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.
Faculty on Point
Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Rethinking Race, Dismantling Racism, Furthering Justice
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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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Stanford Lawyer Magazine

The Filing Fairness Project
The Filing Fairness Project is one of those only-at-Stanford-Law projects, and we’re proud to be part of the team that earlier this year launched this effort to widen access to justice in America. There’s no reason that court filings for matters like name changes, eviction defense, and domestic violence restraining…
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Police agencies on Facebook overreport on Black suspects
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This article analyzes all Facebook posts from pages maintained by US law enforcement agencies to show that Facebook users are exposed to posts about serious crimes that significantly overrepresent Black suspects relative to local arrest rates. Results point to one mechanism by which the state itself may reinforce racial stereotypes…
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