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  Stanford University School of Law
Stanford Law School established its Pro Bono Program in recognition of its responsibility to train and educate those entering the legal profession about their ethical responsibilities to serve the public and to create opportunities for its students to expand their legal skills and worldviews.
Law students are joined by faculty and staff, as well as Stanford students from other schools, friends and family members, to spend a morning in the area working on a variety of projects.
The Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation (SPILF) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt foundation established in 1978 by Stanford Law School students and alumni to provide funding for public interest law projects serving groups that have traditionally been denied adequate access to legal representation.
www.abanet.org /legalservices/probono/lawschools/107.html   (2416 words)

  
 Stanford University
Marshall Scholarships: Two current and two former Stanford students are among the 43 recipients nationwide of Marshall Scholarships.
Stanford World Arts Festival: Formerly known as the Holiday Craft Faire, the festival features unique artwork and holiday crafts, live performances and great food.
Stanford Report, the university's award-winning weekly, covers news about faculty, staff, research, events and campus life.
www.stanford.edu   (134 words)

  
 Stanford Law School | Admission and Application Information
Stanford's programs in international and comparative law, business and corporate law, intellectual property law, criminal law, tax law, public interest law, labor law, litigation, and mediation are all considered among the best in the nation.
Stanford pioneered the use of legal clinics in law education and continues to offer students many opportunities to practice their skills under the mentorship of experienced professionals.
Stanford Law is also unusual in allowing first-year students to take elective courses, in their second semester.
www.law-school-admission.com /Stanford   (406 words)

  
 The Stanford Daily Online Edition
Stanford law students would have to delay the start of their summer jobs by one to two weeks.
In addressing these problems, Kramer has worked to secure guarantees from the top 60 law firms that conduct on-campus interviews that Stanford law students would be able to spend the same amount of time as students from other law schools despite their late start date.
Marcus Cole, associate dean for curriculum at the Law School who strongly favors the calendar change, said it is essential to appreciate the benefits of the switch and to fully address students’ and faculty members’ concerns.
daily.stanford.edu /tempo?page=content&id=16011&repository=0001_article   (825 words)

  
 Proof for Stanford Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Vol. 7, No. 1
Trademark law seeks to promote, rather than hinder, truthful competition in markets for products sought by consumers; if a trademark is the product, then giving one party exclusive rights over it runs in tension with the law's pro-competitive goals, frequently without any deception-related justification.
Given these complexities, together with the economic interests at stake, one might expect that the law and practice of merchandising rights would be well-settled and reflect a considered balancing of the interests of trademark holders and their competitors.
It is a fundamental principle of patent law that the time at which we determine the meaning of claim terms varies depending on what legal rule is at issue.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/sample_issues/174572.html   (2234 words)

  
 Stanford University Law School (Stanford Law School) Admissions & Applications - Law School/JD Admissions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stanford is fortunate to have the luxury in knowing that every student they admit is of the highest academic caliber.
The law degree from Stanford Law School is rightly coveted and imparts automatic credibility with the major firms.
Finishing at Stanford Law with "average" grades has single-handedly opened the door for me to a Federal Appellate Clerkship and an associate position...
www.vault.com /lawschooladmissions/StanfordUniversityLawSchool.html   (557 words)

  
 Top Law Schools: Stanford Law School Profile
Financial aid for law students is available, but the one consistent complaint Stanford Law School students mention is their heavy debt load upon graduation.
In 2000, Stanford Law School founded the Center for Internet and Society, which examines the interrelationships between the Internet and our society and the many constitutional and public policy legal issues that are being raised by the Internet.
As a result, Stanford has built a solid reputation and course offerings in environmental law and is generally considered one of the five best law schools in environmental law.
www.top-law-schools.com /stanford-law-school.html   (1129 words)

  
 JURIST's Paper Chase - Law School News
Leading law school news of the past two weeks is a report from the New York Law Journal on the increasing adoption of business school methods of instruction, particularly the team-based case-study method, by law schools looking to better prepare their students for the changing marketplace.
The faculty at Vanderbilt University Law School is considering a proposal that would reserve spots on all three of the school's student-edited journals to be filled based solely on students' writing samples and not grades.
In other law school news, the North Grounds Softball League of the University of Virginia School of Law is finishing preparations for the 21st Annual Virginia Law Softball Invitational, to be held this weekend.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/lawschools   (7752 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
Ten years ago, Duke Law Professor Jamie Boyle suggested that the history of the environmental movement offered powerful theoretical and practical lessons to those who sought to recognize the importance of the public domain, and to expose the harms caused by a relentlessly maximalist program of intellectual property expansion.
On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of “cultural environmentalism” over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu   (1279 words)

  
 Sullivan to take reins at Stanford Law School
Sullivan is a popular professor at Stanford, and has continued to practice law while teaching, as well as providing commentary on television news and public affairs programming and in the pages of the New York Times.
An influential constitutional law scholar, Sullivan has published widely and is an active appellate litigator, arguing numerous cases in the federal and state courts and two in the Supreme Court.
After earning her law degree in 1981, she clerked for Judge James L. Oakes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law in Boston for two years before returning to teach at Harvard in 1984.
www.calbar.ca.gov /calbar/2cbj/99apr/page7-1.htm   (790 words)

  
 Stanford Law and Technology Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For nearly 20 years, the Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) has brought together students, faculty, researchers and practitioners interested in law and technology.
Stanford students can subscribe automatically by sending an email from their Stanford account to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the message "subscribe slata" in the e-mail body.
Members of the broader law and technology community can be manually added to the list by e-mailing ognen@stanford.edu.
slata.stanford.edu   (156 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society
CIS provides law students and the general public with educational resources and analyses of policy issues arising at the intersection of law, technology and the public interest.
Stanford Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig is the Founder and Director of the Center for Internet and Society.
Executive Director Jennifer S. Granick teaches the Stanford Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, in which bar certified law students provide legal representation to clients on matters involving computer technology and the public interest.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu /about   (443 words)

  
 NYU scholar Larry Kramer named dean of Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He moved to the University of Michigan Law School in 1991 and then to NYU in 1994.
Provost John Etchemendy, who co-chaired the search committee with law Professor Richard Craswell, said Kramer is a perfect fit for Stanford and noted that he adds to the law school's national eminence in the area of constitutional law.
"Stanford is probably unique in having an unbroken run of four constitutional scholars at the helm of its law school over the last generation," Etchemendy said.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2004/may19/dean-512.html   (491 words)

  
 Stanford Law School - Law Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Law Association is the representative organization of the Law School student body.
Law Association represents the interests of the Law School student body in general, and also assists in the orientation of entering students, supervises student elections and referenda, and serves as a special advisory council to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.
The Law Association also sponsors an active social program which includes the Law School formal and semi-formal, weekly bar reviews and happy hours, the "Battle of the Brains" competition, intramural sports events, and football game tailgates.
lawassociation.stanford.edu /home.html   (226 words)

  
 Two Research Projects at the Intersection of Law and Medicine - FSI Stanford
This seminar features two panelists from the Stanford Law School discussing "Two Research Projects at the Intersection of Law and Medicine." The event will be moderated by Hank Greeley, a Stanford law professor and CHP/PCOR associate, who is active with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
In 1998, she was appointed to the Sozialgericht, a social law court specializing in healthcare law, pensions, disability law, and public health issues.
Yael practiced law at Israel's leading law firm in the domain of intellectual property and technology, and is a co-author of a working paper on the legal ramifications of the September 11 attacks.
fsi.stanford.edu /events/3807   (563 words)

  
 FSI Stanford News - David Luban Speaks at AMINTAPHIL Conference at CDDRL/Stanford Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lawyers, philosophers, ethicists, and interested members of the Stanford student body attended a panel discussion in the Stanford Law School late on November 19 about Ethics, Law, and the International Fight Against Terrorism.
The event was jointly sponsored by Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford Law School, and Stanford Center on Ethics.
The keynote speaker was professor David Luban, Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center, and an internationally renowned ethicist and legal scholar.
fsi.stanford.edu /news/384   (181 words)

  
 UMKC School of Law / Faculty / Luppino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
UMKC School of Law / Faculty / Luppino
While in private practice with the Boston law firm of Herrick and Smith, Professor Luppino earned his LL.M. degree in taxation from Boston University, and in 1986 was the lead articles editor of the Boston University Journal of Tax Law.
He also taught Partnership Taxation as an Adjunct Professor at the UMKC Law School from 1994 through 2000 and has been a frequent speaker and draftsman of written materials on business law and taxation matters for continuing legal education and other professional seminars.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/Profiles/Luppino   (222 words)

  
 EServer TC Library: Stanford Technology Law Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
STLR was founded in January 1997 to take advantage of opportunities presented by developments in electronic publishing, Stanford Law School's strength in technology law, and students' interest in technology-related issues.
STLR is a Stanford Law School organization managed by law students-many with graduate school backgrounds in various technical, scientific, and social science fields.
Membership in STLR allows Stanford Law students with interests in technology the opportunity to work with noted scholars in their fields of interest, develop strong writing and editing skills, and gain experience with the latest in Internet technology.
tc.eserver.org /25278.html   (465 words)

  
 Allen S. Weiner, JD - CISAC
Allen Weiner is an associate professor of law (teaching) at the Stanford Law School, as well as the inaugural Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, a chair held jointly by FSI and the Stanford Law School.
His expertise is in the field of public international law and the foreign relations law of the United States.
His work focuses on the effect of positive international law rules on the conduct of foreign relations and other implications for the behavior of states, courts (both national and international), and other international actors.
cisac.stanford.edu /people/3156   (374 words)

  
 Stanford Business School: Advisory Council
Stein was born in New York City in October 1946 and received a BA in economics and mathematics from Colgate University in 1968.
At Stanford, he also served as a director of Stanford Management Company since 2000, a director of Stanford University Hospital since 1988, and served as chair of its finance committee from 1991 to 1993, and as a member of the Haas Center for Public Service National Advisory Board since 1992.
Stein is a member of the Stanford Humanities and Sciences Council, the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Advisory Council and has been a two-term member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors.
www.gsb.stanford.edu /advisorycouncil/stein.html   (426 words)

  
 Stanford Federalist Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
The Stanford Chapter provides a forum for discussion of these ideas at Stanford Law School, primarily through debates and lectures.
Organized in 1982, the Stanford Chapter is one of the founding chapters.
fed-soc.stanford.edu   (98 words)

  
 Proof for Stanford Law School, Law & Economics Vol. 7, No. 1
The assumption is that the law can affect the governance behavior of the board by establishing roles for outside directors and by motivating independent directors to do a good job.
The extent to which law can promote good governance in the boardroom, however, is quite limited.
This comment briefly outlines the limits of corporate law in promoting good corporate governance and in doing so helps clarify the gap that must be filled by nonlegal influences.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/sample_issues/164156.html   (1570 words)

  
 Stanford Law School Graduates Class of 2000: 5/00
Sullivan, the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, told the graduates that in a nation as vast, diverse and democratic as the United States, "we cannot depend on markets, morals or social custom alone" to structure human relationships.
The Law School graduation is held before the university commencement ceremony because it operates on a semester system that ends earlier than the quarter system.
Other speakers at Sunday's ceremony included Class of 2000 co-presidents Leah Dell Williams and Robert Richard Long IV, and law Professor Barbara H. Fried, the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar, who was elected by the graduating students to receive the 2000 John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2000/may17/lawschool-517.html   (310 words)

  
 SEC Speech: Remarks from Directors College at Stanford University Law School: June 20, 2004 (Chairman William H. ...
Given the rapid rate of growth in hedge funds, the size of their assets - about $800 billion and rapidly approach $1 trillion - and the involvement of some hedge fund managers in illegal behavior, the Commission staff is evaluating a form of registration and an oversight regime for hedge fund managers.
There is no desire to regulate how hedge funds make their investments, to require disclosure of their methods, or to choke off their expansion, as hedge funds have an important role to play in our equity markets.
This forum is helping to foster the important discussion on what should be done to strengthen the mores of corporate America and how to help our markets resume their primary role as an engine of prosperity -- for people in the United States, and throughout the world.
www.sec.gov /news/speech/spch062004whd.htm   (3754 words)

  
 Stanford names NYU professor as new law school dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Larry Kramer, a constitutional law scholar and dean at New York University, was hired Wednesday as the new dean of Stanford Law School.
He moved to the Michigan law school in 1991 and three years later to NYU, where he has been associate dean for research and academics since 2002.
Among the alumni of Stanford Law School are U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/12/state1827EDT0142.DTL   (368 words)

  
 Stanford Law Review
It is operated entirely by Stanford Law School students and is fully independent of faculty and administration review or supervision.
The principal missions of the Law Review are to contribute to legal scholarship by addressing important legal and social issues, and to educate and foster intellectual discourse at Stanford Law School.
Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which appears in six separate issues between November and May. Each issue contains material written by student members of the Law Review, other Stanford law students, and outside contributors, such as law professors, judges, and practicing lawyers.
lawreview.stanford.edu   (224 words)

  
 Gun Control: Old Problems, New Paradigms
The two-day conference is hosted by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, which is directed by Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg.
Sponsored by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School, and co-sponsored by the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at The Ohio State University.
The Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC) serves as Stanford's vehicle for promoting and coordinating the study of criminal law and the criminal justice system, including legal and interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, and preparation of law students for careers in criminal law.
events.stanford.edu /events/66/6626   (559 words)

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