April 2010 ISSUE
UPCOMING EVENT:
United We Stand, United We Fall?
 May 4, 2010 @ 6:00 p.m.
The Waldorf Astoria
301 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Join Stanford Law School in New York City for a timely discussion on the potential implications of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which struck down the federal campaign finance law that restricted corporate political ads.
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UPCOMING EVENT:
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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In Focus: Rethinking the First-year Curriculum
This year, Stanford Law School introduced significant changes to the
first-year curriculum. Read how the new 1L program is bolstering essential
skills such as legal research and writing.
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UPCOMING EVENT:
Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Auction
April 10, 2010 @
6:00 p.m.
Stanford Law School
Since its inception in 1993, SPILF’s Annual “Bid for Justice Auction” has been an important part of its fundraising activities and a valued event for the law school community. Organized entirely by students, the auction offers an exciting evening of competitive bidding. The affair includes a silent auction and a live auction emceed by Stanford Law professors.
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UPCOMING EVENT:
All-Star Media Panel
April 13, 2010 @
5:30 p.m.
The Washington Post
1150 15th St. NW
Washington, DC
The news industry is experiencing dramatic changes as it converts to the digital world. Audiences have grown to expect free content on the Web and are now getting their news by “grazing” multiple sources, including social media sites, and are even becoming citizen journalists by writing blogs and recording news through mobile phones. Find out how this shift is affecting the traditional industry from high-ranking Stanford graduates in the industry. Serving on the panel are Katharine Weymouth ’92, publisher of The Washington Post; Bob Cohn (BA ’85), editorial director of The Atlantic magazine online; and Ian Cameron (BA ’83), executive producer of ABC News’ This Week.
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