A recent collaboration between the Stanford Center for Racial Justice and SLS's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic resulted in a report on AI and education for a UN Special Rapporteur. In a first-ever collaboration, 10 SLS students had the opportunity to research and ...write a report on AI and education for Ashwini K.P., the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

“The clinic consulted a range of experts working at the intersection of AI and human rights and decided to focus on AI and education," said SLS Assistant Professor and Director of the clinic Gulika Reddy. "Given this focus, we thought of the Center for Racial Justice and the important work they have done in that area, and it seemed like the ideal time for students in the clinic and center to work together on a project.”

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Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center Co-Directors David and Nora Freeman Engstrom and Legal Design Lab Executive Director Margaret Hagan are co-sponsoring a free forum event at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 in SLS Room 290 that is open to all.

Since our country’s founding, ...America has struggled to realize the promise etched onto the Supreme Court building of “equal justice for all.” Today, technological innovation and collaborative community support are two of the hallmarks in bridging the “Justice Gap.” This forum, part of a series recognizing the Legal Services Corporation’s 50th anniversary, will educate attendees about the justice gap, offer insights into solutions, and serve as a call-to-action for how each of us can play a role in making our nation’s founding promise a reality.

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“Our findings are stark and troubling, and have implications for the entire criminal legal system, from policing to parole,” says SLS’s Debbie Mukamal about her recently released study, “Fatal Peril,” which provides extensive documentation of the “IPV-to-Prison Pipeline”—the ...pathways through which women who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) find themselves serving long prison sentences for acts of survival. “It is particularly critical that the system considers the potential lethality of abuse suffered by these women and how traumatic brain injury from hits to the head and strangulation may affect survivor-defendants’ testimony and experiences in prison,” Mukamal explains.

Read the press release and full report: https://stanford.io/47qaVuo

Stanford Law School Lecturer Glenn Fine met with the Editor of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss his opinion essay, "Inspectors General Are Doing Essential—And Unpopular—Work," and how his government service has allowed him to participate in the battle for more honest and ...accountable government.

Glenn Fine served as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011, and also as the Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020. Previously, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington D.C., where he handled criminal cases, including more than 35 jury trials. He also worked in private practice in two law firms.

View the interview here: https://stanford.io/4ggofp1