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 [...]
Articles in ‘Legal Scholarship’
Karlan and McConnell Honored for Exemplary Legal Writing
June 11, 2012 | Issue 86Pamela 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 [...]
Petersilia Recognized for Lifetime Achievement in Criminology
June 11, 2012 | Issue 86Joan 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, [...]
IP Watson Award Goes to second SLS Student
June 11, 2012 | Issue 86James 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 [...]
Financial Crisis Data
October 28, 2011 | Issue 85The 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 [...]