Events
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 […]
CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2013
On April 26th, CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics will host the first-ever CodeX FutureLaw Conference - a conference focusing on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession and the law more broadly. The conference will bring together leading thinkers, entrepreneurs, investors and technologists that are experimenting and actively […]
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 […]
Convivium: «The Road to Serfdom»
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Federalist Society for the first meeting of Convivium, an informal group for students, faculty, and staff of the law school who enjoy reading and discussion. With a nod this time to elections, we will take fitting inspiration from Hayek’s «The Road to Serfdom». We welcome all critical inquirers and their thoughtful reflections […]
ICC Turns Ten
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesReviewing the Past, Assessing the Future Stanford Law School marked the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a major conference evaluating its achievements and progress to date, the prospects for its continuing development, and the direction of its future relationship with the United States. Conference speakers Included: H.E. Judge […]
Iran and Terrorism Funding: When Foreign Sovereign Immunity and State-Sponsored Terrorism Collide
A lunch talk by Steve Perles, Sponsored by the Stanford Federalist Society Steve will discuss his international litigation practice relating to international terrorism, including the conflict between the goals of Congressional anti-terrorism statutes (terrorism victims compensation and deterrence of terrorism) and state commercial law designed to enhance commercial intercourse in everyday, good-faith, business transactions. Hanging […]
Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women
Room 185 Join Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, a publicly supported grantmaking foundation that advances human rights by investing in women-led organizations worldwide, for lunch. She will speak about her experience running the Fund, as well as her current research on women as agents of social change and human […]
Why Every Young Lawyer Should Learn Immigration Law
A Kickoff Lunchtime Talk by Judge Carlos Bea of the Ninth Circut, Hosted by the Stanford Federalist Society For our kickoff event this year, the Stanford Federalist Society welcomes Judge Carlos Bea of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Bea will discuss the current state of immigration law and specifically […]
Stanford Law Review Symposium: State Constitutions
The Stanford Law Review, the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, the Stanford Federalist Society and the Stanford American Constitution Society are pleased to bring together prominent legal scholars, practitioners, and judges to have an important and timely discussion about state constitutions. This is an area of the law that has been insufficiently addressed in the legal […]
The Discoveries of the Discrimination Research Group
American Bar Foundation The American Bar Foundation, in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study for the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, will convene a conference to present the latest empirical research findings on employment discrimination and the law on November 7 & 8 at Stanford Law School. The conference will highlight research undertaken by […]
Stanford Constitutional Law Center and the American Constitution Society present a Constitutional Conversation with Randolph Moss
Derek Shaffer, Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center will host a moderated discussion with former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Randoph E Moss Mr. Moss is a partner in WilmerHale’s Regulatory and Government Affairs and Litigation and Controversy Departments, the co-chair of the firm's Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice Group, […]
Immigrants’ Rights & Critical Perspectives on Immigration Reform
Due to extremely high interest, we closed registration early because we have reached our maximum capacity. All individuals who have already registered and confirmed their panels selections will be accommodated. If you have not yet confirmed your panel selection, please contact Anna Wang at annawang@law.stanford.edu by Thursday, February 8 to retain your guaranteed seat. Please […]
Immigrants’ Rights & Critical Perspectives on Immigration Reform
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for Public Service & Public Interest Law, Immigrants' Rights Clinic, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Due to extremely high interest, we closed registration early because we have reached our maximum capacity. All individuals who have already registered and confirmed their panels selections will be accommodated. If you […]