Law@Stanford

March 2010 ISSUE

Three Strikes: Out But Not Forgotten

Approximately 4,000 prisoners in California are serving life sentences under the state’s voter-approved initiative that mandates the stiff penalty for “three strikes.” Read about the work of students and attorneys in the Criminal Defense Clinic’s Three Strikes Project—and their successes as the only legal organization in the country devoted primarily to representing individuals facing life imprisonment for nonviolent offenses under California’s “three strikes” law.

Watch an interview with “3 strikes” clinic supervising attorney Galit Lipa »

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Stanford Tanner Lecture Series on Human Values

Stanford’s Center for Ethics in Society and the President’s Office will host this year’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held on April 14 and 15. Mark Danner, a journalist and professor who has written extensively about American foreign policy, torture and human rights violations and has focused on Abu Ghraib and other torture scandals since 9/11, will deliver two lectures: “Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and Us” and “Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End.” Both 90-minute talks will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Building 320, Room 105.

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Faith-Based Defiance

Excerpt from The New York Times Sunday Book Review by Professor Richard Thompson Ford (BA ’88)

In 1995, one million black men—give or take a couple of hundred thousand— gathered on the National Mall in Washington. The Million Man March bested the March on Washington of 1963 in turnout but otherwise fell far short of that historic benchmark. It was a rebellion without a cause, lacking any specific political agenda, and its organizer, the notorious demagogue Louis Farrakhan, was as repellent as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was inspiring. Perhaps worst of all, the Million Man March announced its chauvinism in its very name, deliberately excluding half the black community.

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Orange County Legal Matters

Saturday - March 6, 2010
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel Orchid Terrace
4500 MacArthur Boulevard
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Join Professor Lawrence Marshall, David and Stephanie Mills Director of Clinical Education, and Associate Dean for Public Interest and Clinical Education, for a private “Legal Matters” lunch at the Orchid Terrace before heading over to Stanford’s not-to-be-missed event: Leading Matters Orange County.

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