Lunch Talk with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso Monday, May 8 at 12:45 (Room 180)
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSponsored by: Global Trends in Judicial Reform Policy Lab, SLLSA, Stanford Law and Society Association; Stanford Center for Latin American Studies In the last year, Brazil has received significant international attention over the role of its jurists in protecting democracy. As discussed in a recent piece, “in the lead-up to Brazil’s 2022 presidential election, Brazilian […]
Seventh Conference for Junior Researchers
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Law and Society Association at Stanford (LSAS) at Stanford Law School is pleased to announce its Seventh Conference for Junior Researchers. After a long pandemic break, LSAS resumes its activities by reviving an international space of discussions and networking for young scholars. This one-day conference provides a forum for junior researchers to share their […]
Lunch Talk with Colombian Constitutional Court Magistrate Justice Natalia Angel-Cabo
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe lunch talk will be Monday, March 6, at 12:45 pm in Room 185 Sponsored by: Global Trends in Judicial Reform Policy Lab, SLLSA, Stanford Global Studies (Part of the SGS Global Research Workshop Series), Stanford Law and Society Association; Stanford Center for Latin American Studies Colombia is seen as a pioneer among Latin American […]
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 […]
SPLS Talk: Testing a Legitimacy Based Approach to Managing Online Platform Content
Zoom (virtual location)The first speaker in a series of SPLS talks. Professor Tom Tyler will be sharing his results of several studies that articulate and test the viability of a self-regulatory approach to managing online content and suggesting heightening user voluntary rule following through enhancing the legitimacy of platforms. Discussions about whether and how to regulate the […]
SPLS Kick-off Board Meeting
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us in our kick-off meeting to get to know each other and to hear more about our goals and the activities we are planning to have this year. Members are always welcome to propose and initiate the event in which they are interested. Feel free to brainstorm the subjects and topics for our future […]
Portrait Project 2.0: Asian Americans in the Legal Profession
OnlineBuilding on findings from the American Bar Foundation’s After the JD study, the initial National Asian Pacific Bar Association and Yale Law School study Portrait Project examined the role of Asian Americans in the legal profession. The original Portrait Project research documented the historically dramatic growth of Asian American lawyers over the past three decades, […]
Stanford Program in Law and Society Kick-off Meeting
OnlinePlease join us in our kick-off meeting to hear more about our goals and the activities we are planning to have this year. Professor Lawrence Friedman, our program’s faculty mentor, will also be there to greet you and tell you about how great the program is!
Responses to COVID-19 in South Korea, Taiwan, and the US
OnlineJoin us for the discussion focusing on the rule of law, privacy concerns, and other legal and ethical issues that arise from innovating against Covid-19.
Responses to COVID-19 in South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States
OnlineThe Stanford Program in Law and Society's spring event featured Professor Haksoo Ko, Seoul National University Law School (South Korea), Professor Ching-Fu Lin, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Professor Michelle M. Mello, Stanford Law School and Stanford University Medical School, and Albert Gidari, Consulting Director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. […]
Stanford Program in Law and Society’s Seventh Conference for Junior Researchers
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Program in Law and Society (SPLS) presents its Seventh Conference for Junior Researchers. This two-day conference seeks to provide a stimulating platform where junior researchers from around the world can present their current research projects on law and society and receive input from faculty and other participants. It also seeks to build a community […]
Book Talk — Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHadar Aviram, the Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law, will discuss her new book “Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole”. Here is the short description of her book: "In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” […]
Venezuela: Winds of a constitutional spring?
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us to get to know insights shared by our faculty members and experts on future developments of Venezuela
Stanford Program in Law and Society Kick-Off Meeting
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us in our kick-off meeting to hear more about our goals and the activities we are planning to have this year.
Stanford Program in Law and Society’s Sixth Conference for Junior Researchers
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Program in Law and Society (SPLS) presents its Sixth Conference for Junior Researchers. This two-day conference seeks to provide a stimulating platform where junior researchers from around the world can present their current research projects on law and society and receive input from faculty and other participants. It also seeks to build a […]
Book Talk | “Beyond these Walls”: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesTony Platt, a distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society, University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his new book "Beyond These Walls". In his book Platt traces the disturbing history of punishment and social control in the U.S., revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities […]
Critical Coverage: How the Media Criticize Supreme Courts – Evidence from Israel
@ SLS: Room 301A Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis talk by Professor Yifat Holzman-Gazit from the Haim Striks School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel examines the nature of media criticism of Supreme Courts through a case study of press critique of the Israeli Supreme Court from 2000 to 2011. Drawing on insights from theories of journalistic criticism and from studies of the public […]
True Conviction: Seeking Justice After Trial
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Program in Law and Society presents this lunch panel discussion in January 2019. Despite the best efforts of legal professionals, mistakes happen in the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases and can result tragically in wrongful convictions. Join Professor Lawrence Marshall and the Northern California Innocence Project for a conversation with award-winning filmmaker Jamie Meltzer about […]
European Border Policing: Crimmigration versus Free Movement
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLunch talk with Professor Maartje Van Der Woude, a Professor of Law and Society from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Prof. Van Der Woude will discuss her current research on "European Border Policing: Crimmigration versus Free Movement".
Stanford Program in Law and Society Fifth Conference for Junior Researchers
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesConference Theme: Law in Everyday Life The Stanford Program in Law and Society (SPLS) at Stanford Law School is pleased to announce its Fifth Conference for Junior Researchers. This two-day conference seeks to provide a stimulating platform where junior researchers from around the world can present their current research projects on law and society and […]
Dinner with Professor Barak Richman
@ SLS: Room 271 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis is a closed dinner for the JSD and SPILS fellows with Professor Barak Richman about empirical methodology in legal research, his new book, and the academic job market.
A Child-Centered Approach to Global Poverty: Dilemmas in Remittance, Child Labor and Intercountry Adoption
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAccording to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in the poorer parts of the globe, every 3.6 seconds a person dies of starvation -- and usually it is a child under the age of five. This lecture looks at three of the ways suggested in our era to address the challenges of feeding […]
Research Methods Workshop – Identifying and Avoiding Bias in Empirical Legal Research
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe search method workshop is opened for participants of the Fourth Conference for Junior Researchers in Law and Society as well as to the Stanford Law School community. Speakers: Professor Robert MacCoun and Professor Manuel Glomez
Fighting for LGBTQ rights in Latin America
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesVenezuelan Congresswoman and LGBTQ rights advocate Tamara Adrian and Professor Javier Corrales will be discussing the status of LGBTQ rights in Latin America.
Child Support in the Face of Poverty: Gender Perspectives in Latin America
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIsabel Cristina Jaramillo -- a faculty at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia -- will discuss the impact of child support legislation on low-income families.