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5 events,
Spotlight Lunch – Appellate Litigation (1)
Spotlight Lunch – Appellate Litigation (1)
1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Appellate Litigation (1) - Rob Dunn, Gibson
2L Public Interest Job Search Workshop
2L Public Interest Job Search Workshop
Learn the Nuts and Bolts Levin Center staff will share insights and thoughts about how to approach the second summer job search, the strategic decisions that should be made, as well as how to consider the 2L summer in relation to clerkships, post-graduate fellowships and local/state/federal government honors and new attorney programs. We will also […]
Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability
Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability
Register Now The Bright Award recognizes an individual who has made unheralded contributions to environmental sustainability. Each year, Stanford Law School will give the Bright Award to an individual working in a specific region of the world. The award winner receives $100,000 and delivers a public lecture at Stanford University. Polly Courtice, founding director of the University […]
4 events,
Spotlight Lunch – Environmental
Spotlight Lunch – Environmental
1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Environmental - Camarin Madigan, Morgan Lewis
Coffee Chat with Judge Myron Thompson
Coffee Chat with Judge Myron Thompson
Judge Myron Thompson, our 2015 recipient of the National Public Service Award, will meet with a small group of law students for an informal coffee chat. This event is limited to pre-registered guests only.
Stanford Program in Law and Society Kick-off Meeting
Stanford Program in Law and Society Kick-off Meeting
Are you interested in interdisciplinary legal scholarship? Would you like to hear more about the relationship between the law and its social and political context? How might the “law on the books” differ from “law in action”? The Stanford Program in Law and Society is a student-run program aimed at promoting and advancing socio-legal interdisciplinary scholarship. This […]
8 events,
Reimagining Human Research Protections for 21st Century Science
with Professor Cinnamon Bloss, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego
In Conversation with Judge Myron Thompson
In Conversation with Judge Myron Thompson
Join us for a conversation with Judge Myron Thompson (Middle District of Alabama), our 2015 National Public Service Award recipient, and our own Professor Pam Karlan, who has recently returned after serving Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Co-Sponsored by the American Constitution Society (ACS) and the Levin […]
Coffee Chat with Judge Myron Thompson
Coffee Chat with Judge Myron Thompson
Judge Myron Thompson, our 2015 recipient of the National Public Service Award, will meet with a small group of law students for an informal coffee chat. This event is limited to pre-registered guests only.
1L Resume Workshop
1L Resume Workshop
Legal resumes have a distinct format. We’ll help you tailor your resume to emphasize your skills and experience for the legal market. Bring your laptop with your draft resume to these hands-on sessions! Each session will be limited so that we are able to give all who attend immediate feedback on their materials and help you […]
4 events,
All In with Josh Levs
All In with Josh Levs
Please join WSL, OWLs, and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession for a discussion with journalist and advocate Josh Levs about his new book All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses – And How We Can Fix It Together. In his talk, Josh will describe his own legal battle to care […]
Meet CodeX: Find out how to join the legal innovation boom
Meet CodeX: Find out how to join the legal innovation boom
Register Now CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics is hosting its annual Law School kick-off meeting and invites you to enjoy lunch while hearing from the center’s leadership, fellows and alumni. The event will give you an opportunity to learn how legal tech transforms legal practice, aids in access to justice, and influences […]
Spotlight Lunch – Labor and Employment
Spotlight Lunch – Labor and Employment
1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Labor and Employment - Jeff Wohl and Jullie Lal, Paul Hastings
6 events,
Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments
Wednesday, October 21 the Ninth Circuit is coming to Stanford to hear oral arguments. 9:30-3:00 1L students are required to attend the argument from 12:45-2:10. Room 80 (Moot Court Room) Contact Person: Randee Fenner rfenner@stanford.edu
Barriers to Innovation in Urban Wastewater Utilities: Attitudes of Managers in California
with Professor Buzz Thompson
Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability, and Law
Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability, and Law
Register Now Fully autonomous or “self-driving” automobiles are vehicles “which can drive themselves without human supervision or input.” They are likely to become an increasing presence in our physical environment in the 5 - 15 year time frame. Today people share a physical environment with moving machines that are controlled by other people but have […]
Rescheduled/Spotlight Lunch – Venture Capital/Fund Formation
Rescheduled/Spotlight Lunch – Venture Capital/Fund Formation
1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Venture Capital/Fund Formation - Clendenin and Shauna France, Cooley
Soldiers Speak: Humanitarian Law on the Ground
Soldiers Speak: Humanitarian Law on the Ground
Want to understand the legal issues facing soldiers in the fight against international terrorism? Hear active members of the Israel Defense Forces Advocate General's Corps (equivalent of the US JAG) as they present highly legalistic case-studies of the challenge and process of implementing the laws of armed conflict against non-state-actors. Presentations will be followed by Q&A.
5 events,
Alumni Weekend 2015
Stanford Law School welcomes alumni to campus every five years to celebrate their class reunion over Alumni Weekend. Throughout the weekend, SLS engages them in the latest school initiatives and scholarship through interactive panel discussions and talks. We also offer several social gatherings that allow alumni to renew old friendships, celebrate classmates' successes, and reminisce […]
CodeX Speaker Series: Justice Thomas Lee
CodeX Speaker Series: Justice Thomas Lee
Room 290, Stanford Law School Register Now Law and Corpus Linguistics: Statutory Interpretation in the Age of Big Data Thomas R. Lee, Associate Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court Judges are routinely asked to identify the “ordinary meaning” of legal text. In many cases such meaning is unclear, and not reliably resolved by human intuition or the dictionary. […]
Spotlight Lunch – Tech Transactions
Spotlight Lunch – Tech Transactions
1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Tech Transactions - John McGaraghan, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
SIPA – Lunch Presentation with Gary Edwards and Glenn Westreich, Partners (IP) at Haynes and Boone, LLP
SIPA – Lunch Presentation with Gary Edwards and Glenn Westreich, Partners (IP) at Haynes and Boone, LLP
Join Gary Edwards and Glenn Westreich, partners at Haynes and Boone, LLP with expertise in intellectual property, for a presentation, Q&A, and networking reception organized by the Stanford Intellectual Property Association (SIPA). Lunch will be served. Click on the images below to see speakers' profiles. Thursday, October 22, 2015, from 12:45-2:00pm in Room 85. Please […]
5 events,
Solar Energy’s Central Role in India’s Climate Strategy (Presentation and Roundtable Discussion)
Solar Energy’s Central Role in India’s Climate Strategy (Presentation and Roundtable Discussion)
Location: GSB (Knight Management Center) C101 The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance is hosting a roundtable discussion on India’s solar strategy at Stanford University on Friday, October 23 from 10am to noon. The discussion will be followed by an informal lunch from noon to 1pm. Under the Modi Administration, India has set a […]
Alumni Mentor in Residence: Jordana Mosten JD ’10
Alumni Mentor in Residence: Jordana Mosten JD ’10
Explore Public Interest Jordana Mosten advocates for low income clients as a Deputy Public Defender at the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender. Previously, she represented Central American children fleeing gang violence as a Staff Attorney in the Immigrants’ Rights Project at Public Counsel, a legal services non-profit organization in Koreatown. Ms. Mosten joined Public Counsel as […]
Alumni Mentor in Residence: Jesse Hahnel JD ’08
Alumni Mentor in Residence: Jesse Hahnel JD ’08
Explore Public Interest Jesse Hahnel is the Executive Director of the National Center for Youth Law and the former Director of NCYL’s Foster Youth Education Initiative (FosterEd). A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Jesse has been an attorney at NCYL for nearly seven years. Five years ago he founded FosterEd, an innovative, award […]
2 events,
Lawyering Beyond the Courtroom: Human Rights & Environmental Advocacy from the Grassroots to Grasstops
Lawyering Beyond the Courtroom: Human Rights & Environmental Advocacy from the Grassroots to Grasstops
Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Counsel, Natalie Bridgeman Fields, will present diverse methods of seeking justice for human rights and environmental abuses abroad. She will draw on her background as a litigator at a large firm and in solo practice working on Alien Tort Statute cases, as a consultant on accountability to multilateral […]
Energy Seminar | America’s Clean Power Plan For Reducing Carbon Emissions: Rules, Challenges, and How States Are Responding
Energy Seminar | America’s Clean Power Plan For Reducing Carbon Emissions: Rules, Challenges, and How States Are Responding
Energy Seminars are sponsored by the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Dian Grueneich, senior research scholar with the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the Shultz-Stephenson Energy Policy Task Force Michael Wara, associate professor, Stanford Law School, research fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Faculty Fellow Monday, October 26, 2015 | 04:30 PM - 05:20 […]
5 events,
Stanford Journal of Criminal Law & Policy Kickoff Lunch
Stanford Journal of Criminal Law & Policy Kickoff Lunch
Welcome meeting for new & old members of the Stanford Journal of Criminal Law & Policy
Meet the Center for Internet and Society
Meet the Center for Internet and Society
RSVP required. Learn about CIS and how we can help you build a career in technology law Lunch provided Stanford CIS brings together scholars, academics, legislators, students, programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, innovation, […]
Constitutional Conversation with Nate Persily
Constitutional Conversation with Nate Persily
Register Now "The Campaign Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Legal Implications of Politics On-Demand" Nate Persily James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law SchoolClick here to view Nate's full biography.
9 events,
The Crackdown on the Chinese Legal Profession
The Crackdown on the Chinese Legal Profession
Engage the Issues China’s current nationwide crackdown on “rights defense” (weiquan) lawyers is the strongest assault to date on a small number of pioneers who have struggled to advance the rule of law. Lawyers, activists and ordinary citizens who assert legal rights against agencies and officials now risk suppression in the name of ”stability maintenance.” The […]
The Second Amendment and the Problem with Originalism
The Second Amendment and the Problem with Originalism
Jack Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science and (by courtesy) law at Stanford, where he has taught since 1980. His principal areas of research include the origins of the American Revolution and Constitution, the political practice and theory of James Madison, and the role […]
CLB Journal Club Lunch
CLB Journal Club Lunch
The Center for Law and the Biosciences invites you to its biweekly(-ish) journal club lunch series, featuring delicious FREE Thai food and engaging discussion for all! Our speaker for October 29th is Roland Nadler, SLS JD 2015 and Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences, presenting co-authored work recently featured at the 2015 Annual […]