Join us on September 26th from 5-7pm in Paul Brest Hall for a Constitution Day lecture with Professor Akhil Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law. Both a liberal and an originalist, Professor Amar will speak on interpreting... the Constitution and what that interpretation means about the presidency.

Come early to the event at 4pm to receive a free signed hardcopy of his 2021 book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://stanford.io/4dUHP8M

Stanford Law School Professor and Executive Director of the SLS Rule of Law Impact Lab Amrit Singh and Expert Advisor Adriana Garcia co-authored an opinion essay, "Electing Judges in Mexico? Bad Idea," published by The New York Times. Based on a recent report conducted by the Rule of Law ...Impact Lab, Mexican Bar Association, and Inter-American Dialogue, this piece discusses the ongoing developments in Mexico relating to so-called "judicial reforms" that threaten the country's judicial independence and the rule of law.

"For weeks, Mexico has been in turmoil over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed constitutional amendment for judges to be elected by popular vote. Fifty-five thousand judicial employees went on strike as legislators pushed the law forward; the peso fell, and international banks issued dire warnings about the effect of the proposal on the economy," Singh and Garcia write.

Read more here: https://stanford.io/4cQAINi

A recent New York Times opinion piece poses the provocative question: “Who Gets to Kill in Self Defense.” The essay recounts the author’s collaboration with SLS’s Debbie Mukamal on a groundbreaking study from Stanford’s Criminal Justice Center, titled “Fatal Peril.” The study, ...released on September 4, provides extensive documentation of the “IPV-to-Prison Pipeline”—the pathways through which women who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) find themselves serving long prison sentences for acts of survival. The study represents the first time the Composite Abuse Scale and Danger Assessment, two validated instruments used to assess intimate partner violence and intimate partner homicide, have been used in the study of an incarcerated population. “Used globally but unevenly by police, health care workers and advocates in the domestic violence field, the danger assessment can help predict, with startling accuracy, which domestic abuse victims are at risk of being killed by their partners,” according to the essay’s author.

Read more here:

Opinion | Who Gets to Kill in Self-Defense?

Self-defense laws were written for men. This is how they fail women who fight back.

stanford.io

Stanford Law School Lecturer Glenn Fine published an opinion essay, "Inspectors General Are Doing Essential—And Unpopular—Work," for The Atlantic. Fine reflects on his years of government service working as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., to discuss how ...agencies have been made more accountable, efficient, and honest.

Fine served as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011, and also as the Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020. He has testified more than 50 times before congressional committees about this work and has written articles on inspectors general, federal investigations, and the management of federal agencies.

Read his opinion essay here: https://stanford.io/47ews9h

In the latest episode of the Stanford Legal Podcast, Stanford Law School Professor Jeffrey Fisher and Assistant Professor Easha Anand, co-directors of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, join Pam Karlan to discuss the Supreme Court’s last term and the blockbuster rulings with far-reaching ...implications for American democracy and law.

The Supreme Court’s latest term was marked by decisions of enormous consequence. However, the way the Court has communicated about these rulings far undersells the gravity they carry. While “expressing itself in extremely modest terms,” Professor Jeffrey Fisher says, the current Supreme Court has “[handed] down decisions that have enormously consequential effects for our democracy, people’s rights, and everything in between.” He and Assistant Professor Easha Anand, co-directors of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, agree that these recent decisions could reshape American law and politics for years to come.

Listen to the episode here: https://stanford.io/3yZ6Kc1

The Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements is now in question after a federal judge upheld a challenge to the rule on August 20, blocking it from taking effect in September as scheduled. Here, Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley discusses the FTC’s ban, the impact of non-compete... agreements on American workers and the economy, and the next steps for the FTC to attempt to reinstate the rule in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Loper decision that reduced the power of federal agencies.

"More than 20 percent of all US workers are not allowed to leave their jobs and work in the same field due to noncompete agreements" said Professor Lemley. "Preventing people from taking better jobs reduces employee mobility. That, in turn, reduces wages. It also reduces innovation, because people with a good idea can’t start a new company to turn it into reality."

Read more here:

Stanford Law School Professor William Gould co-taught one of the first Sports Law courses alongside his colleague and friend, Alvin Attles, Jr. The Golden State Warriors great and SLS Lecturer has recently passed, and Gould reflects on their time teaching together and the friendship that formed as ...a result.

"We not only discussed matters like sports rules, draft systems, and tradition, we also had a lot of fun together in those days," said Professor Gould. "The staff (particularly the IT guys) and students often observed and heard our conversations as we walked through the hallways together."

Read more here:

Remembering Basketball Great and Former Stanford Law Lecturer Alvin Attles, Jr., 1936 – 2024 | Stanford Law School

Along with many Stanford Law School students who were part of the first Sports Law course offered here, I grieve the death of my co-teacher and Golden

stanford.io

When former public defender Carlie Ware Horne joined SLS's Criminal Defense Clinic last year, she saw an opportunity to leverage the resources of the law school and the greater university to create a three-day training program for California public defenders. Recently held over three days at ...SLS, the inaugural Stanford Trial Advocacy & New Defender Uplift Program (STANDUP) brought more than 50 of the state's PDs to campus for workshops and plenary sessions covering all aspects of trial practice. Sprinkled throughout the program were opportunities for the participants to engage with Professor Ronald Tyler on less-discussed aspects of public defense: self-care and stress management.

https://stanford.io/4dCuQbK

SLS’s Joseph Grundfest recently filed an amicus brief in a securities class action litigation case that SCOTUS agreed to hear in its upcoming term. In support of petitioners Nvidia et al., Grundfest argues that the case is simple: the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act requires plaintiffs ...to plead “facts,” but the Ninth Circuit considered opinions. The rest, Grundfest writes, “is commentary,” citing the Babylonian Talmud. Read the amicus brief in NVIDIA Corp. and Jensen Huang, Petitioners, v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB and Stichting Pensioenfonds PGB:

www.supremecourt.gov

stanford.io

Law360 recently reported on a grant that was awarded to Stanford Law School on behalf of Stanford Impact Labs to continue an ongoing partnership with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. A team of researchers from SLS's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and Legal Design Lab ...were given a two-year grant to help implement new approaches that will increase participation in the judicial process across the county. The research team will study and identify barriers to court user engagement before designing and implementing new digital processes hand-in-hand with the court.

Read more here:

Stanford-LA County Court Judicial Access Project Gets Grant - Law360 Pulse

Stanford Law School announced it has received a grant to bolster an ongoing partnership with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that aims to...

stanford.io

Welcome back SLS alumni from the classes of 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2023! Join us October 24th-26th at Stanford Law School for three days of fun activities and time with old friends. If you have any questions, please check out our reunion information ...page on the SLS website. We hope to see you at this year’s reunion! #slsalumni

https://stanford.io/3MjRwS1