Events
Blood Memory Screening and Q&A
OnlineThis is a virtual Q&A session with the creator of and one of the primary voices in the documentary Blood Memory, which tells the story of coerced Native adoptions, ICWA, and the story of Native adoptees/fosterees and their families. This conversation will be moderated by Professor Greg Ablavasky. The film will be available for streaming […]
Improving Legal Outcomes for Victims of Sexual Violence: What Went Wrong with Jeffrey Epstein’s Prosecution and Settlement?
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SLS for Gender Violence Prevention, in coordination with Women of Stanford Law (WSL) and the Criminal Justice Society (CJS), as Professors Van Schaak, Weisberg, and Sklansky break down the Jeffrey Epstein case for us from both a prosecutorial and a human trafficking perspective.
SLS for GVP Listening Session
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSLS for GVP (formerly SLS GiVE) will be hosting a listening session open to all during lunch on Tuesday, October 8. We want to take space for people to speak candidly about their thoughts and feelings regarding the recent renewed allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. This will be a brown bag lunch.
Practical Skills to Combat Human Trafficking Reception
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join SLS GiVe, WSL, and the Human Trafficking Institute for a series of trainings on how to combat human trafficking during your legal career. Lawyers working as judicial clerks, law firm associates engaged in pro bono work, prosecutors, public defenders, and legal services providers will all encounter human trafficking cases and survivors during their […]
Practical Skills to Combat Human Trafficking
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join SLS GiVe, WSL, and the Human Trafficking Institute for a series of trainings on how to combat human trafficking during your legal career. Lawyers working as judicial clerks, law firm associates engaged in pro bono work, prosecutors, public defenders, and legal services providers will all encounter human trafficking cases and survivors during their work, so we want to make sure you are as prepared as possible. These trainings will include information on mandatory restitution that you can help survivors get as a judicial clerk, social service needs and how to connect survivors to them, the kinds of pro bono cases you can seek out at a law firm, victim-centered approaches to prosecution of traffickers, vacatur and expungement of criminal charges related to trafficking, and identification of persons being trafficked.
There will be four trainings, two at 4 PM and two at 4:45 PM. Coffee will be provided. Following the trainings, there will be a keynote reception at 5:30 PM in the Law Lounge (Russo Commons) with light refreshments.
Practical Skills to Combat Human Trafficking
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join SLS GiVe, WSL, and the Human Trafficking Institute for a series of trainings on how to combat human trafficking during your legal career. Lawyers working as judicial clerks, law firm associates engaged in pro bono work, prosecutors, public defenders, and legal services providers will all encounter human trafficking cases and survivors during their work, so we want to make sure you are as prepared as possible. These trainings will include information on mandatory restitution that you can help survivors get as a judicial clerk, social service needs and how to connect survivors to them, the kinds of pro bono cases you can seek out at a law firm, victim-centered approaches to prosecution of traffickers, vacatur and expungement of criminal charges related to trafficking, and identification of persons being trafficked.
There will be four trainings, two at 4 PM and two at 4:45 PM. Coffee will be provided. Following the trainings, there will be a keynote reception at 5:30 PM in the Law Lounge (Russo Commons) with light refreshments.
Domestic Violence Pro Bono Research Session
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join members of the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project on Friday, March 1 from 4:00 pm – 6:00pm to help Bay Area Legal Aid compile the information they need to lobby the California State Legislature for improvements to child custody processes for domestic violence survivors. Room TBD. California law contains broad mandates for child […]
SLS against Gendered Violence presents a screening of Cyntoia's Story
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SLS GiVe for a film screening of Cyntoia's Story. When she was 16, Cyntoia Brown was convicted for murdering the man who purchased her for sex. The governor of Tennessee commuted her sentence to 15 years, scheduling her release for August 2019. The film will be followed by a brief discussion.
SLS GiVe + If/When/How Summer Internships Advice
@ SLS: Room 230 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis informal lunch-time gathering is meant to provide a forum for law students considering summer internships in issue areas of reproductive justice and domestic or sexual violence to hear from and ask questions of law students who have participated in these types of internships in prior summers
Dinner with Nancy Hogshead Makar
@ SLS: Room 230 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPre-talk dinner with Nancy Hogshead Makar. Nancy Hogshead is an American Olympian and CEO of Champion Women, which aims to advance address sexual abuse in sports as well as promoting equality in sports. A graduate of Georgetown Law School, Nancy Makar pressured the U.S. Olympic Committee to require national sports governing bodies to ban sexual relationships […]
Online Child Safety
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOnline service providers are playing an increasing role in keeping children safe on the Internet, including by identifying, removing, and reporting harmful and illegal content. Their ability to do so effectively and efficiently while balancing the privacy interests of their users is an area receiving increased attention from the bar and bench. The talk will include a discussion on the state of current laws regulating this area and emerging issues in this rapidly changing legal landscape.
Screening of Anita: Speaking Truth To Power
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by SLS GiVe and WOCC
Perspectives on How the Military Deals with the Dynamics of Sexual Assault
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn 2013 the Department of Defense overhauled the military’s systems dealing with sexual assault. Join SLS GiVe and SLVO for a discussion on what these policies are, whether they’ve been effective, and the challenges of implementing such a policy. A study of military policies has interesting parallels to and insights for University sexual assault policies. […]
Conversation with Rachel Vogelstein
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRachel Vogelstein is the Douglas Dillon senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Â Her research is focused on the relationship […]
National Crime Victims' Rights Week Panel
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome learn about the services available for victims of crime, particularly victims of gendered violence crimes like domestic violence and sexual assault, what special barriers they face, and what the […]
Movie Screening: What Doesn’t Kill Me
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEvery day, 5 million children in the U.S. experience domestic violence, either as witnesses or victims. Due to a horrific system that favors abusive fathers, a shocking number of mothers who seek to protect their children (and themselves) end up losing them. Most Americans are unaware that an abusive father, who contests custody from a […]
Ambassador Susan Coppedge: A Conversation About the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAmbassador Susan Coppedge is the most recent ambassador for the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (commonly referred to as JTIP).  JTIP is responsible for producing a report that grades countries on the effectiveness of their efforts to combat human trafficking.  This report, called the Trafficking in Persons Report or TIP Report, […]
Private Dinner with Ambassador Susan Coppedge and John Cotton Richmond
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Impact of the Title IX Interim Guidelines on Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication Procedures
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWe will have Cathy Glaze (Stanford’s Title IX Director), Lauren Schoenthaler (Senior Associate Vice Provost, one of the three authors of Stanford’s Adjudication Policy & Procedur), and Carley Flannery (Director […]
Domestic Violence Pro Bono: Direct Services Training
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDV Pro Bono Policy Project Meeting
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCriminal Justice for Survivors of Human Trafficking
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHave you ever wondered about the nuances and challenges of building and prosecuting a human trafficking case?  How does the investigation get started; what kinds of information must be collected; how does the prosecutor work with the investigator and the survivor; what are the unique challenges of a survivor participating in a case against his/her trafficker? […]
Sexual Assault and The Adjudication Process at Stanford
@ SLS: Room N102 Neukom Building, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesProfessor Pam Karlan, Chair of the Advisory Committee on sexual assault at Stanford; Kathy Glaze, Title IX Coordinator; and Lauren Schoenthaler, Senior Associate Vice Provost will participate in a brown-bag lunch discussion of Stanford's adjudication procedure for sexual assault.
Move Away Custody Interference Laws Research Party
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join SLS GiVe in the follow-up event to our first research session.  We have a just under half the states left to research regarding laws on the books that impact victims of abuse moving out of state with their children.  We will have templates, directions, and treats, so please come on by!  You don't have to […]