Lunch Talk with Colombian Constitutional Court Magistrate Justice Natalia Angel-Cabo
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe lunch talk will be Monday, March 6, at 12:45 pm in Room 185 Sponsored by: Global Trends in Judicial Reform Policy Lab, SLLSA, Stanford Global Studies (Part of the SGS Global Research Workshop Series), Stanford Law and Society Association; Stanford Center for Latin American Studies Colombia is seen as a pioneer among Latin American […]
Succeeding and Thriving in the Law: Challenging Our Assumptions, Expanding Our Definitions
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:00 PM - Panel Discussion 6:30 PM - Reception 1 hours of Elimination of Bias CLE credit This event is being recorded and will be available on the SLS YouTube page a few days after the event. Law is a profession characterized by particular markers of success: recognition, money, power, and impact. Building a career within the profession […]
Lunch Talk with Retired Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío: Thursday, February 16, at 12:45 in Room 90
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJustice Cossio served as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico between 2003 and 2018. He has written 31 books and hundreds of articles in his career as a legal academic. Justice Cossio will be discussing Mexico’s judiciary, including the role of the courts in the maintenance of democracy in Mexico, as […]
Stanford Center for Law & History presents: A Book Talk with Rowan Dorin
@ Stanford (TBD)Listen to the event The Stanford Center for Law and History is excited to announce an upcoming book talk featuring Professor Rowan Dorin (Stanford University Department of History) with Jessica Goldberg (UCLA) and Laurent Mayali (Berkeley Law) as commentators. The talk will be held on February 15, 2023 from 4:15-6:00pm PST at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and […]
Rethinking America’s Carceral State: Observations from Islamic Law
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the newly-formed Muslim Law Student Association for our first event of the year! On Tuesday, February 14th between 12:45-2 pm, Professor Adnan Zulfiqar - a law professor and legal historian at Rutgers Law School and currently a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center - will join us to discuss his research on criminal […]
Decolonizing Human Rights Reading Group with Prof. Tendayi Achiume
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Immigration & Human Rights Law Association is hosting a session of our Ad-hoc Decolonizing Human Rights Reading Group that will focus on Professor Tendayi Achiume's work as UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of racism. We will read and discuss Prof. Achiume's report on Ecological crisis, climate justice and racial justice: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a77549-report-special-rapporteur-contemporary-forms-racism-racial.
Introduction to Systems Thinking
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesVirtually every public policy has causes and consequences beyond those that are intended or immediately visible. This is true of criminal law policies that use algorithmic predictions of flight before trial; environmental policies involving greenhouse gas emissions and conventional pollutants; and social and health policies that address homelessness, institutional racism, and the distribution of Covid […]
SLS and Stanford Native Community Gathering with the Hon. Sunshine Sykes, ’97, JD ’01
@ Stanford (TBD)Connect with the Indigenous Alumni of SLS and the Stanford Native Community to celebrate special guest, the Hon. Sunshine Sykes, ’97, JD ’01! The newly formed Indigenous Alumni of Stanford Law School (IA of SLS), in partnership with the Stanford Native American Cultural Center (NACC), Native American Law Students Association (NALSA), Stanford Natives in Pre-Law […]
Title 42 and its Implications
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) and the Stanford Immigration and Human Rights Law Association invite you to join us for a lunch discussion about Title 42 on January 19th. The conversation will discuss challenges to the Trump and Biden administrations' use of Title 42 to prevent asylum-seekers from claiming asylum at […]
Board Fundamentals: What Every Lawyer Should Know
OnlineWatch the panel recording. Every lawyer needs to understand the fundamentals of how boards work -- whether you want to join a board, serve as General Counsel, advise as Outside Counsel, move into a business role or even regulate businesses in government. Please join Stanford Law School and Stanford Women on Boards for our Board […]
Black Reproductive Health – Protecting Birth, Protecting Health (MCLE one-hour credit for Implicit Bias)
OnlineJoin the SLS Black Alumni Association for a discussion among legal and policy experts on how to best protect Black people seeking a safe pregnancy and delivery and the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Black people seeking reproductive health care. This virtual event is free […]
Women, Life, Freedom: Understanding the Uprising in Iran
OnlineIranian activists and experts will discuss the awe-inspiring protest movement in Iran that was ignited by the murder of Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini by the Iranian government's morality police, and the ongoing horrific violence being committed by State security forces against people (particularly protesters and activists) throughout Iran. Hosted by the Stanford Immigration & Human Rights […]
Argentina, 1985 Screening
@ Stanford (TBD)Join Stanford Immigration & Human Rights Law Association, SLS at the Movies, the Law and Literature in the Global South working group within Stanford Global Studies led by Professor Héctor Hoyos, and the Center for Latin American Studies for a screening of "Argentina, 1985," a 2022 film about lawyers who challenged the Argentine military dictatorship. […]
The Supreme Court and the Future of Affirmative Action
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Asian and Pacific Islander Law Students Association (APILSA) presents a timely and critical conversation on the future of affirmative action. On October 31, 2022, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College. The case asks whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. […]
Immigration and International Human Rights Career Panel
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Immigration and Human Rights Law Association (SIHRLA) will be hosting a panel of current 2Ls and 3Ls, who have spent their summers working in the International Human Rights and Immigration fields. The panelists will talk about the application process, describe the sorts of substantive work they were able to do, and answer any […]
SLA Meeting
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMeeting with Stanford Law Association
Introduction to Systems Thinking Workshop
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesVirtually every public policy has causes and consequences beyond those that are intended or immediately visible. This is true of criminal law policies that use algorithmic predictions of flight before […]
Book Talk — Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment with Devon W. Carbado
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, celebrated legal scholar Devon Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA, explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct—more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how […]
SESLA Fall General Body Meeting
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association (SESLA) is looking forward to its first meeting of the 2022-23 year. The event will be a chance for students interested in sports and entertainment law, whether as a long-term career or simply a topic to explore outside the classroom setting, to get to know others who share […]
Debunking the Myth of the Ambulance Chaser
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Deborah L Rhode Center for the Legal Profession and the Stanford Law School Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association for a discussion about personal injury practice. We’ve all heard the myth that personal injury lawyers are nothing more than “ambulance chasers.” But what is it really like to be a personal injury lawyer? Join this discussion […]
SLA Meeting
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMeeting for the Stanford Law Association Group on Campus
National Lawyers’ Guild Disorientation
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe National Lawyers' Guild is, in its own words, "the nation's oldest and largest progressive bar association" and "the first one in the United States to be racially integrated." Its student chapter at Stanford Law hosts an annual Disorientation event to help progressive and radical law students find their people, and help them collectively navigate […]
Plaintiffs' Law 101: Life on the Left Side of the "v."
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhat is plaintiffs' law? What kind of work do plaintiffs' lawyers do? Who do plaintiffs' lawyers represent? What's life like on the left side of the "v"? Please join the […]
SLS Diverse Alumni Communities Launch Reception
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCelebrate the launch of the SLS diverse alumni community groups with fellow alumni, students, and faculty and connect over light food and drinks. The launch will celebrate the new alumni networks for our Asian Pacific Island, First-Generation and Low-Income (FLI), Indigenous, Latino/a/x, LGBTQ+, and Women communities, as well as the Stanford Law School Black Alumni […]
SAIR-SHRLA End of Year Celebration
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Advocates for Immigrants Rights (SAIR) and Stanford Human Rights Law Association (SHRLA) are hosting an end-of-year get together with the outgoing and incoming boards to chat about plans for next year and build community.