Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Stanford Center for Racial Justice Open House: October 2, 2025
@ SLS: Room 270 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis event is open to the Stanford Law School Community. Join the Stanford Center for Racial Justice at our fall open house to kick off the school year! Hear more about our work from faculty, staff, and students, learn how you can get involved, and build community at SLS. Food will be provided;
Cinematic Capital: Hollywood and the Libidinal Economy of Financial Crime: October 15, 2025
Room offsiteProfessor Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University) examines how Hollywood cinema, in the wake of financial capitalism, portrays capital as symptom. How does Hollywood cinema recalibrate surplus value as surplus jouissance? How does the criminal legal system feed into and facilitate the structure of fantasy that produces this surplus jouissance? Professor Vighi writes and teaches on cinema […]
Legal Perspectives on the Federal Crackdown in Minnesota: January 28
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SLS Professors Rabia Belt, Evelyn Douek, Lucas Guttentag, Pam Karlan, Fred Smith, Jayashri Srikantiah, and Bob Weisberg for a discussion on the federal crackdown in Minnesota. Students will have an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of faculty experts on legal issues including immigration, federalism, the First Amendment, civil and criminal liability, and […]
The First Eight: A Fireside chat with Congressman Jim Clyburn: February 18
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAttend in person or via livestream. Scroll down to register. Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) will be interviewed by Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) regarding Congressman Clyburn’s powerful, inspirational new book, The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation. Congressman Clyburn shares these men's stories, as they pursued America’s great promise […]
Antidiscrimination Law x AI Convening: March 12
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe convening is co-hosted by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice (Stanford Law School), the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice (Harvard Law School), and the Multiracial Democracy Project (George Washington Law School).
Private Policing and Racial Power: A Discussion with Professor Ekow Yankah: April 8
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Criminal Law Society, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Racial Justice Center, Stanford Critical Legal Studies for a timely and thought-provoking conversation with Professor Ekow N. Yankah from the University of Michigan, as he discusses his recent Stanford Law Review article examining the relationship between criminal law and private racist violence. In his work, Professor […]
A Conversation with SCRJ’s Bremond Fellows: Constitutionality of Federalizing the National Guard and Implications of the California Racial Justice Act: April 30
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIs the President’s decision to federalize the National Guard to support federal law enforcement justiciable? How should courts scrutinize the factual predicates and potential pretexts of a presidential federalization? And, how does the California Racial Justice Act (CA RJA) change what evidence litigants can present for showing discrimination in criminal cases to challenge their sentences? […]