Law and Public Policy
Resources
Stanford University offers a wide array of academic centers and programs that concentrate on areas of law with important policy overlap—giving JD/MPP students unique access to a virtual public policy school on the Stanford campus. Stanford's many academic centers provide opportunities to pursue focused interests, attend conferences, meet visiting policy leaders, and get involved in the scholarship that shapes public policy across diverse disciplines. Academic programs of interest to JD/MPP students include:
- Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
- Center for E-Commerce
- Center for Internet and Society
- Center for Law and the Biosciences
- CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law
- Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program
- Gould Negotiation and Mediation Teaching Program
- John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law
- John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
- Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution
- Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
- Rule of Law Program
- Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
- Stanford Constitutional Law Center
- Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- Stanford Legal Clinic
- Stanford Program in International Law
- Stanford Program in Law, Economics & Business
- Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
- Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
For access to programs and centers at a glance, please visit www.law.stanford.edu/programs-and-centers.
Additional opportunities for hands-on experience blending law and public policy can be found through externships, in which they participate in real public policy research; special workshops; the Stanford Law and Policy Society, a student organization; and these publications: