Can Senegal move past its 2024 amnesty law while upholding justice? A groundbreaking report from AfrikaJom and the Rule of Law Impact Lab at Stanford University highlights how the law violates victims’ rights and shields perpetrators of grave abuses.

With new legislative momentum, ...Senegal’s leaders have the chance to overturn the law and rebuild trust in its democracy. This is a critical juncture for the nation’s future. Explore the report’s findings and recommendations. https://stanford.io/40xHq7Y

In his new book, Stanford Law Professor David Sklansky argues that in order to achieve pluralism’s twin goals of political equality and social peace, “we need to start with the recognition that our country is deeply divided, our communities are complex, and, for criminal justice policies to ...succeed, we need to be able to draw support across the political spectrum.” Read the #Stanfordlawmag feature about Skanksly’s book, “Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy," which Kirkus Reviews has called “a searching examination of the criminal justice system in America”: https://stanford.io/3WmT3vX

Environmental Lawyer Deborah Sivas, a Los Angeles native, discusses the LA fires with Stanford Legal podcast's Pam Karlan. Sivas and Karlan engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of California’s fire crisis, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable solutions in an era of intensifying ...climate impacts. They looked at air quality, rebuilding challenges, the monumental impact on the insurance industry, and the broader implications for urban planning, construction labor, and environmental recovery.
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Next week’s inauguration graphically poses the specter of America’s President, our prime constitutional defender from national security threats, becoming a leading threat himself. How did this happen, and how can we mitigate this problem, over the short and long run?

Join us on ...Thursday, January 16 at 12:45pm as we hear from Harold Hongju Koh, Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford for Winter Term 2025, Sterling Professor of International Law and former Dean at Yale Law School.

RSVP: https://stanford.io/4ackChf