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Stanford Law’s Rhode Center and Legal Design Lab Win Grant to Modernize Courts and Expand Access to Justice
An estimated 75 percent of the 20 million civil cases filed in state courts each year involve at least one party without a lawyer. The consequences are especially stark in high-volume cases such as eviction and debt collection, where unrepresented and overwhelmed litigants can lose their homes, wages, or financial…
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(Originally published by Project Syndicate on July 27, 2026.) After the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk’s death last year, a video…
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(Originally published by The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment on July 23, 2026.) In brief: The Trump administration eliminated…
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Throughout the Supreme Court’s 2025–26 term, Stanford Law School faculty helped make sense of the Court’s decisions and their broader…
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During the 2025-26 academic year, Stanford Law School faculty members and academic staff garnered an array of awards for their books, articles, teaching, and other achievements, as well as appointments to new state, federal, and other roles outside Stanford Law.
Similarly, numerous ...Stanford Law students were the recipients of awards and fellowships for their own achievements, demonstrations of academic excellence, and commitment to public service.
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Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan joined PBS NewsHour to discuss why 500 legal and democracy experts are urging Congress to consider proportional representation—a significant increase from 200 signatories who supported a similar letter four years ago.
The growing consensus reflects ...mounting concerns about states repeatedly redrawing congressional districts to maximize partisan advantage. "Nobody can look at that and think that that's a good system," Karlan told PBS.
The real challenge, she acknowledged, is overcoming institutional inertia: "The members of Congress, they know they can get elected from single-member districts, and they don't know necessarily what would happen if we had a proportional system."
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As high-profile battles over redistricting have become a fixture in political headlines, a group of scholars is sounding the alarm on the ...
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And that's a wrap! ☀️ This summer, hundreds of Stanford Law School Alumni, admits, and current students connected in person across 12 Summer Gatherings nationwide — with a fantastic turnout from our admitted and current students. Every year this gets better. Thank you to everyone who ...showed up! 🌟
Professor Emeritus William B. Gould has spent decades shaping labor law and civil rights. He taught generations of Stanford Law students, served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, and even helped bring an end to Major League Baseball’s historic strike in the mid-1990s.
...The Palo Alto Weekly recently took a thoughtful look at Gould’s extraordinary life and new memoir, “Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoirs of a Labor Lawyer.”
The Q&A with Professor Gould traces the family history that shaped him, his nearly five decades at Stanford Law, and a career that has moved from courtrooms and classrooms to Washington and the baseball diamond. Read more about “the hard work that makes history,” as the Weekly put it: https://brnw.ch/21x4Shu