Events
Government 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 […]
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 […]
The Trump Administration: Implications for Energy and Climate — A Bipartisan Discussion
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWhat will US energy policy under a Trump administration — and Republican majorities in both the House and Senate — look like? And what are the implications for U.S. and international efforts to address climate change? The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance convened a panel of experts on Tuesday November 29 for a […]
Executive Transition and the Changed Policy Landscape: Part I
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis is a two-part faculty panel series on the Executive Transition and the Changed Policy Landscape. In Part I, Professor Pam Karlan will provide a general introduction about executive authority and presidential transitions. She will also make substantive comments about civil rights and be joined by Professors Jenny Martinez (foreign relations), Debbie Sivas (environment), and […]
The Rock Center and SVDX present Coping with Uncertainties of a Networked World
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States7:30 - 8:00am Registration and Breakfast 8:00 - 9:30am Presentation Register As businesses become more and more driven by digital information, they depend on their ability to move data around the world. The shifting European privacy landscape, more sophisticated and varied cybersecurity threats like the recent attacks that shut down major Internet sites, and data […]
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 […]
Government Hacking: Rule 41
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP IS REQUIRED for this free event Join Mozilla and Stanford CIS for the first in a series of conversations about government hacking. On December 1, 2016, significant and controversial changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 are scheduled go into effect. Today, Rule 41 prohibits a federal judge from issuing a search warrant […]
Security Detentions and Human Rights
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Professor Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law School for a discussion of his new project on the divide in international humanitarian law and international human rights law on security detentions in non-international armed conflicts. Professor Jonathan Hafetz is an expert on human rights, constitutional law, national security, and international justice issues. He joined Seton […]
Lunch with Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency
@ Stanford: Knight Management Center (GSB) 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a lunchtime discussion about the IEA's inaugural annual report on energy investments around the world. The report measures the state of investment in the energy system across technologies, sectors and regions and takes a comprehensive look at the critical issues confronting investors, policy […]
US DOJ, National Security Division Talk
@ SLS: Room 272 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesExplore Public Interest Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, Department of Justice Adam Hickey will speak to law students; co-sponsored by The Stanford National Security & the Law Society (SNSLS). RSVP Speaker bio: Adam S. Hickey is the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset Protection in the National Security Division […]
Ron Machen: What Makes a Good Prosecutor, a moderated discussion with Professor David Sklansky
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRonald Machen is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, expert in white collar crime, and partner at WilmerHale. Lunch will be served. RSVP here. Speaker: Ronald Machen is one of the nation’s leading trial and white-collar defense lawyers. His practice focuses on government enforcement actions, corporate and congressional investigations, and complex civil litigation. […]
National Security Regulation: Another Source of Enterprise Risk for Tech Companies
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:15-6:00 pm Reception 6:00-7:00 pm Panel Discussion Room 190, Stanford Law School Register Now The U.S. Government administers certain laws regulating “international” business activities to advance priority U.S. national security objectives. These legal regimes, such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, economic sanctions, and export controls, have been substantially enhanced in […]
Campus: The Practice and Art of Judging
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Practice and Art of Judging: A Conversation with The Honorable Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, MA '96, PhD '00, The Honorable Susan Y. Illston, JD '73, and The Honorable Vaughn R. Walker, JD '70 Moderated by Professor Pamela S. Karlan Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Reception 6:30 - 7:30 […]
Cyber Initiative Seminar: Red-Teaming
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSean McAfee is a Project Lead for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Cybersecurity Assessments and Technical Services (NCATS) team. He provides subject matter expertise in social engineering and insider threats. Mr. McAfee has worked in various capacities at the Department since 2008. Prior to DHS, he worked as a Grants Administration specialist […]
Companies, Consumers & The State: Defining Private Industry’s Obligation to Protect Privacy
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP is required. Salil Shetty, Secretary General, Amnesty International Moderated by Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, Center for Internet and Society Consumers expect companies to respect the right to privacy. This means respecting the privacy of users by providing clear, accessible information about how personal data is used, rather than unintelligible terms and conditions. […]
Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecution
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a talk by author and Professor Wadie Said, to be followed by a discussion with Professor David Sklansky and Professor Shirin Sinnar. This event is open to the Stanford Community. Please click here to RSVP to confirm your free lunch order! The U.S. government has expansively interpreted, and aggressively applied anti-terrorism laws […]
A Textualist Theory of the 14th Amendment
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Stanford Federalist Society as we welcome Jonathan Mitchell, who will be speaking about interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment. Lunch will be served. Professor Mitchell currently teaches at George Mason University School of Law. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
Immigration at the Supreme Court: The States vs. Obama
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States6:00pm - 7:00pm Presentation Dinner will be served at 5:45pm Law Lounge, Stanford Law School Register Now Please join us for a discussion about the legal challenge to the Administration's deferred-action immigration policy. Jonathan Mitchell Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution; Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Jonathan F. Mitchell is a Visiting Fellow at […]
Matt Nosanchuk, JD ’90, White House Office of Public Engagement
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRoom 320F RSVP Matt Nosanchuk is an Associate Director of Public Engagement serving as the liaison to the American Jewish community and on international issues. Since joining the White House in 2013, he has served both in the Office of Public Engagement and as Director for Outreach on the National Security Council Staff. Matt joined […]
Lawyering and National Security: A Conversation with Caroline Krass, General Counsel of the CIA
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease RSVP here Lunch will be served.
After San Bernardino: Xenophobia and Islamophobia in State and Federal Policymaking
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP Engage the Issues Professor Jennifer Chacón will moderate a program that examines current efforts at the federal, state and local level to limit or ban refugee resettlement as well as advocates' responses to these efforts. The speakers include Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and Nasrina Bargzie, the National Security and […]
International Discussion Series: The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Legal and Ethical Obligations
Room offsiteSponsored by the Bechtel International Center A lunchtime discussion featuring Mirte Postema, Fellow for Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Prison Reform in the Americas at the Stanford Human Rights Center. Forced displacement has affected millions of people for decades, and the number of people fleeing conflict, generalized violence, political persecution and human rights violations is only increasing. […]
Landesa Rural Development Institute: Formal and customary laws in securing land rights for the rural poor
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesExplore Public Interest Learn more about the work of Landesa, a leading non-profit organization in the field of law and economic development working to tackle some of the world’s most stubborn and important problems – food insecurity, conflict, climate change, women’s lack of empowerment. Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to develop durable, sustainable, […]
The Modern State Attorney General: Power, Influence, and Ethics
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:00 - 5:30pm: Reception 5:30 - 7:00pm: Panel Registration is required. Register Now In 2014, the New York Times ran a series of articles by Eric Lipton on the lobbying of state attorneys general by lawyers representing both defense and plaintiff-side interests. The articles painted a remarkable picture of attorneys general so closely tied to […]