On September 9, 2015 Stanford Law School announced that Polly Courtice, the founder of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, was awarded the 2015 Stanford Bright Award. The annual award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to global sustainability.

Students in the Stanford Law School’s Iraqi Legal Education Initiative Prof. Erik Jensen, Megan Karsh, Charles Buker (JD ’16) and Liz Miller (JD ’16) met with representatives of the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil in Kurdish Iraq on September 17, 2015.

The 16th annual Shaking the Foundations conference on October 17, 2015 focused on West Coast issues ranging from the California drought, to Housing Activism in the Bay Area, and more.

Stanford Law School alumni (and their families) spent the weekend of October 22-25, 2015 reconnecting with classmates and participating in events at Alumni Weekend.

Students in the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic won Green v. Brennan on November 30, 2015. Front row (left to right): Daniel Kane, Brian Wolfman, Gina Elliott, Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Greg Elinson; back row: John Mosby, Elisa Moran, Alexandria Twinem, and Michael Skocpol. Click here to learn more about their work in this case.

A group of local Stanford Law School alumni were sworn in to the State Bar of California on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, with Dean Magill, Professor Bob Weisberg, JD ’79, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Allison Danner, JD ’97, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Owens, JD ’96, presiding over the ceremony.

The Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC) launched a new series in January called “Inside Justice” to give small groups of law students the opportunity to experience various aspects of and processes that comprise our criminal justice system.

Professor David Sklansky served as faculty advisor for a bimonthly informal reading group on race and criminal justice beginning in January 2015. Read more in this Stanford Lawyer article.

During Spring Break, Stanford Law School students enrolled in international courses traveled to Chile, China, and France from March 21 through March 25, 2016. In Chile (pictured), students studied corporate transactions and how they differed from those in the US. In China , students focused on venture capitalism and venture capital law, and in Europe they had an immersive experience in anti-discrimination law.

Stanford’s Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team attended the finals for the first time on April 2, 2016.

CodeX FutureLaw brought dozens of lawyers, innovative entrepreneurs, and computer scientists to campus to discuss the future of legal technology and practice.

The Stanford Law Veterans Organization, Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill, and former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz attended the dedication ceremony for a memorial plaque commemorating Stanford Law School alumni killed in action during World War II on May 27, 2016.

More than 1,500 people gathered in Canfield Courtyard on June 11, 2016, for the Stanford Law School Class of 2016 graduation ceremony.

Stanford Law School hosted the Women in Law Hackathon June 23-24, 2016 to address the glass ceiling problem in law firms. Nine teams, each made up of leading partners from around the country and one Stanford Law School student, spent six months working on ideas to close the gender gap in law firms. On June 24, the teams came together on Stanford’s campus to pitch their ideas to each other and to a panel of prominent judges. Participants cast their votes with Ruth Bader Ginsbug-themed bills (pictured).