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Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and the National Civil Justice Institute will co-host "Secrecy and Transparency in Civil Litigation," a symposium examining one of the most pressing challenges facing the modern civil justice system.
📅 ...Save the date: May 1–2, 2026
📋 Registration and program details: https://brnw.ch/21x20KU
The two-day conference, May 1–2, 2026, will convene federal and state judges, leading legal academics, prominent practitioners and investigative journalists to explore how confidentiality and public access shape litigation outcomes and public accountability.
Program Highlights:
• Keynote conversation with Gretchen Carlson.
• Discussions on transparency's role in public accountability, litigant outcomes and the rule of law.
• Perspectives from scholars, members of the judiciary and practitioners working on the front lines.
The symposium offers both in-person attendance and webstream access for remote participants.
Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell has been helping listeners nationwide think through some of the most consequential constitutional questions of the past and present.
On a recent episode of the podcast Religion in the American Experience, McConnell, the faculty director of the ...Stanford Constitutional Law Center and a former federal appeals court judge, explored the history of religious freedom in the United States. https://brnw.ch/21x1YH0
He also recently joined WBUR’s On Point to discuss executive overreach and the federal courts. Speaking about the Trump administration’s clashes with federal judges, McConnell said: “I don’t like listening to NPR programs where everyone says the same thing, but in this case I have to say the same thing. This situation is really intolerable.” https://brnw.ch/21x1YH1
(Click here or on the image above to listen to the episode.) Professor Michael McConnell discusses the history of religious freedom in the United Stat
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Why do prediction market liquidity providers thrive where insider trading is most severe? Using 41.6 million Kalshi trades, Stanford's Robert Bartlett and Cornell's Maureen O'Hara find that those who supply liquidity on Kalshi earn more on markets with the highest adverse selection, ...not less, as theory would predict.
The reason: optimistic retail bettors systematically overpay, creating a behavioral surplus that absorbs insider losses. The researchers argue this reveals a new microstructure equilibrium where liquidity provision is sustained by behavioral cross-subsidization rather than the bid-ask spread as in equity markets.
https://brnw.ch/21x1UhJ
Professor Emeritus Paul Goldstein has been teaching copyright law long enough to remember when the Copyright Act of 1976 was the “new act.” At a recent Stanford Law School conference marking the statute’s 50th anniversary, he used that milestone to ask what copyright should protect in the age... of AI.
Read more about the keynote from one of the country’s most influential copyright scholars: https://brnw.ch/21x1RWM