Critical Conversations: Affirmative Action and Racial Realism
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCrit Convos are back! In this lunch talk, we will be discussing the history of affirmative action, current legal discourse on the topic, and Derick Bell's Racial Realism. RSVP here, lunch will be provided!
Critical Conversations on Race, Power, and the Curriculum: Crim & Con Law
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCrit Convos are back! After a winter quarter hiatus, we're excited to take a look back at Criminal and Constitutional Law. A Critical Conversation on Property will follow–date to be announced. Critical Conversations are a series of informal discussions, facilitated by 2Ls and 3Ls, that consider 1L doctrinal courses through a Critical Race Theory lens. […]
Law and Social Movements
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lunch discussion about radical lawyering and movement frameworks that inspire us. We'll dissect overarching frameworks and specific examples, joined by recent grad A.D. Sean Lewis (abolitionist organizer and EJW Fellow at Disability Rights California). Let's dream of something better together. Sponsored by Stanford's National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association, […]
Critical Conversations on Race, Power, and the Curriculum: Torts & Contracts
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDear 1Ls, By now, you have spent a few weeks diving deep into the traditional law school experience—reading endless pages of opinions and trying to pull something together to feel like you are speaking coherently in class, while living through the tough realities of 2021. You have probably invested a lot of time into trying […]
Critical Conversations: Civil Procedure
OnlineThis is where Critical Conversations comes in:) Throughout the year, we plan to facilitate various conversations centered around specific 1L doctrinal courses. The first conversation will offer a background of the Critical Race Theory method and tradition on Monday, October 12th, from 12:45-2PM. The second will be Contracts and Torts through a critical race theory lens on October 19th, and the third […]
Critical Conversations: Contracts and Torts
OnlineThroughout the year, we plan to facilitate various conversations centered around specific 1L doctrinal courses. The first conversation will offer a background of the Critical Race Theory method and tradition on Monday, October 12th, from 12:45-2PM. The second will be Contracts and Torts through a critical race theory lens on October 19th, and the third conversation will consider Civil Procedure through the same lens and will […]
Critical Conversations: CRT 101
OnlineThroughout the year, we plan to facilitate various conversations centered around specific 1L doctrinal courses. The first conversation will offer a background of the Critical Race Theory method and tradition on Monday, October 12th, from 12:45-2PM register here. The second will be Contracts and Torts through a critical race theory lens on October 19th, and the third conversation will consider Civil Procedure […]
FedSoc 101: A Teach-in About the Federalist Society
OnlineWondering what the Federalist Society ("FedSoc") is, where their money comes from, and how they became synonymous with right-wing ideology and the federal judiciary? Wondering if you should go to their events? Want to know what they actually stand for? The Stanford Critical Law Society invites you to FedSoc 101, a teach-in on October 1 […]
Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum (Criminal Law)
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis year, a group of us SLS students are introducing a space to talk about 1L from a Critical Race Theory perspective. The project is titled Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum to give you 1L from a Critical Race Theory Perspective. This conversation will focus on Criminal Law. Please visit www.tinyurl.com/sls-crit-convos to download the entire Critical Conversations Reader and the selected readings for […]
Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum (Constitutional Law)
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis year, a group of SLS students are introducing a space to talk about 1L from a Critical Race Theory perspective. The project is titled Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum to give you 1L from a Critical Race Theory Perspective. This conversation will focus on Constitutional Law. Please visit www.tinyurl.com/sls-crit-convos to download the entire […]
Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum (Civil Procedure)
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis year, a group of us SLS students are introducing a space to talk about 1L from a Critical Race Theory perspective. The project is titled Critical Conversations: On Race, Power, and the Curriculum to give you 1L from a Critical Race Theory Perspective. This conversation will focus on Civil Procedure. Please visit www.tinyurl.com/sls-crit-convos to download the entire Critical Conversations Reader and the selected readings for […]
Stanford Critical Law Society Reading Group: Whiteness as Property
PICC , United StatesStanford Critical Law Society Reading Group will read and discuss Cheryl Harris' watershed article, Whiteness as Property. Information forthcoming.
Critiquing Progressive Prosecution
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHow progressive are self-described progressive prosecutors? Come to this event to collaborate with other students to develop an understanding and critique of prosecution, including "progressive" prosecution. Additional details forthcoming.
Student Town Hall Meeting
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStudent town hall on campus issues.
Stanford Critical Law Society (SCritLS) Salon
PICC , United StatesPlease join the Stanford Critical Law Society (SCritLS) for our second salon of the school year. Dinner will be served. Please RSVP here.
Stanford Critical Law Society Salon
PICC , United StatesPlease join the Stanford Critical Law Society (SCritLS) for our first salon of the year, where we will be discussing climate justice and environmental racism.
Stanford Critical Law Society’s First Winter Salon: An Introduction to Critical Race Theory
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join us to discuss the following pieces both to better understand and re-acquaint ourselves with CRT, and especially within the context of these past few weeks to consider what compromises radical leftists are willing to make in order to build a broad coalition without diluting our commitments. 1) Ian F. Haney-Lopez, "Nation of Minorities: Race, Ethnicity, […]
SCritLS & BLSA Salon: Implicit Bias and Policy Brutality
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesTake the implicit-association test and come discuss the relationship between our own bias and the police brutality that we are seeing around us. Please join us for this open discussion of racism, current events, and allyship. Related Media
SCritLS Salon: Managing Dominant Cultural Narratives in the Legal Classroom
Managing Dominant Cultural Narratives in the Legal Classroom Wednesday, October 9th, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Munger 5 lounge Dinner will be served! RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1otN4ENctjOKCTrupnZT9q4WWt7UujqRmb7lxgqOxqLo/viewform We will read an excerpt from Mascaras, Trenzas, y Greñas by Margaret Montoya, and a response to the article by a current law student. Both readings describe the author's experience […]
SCritLS Salon: Can Progressives Reclaim Corporate Law?
In "Reclaiming Corporate Law in a New Gilded Age," Greenfield argues that progressives should not leave the field of corporate law to conservatives but should focus on reforming the law to provide protections to more stakeholders. He proposes that by expanding protections to cover not just shareholders, but employers, customers, creditors, the community, and the […]
SCritLS Salon: California Transgender Law
In "A Practitioner's Guide to California Transgender Law," the Transgender Law Center provides a broad overview of the California laws affecting transgender people. Categories include identity documents, marriage and custody rights, employment and housing, public accommodation, immigration, police conduct, prison/jail conditions, health care, and youth issues. What kind of movement infrastructures are needed to simultaneously […]
SCritLS Salon: The Poverty Defense
The Poverty Defense: should poverty be a defense to civil and criminal liability? In "The Poverty Defense," Michele Estrin Gilman describes the theoretical justifications for excusing poor defendants, explores the prevalence of the poverty defense in our current legal system, and suggests how use of the defense could be expanded. What justifications--coercion, "rotten social background," […]
Critical Ways of Thinking About Law
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Stanford Critical Law Society and Professor Robert W. Gordon for a lunch talk examining critical legal theory. Professor Gordon will apply an alternative analysis of Hoffmann v. Red Owl, a contract case, to illuminate the differences between critical legal theory and more traditional legal analysis. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here. The […]
SCritLS and CLS Joint Salon: The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow: Redesigning the Racial Caste in America? At this salon, we will be reading excerpts from Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow." Is the American criminal justice system one of racial control, despite its formal adherence to the principle of "colorblindness"? Alexander argues that by targeting black men through the War on […]