SLS Open Mic Night
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEnjoy food and drink as your classmates showcase their amazing talents! Co-Sponsored by SLA. Related Media
Shepppard Mullin Rock Your Interviews Event
Sheppard Mullin - SF Office Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor, United StatesIf you'd liket to attend, please RSVP to nferrari@sheppardmullin.com Related Media
CLAP General Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesGeneral meeting for members of the Stanford Journal of Criminal Law and Policy. Related Media
Faculty Workshop: Incentives for Early Adoption for Carbon Capture Technology
This event was originally scheduled for February 5th, 2014 and has been rescheduled for February 27th, 2014. This month's Faculty Workshop features Research Fellow Stephen Comello's work on incentives for early adoption for carbon capture technology. Abstract: We analyze a policy proposal for regulating the next generation of stationary power sources in the U.S. The […]
Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Post-Snowden Era
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLunch time talk with David Medine Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chairman, David Medine, will address how to strike the right balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties in federal counterterrorism programs. He will discuss the Board's recent report and recommendations on the NSA Section 215 telephony metadata program and reform of […]
Talking About Transparency in Marine Governance: Progress or Pontification?
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA talk by Jeff Ardron of the Institute for Advance Sustainability Studies Jeff Ardron is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainability (IASS), based in Potsdam, Germany. His research is focussing on global maritime governance, particularly in the high seas, with an eye on how we will have to adapt in […]
Recruiting for the Stanford Rule of Law Projects
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesProject and application information for projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, and Cambodia Students interested in applying to be members of SLS's currently-recruiting Rule of Law projects, including the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, Iraq Legal Education Initiative, Rwanda Legal Development Project, and a brand-new project in Cambodia are invited to attend an informational session. Professor Erik […]
Deputy National Legal Director of ACLU on changing LGBT rights movement
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMatt Coles, Deputy National Legal Director of the ACLU and former Director of the ACLU National LGBT Rights Project, will discuss the past, present, and future of LGBT rights movement. He will discuss his role as counsel on Romer v. Evans, the landmark case that struck down Colorado's statewide ban on local non-discrimination laws, and […]
The Future of Human Rights: Experiences as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesManfred Nowak Continuing its distinguished speaker series on The Future of Human Rights, the Stanford Human Rights Center is pleased to present professor Manfred Nowak, Professor for International Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law and Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Related Media
AMIR with Patti Zettler JD ’09
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPatti Zettler, JD '09 is a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences. Prior to returning to SLS, Patti was an Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Chief Counsel. In this role, she advised the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and other […]
Internet Strategy & Litigation: A Lunch Discussion with Wilson Sonsini
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Michael Rubin, an IP Litigation Partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, for a lunch talk on Thursday, February 27. Michael will discuss his background and law practice, which focuses on Internet strategy and litigation, as well as answer questions you may have. Lunch will be provided! Related […]
SLLSA General Body Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesGeneral body meeting. Related Media
Listening to Profits: The Marketing of the Drug Abilify
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPharmaceutical companies have come underfire for close financial relationships with university researchers and interactions with prescribing physicians. As these relationships have come under scrutiny, companies have increasingly marketed medications directly to patients. The marketing of Abilify, one of the best-selling drugs in the country, illustrates these tangled relationships. Related Media
Minnesota: A Conversation with Professor Richard Banks
Dorsey & Whitney LLP 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesSLS alumni and their guests are invited to join Rick Banks, BA/MA '87, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, for a brief update on the law school and a substantive discussion about the shifting terrain of marriage in American society and what can be learned from the African American experience. The conversation is based on […]
Why Bad Economics Won’t Go Away
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhy are free market ideas still so unpopular? After all, they have logic and history on their side. Yet, pro-liberty advocates continue to fail in reducing the size and scope of government. In this talk, Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, identifies why people find free markets to difficult to accept and […]
Screening: 12th & Delaware
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join LSRJ and NARAL Pro-Choice America for lunch and a screening of 12th & Delaware, a fly-on-the wall documentary about two organizations in Fort Pierce, Florida, with two distinctly different views reproductive rights. One is a crisis pregnancy center, and the other an abortion clinic, and the film chronicles a year in the life […]
Alternative to Big law – Non-law Business
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPostponed New date TBA Related Media
Litigating California’s Prisons after SCOTUS intervention
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe perils and promise of institutional reform litigation Michael W. Bien, founding partner of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld and lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Corut decision that mandated a steep reduction in California's prison population, will speak about how the litigation has progressed since the Brown v. Plata decision in 2011. Among other […]
Inside Baseball
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA Conversation with Dusty Baker Dusty Baker will speak about his time in Major League Baseball. Related Media
The Administrative Origins of Modern Civil Liberties Law
Faculty Lunch with Jeremy Kessler, David Berg Foundation Scholar, NYU School of Law and Assistant Professor of Law (Designate), Columbia Law School. Related Media
Public Interest Law Mixer
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNetwork With Local PI Attorneys! We are hosting attorneys from Bay Area Legal Aid, Public Justice, and Sanford Heisler, LLP. Attendees, including students from SLS and Santa Clara Law School, will have the chance to network and discuss careers in public interest law. Related Media
CIS Tech Workshop – Lightbeam: Illuminating Online Tracking
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEvent is open to the public. RSVP is required. Reception - 5:30pm Workshop - 6:00pm In this talk, Monica Chew and Garrett Robinson give a brief overview of the tracking landscape and discuss tracking techniques and their attendant privacy concerns. They will demonstrate Lightbeam, a Firefox add-on, and show how it visualizes hidden relationships between […]
Wellness Incentives in the Workplace: Cost Savings Through Cost Shifting to Unhealthy Workers
Law and Biosciences Workshop with Professor Jill Horwitz, UCLA School of Law Related Media
Alternative to Big law – Investment Banking
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMorgan Stanley Investment Banking Team Lunch Join SLS alums, Aden Pavkov, SLS '05, Sam Roberge, BA '09, SLS '12, and members of Morgan Stanley’s investment banking team as they speak about life as an investment banker, addressing the unique skills lawyers bring (and potential challenges they face) in pursuing opportunities in finance. Related Media
The Future of Unions
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPresenting United Auto Workers President Bob King The American Constitution Society will host Bob King, the president of UAW, to speak on current efforts to organize autoworkers in the American South, and the future of organizing in general. Related Media