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 Legal Aggregates

Wednesday, Nov 9

Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project Represents The Andy Warhol Foundation in Amicus Brief Urging Federal Appeals Court to Provide Broader Protection for Appropriation Art

 

 Video and Podcast Vault

Friday, Nov 18

Preparing Students for Today’s Legal Profession

 

 The Cutting Edge

Friday, Dec 2

The Bill of Rights Doesn’t Come Cheap

 

I must say that i am proud to hear that there is someone that cares. I am a three striker and I have had many fights in the courts on this matter. I am blessed that there were a Remero motion to use.I HAVE BEEN OUT of jail sense [...]

- wilburt collins

 

“The fair use doctrine is the most important tool courts have to ensure that copyright does not choke the creativity it is supposed to foster,” said Anthony T. Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project and counsel for the foundation. “Artists should not have to hire a lawyer to make art, and we’re suggesting an approach that provides [...]

Judith Romero

 

Dean Larry Kramer discusses preparing students for today’s legal profession and changes to the Stanford Law curriculum including interdisciplinary education and the clinical program. Watch Dean Larry Kramer’s Interview

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The Following is an excerpt an op ed by Associate Professor of Law Jeffrey Fisher printed in The New York Times on Dec 2, 2011 ON Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Williams v. Illinois, the latest in a string of cases addressing whether the Sixth [...]

JEFFREY L. FISHER

 
     

From the Dean

By Larry Kramer

It takes a thick skin to be a legal educator these days, as anyone who reads newspapers or law blogs can attest. Law schools seem to have become everyone’s favorite whipping boy. I briefly questioned claims about the supposedly declining value of a JD in my recent state-of-the-school letter. A still more persistent criticism, however, has been that we’re not properly preparing students for practice, and I’d like to respond to that complaint as well. Many critics seem bothered by the fact that faculty do scholarship, as if that’s a waste of time and money. It’s a disturbing (not to mention misplaced) critique but only indirectly related to whether law schools provide an adequate education. It needs a reply, which I will offer in the next issue’s letter. Right now, I want to focus on professional education.

The most striking thing about the criticisms is that, so far as I can tell, the complaints come mostly from people who have little idea what law schools today actually do: people who assume that we still look like we did 20 or 30 years ago (when they were law students). We don’t. On the contrary, the professional education law students get today is far superior to the one I got in the early 1980s, which really did look like what the commentators are criticizing: three years of large Socratic classes with only an occasional academic seminar for relief. But law schools have been growing beyond that for years.

It is true that tenured and tenure-track faculty still teach a broad array of doctrinal classes in the traditional way. We do so because it remains as efficient and effective a method as anyone has found to teach the overarching theoretical structure of a field. Faculty also teach courses and seminars of a more academic nature, on everything from legal history to interpretive theory to the relationship of law to disciplines like economics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology.

News

Thursday, Jan 26

In 2012, Citigroup Proceedings Will Take Center Stage for SEC Enforcement

Professor Joseph A. Grundfest was quoted in the following article by Yin Wilczek of the Daily Report for Executives on the significance of the upcoming appeal by the Securities and Exchange Commissio. […]
Wednesday, Jan 25

Zeroing In On Romney's Tax Filings

Professor Joseph Bankman is quoted in the following article by Meta Gold and Tom Hamburger of the Herald-Tribune on the issues of income inequality highlighted by Mitt Romney's tax history. Republican. […]

SLSConnect

Friday, Jan 27

Six Stanford Law School Alumni Clerking at Supreme Court OT 2012

A big congrats to the six Stanford Law School alumni who will be clerking at the Supreme Court of the United States during the October Term 2012. Six clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court during a single T. […]
Tuesday, Jan 24

2012 STLR Symposium & 15th Anniversary Celebration on Friday, February 10, 2012

This year’s Symposium is co-sponsored by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and will examine First Amendment challenges in the Digital Age. The first panel will explore European and Americ. […]
Tuesday, Jan 24

TMRW (Wed, Jan 25) at 6:30 PM - Showing of "The Last 600 Meters"

Stanford Law Veterans Organization, marking the end of the Iraq War, presents: "The Last 600 Meters" The Last 600 Meters, a 90-minute documentary, looks at the two biggest battles of the Iraq war, Naj. […]

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