BLSA Study Hall
@ SLS: Room N102 Neukom Building, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesBLSA holds a student hall for its members each week.
Righteous Mind Discussion
@ Stanford: Munger 5 554 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SLS's Federalist Society for beer, brats, and a lively discussion of Jonathan Haidt's 2012 book, Righteous Mind. Righteous Mind offers some answers as to "why we are so easily divided into hostile groups, each one certain of its righteousness."  Liberals, conservatives, religious folks, anti-theists, and everyone in between are all welcome. When: Wednesday, 5 October at 6:30 p.m. Where: […]
1L Journal Information Meeting
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Secondary Journals at Stanford host an information session each year to give prospective 1L Member Editors a more complete picture of what the Member Editing role entails. This event serves both as a forum for discussing each the journals' subject areas, and as an opportunity to hear from 3Ls about their experience with journals at […]
Streetlaw Info Session
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNY Job Fair Workshop
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis workshop is for the Advanced Degree students who are interested in looking for private sector opportunities in the U.S. Please be sure to attend this workshop if you are interested in learning more about the NYC and LA job fairs and how to register, submit resumes and secure interviews with employers.
Project ReMADE Orientation
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis meeting is for all law students working on Project ReMADE, the SLS pro bono project that provides entrepreneurship classes to formerly incarcerated individuals. Come learn more about the project for the 2016-17 academic year and sign up for a specific role. Lunch will be served. RSVP here.
CodeX Speaker Series: Using Cryptographic Techniques to Ensure Fair Randomness in Legal Processes
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRegister Now A recent Cornell Law Review article casts doubt on the notion that the assignment of judges to the three-judge panels in the federal courts of appeal is truly random. Using quantitative techniques, the article's authors come to the surprising conclusion that "several of the circuit courts have panels that are non-random in ways […]
Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence
Room offsitewith Professor Mitch Polinsky
Vice President Debate Watch
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesVice President Debate Watch. All are welcome.
Pro Bono Mandatory Training
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLearn the Nuts and Bolts Professors Juliet Brodie, Lisa Douglass, and Michael Winn will conduct a mandatory training for all first-year students who wish to participate in the Pro Bono Program. RSVP
Meet the Center for Internet and Society
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEveryone is welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided. RSVP IS REQUIRED for this free event 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 […]
1L Job Search Workshop (2)
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLearn about starting your private sector job search, available resources, and what you can do to prepare. Â
Spotlight Lunch – Antitrust
@ SLS: Room 301A Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States1L Private Sector Spotlight Lunch Antitrust - Craig Waldman and Ben Craven, Jones Day
Criminal Prosecution Debrief with David Sklansky
@ SLS: Room 230 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEngage the Issues Students who worked in Criminal Prosecution this summer are invited to a ‘debrief’ session with Professor David Sklansky. RSVP
Lunch with Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency
@ Stanford: Knight Management Center (GSB) 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a lunchtime discussion about the IEA's inaugural annual report on energy investments around the world. The report measures the state of investment in the energy system across technologies, sectors and regions and takes a comprehensive look at the critical issues confronting investors, policy […]
CA Attorney General’s Honors Program
@ SLS: Room 272 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesExplore Public Interest The Attorney General’s Honors Program is a two-year program for recent law school graduates who are committed to public service. This is a brown-bag lunch event. RSVP
Lauren Brady of Public Counsel
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLauren Brady, JD '06 of Public Counsel will be at SLS to talk about the Sullivan & Cromwell fellowship at Public Counsel for Stanford Law graduates. This is a brown-bag lunch event. RSVP More information about the fellowship here.
1L Job Search Workshop
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLearn about starting your private sector job search, available resources, and what you can do to prepare. Â
How to Make Rain: Building a Successful Legal Practice
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRegister Now The rainmakers. Those exalted members of the law firm who are known for bringing in the biggest clients, the most lucrative matters, the best work. What kind of people are they? How did they get where they are? Could you be a future rainmaker?  The Center on the Legal Profession is pleased […]
Federal Indian Law in the Supreme Court: The 2015 Term in Review
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe 2015 Supreme Court Term was very significant for Indian law, as the Court heard four cases implicating tribal interests.  The Term also revealed deep fissures, as the Court evenly split over the Term’s most significant case, Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.  This highly distinguished panel of litigators and Supreme Court experts will […]
SLS Affinity Group Mixer
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin new and returning members of APILSA, BLSA, NALSA, OutLaw, and SLLSA for a casual mixer to kick off the school year.
International Public Interest Overview Panel: Alumni perspectives
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesExplore Public Interest This is the first of three panels providing 1L students with an overview of international public interest practice. Come learn about a career in human rights, rule of law, development finance, foreign policy and other areas of global public interest practice from alumni working in these areas. Panelists: June Shih, US State Department […]
AMIR: Stacy Villalobos, JD’15, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesExplore Public Interest Alumni-Mentor-in-Residence Stacy Villalobos, JD'15, a Skadden Fellow at Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center (LAS-ELC), will be here to talk about her experiences and to recruit for LAS-ELC. Interested students should email Ms. Villalobos and include a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and transcript as soon as possible. She will schedule interview times […]
Introduction to CLB and BioLaw
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA welcome lunch to introduce new students to the Center for Law and the Biosciences and BioLaw