In a New York Times article about Uber’s defense against thousands of sexual assault lawsuits, Stanford Law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom points to a troubling contradiction: The company marketed its service as a safe option for women traveling alone or after drinking, then invoked those same ...circumstances to question their credibility in court.

“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script,” Engstrom says. https://brnw.ch/21x4ODa

By day: Stanford Law student, journal editor, and federal judicial clerk.

Also by day: internationally ranked archer, two-time Guinness World Record holder, and the force behind a program bringing breast cancer survivors onto the archery range.

Meet Katherine P. Wu, JD ’28, ...Stanford’s “real-life Robin Hood.”
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Stanford Law School Professor Easha Anand has been elected to the American Law Institute, joining 27 other current or emeriti Stanford Law faculty members in the prestigious organization's mission to clarify, modernize, and improve American law.

As co-director of Stanford Law ...School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Anand has secured significant victories for employees, noncitizens, consumers, and civil rights plaintiffs before the nation's highest court. Her recent wins include representing a truck driver deceived into purchasing a federally controlled substance, a jeweler wrongfully jailed due to fabricated evidence, and a whistleblower who prevailed in a unanimous Supreme Court decision.

"ALI has played an extraordinary role in shaping American law by bringing together judges, practitioners, and scholars to work through difficult legal questions with rigor and care," Anand stated. "I'm honored to join that community, including many Stanford Law colleagues, and look forward to contributing to its work."

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