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ChatGPT Racial Bias

A new study by Professor Julian Nyarko looks at why large language models like ChatGPT treat Black- and White-sounding names differently.

New Faculty

Mila Sohoni will join the SLS faculty as a professor of law on June 1, 2024. Sohoni currently teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, legislation, and health law at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Solving the Water Crisis

Does the public sector need the private sector’s help to address the freshwater crisis? Professor Barton “Buzz” Thompson’s discusses his new book: Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis.

Advocating for Lower Drug Prices

Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic members discuss their recently submitted comment to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supporting the agency’s proposed framework interpreting the criteria necessary to exercise patent march-in rights under the Bayh-Dole Act. 

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Access

An essay for Stanford Lawyer magazine by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Deane F. Johnson Professor of Law and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Latest Episode of Stanford Legal Podcast: George Fisher

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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In Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders—from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and modern-day digital activists—Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes.

Join us in conversation about Jacob Mchangama’s book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media (Basic Books, 2022) with commentary by Julie Owono Assevini, Robert C. Post, and Eugene Volokh.

April 23, 2024
5:00 - 7:30 pm PDT 
SLS: Room 290

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Upcoming Events

April 5: Legal Histories of American Governance: Institutions and the State
April 7: LLM x Law Hackathon @Stanford #3
April 10: Beyond the Doctrine: Property
April 11: CodeX FutureLaw 2024
April 11: Chilean Constituent Process: Reasons for two unsuccessful constitution’s replacement attempts
April 11: Imagining the Indian: the Fight Against Native American Mascoting Film Screening and Q&A (Hybrid)
April 23: Publius Symposium with Jacob Mchangama - Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
April 27: Shaking the Foundations Conference
May 17-18: Presidents Beware: Investigations, Impeachment, Disqualification, and Prosecution
May 20: 2nd Annual Stanford Responsible Quantum Technology Conference

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