Summary
At its Feb. 9 meeting, the Faculty Senate heard updates from President Marc Tessier-Lavigne on Stanford’s long-range planning process and its efforts to support and assist its immigrant and international community, heard a presentation on Stanford Law School, discussed non-tenure-track faculty and passed a resolution on immigration policies.
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At the meeting, Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell presented an outline of Stanford’s long-range planning process, which is expected to take about a year. They also sought feedback and answered questions about the process.
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In other business, M. Elizabeth Magill, dean of Stanford Law School, presented a profile of the school, which has 65 faculty members, 579 law students and 106 foreign-trained lawyers who are spending a year at Stanford earning advanced degrees.
“About 40 percent of our research faculty have PhDs as well as JDs, and 12 of the 14 recent hires at the Law School have PhDs and JDs,” she said. “So the trend is increasing to interdisciplinary hiring.”
Magill described Stanford Law School as “the proverbial big tent” school.
“All of us are interested in law and legal systems, but we have on our faculty lawyer advocates and legal historians and those who have PhDs in physics as well as JDs,” she said.
Magill briefly discussed new programs in law and policy, global legal practice and technology of law.
She said she hoped the presentation would pique interest in the Law School among faculty who might think about co-authoring papers, and among faculty who might consider referring their students to its programs.
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