Events

Commissioner F. Scott Kieff on "Patents as Property: Reflections from an Independent Commission on the Interface Among Trade, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust"

@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Join the Federalist Society for a discussion with Commissioner F. Scott Kieff of the U.S. International Trade Commission on the role of patents as property. Lunch will be served.    In what ways do patents function like property? In what ways are the problems of property–inefficiencies, inequalities, etc.–more or less pernicious for patents than for more tangible forms […]

Chinese Association of Science and Technology workshop

@ SLS: Room 80 Moot Courtroom Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

A workshop for students featuring Vivek Wadhwa, Fellow at the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Cybersecurity and the Legal Profession: Significant Challenges and Unique Opportunities

@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Read an event recap on the SLS Blog The legal profession is built on information:  we gather, categorize, and analyze our clients' most important information in order to help guide their decision-making in business and in law.  What happens when we can no longer guarantee the security of that information?  The issue of cybersecurity is […]

Prof. Bernadette Atuahene Discusses “We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program”

@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=PIsrHY6Tzt8 We Want What's Ours is a detailed study of South Africa's attempts to rectify the deprivation of land suffered by thousands of people under the colonial and apartheid regimes. It teaches a critical lesson about these transitions: remedying past wrongs entails more than distributing money or even returning property, because the dispossessed did […]

Public Interest Retreat

@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Strengthen Community Engage the Issues The Levin Center is convening Public Interest Fellows and 2L Public Interest Mentors for an all-day retreat.

European Data Privacy Colonisation: Current Developments and a Call for a New Paradigm in International Law

@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Recent data-related cases, such as the Google Spain case and the dispute between Microsoft and the US Government over the access to data held by Microsoft in Ireland, highlight flaws in the current thinking on jurisdiction in both private, and public, international law. This seminar brings attention to issues such as: (1) the unproductive focus on ‘extraterritoriality’, […]

Greg Lukianoff on the Marketplace of Ideas on Campus

@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Please join Stanford's Federalist Society and American Constitution Society as we welcome Greg Lukianoff, who will be discussing the exchange of ideas on campus. The talk is on Thursday, October 1 at 12:45. Lunch will be served. Greg is the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He has authored two books--Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and […]