National Lawyers' Guild Disorientation
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe National Lawyers' Guild is, in its own words, "the nation's oldest and largest progressive bar association" and "the first one in the United States to be racially integrated." Its student chapter at Stanford Law hosts an annual Disorientation event to help progressive and radical law students find their people, and help them collectively navigate […]
Project Clean Slate SJSU Training
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesProject Clean Slate members will meet with representatives from their partner organization at San Jose State University to train in 'speed screening' and other requisite skills.
In Conversation with New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (JD ’14)
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Levin Center for a conversation with New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (JD '14) to learn more about his work as an attorney general as well as his reflections on his career in state government and private practice. AG Paltkin will appear virtually and Diane Chin will facilitate this conversation. This will […]
Student Org Leadership Training
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAll student organization leaders are highly encouraged to attend this leadership training presenting by Dean Steinbach. Lunch will be served before this event.
MuSLSical Welcome Gathering
@ Stanford: Munger 5 lounge (2d floor)Come join the muSLSical (Stanford Law School musical) for our fall general body meeting. Old and new folks are welcome to come and learn about the many ways to get involved and just have a good laugh!
S’mores with SLS YEA (Youth and Education Advocates)
@ Stanford: Munger BBQ Pit , United StatesInterested in learning more about the Youth and Education Advocates at Stanford? Come join us for a S'mores Meet and Greet at the Munger BBQ Pits. Meet 2Ls and 3Ls with a passion for youth and education advocacy.
Workers Rights Pro Bono Project: Clinic
@ SLS: Room N316 Neukom Building, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesClinic with Legal Aid at Work for members of the Workers' Rights Pro Bono Project.
Medellín v. Texas and International Law in US Courts – Who decides?
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn the 1900 Supreme Court case The Paquette Habana, the Supreme Court declared “International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination,” building on more than a century […]
Megan Stevenson (University of Virginia Law School), “Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?”
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLaw and Economics Seminar with Megan Stevenson (University of Virginia Law School), “Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?” as part of the Law and Economics Seminar, Fall 2022. Download paper here. […]
JAG Information Session
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAir Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) officers will be coming to campus on Thursday, October 6 to recruit SLS students for 2L summer and entry-level active duty positions. Stanford Law School’s Nondiscrimination Policy: Stanford Law School is committed to providing equal opportunity to obtain employment. Stanford Law School opens its […]
Nonprofit Practice Panel
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Levin Center invites you to join us for a panel featuring nonprofit alumni. We will be joined by Reed McLaurin (JD '21) from Mobilization for Justice, Emi Young (JD '16) from ACLU of Northern California, Cesar De La Vega (JD '14) from ChangeLab Solutions, and Nina Robertson (JD '10) from Earthjustice. Our alumni will […]
Stanford Prison Abolition and Resources Coalition (SPARC) Fall Info Session
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMeet SPARC's board and learn about our work providing education opportunities and resources for people who are incarcerated while teaching and advancing abolitionist goals on campus and across the Bay Area. We'll gather in Crocker Garden and begin our brief presentation at 1 pm.
New Student Lunch with OSA
@ SLS Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Office of Student Affairs hosts lunches with each new 1L and AD program. It is an opportunity for you to get to know us and for us to get to know you. Lunch will be provided.
Building Cultural Responsiveness in Policy Advocacy
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Building Cultural Responsiveness in Policy Advocacy workshop will introduce useful approaches & frameworks to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in policy advocacy. Students will build knowledge and skills to use in public policy and social problem-solving projects, and be better equipped to work with stakeholders, experts, clients and community members with a […]
1L Resume Workshop
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLegal resumes have a distinct format. We’ll help you tailor your resume to emphasize your skills and experience for the legal market.
Introduction to Low-Carbon Lawyering: How Lawyers Can Address the Climate Crisis
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn Wednesday, October 5th from 1-2 pm, join Stanford Law Students for Climate Action (SLSCA) for the first event in Low-Carbon Lawyering, a series SLSCA is hosting this year that will explore the impact the climate crisis is already having and will continue to have on the legal profession, and that will give SLS students […]
Navarati Ends (Hindu)
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford has long supported faculty, students, and staff in observing religious holidays of significance to them. In the complex process of creating the academic calendar, religious holy days are but one of many considerations. The Office for Religious & Spiritual Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at […]
Yom Kippur (Jewish)
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford has long supported faculty, students, and staff in observing religious holidays of significance to them. In the complex process of creating the academic calendar, religious holy days are but one of many considerations. The Office for Religious & Spiritual Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at […]
SLLSA General Body Meeting
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesFall meeting and social for SLLSA members - dinner included.
Plaintiffs’ Law 101: Life on the Left Side of the “v.”
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhat is plaintiffs' law? What kind of work do plaintiffs' lawyers do? Who do plaintiffs' lawyers represent? What's life like on the left side of the "v"? Please join the Stanford Law School Plaintiffs' Lawyers Association for a live panel, moderated by Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom, where lawyers from several different plaintiffs' firms talk about […]
SLSEA Recruiting Social
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Law School Effective Altruism is hosting its first meet and greet event for the year. Everyone is welcome - the committed EAs, the skeptics, the curious, as well as those wondering "what exactly is effective altruism?" Talk to the student leaders about "longtermism", ask faculty about how any of this relates to the law, […]
The Right to a Jury Trial: A Crime on the Bayou Film Screening with Remarks from Pamela Karlan and Discussion with Gary Duncan
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease register for the event using the form below.
After Dobbs
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesProfessors Jane Schacter, Hank Greely, and Michelle Mello will briefly set out what they see as the most important implications of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization for the future, for abortion, for other reproductive issues, for scientific research, and for other constitutional rights. The rest of the time will be devoted to a conversation […]
Lunch Talk on the Chilean Constitutional Reform Process with Former Deputy Justice Rodrigo Delaveau of the Constitutional Court of Chile, Tuesday, October 4th, 12:45-2:00, Room 190
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a discussion on the Chilean constitutional reform process with Rodrigo Delaveau, a former Deputy Justice of the Constitutional Court of Chile. In 2019, Chileans voted to initiate a constitutional reform process to replace their existing document, which has roots in the Pinochet dictatorship. The process captured global attention because of its attempt […]
Bruno Lima, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Institute, will present, “The Untold Story of Abolitionism: Luiz Gama’s Freedom Claims in Brazil, 1850-1888.”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesBlack poet and self-taught lawyer Luiz Gama (1830-1882) is arguably one of the most extraordinary abolitionists in the Americas' history. Born free in the city of Salvador, Brazil, son of a liberated African woman, Gama was sold by his father when he was ten years old. He lived enslaved until he was eighteen, when, in […]