Events
14th Annual Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRegistration Information The Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference is the premier educational event for in-house counsel and practitioners who work in or for Internet, e-commerce, mobile, social networking and cloud companies. Leading experts from industry, legal practice and academia will address current issues facing the industry and offer practical solutions for dealing with the many […]
San Francisco: Lunch Talk with Professor Amalia Kessler
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell - San Francisco 2 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, United StatesInventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800–1877 When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial—dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances—that first comes to mind. But as SLS professor and award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in her new book, it was only in the turbulent decades […]
Rock Center Program for Journalists
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Four Times Square, New York, NY, United StatesThe Rock Center Program for Journalists: A Primer in Corporate Governance brings together a small group of media fellows, selected from leading writers in business and finance, to attend an educational event in New York City on June 8, 2017. Media fellows will gain a deeper understanding of corporate governance, accounting, and finance while learning […]
The Lay of the Law: Risks of Legal Misunderstanding and Bias in Lay Constructions of Criminality
Room offsitewith Assistant Professor Avani Mehta Sood, UC Berkeley School of Law
SLS at the Ballpark: Mariners vs. Twins
Safeco Field 1250 1st Ave. S , Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin SLS alumni and guests at this popular annual event, and cheer on the Mariners as they take on the Minnesota Twins. The evening will begin with an interactive discussion with Chuck Armstrong, JD ’67, former president of the team. Then kick back and watch the game with your classmates and friends! Tickets are $40 […]
Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools 2017 Junior Faculty Forum
@ SLS: Manning Lounge 2nd Floor, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the 18th session of the Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 6-7, 2017. The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of scholars recently appointed to a tenure-track position by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the […]
Study Break – hosted by DLA
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStop by for some coffee and pastries courtesy of DLA Piper!
Paris: Where is the Shared Economy Heading? Disrupting Mobility
BlaBlaCar Village 6 Rue Ménars, Paris, FranceA Conversation with Frédéric Mazzella, MS ’02, Founder and Executive Chairman of BlaBlaCar Join fellow Stanford alumni as BlaBlaCar Founder and Executive Chairmain, Frédéric Mazzella, MS ’02, shares his experience as a successful entrepreneur and his vision on several disruptive trends that are transforming mobility. Appetizers and drinks will be served. For questions, please contact Kimiya […]
PAWS for Exam Stress Relief with Pet Partners
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome PAWS from your studying to pet a therapy dog. Sponsored by the Office is Student Affairs
SLA Late-Night Finals Breakfast
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesFinals got you hungry? SLA to the rescue with some late night breakfast food served in the Law Lounge!
Screening of “Tribal Justice”
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesTrumping Hate on Twitter?: Online Hate Speech and White Nationalist Rhetoric in the 2016 US Election Campaign and its Aftermath
Room offsitewith Josh Tucker, Professor of Politics and Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
Exam Break with OSA
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome take a break from exams and join the Office of Student Affairs for snacks
Post-genocidal Guatemala Between Impunity and Institutional Reconstruction
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis conference will examine the achievements and limitations of popular struggles against impunity and corruption in Guatemala, and the opposition of elites and criminal networks to Constitutional reforms necessary for the full implementation of the 1996 Peace Agreements. Interdisciplinary panels of indigenous leaders, human rights activists, lawyers, academics and policymakers from Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, Europe […]
Students graduating spring quarter- Last day to submit written work
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United Statesunless instructor has set an earlier deadline
End-of-Classes (Almost) Dinner + Open Mic!
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDinner and an Open Mic for the entire Stanford Law School community to celebrate the end of Spring Quarter.
Managing the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation: Do Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Google have a role?
Room offsiteDo viral fake news stories outperform real news on social media and Google search platforms? This discussion offers answers. A Stanford Law and Policy Lab research team, working closely with the Hewlett Foundation Madison Initiative, explores the roles of social media and search platforms in the spread of fake news and misinformation. The research examines […]
Center for Law and the Biosciences Lunch Talk Series: Karola Kreitmair and Nicole Martinez
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCenter for Law and the Biosciences lunch talk series with speakers Karola Kreitmair, Clinical Ethics Fellow, and Nicole Martinez, Postdoctoral Fellow, both at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics