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.

Apparently, some people just can’t stay away. Robert W. Gordon, professor of law, is the latest member of an elite group of academics whose members, having spent time in the East, have seen the (sun)light and rejoined the Stanford Law School faculty.
Gordon began his academic career at SUNY Buffalo Law [...]

James Cavallaro prefers to be called Jim. “I hear ‘James’ with a stuffy British accent,” he says. And he’s anything but that. Born and raised in Flatbush, he was an out-of-place kid from Brooklyn at Harvard when he went there to study political science. 
“In the early 1980s a lot [...]

Dan Reicher’s career is something of a “how to” for aspiring environmental lawyers. He has spent 25 years immersed in energy and environmental issues, exploring policy, finance, law, and technology. He has broad government and policy experience, including serving in the Clinton administration at the Department of Energy (DOE) as [...]

Michael Asimow
UCLA School of Law
W. David Ball, JD ‘06
Santa Clara Law School
Nita Farahany
Vanderbilt Law School
Siegfried Fina
University of Vienna
School of Law
Edward J. Larson
Pepperdine University
School of Law
Robert MacCoun

UC Berkeley School of Law
Avishai Margalit

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Peter S. Menell (MA ‘82, PhD ‘86)

UC Berkeley School of Law
Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Instituto de Estudios
Superiores de Administración, [...]

Richard Thompson Ford (BA ’88), George E. Osborne Professor of Law, was awarded the Fletcher Fellowship, named for Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. As a member of the 2010-2011 class of fellows, Ford was [...]

The National Association of Corporate Directors recognized Joseph A. Grundfest ’78, W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, and F. Daniel Siciliano ’04, senior lecturer in law and associate dean for executive education and special programs, again in the 2010 “Directorship 100” list of the most influential people in the [...]

Mark A. Lemley (BA ’88), William H. Neukom Professor of Law, was selected as one of the 10 Most Admired Intellectual Property Lawyers by Law360 and as one of the Daily Journal’s Top 75 Intellectual Property Litigators in California for 2011. Noting his reputation as a walking encyclopedia of intellectual [...]

Stanford Law School granted tenure and full professorship to Alison D. Morantz, John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar. Previously an associate professor, Morantz is now a professor of law. She is also co-director and principal investigator of the Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative in the Martin Daniel Gould Center [...]