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Embracing Scientific Methods

A new book co-authored by Professor Robert MacCoun argues that we need to embrace scientific methods in order to advance “Third Millennium Thinking.”

States and Public Health Emergency Powers

Professor Michelle Mello and colleagues argue that state legal reforms have exacerbated rather than improved weaknesses in U.S. emergency powers revealed by COVID-19, jeopardizing future responses.

Constructive Conflict

This Stanford Lawyer magazine article highlights ePluribus, a law school initiative to promote discourse, open dialogue, and build skills to communicate across difference.

Challenging Senegal Internet Shutdowns

SLS’s Rule of Law Impact Lab and Media Defence filed a case on behalf of AfricTivistes and two Senegalese Journalists before the ECOWAS court challenging Senegal’s internet shutdowns, seeking measures to prevent future shutdowns.

Kirkwood Moot Court

Law students in this year's Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Competition competed before a hypothetical U.S. Supreme Court—including two judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Latest Episode of Stanford Legal Podcast

Stanford Law School welcomes back the classes of 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2023. We will also induct the class of 1969 into the Golden Gavel Society.

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More Than Just a Game (MTJG) is a unique series of academic-led conferences on Games and Interactive Entertainment Law. MTJG Stanford 2024 aims to bring together the interactive entertainment community, leading industry players and pioneers in the U.S. and build bridges through forward-looking and insightful discussions on pressing issues such as trust and safety, player protection, anti-trust/competition law, UGC, and generative AI and a keynote from Shawn Layden, the former head of Sony Interactive.

March 1, 2024
8:30 am - 5:00 pm PST, followed by a reception
Stanford Law School, Room 290
Organizer -  Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology

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Upcoming Events

February 28: First Time Publishing in Legal History
February 29: Judicial Review in Times of Emergency: From the Founding through the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 1: More than Just a Game
March 1: Interim measures in institutional arbitration versus ad hoc
March 5: Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Gabrielle Braxton
March 5: Race, Originalism, and Affirmative Action
March 8: Interim measures in institutional arbitration versus ad hoc (Webinar)
March 28: Silicon Valley IP Forum
April 23: Publius Symposium with Jacob Mchangama: Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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