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Jonathan Margolick is all about community—finding it and living fully in it. And he thinks that his classmates at Stanford Law School make this very small community a most amazing one.
“I don’t know how the school chooses students, but it’s clear to me that they look for the people with the most interesting life experiences,” says Margolick, JD ’13. “And I’m grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of this group.”
It was a busy day for Justice Carlos R. Moreno, and his schedule was packed with meetings. But instead of tending to business on California’s Supreme Court, as he had for the last decade serving as an associate justice, he was interviewing students at Stanford Law School for summer firm positions. The interviews were going well. “The students were overwhelmingly smart, poised, accomplished, and interested in broader issues outside the practice of law—and socially conscious,” says Moreno, JD ’75…
The photos flashing on the screen required little explanation, though Michael Bien offered it anyway to students assembled this October for their third meeting of the fall quarter‘s Advanced Seminar on Criminal Law & Public Policy: A Research Practicum.
Benjamin C. Duniway served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for 25 years, earning the reputation as a judicial heavyweight. According to William A. Norris, JD ’54, who served with Duniway, “he was a judge of outstanding ability, exemplary fairness, and complete integrity.”
In this profile, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe ’89 (MA ’89) shares her insights on international human rights, democratic movements in the Middle East, the challenges of working in the United Nations, her path to a career as an ambassador, and more.
This article accompanies the “In Focus” story “Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe.”
This year’s flowering of democratic movements in the Middle East has been fraught with hope and danger. While most visitors to these countries fled when the mass demonstrations began—certainly when the guns came out—that was when Peter Bouckaert ’97, Human [...]
The legal profession is undergoing an enormous transformation, with the development of mega-firms, globalization, changing client demands, the Internet and resulting communications and technology innovations. Lawyers practicing at firms know that the profession has been changing dramatically, particularly over the last three decades. Yet academics who study the legal profession [...]
Founded in 2007 as a student-driven initiative, the Afghanistan Legal Education Project at Stanford Law School (ALEP) develops innovative legal curricula to help Afghanistan’s universities train the next generation of lawyers and leaders. In this profile, the group’s student co-directors, Rose Ehler and Daniel Lewis, and Stanford Law School Lecturer and Rule of Law Project Co-Director Erik Jenkens discuss the project’s progress, the group’s recent trip to Kabul, their collaboration with the American University of Afghanistan, and their plans for the future.
This article accompanies the “In Focus” story “Legal Education in Afghanistan.”
Over the course of four short years three innovative rule of law projects have launched at Stanford Law School and have become the centerpiece of its Rule of Law Program—with each project offering students the opportunity to engage in the legal [...]
JSD students at Stanford Law School have, for a long time, operated in a somewhat parallel universe. After they completed their one-year JSM-SPILS program, they became largely anonymous to the JD, JSM, and LLM candidates who occupy the physical campus and whose lives rarely intersect with this globe-trotting group.