Events
Sukkot (Jewish)
Stanford has long supported faculty, students, and staff in observing religious holidays of significance to them. In the complex process of creating the academic calendar, religious holy days are but one of many considerations. The Office for Religious Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at the beginning […]
Youth and Education Advocates (YEA) Banter and Bagels
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAInterested in Youth and Education? Come meet like-minded students and enjoy a bagel or two before class! This will be an opportunity for current and prospective YEA members to meet, catch up, and get excited for the year ahead.
Journal Business Meeting
@ SLS: Room 320F Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAInformation meeting for all Editors-In-Chief, hosted by the Journal Manager, Meg Harrington. Meeting will cover important dates and information for the 2024 publishing year. Attendance is required.
Public Interest Nonprofit Practice Panel
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin the Levin Center's Nonprofit Practice Panel. Brown Bag lunch panel featuring the following alumni: Hannah Kieschnick, SLS '17, Public Justice Stacy Young, SLS '17, Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto Caroline Cohn, SLS '19, National Consumer Law Center Peter DeMarco, SLS '14, Natural Resources Defense Council
NY (Columbia) and West Coast (UCLA) Job Fair Preparation Session
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis workshop is for the Advanced Degree students who are interested in looking for private sector opportunities in the U.S. and worldwide.
#SLSSocial Hour
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin us your fellow SLS Community for an afternoon to mingle and enjoy delicious food and drinks. This is the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and mingle with your community. It's a time to share stories, ideas, and simply enjoy each other's company.
Supreme Court Roundup and Preview
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Lecture in SLS Room 290 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception in Cooley Courtyard Join Easha Anand, co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Michael Mongan ('06), California Solicitor General, and Erin Murphy, partner at Clement & Murphy, to review the most important Supreme Court cases of the […]
Introduction to LPE and Trivia Night
@ Stanford (TBD)Stanford Law and Political Economy (LPE) will be hosting all new, returning, and interested students for the first event of the year! Anyone interested in inequality and the law should come join to meet our members, find out more about what LPE does and what events we will be putting on this quarter, and to […]
OSA New Student Lunches
@ SLS: Room 270 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAOffice of Student Affairs meets with every new 1L section and AD students. Food will be provided
Basic Legal Research for Everyone
OnlineThis hands-on Zoom workshop will teach participants how to plan and carry out effective policy-related legal research from start to finish, including how to research secondary sources, statutes, regulations, cases, and policy resources, as well as how to conduct effective full-text searching within online databases. This workshop is excellently suited for anyone interested in improving […]
1L Study Skills Panel Discussion
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAA discussion with 2L and 3L panelists designed to help 1L students determine the study skills and approaches that will fit their specific learning style with an eye toward succeeding academically while avoiding burnout and maintaining a life outside the law. Pizza will be provided!
Beyond the Doctrine: Civil Procedure
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAACS is hosting Civil Procedure Professor David Freeman Engstrom for our inaugural Beyond the Doctrine event. In this speaker series, professors provide insight into the broader social context surrounding the doctrinal rules we learn in the classroom and answer student questions. In this series, we provide space for students to ask new questions -- instead of […]
What is Big Law
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAIntroduction to Big Law panel with AAPI attorneys from Alston & Bird.
SLS Tour of Rumsey Map Center
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin fellow SLS community members in a private visit to the David Rumsey Map Center in Green Library hosted by Kristina Larsen, Assistant Rare Map Librarian. The tour begins promptly at 4:00 p.m. in the Map Room. To account for the check-in process to enter Green Library, we recommend arriving by 3:45 p.m. Please register in […]
Public Interest Welcome Reception
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin faculty, staff, and returning students to welcome all our new students to the SLS public interest community. Light refreshments will be served and there will be a brief program featuring Interim Dean Robert Weisberg and introducing our new executive director, Shannon Al-Wakeel.
WSL+ Annual Welcome Potluck
Room offsiteAnnual potluck at Nora Freeman Engstrom's house to welcome incoming female identifying students and give them an opportunity to meet their classmates as well as female professors.
Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)
Stanford has long supported faculty, students, and staff in observing religious holidays of significance to them. In the complex process of creating the academic calendar, religious holy days are but one of many considerations. The Office for Religious Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at the beginning […]
Dean’s Welcome BBQ for New Advanced Degree and 1L Students
@ Stanford: Munger BBQ PitInterim Dean Weisberg is hosting a meet and greet for the 1L and New Advanced Degree Students on Friday, October 6 at the Munger BBQ Pits from 1-5pm. This is a great opportunity for new students to meet Dean Weisberg and also get to know each other better. We will have drinks and Mexican food […]
Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Stanford has long supported faculty, students, and staff in observing religious holidays of significance to them. In the complex process of creating the academic calendar, religious holy days are but one of many considerations. The Office for Religious Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at the beginning […]
Women of Color Collective Welcome Brunch and General Body Meeting
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAFirst general body meeting of the year - come join us for outdoor brunch!
#SLSSocial Community Breakfast
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAStart your week off with your fellow SLS Community over a cup of coffee and breakfast goodies. Students, Staff and Faculty are all welcome.
Civil Government Summer Internships Debrief with Prof. Pam Karlan (2Ls & 3Ls)
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAWe invite 2Ls and 3Ls who spent your summer interning with civil government agencies to join your fellow students and Professor Pam Karlan to talk about your summer internships and reflect on what you've learned. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by October 5, 2023.
The Keys to Successful Outlining: How to Synthesize Your 1L Fall
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin Director of Academic Success, John Dalton, as he provides guidance to 1Ls on the value of outlining, useful approaches to the practice, and various methods one could implement, while […]
Who Am I to Judge?: Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA4:45-5:00 PM | Dinner 5:00-6:00 PM | Lecture Senators at recent confirmation hearings have asked nominees about their commitments to originalism and their judicial philosophies. This lecture, based on a forthcoming book, argues that we should shift our focus. Retrospectively examining “great” Supreme Court justices and “strong” (and “weak”) Supreme Courts, I suggest that we […]
Student-Led Yoga Mondays (ORSL)
@ Stanford (TBD)Student-Led Yoga is intended as a means of making the mental and physical benefits of asanas readily available to all, regardless of where you are on your yogi journey. Expect […]