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Critical Race Theory

Professor Ralph Richard Banks, co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, discusses critical race theory and why legislators and parents are trying to control what students learn about it.

Supreme Court under Scrutiny

Professor Bernadette Meyler joins an ABC News "Examined" discussion about how the current U.S. Supreme Court has become polarized.

Report on Legal Reform

Professor David Freeman Engstrom, co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, and Lucy Ricca, its director of policy and programs, discuss the center's new report on legal innovations in Utah and Arizona.

Dangers of Police Foot Pursuits

The Stanford Center for Racial Justice has begun publishing chapters of its comprehensive Model Use of Force Policy, which is intended to contribute to efforts to improve and reform policing and promote practices that will be fair, safe, and equitable.

Environmental Law Clinic Win

A California Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of Stanford Environmental Law Clinic client, Raptors Are The Solution, finding that the discovery of new scientific information on the rat poison diphacinone requires the state to conduct proper environmental analysis.
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Supreme Court Roundup and Preview

Join Lisa Blatt, Chair of Williams & Connolly’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice, Erin Murphy, partner at Clement & Murphy, and Pamela Karlan, co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, to review the most important Supreme Court cases of the past year and look ahead to the year to come.

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Upcoming Events

October 6: Medellín v. Texas and International Law in U.S. Courts – Who Decides?
October 6: Department of Health Policy Symposium: Advancing Health Equity
October 11: Meet CodeX
October 18: Debunking the Myth of the Ambulance Chaser
October 19: The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Ruling: A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Daphne Keller
October 20: Role of Faith in Business in Silicon Valley
October 24: Inflation Reduction Act and U.S. Climate Policy
October 24: Book Talk — Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment with Devon W. Carbado
October 25: Voluntary Carbon Markets Symposium
October 25: The Constitution in Jeopardy: The Future of Constitutional Amendment in the Twenty-first Century
October 27: Stanford Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability: Conservation in the Face of Poverty
October 28: Supreme Court Roundup and Preview

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