Stanford Law School Professor Easha Anand has been elected to the American Law Institute, joining 27 other current or emeriti Stanford Law faculty members in the prestigious organization's mission to clarify, modernize, and improve American law.

As co-director of Stanford Law ...School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Anand has secured significant victories for employees, noncitizens, consumers, and civil rights plaintiffs before the nation's highest court. Her recent wins include representing a truck driver deceived into purchasing a federally controlled substance, a jeweler wrongfully jailed due to fabricated evidence, and a whistleblower who prevailed in a unanimous Supreme Court decision.

"ALI has played an extraordinary role in shaping American law by bringing together judges, practitioners, and scholars to work through difficult legal questions with rigor and care," Anand stated. "I'm honored to join that community, including many Stanford Law colleagues, and look forward to contributing to its work."

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Claims that Black Americans were better off during the Jim Crow era have gained increasing attention in public commentary. In a new op-ed published in Project Syndicate, Stanford Law Professor John J. Donohue and Charlie Grabois, a predoctoral research fellow, examine what they say the data ...actually show.

The authors point to dramatic declines in Black poverty since the civil rights era and homicide rates that are lower today than during the Jim Crow period. They also consider how claims that are not supported by the evidence can move from marginal voices into broader public debate.

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