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Join a diverse and inclusive community shaped by a commitment to the future.
Join a diverse and inclusive community shaped by a commitment to the future.
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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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Stanford Center for Racial Justice Students Build Community, Transform Society
As the Stanford Center for Racial Justice marks its 5-year anniversary in 2025, we reflect upon the central role of students in our work. Coming from departments across the university, law students, graduate, and undergraduate students have convened at the Center to support a multitude of projects and initiatives. Whether as interns, fellows, or practicum students, they have all found a unique community at the Center while engaging in rigorous research to advance racial justice. We are thrilled to celebrate their impact in a video featuring their work, insights, and vision for the future.
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Stanford Law School's Norm Spaulding was recently featured by the Stanford Report where he makes his case for "active listening" by saying that meaningful conversation starts with listening to truly understand.
“All of us can see examples in public life where conflict ...and disagreement become dysfunctional and entrenched, where neither is even listening to the other," Spaulding said.
Read more here: https://stanford.io/43RcXU4
In a recent Q&A with Stanford Law School's Legal Aggregate, Professor Alan Sykes, an expert in trade policy and international economic relations, discusses Trump’s tariffs, the CIT ruling, and the administration’s appeal.
"Following the declaration of a national ...emergency by the President, the act authorizes a wide range of measures to address the emergency. These include the authority to 'regulate' 'importation,' which the administration has used to justify tariffs," Sykes said. "They have been imposed in response to two 'national emergencies,' the first involving drug trafficking (with the focus on Mexico and Canada) and a second (associated with 'Liberation Day') involving persistent bilateral and aggregate trade deficits (leading to tariffs against all trading partners, with a minimum rate of 10 percent)."
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Stanford Law School's Lucy Ricca and David Freeman Engstrom are featured in a recent Q&A session by SLS's Legal Aggregate, "Regulatory Innovation at the Crossroads: Five Years of Data on Entity-Regulation Reform in Arizona and Utah."
In a new report, “Legal ...Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on Regulatory Change,” Freeman Engstrom, Ricca and Natalie Knowlton update a 2022 empirical study of the much-watched reform efforts in Arizona and Utah, providing fresh data and fresh perspective on the future of legal services. Here, Engstrom, Knowlton, and Ricca discuss the key findings and the broader implications for legal innovation.
Read more here: https://stanford.io/4mZgKpM
Stanford Law School's Shirin Sinnar was recently featured as a guest on the Outlaw podcast to discuss the state's use of terrorism laws to target social movements.
Listen to it here: https://stanford.io/45t4xU8