In recognition of her leadership in Emalahleni, South Africa’s “coal country,” Mabilo was selected as the 2026 winner of Stanford University’s Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability. Join us online on Monday, September 28 for a livestreamed panel discussion: ...Read morehttps://brnw.ch/21x5Juj

On the worst days, she said, the sky turns brown. The air, thick with emissions from the region’s coal-fired power plants and coal mines, burns the nose and throat. People struggle to breathe. The crisis became personal in 2008, when her young son began developing severe breathing problems and was later diagnosed with asthma.

That pushed Mabilo to mobilize neighbors and, in 2016, she established the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action, a community-based organization in Emalahleni focused on combating fossil fuel pollution and protecting the health of people living in one of South Africa’s most polluted areas.

Her work eventually carried her into one of South Africa’s most important environmental rights cases.

Stanford Law School will host its annual Constitution Day Lecture this week on Thursday Sept. 17 at 5 p.m., featuring Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin will examine how technological change affects constitutional governance, ...Read morecreating what he terms "constitutional rot"—the process by which a democratic republic becomes less democratic and less republican over time.

The event is free and open to the public:

Constitution Day Lecture: Technology and Constitutional Rot | Stanford Law School

Technological change affects the Constitution not only by creating new problems of constitutional interpretation, but also by changing the distributio

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Looking for a good book or two to start before the end of summer? It's not too late!

Take a look at the Stanford Law School Faculty Summer Reading List which offers up some of our professors’ favorite reads.
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