware of the breadth of their career possibilities.”

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Stanford Law Announces Third Cohort of Sallyanne Payton Fellows | Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School (SLS) recently named seven students Sallyanne Payton Fellows. The fellowship, now in its third year, supports SLS students who are

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