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Native Americans & the Constitution

Professor Greg Ablavsky and Tanner Allread, JD '22/PhD '25, argue that Native Americans should be rightfully recognized as co-creators of the U.S. Constitution.

Data Management Needed for Climate-Smart Agriculture

Critical improvements in carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide measurement and monitoring protocols and data sharing are needed to realize the full potential of climate-smart agriculture, according to a new report from Stanford Law School.

OpenAI's GPT-4 Passes Bar Exam

CodeX and the legal tech company Casetext have deployed GPT-4, the latest generation of the Large Language Model, to take—and pass—the Uniform Bar Exam. Here, Casetext’s Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder Pablo Arredondo, JD ’05, who is a CodeX fellow, discusses what this breakthrough in AI means for the legal profession.

The Problem America Cannot Fix

In this Atlantic essay, Professor John Donohue argues that the public supports many sensible gun measures, but flaws in our democracy make us unable to adopt them.

SLS Faculty at the ALI

Professors Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Freeman Engstrom, and Pamela Karlan work on key projects with the American Law Institute.

TikTok Bans & The First Amendment:
A Constitutional Conversation with Evelyn Douek

*This event will be recorded and made available on the Stanford Constitutional Law YouTube Channel a few days after the event.

Last week, Montana became the first state to pass a bill banning the social media app TikTok, but this is just the latest law in a rapidly escalating trend of measures against the Chinese-owned platform. Only belatedly has there been much conversation about the First Amendment challenges such laws will face—which, unsurprisingly, will be many and significant! It would be an extraordinary move for an American government to outright ban a speech platform used by 150 million Americans, and much more attention should be paid to the ways it implicates First Amendment doctrine and values. This talk will explore those issues and what the First Amendment might have to say about state and possible federal bans of apps like TikTok.

Assistant Professor Evelyn Douek’s research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, Lawfare, The Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, amongst other publications. Being human, she naturally has a couple of podcasts, most relevantly Moderated Content, podcast content about content moderation that she moderates.

April 24, 2023
4:45 pm | Dinner to be served
5:00 – 6:00 pm | Lecture
SLS Room 180
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Upcoming Events

April 20: Ensuring Free and Fair Elections: A Comparative View of the Mexican Experience
April 24: TikTok Bans & The First Amendment: A Constitutional Conversation with Evelyn Douek
April 25: SCLH Law & History Workshop Presents: Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto School of Law)
May 2: What Does Originalism Have To Do With Civil Procedure? A Constitutional Conversation with Mila Sohoni
May 3: Book Talk — Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us with Evan Mandery
May 4: Book Talk — The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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