Innovative Mechanisms to End Impunity in Central America and Mexico: a Talk with Mirte Postema
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordRon Machen: What Makes a Good Prosecutor, a moderated discussion with Professor David Sklansky
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordVC Firms & Emerging Growth Companies with Gunderson Dettmer
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordPeace with Justice or Peace versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordLawyers as Leaders: Stephen B. Bright
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordHow intellectual property adds value to start-ups
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordPeace with Justice or Peace Versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordThe Stanford International Law Society and Hogan Lovells Present: Careers in International Law in the Private Sector
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordZika and the Age of New Pandemics: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordLaw, Order & Algorithms: Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordRace and Criminal Justice Reading Group
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordProsecution Clinic: Brown-bag Orientation Lunch for Prospective Students
@ SLS: Room N102 Neukom Building, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordGreen vs. Green: A Debate on the Future of U.S. Renewables
Schwab Residential Center 680 Serra St., StanfordPublic Interest Spring Awards Reception
@ SLS: Manning Lounge 2nd Floor, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordFashion, Art, and Design Law Society: A Conversation with Simon Frankel
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordGoing Solo: Starting Your Own Law Practice
@ SLS: Room 271 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordRock Center and SVDX present the Year-End Dinner with John Hennessy
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, StanfordCodeX FutureLaw Conference 2016
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordWorking a Room: Savvy Networking for Career Success
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordBLSA Law Student Panel with Fairfield Suisun Unified School District Students
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, StanfordTGIF – Get the Inside Scoop on OCI, Interviews & Summer Jobs!
@ SLS: Crocker Garden Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford- No events scheduled for May 21, 2016.
Week of Events
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Stanford China Law Conference
Stanford China Law Conference
The China Law and Policy Conference is an annual event designed to help students and professionals understand the pressing China-related legal issues, in addition to fostering ties between Stanford, legal practitioners and scholars in China and the Bay Area. The Conference provides a platform for legal practitioners and scholars to discuss salient legal issues that affect aspects of modern Chinese business, […]
OCS Meeting with 1L Class
Innovative Mechanisms to End Impunity in Central America and Mexico: a Talk with Mirte Postema
Innovative Mechanisms to End Impunity in Central America and Mexico: a Talk with Mirte Postema
Join the Stanford International Human Rights Association and the Center for Latin American Studies in welcoming Mirte Postema, the Fellow for Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Prison Reform in the Americas in the Stanford Human Rights Center, to discuss recent innovative mechanisms to combat impunity in Central America and Mexico that have been created relatively recently, and their […]
Ron Machen: What Makes a Good Prosecutor, a moderated discussion with Professor David Sklansky
Ron Machen: What Makes a Good Prosecutor, a moderated discussion with Professor David Sklansky
Ronald 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. […]
VC Firms & Emerging Growth Companies with Gunderson Dettmer
VC Firms & Emerging Growth Companies with Gunderson Dettmer
On Tuesday, May 17th @ 12:45pm, Jon Novotny (SLS '08) will be coming to chat about his practice at Gunderson Dettmer, where he represents emerging growth companies and venture capital firms.
Peace with Justice or Peace versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations
Peace with Justice or Peace versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations
The Colombian government and leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas are close to finalizing a peace agreement to end the country's five-decade-long armed conflict. As part of the accord, both FARC and Colombian military leaders responsible for atrocities can avoid prison in exchange for confessing to their crimes. Doug Cassel, a Professor of […]
Lawyers as Leaders: Stephen B. Bright
Lawyers as Leaders: Stephen B. Bright
May 17, 2016 12:45PM - 2:00PM Room 285, Stanford Law School Register Now The Stanford Center on the Legal Profession is proud to welcome Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights, as the inaugural speaker in the Lawyers as Leaders speaker series. Stephen B. Bright President and Senior […]
How intellectual property adds value to start-ups
How intellectual property adds value to start-ups
Interested in IP, life sciences, angel investing, or all of the above? Join us for a lunch discussion with Darren Cooke, investor at Life Science Angels who works with biotech and medical device companies. Before diving into full-time early-stage investing last year, Darren led the IP legal team for the $700M/year life science tools business […]
Peace with Justice or Peace Versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations
The History of “Secular”
The History of “Secular”
Please join the Stanford Federalist Society as we welcome Mr. Eric Rassbach, who will be speaking about the history of "secular." Lunch will be served. Mr. Rassbach is Deputy General Counsel at the Becket Fund and has served since 2004. In his practice he has represented people and institutions from many different faith backgrounds, including […]
The Stanford International Law Society and Hogan Lovells Present: Careers in International Law in the Private Sector
The Stanford International Law Society and Hogan Lovells Present: Careers in International Law in the Private Sector
Please join the International Law Society and find out what it means to practice international law. If you want your legal practice to have an international dimension to it, but aren’t quite sure what options are available, join us for lunch. Learn about careers in international law from lawyers at a major Washington law firm, one […]
Student Panel on OCI
Student Panel on OCI
We'll have students ready to talk about their own OCI experience and answer any and all questions you have. No firms, no professors or advisors, just students. ALL 1Ls (including men!) are welcome. Lunch will be served!
Zika and the Age of New Pandemics: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
Zika and the Age of New Pandemics: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
A panel of speakers will examine the multifaceted challenges posed by the global Zika outbreak, followed by Q&A moderated by former ABC and NBC News medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman. This event is free and open to the public. Speakers: Michele Barry, MD, FACP, is the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of Stanford […]
Law, Order & Algorithms: Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
Law, Order & Algorithms: Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
Please join us for a discussion of Prof. Sharad Goel's pioneering research on police practices. Dinner will be served at 5:45PM Sharad Goel is an Assistant Professor in Stanford's Management Science and Engineering Department and, by courtesy, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Computer Science. His primary area of research is computational social […]
Critical Theory Salon with Women of Stanford Law and Stanford Critical Law Society
Critical Theory Salon with Women of Stanford Law and Stanford Critical Law Society
Join the Stanford Critical Law Society and Women of Stanford Law for the final critical legal studies salon of the year!
Race and Criminal Justice Reading Group
Race and Criminal Justice Reading Group
The topic this week is Juvenile Justice, Race, and Crime and the group will be discussing the book "Punished" (http://www.amazon.com/Punished-Policing-Latino-Perspectives-Deviance/dp/0814776388). Copies are available at the Law Library. This informal reading group on race and criminal justice is open to all members of the Stanford Law School community. We meet approximately every three weeks , picking the readings as we go along. […]
OCS Meeting with 1L Class
Prosecution Clinic: Brown-bag Orientation Lunch for Prospective Students
Prosecution Clinic: Brown-bag Orientation Lunch for Prospective Students
Coffee and light snacks will be provided
Ask Me Anything with OutLaw
Ask Me Anything with OutLaw
Come armed with questions, and ask your OutLaw peers Tripp Zanetis, Fares Akremi, and Alexandria Gilbert about their experiences growing up, coming out, and being part of the LGBTQ community.
Green vs. Green: A Debate on the Future of U.S. Renewables
Green vs. Green: A Debate on the Future of U.S. Renewables
Read about the Green v. Green event here. The Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, together with the Stanford Professionals in Energy (SPIE) alumni network, invite you to join us for a substantive debate about the future of renewables in the US. The program will feature Jeff Brown, a GSB lecturer and experienced […]
Public Interest Spring Awards Reception
Public Interest Spring Awards Reception
Strengthen Community Join us to honor students who have earned public interest fellowships, government honors, and Pro Bono Distinction. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the end of the year with the public interest community. Please RSVP here.
Fashion, Art, and Design Law Society: A Conversation with Simon Frankel
Fashion, Art, and Design Law Society: A Conversation with Simon Frankel
Mr. Simon Frankel is a partner with Covington & Burling LLP in San Francisco, where he focuses on copyright and trademark litigation, Internet privacy and technology disputes, consumer class actions, and legal issues related to visual art. Additionally, Mr. Frankel is a Lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he co-teaches the course Art and the […]
Going Solo: Starting Your Own Law Practice
Going Solo: Starting Your Own Law Practice
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start your own practice? Please join ACS in a lunchtime conversation with Mary Kelly Persyn. Mary Kelly will discuss what it has been like to start her own practice, Persyn Law & Policy, where she practices criminal defense and appellate law and also focuses on […]
2016 Diversity Career Fair
2016 Diversity Career Fair
The Stanford Law School Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA) invites you to attend our third annual Diversity Career Fair. The event is open to ALL SLS students! We will have representatives from public interest groups, government organizations, and law firms. This is a great opportunity to network and learn about firms and other organizations in advance of […]
Rock Center and SVDX present the Year-End Dinner with John Hennessy
Rock Center and SVDX present the Year-End Dinner with John Hennessy
5:30 - 6:30pm Cocktail Reception 6:30 - 7:30pm Speaker 7:30 - 8:30pm Dinner Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences Register Now RSVP by May 13 This year we are delighted to announce that John L. Hennessy, President and Member of Board of Trustees at Stanford University, will be the keynote speaker. Director, Member of Acquisition Committee […]
Film Screening: Speciesism
Film Screening: Speciesism
Screening of "Speciesism" and discussion with director Mark Devries. Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre “factory farms,” hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries set out to investigate. The documentary takes viewers […]
ILS Spring BBQ
ILS Spring BBQ
Looking for another chance to get to know your fellow JDs, LLMs, and JSDs interested in international law? Come join the International Law Society at its annual spring BBQ to celebrate the diverse backgrounds of students at SLS. Please RSVP here.
SJIL Galley Night — Round 2
SJIL Galley Night — Round 2
At Galley Night, Member Editors perform a final edit/review of the articles (text, sources, format) to be published in the Journal's Spring issue. It is a mandatory event for all Member Editors, and an integral part of the editing process.
CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2016
CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2016
Register NowAgendaWebsite This event is open to the public but registration is required. On May 20, 2016, CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics will host the CodeX FutureLaw 2016, CodeX’s fourth annual conference focusing on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession, the law itself, and how these changes impact […]
Working a Room: Savvy Networking for Career Success
BLSA Law Student Panel with Fairfield Suisun Unified School District Students
BLSA Law Student Panel with Fairfield Suisun Unified School District Students
The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) is hosting an informal law student panel for high school students of the Fairfield Suisun Unified School District.