In a new episode for Stanford Legal, Professor Deborah Sivas joins Pam Karlan for a discussion on California's fire crisis, examining how climate change and urban development are making residents more susceptible to the dangers of fires.

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Stanford Law School Professor Barbara van Schewick was a guest on NPR discussing the federal court's decision to strike down the Biden administration's net neutrality protections.

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Stanford Law Professor Norman Spaulding talks to Stanford Report discussing how even in a time of sharp division, people can learn how to have more open, empathetic, and constructive dialogue in disagreements. Spaulding helps people do just that through ePluribus Stanford, an initiative that seeks ...to cultivate constructive dialogue on campus.

“When we improve skills like active listening and attention to cognitive bias and the ability to charitably summarize what someone has said, we deepen intellectual rigor, critical thinking, and deliberation,” Spaulding said. “We can also de-escalate conflict, deepen human connection and understanding, reap dividends from dissent, and create the conditions for positive change.”

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Stanford Law School welcomes Orin Kerr (MS ’94) to the faculty! Widely recognized as a leading authority on the Fourth Amendment, Professor Kerr was instrumental in developing the field of computer crime law, which focuses on the adaptation of traditional legal doctrines to digital crime and ...digital evidence.

“There’s no better place to teach and write about technology law,” Kerr said. “When you combine Stanford’s top tech law and criminal law faculty with its clinics, like the Supreme Court Clinic and the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic—all right in the heart of Silicon Valley—it’s an ideal place for me to be.” https://stanford.io/3BNozMM