June 2010 ISSUE

Stanford Lawyer Magazine

The latest issue of Stanford Lawyer is hot off the presses and in the mail, and also online. Read the magazine and weigh in with comments online, where you can watch and listen to Web exclusives. And we have some exciting news—Stanford Lawyer has received a Silver “Circle of Excellence Award” from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) as one of the best magazines published by a university. Go to the Editor's Notes to read more.

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Rock Center for Corporate Governance Launches New Website

Corporate governance has become one of the signature issues of our times—in the financial markets, in the boardroom, and in the courtroom. The Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, founded at Stanford University in 2006, provides an essential focal point for sustained empirical research on corporate governance—shaping much of the scholarship and public debate in this area today. Led by Robert Daines, Joseph Grundfest ’78 and Daniel Siciliano ’04 from Stanford Law School and David Larcker from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Rock Center provides an environment focused on innovation and collaboration, drawing on the world-class resources of Stanford University as well as leaders in the business world and members of the Rock Center advisory board including Patricia Dunn, Anastasia Kelly, Richard Koppes, Katherine Schipper, Derek Schrier ’97 (MBA ’98), Marshall Small ’51 (BA ’49), Frank Zarb, and Rock Center co-founders Arthur Rock and Toni Rembe. The Rock Center’s programs—and the leading researchers, legal practitioners, and business and policy experts they attract—create a forum in which key questions can be tested and explored. This new website showcases the center’s activity and research—offering up videos from events, relevant news, information on upcoming programs, research, and much more.

For more information visit the Rock Center website »

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7th Annual Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference

June 25, 2010

The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST), its Center for E-Commerce, and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) are continuing their efforts to bring to the fore issues relating to the many legal uncertainties that arise when doing business online. The conference will take place on June 25, 2010, at Stanford Law School. This year’s program will cover a wide array of current issues facing the e-commerce industry and will feature a roundtable of general counsels from leading e-commerce companies.

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Historic Lawsuit Challenges California’s Education Finance System

A historic lawsuit was filed May 20, 2010, against the State of California requesting that the current education finance system be declared unconstitutional and that the state be required to establish a school finance system that provides all students an equal opportunity to meet the academic goals set by the state.

Note: The Youth and Education Law Project (YELP) of the Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School is co-counsel with Bingham McCutchen, representing the individual plaintiffs, including the named plaintiff Maya Robles-Wong.

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Arguing Three Strikes

Excerpt from The New York Times Magazine piece by Emily Bazelon

One day last fall, Norman Williams sat drinking hot chocolate with his lawyer, Michael Romano, at a Peet’s coffee in Palo Alto, Calif. At an outdoor table, Williams began to talk about how he’d gone from serving a life sentence at Folsom State Prison to sitting there in the sun. “After being shut down for so many years. I didn’t believe it,” he said of the judge’s decision to release him in April 2009.

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Clinical Legal Education at Stanford

Learn more about the Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School.

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In Memoriam: Howard Williams

Howard Williams, a Stanford Law School professor and leading authority on oil and gas law, died on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 94 years old. Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, Emeritus, Williams had more than forty years of service on the Stanford Law School faculty and a long and distinguished career as one of the nation's leading experts in oil and gas law and the licensing and regulation of the use of other natural resources. A memorial service was held on Saturday, May 22, 2010, at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto.

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