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State Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting Mess
1+ day, 21+ min ago (162+ words) (Originally published by Bloomberg Law on June 23, 2026.) A first-year law student will sit in the library this November preparing for exams, after having ceded study time applying to [] (Originally published by Bloomberg Law on June 23, 2026.) A first-year law student will…...
For Stanford Law's Class of 2026, a Commencement Message of Community and Purpose
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (1250+ words) As the Stanford Law graduates enter a profession shaped by rapid technological change and renewed attention to the role of legal institutions in public life, they were encouraged to remain rooted in their communities and values. The class was composed…...
Stanford Law Gathers to Celebrate Mark Kelman's Extraordinary Career
1+ week, 5+ day ago (434+ words) I was thinking about the many challenges we face in the legal academy, and I think we could solve a lot of them if we could just figure out a way to clone Mark," Professor Amalia Kessler told a roomful…...
Stanford Law's Levin Center Honors Public Interest Leaders at Annual Awards Reception
3+ week, 14+ hour ago (282+ words) The event marked a record-breaking year for pro bono engagement at Stanford Law School The John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law honored Stanford Law School students, a faculty member, and an alumna at its…...
AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study
3+ week, 1+ day ago (392+ words) In a rigorous blind study, law professors overwhelmingly preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow law professors'and flagged the AI answers as potentially misleading or harmful far less often A groundbreaking study led by Stanford…...
The Stanford Law Friends Who Are Reimagining Higher Education
3+ week, 5+ day ago (509+ words) By the time they graduated from Stanford Law School in 2007, Joe E. Ross, Afam Onyema, Ari Simon, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett had formed a close bond. Ross and Onyema met in their 1 L section. Three of the four worked together on…...
Stanford Law School Launches Private Capital Initiative
4+ week, 9+ hour ago (179+ words) Scott James joins the law school to serve as executive director of the new program focused on private capital's growing role in innovation, markets, and corporate governance. Robert Bartlett, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and faculty co-director of the…...
Why Nothing Works: Fukuyama and Dunkelman on the Abundance Paradox
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (13+ words) Stanford Law School...
Report on Strengthening Civil Rights Enforcement in California Schools
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (250+ words) During the spring 2026 quarter, the Youth and Education Law Project (YELP) released a report titled "Strengthening Civil Rights Enforcement in California Schools: A Call for Sacramento to Fill the [] YELP and coalition member from Disability Rights California after meetings with…...
May the Torts be With You
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (932+ words) Left to right: Mark Lemley, Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese, and Nari Ely, JD "16 Stanford Law School marked May 4 with a law-meets-lightsabers panel discussion that could only happen when you bring together brilliant legal minds who also happen to be major "Star…...