Three Strikes Project: Beyond Individual Client Representation
The United States excels in many areas. But one unwelcome bragging right is its incarceration rate: the highest per capita in the world. California is particularly bad in this respect. Adding to...
View ArticleStanford Community Law Clinic
The Stanford Community Law Clinic is four miles from Stanford’s campus—just a short drive down Palo Alto’s University Avenue into neighboring East Palo Alto. But the distance seems much greater. At the...
View ArticleNew Faculty: Ronald C. Tyler
James A. Sonne, Ronald C. Tyler, and Shirin Sinnar, JD ’03 Ronald C. Tyler Director, Criminal Defense Clinic at Stanford Law School, Associate Professor of Law Ron Tyler has a catalog of memories of...
View ArticleImmigrants Behind Bars
Michael Kaufman, JD ’07 (BA ’03) Michael Kaufman first saw the grim limbo of a federal immigration detention center as a 1L summer intern with the American Civil Liberties Union. Detainees at the...
View ArticleJuelsgaard IP and Innovation Clinic Launched
Students at Stanford Law School have started enrolling in the new Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic of the Mills Legal Clinic, which begins this winter quarter—bringing the number...
View ArticlePhillip Malone
Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, Phillip Malone, and Bernadette Meyler, JD ’03 Phil Malone graduated from law school at an opportune time—right as the personal computer boom was building and the seeds of...
View ArticleReligious Liberty Clinic
When Jim Sonne became the inaugural director of Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic in the summer of 2012, he entered uncharted territory: No other law school in the nation has a clinic...
View ArticleCriminal Defense Clinic
The fight began, as so many do, in a local nightclub. Two men. Two knives. Two arrests for brandishing a non-firearm weapon. But if Stanford Law students Stephany Reaves, JD ’15, and Jonathan Frank,...
View ArticleThe Juelsgaard IP and Innovation Clinic
Imagine that you could pay your electric company a premium rate in return for better access to power than your neighbors. Such deals are illegal in the United States because federal law deems...
View ArticleStudents Help Clients Navigate the Social Security Maze
Illustration by Greg Clarke Because of an injury-related disability, “Ed” can’t do many of the things he used to do—like fix cars, walk more than a block, or stand in the DMV line. He has spent many...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....