Table of Contents
Fall ’20
Issue 103/Vol. 55/No. 1
From the Dean
Cover Story
Fighting COVID-19: Critical Legal and Policy Analysis Advance Solutions
Stanford health law experts are in the spotlight, answering key legal and policy questions.
Public Health Innovation Through a County-Stanford Partnership
Stanford’s RegLab and the Stanford Future Bay Initiative have teamed up with Santa Clara County for a wide-ranging collaboration aimed at helping the county leverage its resources and build out analytical capacity for its COVID response.
Legal Matters
The DOJ, Politics, and Law
Geoffrey Berman, JD ’84, former head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, in conversation with professors David Sklansky and Robert Weisberg, JD ’79
In Brief
Alumni and School News
Student Launches Nonprofit to Match Tutors with Students in Need
New Director, Legal Writing Program
In Focus
Dennis Woodside: Driving High-Tech Transformation at Impossible Foods
A profile of Dennis Woodside, JD ’95, president of alternative meat innovator Impossible Foods
Laura Juran: Teachers’ Advocate for a Changing World
A profile of Laura Juran, JD ’98, chief counsel at the California Teachers Association
Ivan Fong: From Homeland Security to 3M
A profile of Ivan Fong, JD ’87, general counsel at 3M Company
Clinic News
Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
A look at the work of students in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law
Scholarship
Lisa Ouellette Exploring Intellectual Property
Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, at the forefront of IP legal scholarship
New Faculty
Brian Fletcher
Julian Nyarko
Stanford Law School welcomes new faculty members Brian Fletcher and Julian Nyarko.
Point of View
Post-COVID Courts
Professor David Freeman Engstrom explores changes to U.S. courts and the legal system’s declining capacity to provide justice to Americans.
Perspectives
SLS Students Help Rewrite California’s Election Laws—Just in Time for the 2020 Election
An essay by Stanford Law students in the Every Vote Counts policy lab
Classmates
In Print
Alumni publications
Shaded Boxes
Alumni profiles
In Memoriam
Alumni obituaries