In Brief

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Julie A. Ahrens Appointed New Director of Copyright and Fair Use at CIS

Julie A. Ahrens was appointed the new director of copyright and fair use at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in June, taking over the reins of the Fair Use Project from Tony Falzone, who is now the deputy general counsel at Pinterest, Inc. Launched in 2006, [...]

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Legal History Treasures in Court Documents

Historical superior court records show us life in the past. Individually, they tell stories of business or personal relationships gone sour, probate divisions, all manner of property disputes, and family law decisions. When aggregated, they shine light on matters of legal heritage—like the defense of slaves against criminal prosecution or [...]

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Jennifer Granick
 Appointed Director of 
New Civil Liberties
 Initiative at CIS

Jennifer Stisa Granick returned to 
Stanford Law School in June to take up the new position at the Center
 for Internet and Society (CIS), director of civil liberties. Granick will lead the center’s work at the intersection of online technologies and civil liberties, focusing on cybersecurity, national security, government surveillance, [...]

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Afghanistan Project
 Gets $7.2 Million Grant


Stanford Law School’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP) has been awarded a $7.2 million U.S. Department of State grant through the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL/State) to support its partnership with the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in developing a five-year integrated Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree program at AUAF’s campus in Kabul.

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Ford Foundation Grant to Fund Public Interest Fellowship Program

Stanford Law School students interested in a career in public interest law will be getting some much welcomed aid thanks to a Ford Foundation grant. Administered by the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School, this new grant from Ford will [...]

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Stanford Law Review Online

In winter 2011, Jonathan Abel and James Freedman were elected to the student-run Stanford Law Review (SLR) board 
after proposing a compelling plan—to develop an online SLR with timely short-format essays that maintain law review-quality legal analysis.

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Stanford Law ACS Awarded Chapter of the Year

Stanford Law School’s American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) has been named the Chapter of the Year for 2011 by the national association. This news came just months after the Stanford Law chapter of the Federalist Society received similar recognition. The ACS chapter also received a Network Building [...]

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IP Watson Award Goes to second SLS Student


James Freedman, JD ’12, is the 2011 recipient of the Robert C. Watson Award from the American Intellectual 
Property Law Association (AIPLA) for his paper “Protecting State Secrets as Intellectual Property: A Strategy for Prosecuting WikiLeaks,” published in the Stanford Journal of International Law in March 2012. This honor comes [...]

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Dean Larry Kramer to Lead Hewlett Foundation

After eight years at the helm of Stanford Law School, Larry Kramer, Richard E. Lang professor of Law and Dean, will depart the university this September to assume the presidency of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Kramer replaces Paul Brest, professor of law, emeritus, and former dean of Stanford [...]

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Financial Crisis Data

The financial crisis of 2008 created a huge upheaval in world financial markets and U.S. households. It also created a lot of data—and an opportunity for Stanford Law School. The federal inquiry that followed the upheaval was undertaken by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), created to examine, as its [...]