Q&A with Administrator Andrew Berke
@ SLS: Let Facilities Assign. Andrew Berke, Administrator of the federal Rural Utilities Service, will meet with interested students to talk about rural economic development, renewable energy, and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Murat Mungan (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), “Inmate Assistance Programs: Toward a Less Punitive and More Effective Criminal Justice System”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLaw and Economics Seminar with Murat Mungan (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), “Inmate Assistance Programs: Toward a Less Punitive and More Effective Criminal Justice System” as part of […]
BLSA Faculty Dinner
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAll members of the Black Law Student Association are welcome to attend this dinner to meet their faculty mentors.
SCLH Presents: Ada Kuskowski and “Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France”
OnlineThe Stanford Center for Law and History is excited to present Professor Ada Kuskowski, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Ada Kuskowski and her upcoming book, […]
Post-Grade Panel I: Reviewing Exams to Improve Performance
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesFall exams may be a distant memory, and you may have zero desire to review something you wrote over a month ago, but constructively reviewing your past exams or model […]
Elements of Policy Analysis Boot Camp
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIf you are interested in exploring public policy but lack the training and skills, consider joining the Policy Lab for any or all of our introductory skills workshops. The series […]
LEAP Pro Bono Training
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesTraining with partner organization FLY for LEAP pro bono students
Lunar New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist)
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 […]
PLA Plaintiffs’ Week Lunches
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSLS PLA will host its annual Plaintiffs' Week again this year! Events will run from Monday, January 23 through Thursday, January 26. Like last year, we plan to host daily […]
The Making of Environmental Law: A Book Talk with Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHarvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus will discuss his new book which details both the recent and not-as-recent history of environmental law making. Topics include: Congress dropping out of environmental lawmaking […]
Interviewing Stakeholders & Experts Workshop and Lunch – Phil Malone, Juelsgaard IP Clinical Director
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Policy Lab to learn techniques to interview stakeholders and experts for your public policy research. You will learn how to conduct semi-structured interviews to communicate empathy and gain […]
Cultural Differences and Transitions
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis workshop touches on the cultural transitions one could experience when moving from their home country to a new one. Recognizing and managing such differences could be the key to […]
SIHRLA Winter General Body Meeting
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSIHRLA members and human rights and immigration faculty will gather for snacks and a discussion of what SIHRLA has planned for the term.
Salt In My Soul - Panel Discussion
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMonday, January 23rd | 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Tresidder Oak West Join the Stanford community in discussing the documentary, Salt in My Soul, which follows Mallory Smith (Stanford, '14), who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 3. The film covers topics of mindfulness, the health care system, and living with a chronic, […]
PLA Plaintiffs' Week Lunches
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSLS PLA will host its annual Plaintiffs' Week again this year! Events will run from Monday, January 23 through Thursday, January 26. Like last year, we plan to host daily small group lunches with students/attorneys, panels, and receptions. Please be sure to RSVP: Fill out all events you may be interested in attending, and we'll […]
Post-Grades II: Do Grades Affect My Job Search?
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNow that you’ve received your first law school grades, you may have practical questions about how grades might affect things like your job search, clerking options, or law review. Perhaps you didn’t perform as well as you hoped and your confidence took a hit. We are here for all of it. Susan Robinson, Associate Dean […]
Basic Legal Research for Public Policy Workshop
OnlineThis hands-on Zoom workshop will teach participants how to plan and carry out effective policy-related legal research from start to finish, including how to research secondary sources, statutes, regulations, cases, and policy resources, as well as how to conduct effective full-text searching within online databases. This workshop is excellently suited for anyone interested in improving […]
A Guide to Interdisciplinary Research
OnlineResearching public policy requires synthesizing information from many different sources and disciplines: legal research; scientific data; economic predictions; findings and recommendations from NGOs and blue-ribbon panels, think tanks, and government agencies. All of these and more guide policymakers. Join this Zoom workshop to learn how to identify and access non-legal sources of information and understand […]
1L Panel Series: Judicial Clerkships
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United Statesa panel discussion on the clerkship application process, featuring insights from incoming judicial clerks.
The Stanford Center for Law and History Presents "The Origins of Indigenous Constitutionalism: Choctaw Law and Governance" with Tanner Allread
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States“This Series of Strong Laws”: Choctaw Governance and the Rise of Indigenous Constitutionalism, 1826-1830 For two centuries, Native nations in the United States have written constitutions to govern their affairs and affirm their status as sovereigns. Exploring the origins of this tradition of Indigenous constitutionalism in the era of Indian Removal, this paper focuses on […]
Bringing Restoration to the Legal System: Where Do Mercy and Vengeance Fit? A Two Part Series on Restorative Justice (Part 1)
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a two-part series on the themes, theories, pitfalls and practices of restorative justice. During the first event on January 24th, writers Katharine Blake (SLS '12) and Josie Duffy Rice will discuss the notion of restoration (or lack thereof) in our criminal legal system, touching on the current system’s reliance on vengeance and […]
Law and the Biosciences Workshop
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis workshop brings in outside speakers to discuss issues within the wide field of law and the biosciences. On Tuesday, January 24, from 4:30 to 6:15 (room 285), Professor Amy L. McGuire (Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College of Medicine) will discuss her paper "Ethics and Regulation of Psychedelics."
PLA Plaintiffs' Week Lunches
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSLS PLA will host its annual Plaintiffs' Week again this year! Events will run from Monday, January 23 through Thursday, January 26. Like last year, we plan to host daily small group lunches with students/attorneys, panels, and receptions. Please be sure to RSVP: Fill out all events you may be interested in attending, and we'll […]
Careers in Climate
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join SLS's Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program and the Levin Center for a co-sponsored "Careers in Climate" discussion focused on environmental litigation. SLS alums Peter Broderick, Urban Wildlands Legal Director and Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Elena Saxonhouse, Managing Attorney at the Sierra Club, will discuss their […]
Palestine Legal Lunch Talk
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Stanford LSJP for a lunch talk with Liz Jackson, Senior Staff Attorney at Palestine Legal! Liz is a founding staff attorney for Palestine Legal and Cooperating Counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her work includes representing students, professors and activists on free speech and academic freedom issues, documenting the chilling effect of […]