Juan Guaidó or Nicolás Maduro: Who is the rightful president of Venezuela? In his recent op-ed for
@lawfareblog
, SLS Assistant Professor Diego Zambrano discusses why Guaidó is the country's de jure president.
“For someone who works on speech and law and tech, there is no better home than Stanford."
@evelyndouek
, an internet regulation law scholar, joins Stanford Law School’s faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law.
In response to today’s court judgement, Stephen McFarland, former US Ambassador to Guatemala said: “The Guatemalan Constitutional Court deserves considerable credit for this decision confirming that elected officials, including president-elect Bernardo Arevalo… (🧵1/3)
Professor Jenny S. Martinez (
@JMartinezSLS
), a scholar of international law and constitutional law who has been a member of the Stanford faculty for more than 15 years, has been named dean of Stanford Law School.
SLS Dean Jenny Martinez &
@persily
, along w/
@FSIStanford
's
@McFaul
, started the day for the Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm Symposium with an overview including the new collaboration with the law school. View all the events here:
If Huawei succeeds in overturning a law that prevents federal agencies from using the company's equipment, Trump's potential leverage in the U.S.-China trade war could dissipate. SLS professor Alan Sykes weighs in:
We are excited to announce that Elizabeth Reese (
@yunpovi
) will be joining our faculty on June 1 as an assistant professor of law. Welcome to
#StanfordLaw
!
Congratulations to Judge Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, JD '01, who was nominated for US District Court for the Central District of CA. Sykes would be the first-ever Native American and Navajo citizen to sit on the federal bench in the state of California.
President Biden has been unable to overturn many immigration rules enacted in the last four years, however, the use of executive orders shows his push to align his action with his rhetoric. SLS's Lucas Guttentag comments via
@politico
The Faculty Women’s Forum presented its 2023 awards at a ceremony this week with
@RabiaBelt
and
@ShirinSinnar
awarded for their outstanding work supporting women at Stanford through role modeling, allyship, leadership, and sponsorship.
In this explosive episode of Moderated Content,
@evelyndouek
and
@alexstamos
discuss the trust and safety implications of the AI text-generator ChatGPT, a legal challenge to a new online hate speech law in NY, and... The Twitter Files, of course.
The SLS Rule of Law Impact Lab filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of
@BMA_Abogados
before the Mexican Supreme Court in the pending lawsuit challenging legislation undermining the independence of Mexico’s highly-regarded Instituto Nacional Electoral.
must be sworn into office on January 14, 2024. Special recognition is also due to the authors of the petition to the Court,
@edgar_ortizgt
,
@Javi_Urizar
, and their colleagues, and all those who supported this significant step forward for the rule of law. (🧵2/3)
@edgar_ortizgt
@Javi_Urizar
But the Court, and all Guatemalans, should remain vigilant and guard against forces that seek to subvert democracy.” (🧵3/3)
Stanford Law professor Pam Karlan, one of the nation’s leading experts on political processes, will be testifying at the Trump impeachment hearing today:
Listen to SLS JSD candidate
@DorfmanDoron
discuss disability studies at Stanford and his research on the stereotypes of disabled people exaggerating their disabilities on the
@DisVisibility
#podcast
:
“Deborah was a pioneering woman on the Stanford faculty when she joined the law school in 1979. A beloved teacher and mentor to many...” says Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez on remembering Deborah L. Rhode.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case on union access to farmworkers, SLS's William Gould IV discusses the findings from the state board hearings held across California in 2016 with
@sfchronicle
:
“I’m not aware of another state that comes close to the environmental and human health protections that are embedded in the Montana State Constitution,” said SLS Professor Deborah Sivas for
@thenation
.
“I’m honored to succeed Jenny Martinez as dean and looking forward to the opportunity to serve in this role."
Prof. George Triantis, leading scholar in contracts & business law, has been appointed dean of SLS. He will assume his new position on June 17.
Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez states that the law school will not participate in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of best law schools.
Read full statement:
Stanford Lawyer Magazine, Issue 109, is now available! In this issue you can read about AI and the law, constructive conflicts, new faculty at SLS and more.
.
@stanfordlaw
Rule of Law Impact Lab,
@BMA_Abogados
, &
@The_Dialogue
concluyen que las propuestas de Reforma Constitucional de México dirigidas al poder judicial federal constituyen una amenaza a la independencia judicial y socavan la democracia en México.
"We should be prepared for the Court to change a lot about how the Internet functions," said the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center
@daphnehk
in an interview with
@NewYorker
.
Over the years, Stanford’s has become a focal point of Silicon Valley innovation. Now, SLS's
@margarethagan
is applying design thinking to issues of social justice and inequality in her class Design for Justice:
Flags across the
@Stanford
campus were lowered to half-staff in honor of Christopher "Tripp" Zanetis '17, an SLS law grad who died last week in a US military helicopter crash in Iraq.
SLS Assistant Professor
@evelyndouek
is the host of "Views on First," a podcast on social media and the First Amendment, which recently completed a season. Listen to the five episodes at the link below.
“Through my work in international and comparative law, I have seen how important law is to building societies where everyone is treated fairly and all kinds of human endeavors can flourish." - Appointed Dean of Stanford Law School, Jenny Martinez
#motivationmonday
“The [city courts] are coming to us to ask, what would be the court of the future and how can we help people coming through our doors?” says SLS
@LegalDesignLab
's
@margarethagan
on how design-thinking can help lawyers do a better job via
@FinancialTimes
SLS Rule of Law Impact Lab,
@BMA_Abogados
&
@The_Dialogue
conclude Mexico's Constitutional Reform proposals directed at federal judiciary constitute a threat to judicial independence, violate international legal standards, & undermine democracy in Mexico.
“When you make this individual choice to upload a genetic sample to a site, you’ve brought along everybody you’re directly related to... and presumably you have not asked any of those people for their consent.”
@StanfordCIS
's
@kingjen
via
@csmonitor
El Laboratorio de Impacto sobre el Estado de Derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de Stanford aboga por la rendición de cuentas del Fiscal General de Guatemala en un escrito en nombre del ex embajador de EE.UU. ante la Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala
In a recent perspective published by
@NEJM
, SLS student Alexandra Daniels, JD '21, analyzed a growing body of federal litigation brought by prisoners with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) who are seeking access to treatment for their condition.
"It's only legal to go into the Capitol buildings when and to the extent that they are open to the public," says Stanford Law's
@d_a_sklansky
via
@PolitiFact
:
In a new episode for Moderated Content,
@evelyndouek
talks to
@daphnehk
, the pod’s Supreme Court Correspondent, about the Supreme Court taking up two cert grants on platform liability & section 230, Gonzalez v. Google & Twitter v. Taamneh.
Listen here:
As an award winning journalist for
@NPR
,
@ailsachang
weaves her professional interests of law and journalism together. She is now the host of
@NPR
’s “All Things Considered”.
#AAPIHeritageMonth
In an opp-art for
@thenation
,
@margarethagan
, director of the
@LegalDesignLab
, and David Bernal, a fellow for the Legal Design Lab, look at the looming eviction crisis due to Covid-19.
Stanford Law's Robert Rabin discusses how Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell's consistent and unfounded claim of a stolen presidential election could result in one of America's largest libel case for
@YahooFinance
"The best way to counteract their prejudices may not be to defeat them or compel them to repent, but to nudge them away from their biases and toward their better selves," writes SLS's
@our_ford
in a new
@aminterest
article:
Could a lab-grown brain become a person? SLS Professor
@HankGreelyLSJU
states "A newborn can’t do a whole lot, but we definitely consider it conscious. If a disembodied brain could reach that level, wouldn’t that have to be a person?" via
@PopSci
:
Earlier this month,
@CodeXStanford
hosted
#FutureLaw2019
focusing on the way technology is changing the legal profession and the law itself. The conference presented a unique opportunity for legal tech innovators from around the world.
SLS's
@evelyndouek
joined
@karaswisher
on her podcast along with
@RosenJeffrey
and Professor Hany Farid to discuss Section 230 and if eliminating it will kill the internet:
Mila Sohoni will join the SLS faculty as a Professor of Law on June 1, 2024. Sohoni teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, legislation, and health law.
Could laws allowing police and family members to obtain a gun restraining order have prevented the Florida shooting? SLS's John Donohue believes it may have.
@Reuters
with
@TinaBellon
&
@JanNWolfe
:
Join us on April 7, 2022 for
@CodeXStanford
's
#FutureLaw2022
. This will be their tenth annual conference focusing on the way technology is changing the legal profession and the law itself, and the way these changes affect us all.
A New Mexico man charged with first-degree murder has asked for leniency due to having a genetic abnormality linked to violent outbursts, but does neuroscience have a place in the courtroom? Stanford Law's
@HankGreelyLSJU
weighs in:
Elizabeth Reese (
@yunpovi
) discusses experiencing culture shock as a child, navigating white academic spaces, and the importance of US Secretary of the
@Interior
@SecDebHaaland
in an article for
@Law360
Join SLS
@LegalDesignLab
and
@noraalhaider
along with
@virgilabloh
,
@HarvardGSD
and others for a session of the New Spaces of Justice workshop that addresses real-time challenges faced by the courts and its users tomorrow (Nov 11) at 1p ET. Register today:
“If context does not matter at all, you can give it to a machine. But, if context does matter... nobody has a piece of software that can replace humans.”-
@StanfordCIS
's
@daphnehk
on why teaching
#AI
to filter banned content isn't the solution advocates hoped for via
@TheAtlantic
SLS's Rule of Law Impact Lab &
@mediadefence
seized Human Rights Regional Court
@ecowas_cedeao
, on behalf of
@AFRICTIVISTES
& journalists, challenging the Senegalese govt's internet shutdowns in 2023 and seeking interim measures to prevent new shutdowns.
Stanford Law School buzzed with conversations and coding during
@CodeXStanford
's recent hackathon focusing on law and Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. The event is believed to be the first law + LLM hackathon.
This month the SLS Rule of Law Impact Lab &
@article19mex
submitted an international law amicus brief in the first case before the Mexican Supreme Court to address liability of internet intermediaries like Google for content posted online by third parties.
"
@mromano
is the founder and director of the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School, which seeks to amend or reverse the most unjust criminal sentences under the law. Since 2006, the effort has overturned 18 life sentences." More on his work below.
SLS's
@zacharykaufman
helped develop the Elie Wiesel Genocide & Atrocities Prevention Act, signed into law yesterday, while serving on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow:
Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom discusses the lawsuit filed recently in the Southern District of New York by
@upsolvebk
, against the State of New York. The suit alleges that New York’s unauthorized practice of law restrictions violate the First Amendment.
“Don’t get stuck in Groundhog day” says
@margarethagan
who suggests that services must be offered where the people are already going-such as legal services on
#socialmedia
platforms via
@lawsocgazette
.
.
@CodeXStanford
will host the ninth FutureLaw conference on April 8, focusing on how technology is changing the legal profession and the law itself. Roland Vogl, founding director of CodeX, discusses why you can’t miss the upcoming conference.
Stanford Law Professor and Director of the
@LegalDesignLab
,
@margarethagan
, discusses how teaching design thinking in more law schools can help identify new ways to improve the legal system via
@llmguide
Stanford Law's
@HankGreelyLSJU
discusses his book, CRISPR People, and the ethical questions surrounding gene editing with Stuart McNish via
@VancouverSun
Stanford Law School welcomes Easha Anand, Jud Campbell, and Robert Bartlett to the faculty, expanding the school's offerings in civil rights law, First Amendment scholarship, and corporate and securities law.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Stanford Law School in 2013 on
Constitution Day to deliver the lecture, “Some Highlights of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012-2013 Term.” Read remarks from former SLS dean, M. Liz Magill, followed by their Q&A together.
Today for
#VeteransDay
, SLS thanks and honors our veterans. Pictured are some of the veterans from our 1L class, from the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army and the ROK/US Combined Forces.
Today, we look back on Emeritus Professor of Law Miguel Méndez, a foremost expert and teacher in the field of evidence law. He was the first tenured Latino law professor at any major law school in the nation.
#SLS125
#tbt
Most people don’t understand how tracking really works and tech companies haven't helped inform customers.
@StanfordCIS
's
@kingjen
discusses how to change your phone settings so tech companies are not tracking your movements via
@Salon