Introduction to the PI Clerkship Committee and Process
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Public Interest Clerkships Committee will host an introduction panel, where you can learn more about the clerkship process and meet the eight members of the committee.
LLM Career Strategy: Navigating the Basics
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWant to learn more about navigating the U.S. legal market as an international attorney from LL.Ms? Please join us for a Q&A panel with Andres C Mena, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. and Laura Rupenian, partner at Gibson Dunn. Both speakers completed an LL.M in the U.S. before finding positions here.
Decolonizing Human Rights Reading Group with Prof. Tendayi Achiume
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Immigration & Human Rights Law Association is hosting a session of our Ad-hoc Decolonizing Human Rights Reading Group that will focus on Professor Tendayi Achiume's work as UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of racism. We will read and discuss Prof. Achiume's report on Ecological crisis, climate justice and racial justice: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a77549-report-special-rapporteur-contemporary-forms-racism-racial.
#SLSLove 2023
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn what has become an annual tradition, SLS staff and faculty show their affection for students in the form of baked goods and other delectables. Stop by Russo Commons to get your #SLSLove. Therapy dogs will be in attendance 1:00-2:00 pm. Co-Sponsored by the Levin Center, Robert Crown Library, and Student Affairs.
Good Governance in Venture Capital
OnlineInterested in learning more about best practices in due diligence at VC firms, or how to design and implement internal controls at portfolio companies? Join us for a discussion on how the VC industry can enable good governance. For more information and a list of confirmed speakers, click here. Co-sponsored by: The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship […]
Rethinking America’s Carceral State: Observations from Islamic Law
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the newly-formed Muslim Law Student Association for our first event of the year! On Tuesday, February 14th between 12:45-2 pm, Professor Adnan Zulfiqar - a law professor and legal historian at Rutgers Law School and currently a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center - will join us to discuss his research on criminal […]
Lunch with New Jersey Attorney General Platkin
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) invites you to join us for lunch with New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin on February 14th at 12:45 PM. This will be a free-flowing conversation, but topics will likely include his civil rights and criminal justice efforts, gun violence prevention measures, and environmental and […]
How to Get a Job You’ll Really Like
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Shanin Specter, founding partner of Kline & Specter, P.C. in Philadelphia, and adjunct professor at SLS for a lunchtime talk. He’ll outline how to get a job you’ll really like and achieve professional satisfaction. The presentation will be focused around survey research, articles in the legal literature and Mr. Specter’s professional experience. Mr. Specter will […]
Lunch Discussion: From Extractive Economies to Solidarity Economies
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHow to Decommodify Land, Housing, Finance, Work, Law and everything else. Lunch discussion on how lawyers can support movements for transformative economic change, away from hierarchy and towards democracy. For example, using transactional law tools to help worker-owned businesses, Black and Indigenous land stewards, and cooperatives of all kinds. This casual discussion will be led […]
Stanford Center for Law & History presents: A Book Talk with Rowan Dorin
@ Stanford (TBD)Listen to the event The Stanford Center for Law and History is excited to announce an upcoming book talk featuring Professor Rowan Dorin (Stanford University Department of History) with Jessica Goldberg (UCLA) and Laurent Mayali (Berkeley Law) as commentators. The talk will be held on February 15, 2023 from 4:15-6:00pm PST at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and […]
Lunch Talk with Retired Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío: Thursday, February 16, at 12:45 in Room 90
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJustice Cossio served as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico between 2003 and 2018. He has written 31 books and hundreds of articles in his career as a legal academic. Justice Cossio will be discussing Mexico’s judiciary, including the role of the courts in the maintenance of democracy in Mexico, as […]
Nudges, Choice Architecture, and the Treatment of Animals
@ SLS: Room 320F Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHow does the law shape human behavior with respect to animals? Please join Professor Maya Mathur in a discussion of "nudges," choice architecture, and animals.
Careers in International Law, A Practical Training
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Allen Weiner, Titi Liu, and the American Society of International Law for a Careers in International Law practical training focused on concrete strategies for pursuing a career in international law. The program is Thursday, February 16, 2023, in Room 280A from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA Law School), “Racial Discrimination by Retailers: A Field Study of Willingness to Accept Returns”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLaw and Economics Seminar with Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA Law School), “Racial Discrimination by Retailers: A Field Study of Willingness to Accept Returns” as part of the Law and Economics Seminar, […]
Succeeding and Thriving in the Law: Challenging Our Assumptions, Expanding Our Definitions
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:00 PM - Panel Discussion 6:30 PM - Reception 1 hours of Elimination of Bias CLE credit This event is being recorded and will be available on the SLS YouTube page a few days after the event. Law is a profession characterized by particular markers of success: recognition, money, power, and impact. Building a career within the profession […]
CLF Women's Bible Study
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join the SLS Christian Legal Fellowship for our weekly Bible study on the Book of Colossians! Email hmotley@stanford.edu for location details.
Laylat al-Mi'rāj, or Isra and Mi'rāj (Islam)
Stanford 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 Life makes available to faculty, staff and students a list of significant religious holidays at the beginning of each […]
CLF Open Bible Study
@ SLS: Room 301B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join the SLS Christian Legal Fellowship for our weekly Bible study on the Book of Colossians!
SLS Winter 2023 Talent Show
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn February 17, SLA is putting together the SLS Winter 2023 Talent Show! It's an opportunity for anyone to share their talents with the SLS student body. Individual acts will be 5 minutes long and group acts can be up to 8 minutes! We hope to have performances from each class as well as AD […]
Coffee with Deputy Attorney General Adelina Acuña
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOpportunity for students to meet Adelina Acuña, SLS alum and current Deputy Attorney General in the California AG's Office.
NALSA Lunch Talk w/ Jared Crum
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNALSA is hosting a lunch talk with SLS NALSA alum and current DOJ-ENRD attorney, Jared Crum. Jared Crum previously worked at Hogan Lovells and clerked on the District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He will speak about his experiences working at DOJ and opportunities to work there.
Stanford Law Review IL Welcome / Information Session
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesInterested in joining SLR but uncertain about what the process entails? Join the SLR and SLA on February 20th at 12:45 PM for lunch and a general information session about all things SLR, the Candidate Exercise, and the application process. After lunch, there will be a pros-and-cons panel host by SLA. Lunch will be provided […]
Waging a Battle for Human Rights in the U.S. South: Project South’s Protect & Defend Initiative
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn Monday, February 20th at 12:45-2 pm, Azadeh Shahshahani, the Legal & Advocacy Director of Project South (Atlanta, GA) will be in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chacón, Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Azadeh will discuss her career and the work of the Defend & Protect Initiative of Project South, which […]
SJIL Issue 2 Source Pull Night
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Journal of International Law will host its source pull for the second edition of the journal. All member editors will eat dinner with the e-Board and then move to a […]
Student Community Breakfast with Dr. Chaney, Dr. Amin & Dean Steinbach
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAll students are highly encouraged to attend this event hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Liz Chaney and Dr. Sonia Amin. This event is a time […]