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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law banning legacy admissions at private, nonprofit colleges in California—a practice that the University of California schools got rid of in 1998. Approximately 14 percent of Stanford’s 2022 entering class had legacy or donor connections. In a... Q&A session, Stanford Law School Professor Rick Banks, who is also the co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, discusses the new law and why it matters.
"Despite the unfairness of legacy preferences, private universities should be permitted to rely on them, as they are absolutely central to the fund-raising model on which universities rely," Banks said.
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A cohort of second- and third-year SLS students capped off the 2023-24 academic year by participating in Global Quarter, an only-at-SLS travel-study offering focused on the legal, economic and cultural challenges facing global businesses. The students traveled to Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
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Diego Zambrano, SLS Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Global Programs, led the Colombia portion of the field study, which included private meetings with judges from the Colombian Constitutional Court and collaborations with tech startups. “In the field study portions of the program, no matter where we go, the students are working very hard on case studies and problem sets before they go into their meetings,” said Zambrano.
The destination for the 2025 Spring Quarter is Latin America. Apply now! #SLS #FrankeGlobalFellowship #GlobalQuarter
A recent all-day conference at SLS honored empirical legal research pioneer Deborah Hensler. Scholars, former students, judges, and other fans and friends of Professor Hensler engaged in panel discussions on the civil litigation issues that have inspired Hensler's research and teaching for ...more than half a century. The substantive sessions were peppered throughout the day with praise for Hensler and fond memories, including a recounting of favorite “Hensler-ims,” which often involved stories of Hensler pointedly nudging other legal scholars to think more empirically.
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SLS's Franke Global Business Law Fellowship and the Global Quarter is a one-of-a-kind opportunity that provides an immersive experience in the world of international business, law and policy. The fellowship helps students develop the skills, conceptual tools and international experiences to ...prepare them for a globalizing world. Franke Fellows spend the first seven weeks of the spring quarter on the SLS campus taking required courses and the last three weeks on a field study trip.
A cohort of second- and third-year SLS students traveled to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, during the 2024 Spring Quarter, getting a taste of life as global transactional attorneys–including how to manage jet lag and back-to-back meetings.
One of the focuses of the Brazil portion of the trip, led by Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business, involved exploring issues of inequality in Latin America’s largest country, as well as the relationship between business interests and the environment. The students met with the CEO of Viva Rio, an NGO that works in Brazil’s favelas, to provide health care, dispute resolution, and athletic training for young people. “We continued the theme of inequality in a meeting with Marcos Pinto, the Secretary of Reforms in the Finance Ministry, who discussed with us ways in which Brazil is working to reduce poverty by enhancing incentives for education and improving market forces,” Klausner said.
The destination for the 2025 Spring Quarter is Latin America. Apply now! #SLS #FrankeGlobalFellowship #GlobalQuarter