Table of Contents
Spring/Summer ’24
Issue 110/Vol. 58/No. 2
From the Dean
Cover Story
An Influence Far Beyond the Court
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, LLB ’52 (BA ’50), was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but her legacy cannot be confined to cases alone.
Legal Matters
International Law and Justice
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, JSM ’12, the former Chef de Cabinet to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, discusses his decades-long career at the forefront of international law.
In Brief
Alumni and School News
Nation’s Largest Trial Court Partners with SLS
Innovative Legal Ed Finance Model
New Associate Dean of Student Affairs
In Focus
Carol Lombardini
Carol Lombardini, JD ’79, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, discusses her career negotiating on behalf of Hollywood’s big production companies.
A Matter of Policy
Students and faculty in the Law and Policy Lab discuss their work tackling pressing policy questions.
Scholarship
Rethinking the War on Drugs
Professor George Fisher explores the facts and fallacies behind America’s great challenge
Thinking Our Way Through the Third Millennium
Professor Robert MacCoun looks to scientific reasoning.
Unkept Promises
Professor Jennifer Chacón (BA ‘94), explores the failures of immigration reform.
Clinic News
Getting to the Heart of Criminal Defense
Students and faculty discuss their work in the Criminal Defense Clinic.
Point of View
Brown: Success or Failure?
An essay by Professor Ralph Richard Banks (BA/MA ’87), on Brown v. BOE

Faculty News
Daniel Ho Receives AI Awards and Appointments Including AAAS
Rabia Belt and Shirin Sinnar Receive Awards from Faculty Women’s Forum
Colleen Honigsberg Wins Order of the Coif Award; Appointed to Accounting Oversight Board
Deborah Hensler Receives Litigation Award
Mark Lemley Receives IP Awards
Jenny Martinez Appointed Stanford Provost; Serving on New ABA Task Force for American Democracy
David Studdert Assumes New Vice Provost and Dean Role
Bernadette Meyler Chaired University Speech Committee
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette Appointed to National Academies of Sciences Committee
Greg Ablavsky Awarded Legal History Article of the Year Prize
Remembrance
Hon. Robert H. Piestewa Ames, JD ’54 (BA ’51), the first Native American graduate of Stanford Law School
Perspectives
The New Climate Policy
Ian Faucher, JD/MS ’24, on the COP28 conference, industrial strategy, and energy regulation
From Policy Lab to Policy Land
Katherine Viti, JD ’24, and Kyrylo Korol, JD ’25, on their research into legal enablers of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Last Word
Preventing Foreclosures in Detroit
A report on student pro bono trips
Classmates
In Print
Alumni publications
Shaded Boxes
Alumni profiles
In Memoriam
Alumni obituaries