Gabriela Rios, CLB student fellow, LLM (expected 2025), authored a blog post, "Digital Diagnosis: Health Data Privacy in the U.S.," on the importance of understanding the landscape of health data privacy in a digital age.

"As technology advances and data becomes a more ...valuable commodity, the legal framework governing privacy rights and data protection in the U.S. has struggled to keep pace," Rios said. "Protecting health data must be foundational principle to sustaining patient trust and ensuring equitable access to care in an increasingly data driven world."

Read more here: https://stanford.io/4irfBEm

Congratulations to Northern California’s Karuk Tribe, which recently finalized a first-of-its-kind agreement with the state of California that allows them to conduct cultural burns under their own permitting program, an approach that could set a precedent for tribal land stewardship nationwide. ...Read more in the Los Angeles Times’ recent coverage: https://stanford.io/3QLlUXs

Stanford Law School’s Smoke Policy Practicum, offered as part of the “only at Stanford” Law and Policy Lab, played a key role in shaping these legal advancements, as did years of work by Stanford University’s Climate and Energy Policy Program. Together, over the course of years, students and instructors advanced legal protections for “good fire,” namely prescribed and cultural burning, which is not only an important land-management practice for tribes, but a critical tool for ecosystem health and wildfire resilience generally. It started in 2021 with Senate Bill 332, which gained legal recognition of cultural burners and cultural burning as a distinct activity under California law.

Now, with this new agreement, the Karuk Tribe can steward their ancestral lands without unnecessary state barriers. Law and policy in action!

China's DeepSeek has reignited discussions of open source, legal liability, geopolitical power shifts, privacy concerns, and more. Stanford Law School Professor and HAI Associate Director Julian Nyarko offers what DeepSeek means for the field of artificial intelligence and society at ...large.

"A key debate right now is who should be liable for harmful model behavior—the developers who build the models or the organizations that use them," Nyarko said. "In this context, DeepSeek’s new models, developed by a Chinese startup, highlight how the global nature of AI development could complicate regulatory responses, especially when different countries have distinct legal norms and cultural understandings."

Read more here: https://stanford.io/4bvjLZu

Zijing Yang (LLM expected 2025), student fellow, Center for Law and the Biosciences authored a blog post, "Drug Centralized Procurement in China: Concerns and Implications for Drug Quality and Access," on the reduction of commercial bribery high marketing costs in the drug sales industry ...in China.

"The primary goal of the Centralized Procurement is to reduce drug prices and ease the financial burden on the public for medical services," Yang said. "It operates through a 'volume-based pricing' mechanism, where the bidding price is tied to a predetermined purchase quantity."

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