Table of Contents
Fall ’12
Issue 87/Vol. 47/No. 1
From the Dean
Cover Story
Meet Liz Magill
Meet M. Elizabeth Magill, the new Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School. This profile explores her career and life—and the drive that led her from Virginia to California to lead one of the nation’s top law schools.
Feature
Farewell Larry Kramer
Now leading the Hewlett Foundation, former dean Larry Kramer is gone but not forgotten.
Legal Matters
Law and Public Service
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses her career in law and public service with her Counselor and Chief of Staff Cheryl D. Mills, JD ’90
In Brief
Alumni and School News
Jennifer Granick Appointed Director of New Civil Liberties Initiative at CIS
Julie A. Ahrens Appointed New Director of Copyright and Fair Use at CIS
Afghanistan Project Gets $7.2 Million Grant
Ford Foundation Grant to Fund Public Interest Fellowship Program
Legal History Treasures in Court Documents
In Focus
Rivkin and Moelis: Together in Public Service
For Bob Rivkin and Cindy Moelis, both JD ’87, public service is a central part of their careers and marriage. Big supporters of President Obama, who is also from their hometown of Chicago, they are relishing their time for him and making a difference.
Judge Vaughn R. Walker: Measured Justice
Former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco Vaughn R. Walker, JD ’70, reflects on his career in law and on key cases, including his decision in the landmark 2010 Proposition 8 Perry v. Brown.
Directors’ College Goes On The Road
Building on 18 successful years at Stanford, Directors’ College is expanding beyond campus to bring executive corporate governance education to Latin America, China, Australia, and New Zealand. And that’s just for starters.
The Internationals: Students from Around the Globe at Stanford Law School
Thomas Russo, JD/MBA ’84, and his wife, Georgina, are helping to foster social and extracurricular interaction among Stanford Law School’s JD and international advanced degree students with the launch of the Russo International Law Student Fund.
Clinic News
Investigating Workers’ Rights in Cambodia
Scholarship
Pamela S. Karlan and the Law of Democracy
Perspectives
Making a Difference in Afghanistan
An opinion piece by Ingrid Price, JD ’13
Point of View
The Sympathetic State:
Disaster Relief and
the Origins of the
American Welfare State
An excerpt from Michele Landis Dauber’s upcoming book
New Faculty
Profiles of Stanford Law School’s newest members of the faculty
Remembrance
Last Word
On The London Olympics
U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun, JD ’82, and two-time Olympic runner and Stanford coach PattiSue Plumer, JD ’89 (BS ’85), discuss the London games.
Classmates
In Print
Alumni publications
Shaded Boxes
Alumni profiles
In Memoriam
Alumni obituaries