Professor Ralph Richard Banks discusses possible opportunities to think expansively and creatively about the aftermath of the June 2023 Supreme Court decision that struck down the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Montana is appealing a historic court ruling that found the state must consider greenhouse gas and climate impacts in its environmental reviews of projects. Here, Professors Buzz Thompson and Debbie Sivas weigh in on the impact of the case.
Drawing on hundreds of sources and decades worth of data, students in a Stanford Law School Law & Policy Lab published a report that covers more than a half-century of the African American experience in San Francisco.
Carlie Ware Horne, lecturer in law and supervising attorney in the SLS Criminal Defense Clinic, offers her thoughts on the 1L orientation—as inclusive, innovative, and empowering.
Although no longer a part of our constitutional discourse, natural rights were central to American rights jurisprudence for well over a century. Led by Professor Jud Campbell, this talk will explore how the Founders thought about natural rights–where natural rights came from, what role they played in the constitutional design, and who got to define and enforce them–and why understanding that history remains relevant today.