The Public Interest Clerkships Committee will host an introduction panel, where you can learn more about the clerkship process and meet the eight members of the committee.

Want to learn more about navigating the U.S. legal market as an international attorney from LL.Ms? Please join us for a Q&A panel with Andres C Mena, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. and Laura Rupenian, partner at Gibson Dunn. Both speakers completed an LL.M in the U.S. before finding positions here.

The 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.

In what has become an annual tradition, SLS staff and faculty show their affection for students in the form of baked goods and other delectables. Stop by Russo Commons to get your #SLSLove. Therapy dogs will be in attendance 1:00-2:00 pm. Co-Sponsored by the Levin Center, Robert Crown Library, and Student Affairs.

Interested in learning more about best practices in due diligence at VC firms, or how to design and implement internal controls at portfolio companies? Join us for a discussion on how the VC industry can enable good governance. For more information and a list of confirmed speakers, click here. Co-sponsored by: The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship […]

Please 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 […]

The Stanford Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) invites you to join us for lunch with New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin on February 14th at 12:45 PM. This will be a free-flowing conversation, but topics will likely include his civil rights and criminal justice efforts, gun violence prevention measures, and environmental and […]

Please join Shanin Specter, founding partner of Kline & Specter, P.C. in Philadelphia, and adjunct professor at SLS for a lunchtime talk. He’ll outline how to get a job you’ll really like and achieve professional satisfaction. The presentation will be focused around survey research, articles in the legal literature and Mr. Specter’s professional experience. Mr. Specter will […]

How to Decommodify Land, Housing, Finance, Work, Law and everything else. Lunch discussion on how lawyers can support movements for transformative economic change, away from hierarchy and towards democracy. For example, using transactional law tools to help worker-owned businesses, Black and Indigenous land stewards, and cooperatives of all kinds. This casual discussion will be led […]

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 […]

Justice 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 […]

How does the law shape human behavior with respect to animals? Please join Professor Maya Mathur in a discussion of "nudges," choice architecture, and animals.

Please join Allen Weiner, Titi Liu, and the American Society of International Law for a Careers in International Law practical training focused on concrete strategies for pursuing a career in international law. The program is Thursday, February 16, 2023, in Room 280A from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Lunch will be provided.

Law and Economics Seminar with Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA Law School), “Racial Discrimination by Retailers: A Field Study of Willingness to Accept Returns” as part of the Law and Economics Seminar, Winter 2023. Download the paper here.  RSVP to chaom@law.stanford.edu

5:00 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 […]

Come join the SLS Christian Legal Fellowship for our weekly Bible study on the Book of Colossians! Email hmotley@stanford.edu for location details.

Come join the SLS Christian Legal Fellowship for our weekly Bible study on the Book of Colossians!

On February 17, SLA is putting together the SLS Winter 2023 Talent Show! It's an opportunity for anyone to share their talents with the SLS student body. Individual acts will be 5 minutes long and group acts can be up to 8 minutes! We hope to have performances from each class as well as AD […]