Racial Justice
Like so many throughout society, we at Stanford Law School are grappling with issues of racial justice—at our school, in the profession and practice of law, and with what needs to be changed in the legal and policy landscape. Our faculty and students continue to shape law and policy and influence the national debate through scholarship, thought leadership, programming, and events across a broad range of areas. Our mission at Stanford is not just to respond, but to lead, and to use our knowledge and skills to improve our society and the world. This requires continued rigorous research, hard discussions about race, systemic racism, and identity, and involving students in solutions that break new ground in response to evolving challenges, insights and opportunities—a sampling of which you can find below.
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Stanford Black Law Students Association Celebrates 50th Anniversary
On February 1, the Stanford Black Law Students Association (BLSA) began Black History Month by celebrating its founding at the group’s 50th Anniversary Brunch and 7th Annual Black History Month Gala. Current Stanford Law School (SLS) BLSA members and BLSA alumni from every decade since its founding in 1970 came…
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Policy Lab Report Chronicles San Francisco’s Disinvestment of its African American Community
Drawing on hundreds of sources and decades worth of data, students in a Stanford Law School Law & Policy Lab recently published a report that covers more than a half-century of the African American experience in San Francisco. Focusing on housing—namely the legal, social, and political restrictions that have prevented…
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Private Universities in the Public Interest: Reimagining a Historic Relationship for Our Time
Stanford Center for Racial Justice
The relationship between American colleges and universities, and the larger society has long been shaped by the academic social contract: an implicit agreement in which even nominally private institutions provide myriad services to society in exchange for public subsidy, autonomy, and prestige. While its terms have evolved over time, in…
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