In this talk, Jeanne Fromer (NYU) discusses her recent SLR article, The Unregulated Certification Mark(et), 69 Stan. L. Rev. 121 (2017). Whereas trademarks generally denote a product's origin (i.e., who owns the rights to it), certification marks denote something about a product's quality. Examples include Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film ratings and kosher food certifications. A […]

Professor Pam Karlan, Chair of the Advisory Committee on sexual assault at Stanford; Kathy Glaze, Title IX Coordinator; and Lauren Schoenthaler, Senior Associate Vice Provost will participate in a brown-bag lunch discussion of Stanford's adjudication procedure for sexual assault.

Are you planning on a Big Law career after graduation but would also like for your work to have an impact beyond your individual clients? If yes, you should join us for an informal lunch with a man who has managed to do both – Lee Bucheit, Senior Partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Lee Buchheit […]

Monday (May 8) at 12:45 PM, join the Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association as we host a discussion with a panel of attorneys from Latham & Watkins's award-winning Entertainment, Sports, and Media Group. The event will be in room 285. The group was recently named Law 360's Entertainment and Media Group of the Year and has had partner's profiled […]

5:30 - 6:00 pm - Reception 6:00 - 7:00 pm - Event Room 190, Stanford Law School Register Now Please join us for a discussion on sovereign debt restructuring by two leading experts in the field. Mr. Buchheit will describe where the law stands after the New York courts’ interpretation of the pari passu clause […]

The Stanford Law School Chicago Alumni Chapter invites you to a reception and talk with Professor (and fellow SLS alumnus) David Freeman Engstrom, JD '02. Professor Engstrom will talk about various post-election projects at SLS, including his policy lab: What if California Had a Foreign Policy? This policy lab is designed to explore the possibilities […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  Kathleen Lu is in-house counsel at Mapbox, a mapping platform for developers, where she supports the Mapbox team on IP, open data, and other law-related issues. Prior to Mapbox, Kathleen was an associate at Fenwick & West and Winston & Strawn. Kathleen will talk about her career path from Biglaw firms […]

Explore Public Interest Room 320-F, Third Floor Brown Bag Lunch Talk RSVP Join us for a lunchtime conversation with Susan N. Herman, President of the ACLU and Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Herman will discuss the triumphs of civil rights advocacy over the past decade of her tenure with the ACLU as […]

5:00 - 7:00 pm - Discussion Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University 555 Salvatierra Walk Stanford, CA 94305 Register Now Join us for an evening to discuss the themes raised in Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr.’s new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Professor Forman is […]

Ever wonder what it's like working in-house? SLS invites alumni, students, and guests to a reception and panel for a discussion of the inner workings of local legal operations and what it means to be an in-house lawyer. The panel will feature:   Phillip R. Malone, moderator, Professor of Law and Director, Juelsgaard Intellectual Property […]

Please join WSL, OutLaw, and OWLs for a lunch panel on being a litigator and a parent. Munger attorneys will discuss balancing their legal careers and family lives.    

The U.S. intelligence agencies are vested with tremendous powers to collect information at home and abroad, on citizens and non-citizens, but subject to extensive oversight by all three branches of government. Does that system of oversight provide appropriate checks and balances? What lessons have been learned in the years since 9/11 and since the Snowden […]

Join APILSA for a conversation on race, civil liberties, and national security as we revisit a darkly relevant chapter in American history: the WWII internment of Japanese Americans. Our speakers: Stanford Professor Stephen Sano, who teaches in the Music and Asian American Studies departments, and Bob Rusky and Marjie Barrows, both members of the coram […]

Join the Federalist Society as we hear Hadley Arkes talk about natural law theory (details forthcoming).

The latest election brought with it a wave of stories about anti-Semitism: "sheriff's stars," (((triple brackets on Twitter))), desecrated Jewish cemeteries, punched Nazis, and even swastikas on Stanford's own campus. And all of this while the decades-old debate about the line between "anti-Israel" and "anti-Semitism" rages on. Join us for a talk on Anti-Semitism in America […]

This event, sponsored by the Stanford chapter of the American Constitution Society, will provide an informal atmosphere for students to discuss the judicial clerkship application process with peers who have already applied for clerkships. Please RSVP here.

Stanford's Race and Criminal Justice Reading Group, BLSA, OutLaw, and ACS are co-sponsoring a screening of Out in the Night, a documentary about the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in the criminal justice system. Refreshments will be served.

Register Now (Invitation Only) Leading experts from the public sector, private practice, and academia will gather at Stanford on May 10th and 11th, 2017, to address the phenomenon of the patent assertion entity (PAE) and the state of patent law reform. The first Stanford Patent Litigation Symposium inaugurates the public release of the Stanford NPE […]

The China Guiding Cases Project ("CGCP") is excited to announce the China Cases InsightsTM Writing Contest. At this info session, CGCP Founder & Director Dr. Mei Gechlik, together with Jennifer Ingram (SLS 2012) and Dimitri Phillips (SLS 2013), will provide details and tips for the contest. Stanford students are invited to participate in this international […]

Information session for law students interested in participating in the Kirkwood Moot Court Competition during the 2017-2018 academic year. Next year's presidents, Joe DeMott and Jace Yarbrough, and vice-presidents, Nicole Allan and Matt Getz, will host the event and answer questions about the competition.

Register Now THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Lunch will be served. With great power, comes great responsibility.  One of the most significant changes in the modern legal profession is the dramatic rise in power and prestige of the general counsel role.  The role is, however, one defined by challenge […]

Room 320-F, Third Floor RSVP This intimate workshop will support and empower students who might consider transitioning from the private sector to the public interest and/or service sectors later in their career. Space is limited to 10 students. The workshop is open to all students, regardless of graduation year or certainty of career plans, and […]

The search method workshop is opened for participants of the Fourth Conference for Junior Researchers in Law and Society as well as to the Stanford Law School community. Speakers: Professor Robert MacCoun and Professor Manuel Glomez

Entrepreneurs who have completed the Project ReMADE curriculum, and have developed a formal business plan, will present their business plan and pitch to a local panel of Bay Area microfinance directors. Following these presentations, entrepreneurs will partake in graduation ceremonies from the ReMADE program, followed by a reception in nearby Neukom Terrace. RSVP here.

This symposium explores the aftermath of human rights violations in culture, as well as the effects of cultural production on law and policy. With a non-exclusive emphasis on Latin America and an interdisciplinary law & literature focus, the symposium brings together a cutting-edge group of scholars. Some of the questions to address include: how does literary […]

ADSA & ILS would like to cordially invite you to join us for this third event in a series of 3 events providing a unique opportunity for Stanford Law students to learn from the personal experience of successful lawyers about topics such as: a) how to make the right career choices in law, b) how […]