STEEL SEIZURE SCREENING ON CAMPUS AND
ON PBS
One of the Law School's featured Alumni Weekend 2002 presentations,
"Presidential Power in Times of Crisis: The Steel Seizure Case
Revisited," has been captured for television in a new production by
Stanford University and KTEH in association with KQED. Featuring
Chief Justice William Rehnquist '52 (AB '48, AM '48), Justice Sandra
Day O'Connor '52 (AB '50), and Professor of Law and President
Emeritus Gerhard Casper on the bench, and Charles Koob '69 and Karen
Stevenson '98 as the advocates, the program offers an unscripted,
unrehearsed retrial of the landmark case that examined the scope of
presidential power during national emergencies.
Alumni are invited to a reception and advance screening of the
program in the University's Cubberly Auditorium on Tuesday, February
4, 2003. (Reception at 6:30 p.m., screening at 7:30 p.m. $25 per
person. Cosponsored by the San Francisco and Silicon Valley Law
Societies. R.s.v.p. by January 31 to Courtney Ewing at
cewing@law.stanford.edu.) The program will air on KTEH (Channel 54,
cable Channel 10) at 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, 2003. This
production was made possible through a generous grant from The Folger
Levin & Kahn Philanthropic Fund.
ISLAM AND THE RULE OF LAW
This week the Law School and the Institute for International Studies
will introduce a new course that will explore the rule of law in
Islamic societies in the aftermath of September 11. Designed by Erik
Jensen, Codirector of the Law School's Rule of Law Program, the
course will include lectures open to the public and will feature such
topics as the historical development of Islamic law, gender and
Islamic law, and Islam and the rules of war.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/january8/islam-18.html
TREATIES, ENFORCEMENT, AND U.S. SOVEREIGNTY
On Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22, 2003, participants in the
Stanford Law Review's annual symposium will discuss U.S. involvement
in an international community increasingly characterized by a
proliferation of treaties, presenting perspectives from various areas
of law, including criminal, human and civil rights, and intellectual
property law, and the law governing national security. Yale law
professor and former Assistant Secretary of State Harold Hongju Koh
will deliver the keynote address.
http://www.law.stanford.edu/lawreview/symposium/index.html
SLS TO OFFER MEDIATION AND MEDIATION ADVOCACY TRAINING
This spring the Law School will launch a new 5-day, 40-hour program
for mediators and legal practitioners that will take a unique
approach to mediation training by focusing equally on the two roles
the lawyer might serve in mediation: the mediator and the lawyer
representing clients in mediation. (Monday through Friday, March 24
through 28, 2003)
http://www.law.stanford.edu/execed/programs/
REGISTRATION OPENS FOR 2003 PROGRAMS FOR DIRECTORS AND FIDUCIARIES
SLS Executive Education has opened registration for its annual
Fiduciary College (Sunday through Tuesday, April 27 through 29, 2003)
and Directors' College (Sunday through Tuesday, June 1 through 3,
2003), which this year will bring to campus luminaries such as
William Donaldson, who was recently nominated to the chairmanship of
the SEC; John Chambers, Cisco Systems President and CEO; and Phil
Angelides, California State Treasurer. Also on the docket for this
year are two Directors' Consortia (Wednesday through Friday, February
5 through 7, 2003, in Philadelphia; and Wednesday through Friday,
August 20 through 22, 2003, at Stanford).
http://fiduciarycollege.stanford.edu
http://directorscollege.stanford.edu
http://www.directorsconsortium.net
HON. BARBARA DURHAM '68, pioneering former chief justice of the
Supreme Court of the State of Washington, has died at age 60.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134605829_durham31m.html
APPROACHES TO PLEA BARGAINING
Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 12:30 p.m., Crown Quadrangle, Stanford Law School
Featuring retiring New Orleans DA Harry Connick, Sr., law professors
Ronald Wright (Wake Forest University) and Marc Miller (Emory
University), and Orleans Parish Judge Camille Buras in a discussion
of Miller and Wright's recent Stanford Law Review article, "The
Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff," 55 Stanford Law Review, 29 (2002).
Stanford Law Professor George Fisher, a former prosecutor who has a
forthcoming book on plea bargaining, will moderate.
http://www.law.stanford.edu/lawreview/lecture/lecture_55_1.html
SPECTRUM POLICY: PROPERTY OR COMMONS?
Saturday, March 1, 2003, Crown Quadrangle, Stanford Law School
Cosponsored with the Manhattan Institute
Featuring a debate about whether spectrum is "property" or "commons,"
with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, economist Harold Demsetz, and Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski hearing the arguments.
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/
STANFORD PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FOUNDATION: 11TH ANNUAL BID FOR JUSTICE
Saturday, March 1, 2003, 6:00 p.m., Crown Quadrangle, Stanford Law School
Silent and live auction to raise funding for public interest
organizations. For more information or to donate auction items, visit
http://www.law.stanford.edu/spilf/.
ALUMNI WEEKEND 2003
Thursday through Sunday, October 16 through 19, 2003
This newsletter was prepared by Stanford Law School Communications.