Paul Brest Hall East, Munger Graduate Residences Presented by the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology and the Stanford CodeX Blockchain Group A one day educational workshop for lawyers, policy makers and technologists involved in deploying systems at scale utilizing blockchains and distributed ledger technology. Blockchain has unleashed a torrent of entrepreneurial energy, wealth creation, and massive fraud. Deployments of widely distributed, enterprise class, internet-scale systems utilizing new distributed ledger technologies like Blockchain, Hashgraph and others are being hampered…

Conference Theme: Law in Everyday Life The Stanford Program in Law and Society (SPLS) at Stanford Law School is pleased to announce its Fifth Conference for Junior Researchers. This two-day conference seeks to provide a stimulating platform where junior researchers from around the world can present their current research projects on law and society and receive input from faculty and other participants. It also seeks to build a community and network of young scholars in law and society. The conference…

 Register Now The Constitution and Political Parties The 2018 Conference will be held at Paul Brest Hall. James Madison once observed that “[i]n every political society, parties are unavoidable.” Yet the Constitution itself contains no reference to political parties. What is more, it could be argued that political partisanship rather than constitutional principle now plays the central role in shaping our republic. Is politics—rather than our Constitution—actually the “supreme Law of the Land?”  And how should we understand the relationship…