And now for something completely different! 🪄✨ When life hands you a courtroom, turn it into a magic show! 🎩⚖️ Meet Jonathan Berry-Smith ( @jbsmithrocks ), JD ‘18, SLS’s Executive Director of Admissions and magician extraordinaire who recently charmed our community with some sleight... of hand as mesmerizing as a case-winning argument! Watch Jonathan make the stress of the Thanksgiving holiday disappear through the link in bio and enjoy!

Going into its fourth year, applications are now open for the 2025 Stanford Law Scholars Institute cohort, the deadline to apply is January 6, 2025. Click the link in bio to learn more about the application as well as an upcoming online info session.

Stanford Law School launched the ...Stanford Law Scholars Institute by welcoming twenty undergraduate students seeking to explore the opportunities and benefits of a legal career for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Cooley Courtyard is a vibrant red for fall. 🍂🍁#fallvibes #campus

For a special Veteran’s Day event here at SLS, Air Force veteran and the 53rd United States Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey visited our students to talk about his path from military service to law school, his efforts to launch the new Veterans Treatment Court, and ...his experience leading the N.D. Cal. USA Office. The lunch event was hosted by Rose Carmen Goldberg with the Deborah Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law, the Paul Lomio Veterans Legal Assistance Pro Bono student organization, and the Stanford Law Veterans Organization

Meet Jasmine Betancourt, Victoria Osanyinpeju and Nissim Roffe-Picket! These SLS Human Rights Clinic students, along with Clinic Supervising Attorney Shaw Drake, were granted observer status for this week’s United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP ...16) in Cali, Colombia. They are spending the week attending negotiations between governments and reviewing drafts submitted by committees in the restricted Blue Zone. They are also spending time in the Green Zone that features cultural events and panels led by NGOs, including the clinic’s partner for this important work, the Colombian human rights organization Dejusticia. Congrats to our Climate Justice Team!

One of our favorite parts of SLS Wellness Week -- the furry friend visits! Thank you Bodie and Booker for hanging out and being such good boys. And, happy birthday to Booker who turned 2yo today!! 🎉🐶❤️

A cohort of second- and third-year SLS students capped off the 2023-24 academic year by participating in Global Quarter, an only-at-SLS travel-study offering focused on the legal, economic and cultural challenges facing global businesses. The students traveled to Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
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Diego Zambrano, SLS Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Global Programs, led the Colombia portion of the field study, which included private meetings with judges from the Colombian Constitutional Court and collaborations with tech startups. “In the field study portions of the program, no matter where we go, the students are working very hard on case studies and problem sets before they go into their meetings,” said Zambrano.

The destination for the 2025 Spring Quarter is Latin America. Apply now! #SLS #FrankeGlobalFellowship #GlobalQuarter

SLS's Franke Global Business Law Fellowship and the Global Quarter is a one-of-a-kind opportunity that provides an immersive experience in the world of international business, law and policy. The fellowship helps students develop the skills, conceptual tools and international experiences to ...prepare them for a globalizing world. Franke Fellows spend the first seven weeks of the spring quarter on the SLS campus taking required courses and the last three weeks on a field study trip.

A cohort of second- and third-year SLS students traveled to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, during the 2024 Spring Quarter, getting a taste of life as global transactional attorneys–including how to manage jet lag and back-to-back meetings.

One of the focuses of the Brazil portion of the trip, led by Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business, involved exploring issues of inequality in Latin America’s largest country, as well as the relationship between business interests and the environment. The students met with the CEO of Viva Rio, an NGO that works in Brazil’s favelas, to provide health care, dispute resolution, and athletic training for young people. “We continued the theme of inequality in a meeting with Marcos Pinto, the Secretary of Reforms in the Finance Ministry, who discussed with us ways in which Brazil is working to reduce poverty by enhancing incentives for education and improving market forces,” Klausner said.

The destination for the 2025 Spring Quarter is Latin America. Apply now! #SLS #FrankeGlobalFellowship #GlobalQuarter

Last week, about 85% of 1Ls (156 students!) signed up for pro bono projects at our annual Pro Bono Fair. As part of SLS's 23 projects, these students will soon be helping community members avoid eviction, apply for immigration relief, and demand unpaid wages. The JD students are joined by 22 ...incoming Advanced Degree students.

Congratulations to the 2024 SLS staff ping pong champion, Mihir Bhaskar! Mihir played Jonathan Berry-Smith, an SLS alum, in the finals.

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

Thank you to all of the participants of the inaugural Stanford Trial Advocacy & New Defender Uplift Program (STANDUP)! We had a great three-day training conference here on the Stanford Law campus hosted by the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic. We are grateful to Carlie Ware Horne, ...Ronald Tyler, Dean George Triantis, and all of the speakers for their invaluable help in organizing and leading this program. Their expertise helped to impart crucial trial skills to new defense attorneys.