Faculty News

| Issue 87

New Faculty: James A. Sonne

James A. Sonne Director, Religious Liberty Clinic, Lecturer in Law James A. Sonne, the founding director of Stanford Law School’s new Religious Liberty Clinic, arrived this fall with an ambitious agenda: to create the nation’s only law school clinic devoted entirely to litigating issues of religious freedom. He comes well-equipped [...]

| Issue 87

New Faculty: Shirin Sinnar

Shirin Sinnar, JD ’03 Assistant Professor of Law Shirin Sinnar, JD ’03, didn’t have far to go when she was appointed assistant professor of law this spring and moved into the William H. Neukom Building. As a Stanford Law Fellow, her basement office in the law school’s administrative building had [...]

| Issue 87

New Faculty: Ronald C. Tyler

Meet James A. Sonne, Ronald C. Tyler, and Shirin Sinnar, JD ’03.

| Issue 86

Merryman Honored for 
Lifetime Achievement 


John Henry Merryman, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus, received the 2011 ARCA Award 
for Lifetime Achievement in 
Defense of Art. ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art, is an interdisciplinary research group focused on art crime and cultural property protection. A renowned [...]

| Issue 86

Babcock Named a 
Leader in Law 


Barbara Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, has been recognized by The Recorder as one of “20 Women Leaders in Law” in the Bay Area. The Recorder describes the 2011 honorees as “living legends” who have helped “blaze what was then a dimly lit trail.” Babcock is an [...]

| Issue 86

Rabin Receives Torts and Writing Awards


Robert L. Rabin, A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law, received the 2011 John G. Fleming Award in Torts from the Berkeley School of Law in October and delivered the inaugural Fleming Lecture, titled “A Brief History of Accident Law: Tort and the Administrative State.” The award is named for John [...]

| Issue 86

Karlan and McConnell Honored for 
Exemplary Legal Writing

Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, and Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, were selected by The Green Bag as 2011 honorees for “exemplary legal writing.” Karlan was awarded in the short articles category for “Constitutional Fidelity,” a section from [...]

| Issue 86

Petersilia Recognized for 
Lifetime Achievement in Criminology


Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, was awarded the 2011 Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award by the Division of Experimental Criminology at the American Society of Criminology. The award recognizes leadership in the “advancement of experimental methodology, experimental research, [...]

| Issue 86

Grundfest Appointed to New SEC Committee; Grundfest and Siciliano Named to NACD 
Directorship 100

Joseph A. Grundfest, JD ’78, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and senior faculty member of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, has been appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Investor Advisory Committee. Grundfest is a former commissioner of the SEC [...]

| Issue 85

George G. Triantis

It’s hard to imagine American life today functioning without contracts—those often unread agreements that are central to the smooth working of everything from daily credit card transactions to the purchase of a home. Yet how contracts are designed and how contract law is taught to law students have, until recently, not been subject to critical review and improvement. Shedding new light on this central area of law in everyday life is George G. Triantis, JSD ’89, who joined the faculty from Harvard this summer.