Events
Understanding The Impeachment Process
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion Stanford Law School - Room 190 This event is free and open to the Stanford Community. Lunch will be served. Register Now Please join our faculty panelists—Professors Jack Rakove, Deborah Rhode and David Sklansky—for a conversation about the legal, institutional, and historical context that is the backdrop for […]
Lunch Talk: The Promise of Justice Initiative on Ramos v. Louisiana
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Criminal Law Society, the Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition, and the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic for a lunch event to discuss the legal, journalistic, and political movement leading to Ramos v. Louisiana. In Ramos—which will be argued on October 7, 2019— the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of permitting […]
Federalist Society: A Discussion on American Criminal Justice with Judge Stephanos Bibas
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Stanford Federalist Society as we welcome Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas. Holding degrees from Columbia University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School, Judge Bibas was previously a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School before his nomination and confirmation to the bench. Before his career in academia, […]
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 […]
21st Century Abolition: A World Without Prisons or Police
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhat does it mean to "abolish the police" or "abolish prisons"? What would that demand of society? Join lawyers and activists at the forefront of police and prison abolition movements for a conversation about radically re-imagining the criminal justice system.
Federalist Society: Handcuffing Law Enforcement? A Review of the Impact of Miranda
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Stanford Federalist Society as we welcome Professor Paul Cassell. Professor Cassell will debate how Miranda has impacted law enforcement and suspects over the past 50 years. Professor Cassell seeks to provide a procedural alternative avenue for protecting the rights of suspects while enabling law enforcement to maintain high confession and clearance rates. […]
True Conviction: Seeking Justice After TrialÂ
@ 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 […]
Supreme Court Roundup/Look Ahead
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Dinner 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion Stanford Law School - Room 290 This event is free and open to the public. Register Now Join Stanford Law School experts Pam Karlan and Jeff Fisher along with Erin Murphy of Kirkland & Ellis to review the most important Supreme […]
CLS: White Collar Info and Networking Session with Latham
@ SLS: Room 301A Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Criminal Law Society (CLS) for a white collar information and networking session with Latham.
Lawyering in the Age of Globalization: Why Public Interest Lawyers Need New Tools with Garth Meintjes, PILnet
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesROOM 320D, Third Floor Food provided RSVP Â PILnet envisions a world where the rule of law delivers justice and protects human rights. PILnet collaborates with local partners around the globe to develop the legal landscape essential to rights-respecting societies. It provides lawyers with the tools they need to challenge injustice, strengthens the ability of […]
Law, Order, & Algorithms
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesData and algorithms are increasingly used in the criminal justice system, from tracking individuals with aerial cameras to deciding which defendants to release on bail. These developments offer the promise […]
Feminist Public Defense
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhat does it mean to identify as a feminist and defend indigent people accused of domestic violence and sex crimes? What do feminism and public defense have in common? Join us for a discussion with […]
Matt Gonzalez: Defending the Politically Unpopular in Criminal Court
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Matt Gonzalez, SLS alumnus and Chief Attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. Mr. Gonzalez recently won the acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a five-time deported undocumented individual charged with the murder of Kate Steinle and invoked by Trump repeatedly on the campaign trail as evidence of the need for […]
Leading from the Inside Out
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition (SPARC) for a panel highlighting the leadership of formerly incarcerated people in criminal justice reform efforts. Our speakers: Daniela Medina grew up in Oakland, California and was incarcerated from the age of 21 to 31 years old. During her incarceration, she completed her GED and later on, her AA. […]
Reentry to Nothing: Urban Marginality After Mass Incarceration
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis presentation draws some preliminary reflections from a 3-year ethnographic study among a group of ex-prisoners facing the challenges of reentry in Oakland, California. Every day, an average of 1,700 prisoners are released from county jails, state prisons, and federal penitentiaries in the United States and dumped into the segregated neighborhoods from which they […]
Government Hacking: Evidence & Court Disclosure of Vulnerabilities
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP is required for this free event. Join Mozilla and Stanford CIS for the fourth and final installment in our series of conversations about government hacking. Information from our first three events, discussing the cybersecurity risk of government hacking, the vulnerabilities disclosure process, and recent changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, can be […]
Criminal Law Society General Body Meeting
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesGovernment Hacking: Assessing and Mitigating the Security Risk
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP is required for this free event. Join Mozilla and Stanford Center for Internet and Society for the third installment in a series of conversations about government hacking. Information from our first two events is available online: discussing the vulnerabilities disclosure process and recent changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41. The growing availability […]
Degrees of Freedom
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center for a forum on the issue of providing college opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated people.  The panel will highlight some of the ethical issues that arise, including whether we should prioritize incarcerated students nearing release over lifers, liberal arts education over […]
Rikers: A Documentary
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSome are guilty. Some are innocent. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not yet been found guilty or innocent of the charges they face. All are at risk in the pervasive culture of violence that forces people to come to terms with what they […]
How to Find Your Dream Job in International Public Service
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRoom 280B RSVP SLS Practitioner in Residence Sareta Ashraph will lead a discussion about how find your dream international law job, including applying to UN jobs, how to network effectively for international jobs, how to identify and pinpoint areas of interest in international law. Sareta is SLS’ inaugural Global Practitioner in Residence. For much of […]
Genocide in Syria
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Law School, Room 190 Co-sponsored by the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law and the Stanford Human Rights Center RSVP ISIS is committing genocide and other international crimes against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, as determined by the latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the […]
CCRSE Research Institute seminar: Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court
Room offsiteBlack Community Services Center, Brandon Room Please join us in welcoming Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, in a lunchtime presentation on her new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court. Americans are waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially […]
Government Hacking: Vulnerabilities Equities Process
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP is required for this free event. Suggested Reading: We've compiled background reading suggestions that might be of interest to you before you attend our event. Join Mozilla and Stanford CIS for the second installment in a series of conversations about government hacking. Information from our first event, discussing the upcoming changes to Federal […]
Leading with Conviction: Decarcerating America with Formerly Incarcerated Leaders at the Helm
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA lunchtime talk featuring speaker Glenn Martin, Founder and Executive Director of JustLeadership USA. Glenn Martin is the founder and president of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization that aims
 to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030 by elevating and amplifying the voice of people most impacted by crime and incarceration, and positioning them as informed, […]