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And that's a wrap! ☀️ This summer, hundreds of Stanford Law School Alumni, admits, and current students connected in person across 12 Summer Gatherings nationwide — with a fantastic turnout from our admitted and current students. Every year this gets better. Thank you to everyone who ...showed up! 🌟
Professor Emeritus William B. Gould has spent decades shaping labor law and civil rights. He taught generations of Stanford Law students, served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, and even helped bring an end to Major League Baseball’s historic strike in the mid-1990s.
...The Palo Alto Weekly recently took a thoughtful look at Gould’s extraordinary life and new memoir, “Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoirs of a Labor Lawyer.”
The Q&A with Professor Gould traces the family history that shaped him, his nearly five decades at Stanford Law, and a career that has moved from courtrooms and classrooms to Washington and the baseball diamond. Read more about “the hard work that makes history,” as the Weekly put it: https://brnw.ch/21x4Shu
Registration is open! If there’s one time to return to Stanford this year, make it October 16-17. Join classmates and faculty at Stanford Law School to reconnect, celebrate, and be inspired by some of the brightest minds in law. Come back to SLS. Check out the link in bio for more details.
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Fantastic line-up of programming includes:
🎓 Faculty Talks
⚖️ Lawyering Peace: Ending Wars Through Law and Justice
✨ Signature Classes Without Quizzes
🎉 Class gatherings for 1976, 2001, and 2021
🍽️ Class Dinners for 1971, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2006, 2011, and 2016
👧 Goldilocks Goes on Trial: A Mock Trial for Kids & Teens
🌍 International & Advanced Degree Alumni & Student Reception
🗳️ Professor Nathaniel Persily, JD ‘98: How to Panic Responsibly about the 2026 Election
🎪 Family-friendly Block Party
🎊 Class gatherings
How do red and blue states find common ground in the courtroom? A Stanford Legal podcast episode explores the surprising world of bipartisan state cooperation.
Professor Pam Karlan speaks with former state solicitors general Michael Mongan, JD '06 (BA '01), of California and ...Kevin Gallagher of Virginia about the growing influence of their former offices. Now both partners at WilmerHale, they discuss how states coordinate across jurisdictional and political boundaries when shared sovereign interests are at stake.
The conversation illuminates multistate litigation strategies, the evolution of state solicitor general roles, and how states can work together to shape cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Their insights reveal a nuanced legal landscape where cooperation often transcends the partisan divisions dominating headlines.
This episode offers valuable perspective for legal professionals, policy experts, and anyone interested in federalism and constitutional law.
Listen to the episode: https://brnw.ch/21x4Qq9