More than 85 Stanford Law School students took advantage of the new S-Term, short for September-Term, a pilot program offered before the beginning of the regular school year. The S-Term allowed incoming second- and third-year students the opportunity to explore new areas of study and earn credit for no additional tuition during the window between the end of most summer jobs and the start of fall classes. It also offered them the chance to study with high-profile visiting lecturers who otherwise might not be able to teach a full course during the regular term.

S-Term students participated in one of five courses, all taught by “VIPs” Very Important Practitioners and Visiting International Professors, including Regulation of Global Financial Markets, co-taught by Jay Clayton, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sarah Payne, managing partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Palo Alto office and co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets Group and Technology M&A and Finance Group; The Business of Venture Capital, taught by Scott Kupor, JD ’96, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz; The Changing Media Landscape, Free Speech, and the Law, taught by Katharine Weymouth, JD ’92, former CEO and publisher of The Washington Post; Ukraine: The Promise and Perils of Legal Reform and Governance, in Wartime and Reconstruction, taught by Erik Jensen, director of SLS’s Rule of Law Program, and Michael Strauss, JD ’01, general counsel of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); and International Peace Negotiations, taught by Ameya Kilara, senior projects director at Inter Mediate, a London-based organization that provides strategic advice and negotiation support to heads of state and leaders of opposition groups attempting to reach political settlements. SL

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