Michael Asimow
Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television

Co-hosted by Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association (SESLA)

"Playing a hard-driven, unscrupulous defense attorney-turned-prosecutor in Shark was a real eye-opener for me as an actor and, more importantly, as a citizen." — James Woods, actor

Liz Wiseman with Greg McKeown
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | video

Co-hosted by Stanford Intellectual Property Association (SIPA)

"As Lincoln famously put the question: How do leaders bring out 'the better angels of our nature'? Multipliers gets closer to answering this fundamental leadership question than anything I’ve read in years."
— Warren Bennis, Professor at the University of Southern California

Deborah L. Rhode
The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law | video

Co-hosted by Women of Stanford Law (WSL)

"This is a well-researched and thoughtful exploration of beauty ideals in legal, professional and other hard-hitting real-life spheres. A serious contribution to the literature of the politics of appearance."
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Gary Reback | video

Co-hosted by Stanford Intellectual Property Association (SIPA) and Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA)

A talk on "The Long Tale of Deceit, Collusion and Greed; Antitrust Analysis of the Google Book Settlement" given by Gary Reback, SLS '74, of counsel at Carr & Ferrell LLP, and co-founder of the Open Book Alliance.

Stephen Schultze

Co-hosted by Center for Internet & Society (CIS)

A talk on "RECAP the Law and the Movement to Free Government Records" given by Stephen Schultze, Associate Director at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.

Jonathan Zittrain

Co-hosted by Center for Internet & Society (CIS)

A talk on "Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet" given by Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It.

Helen M. Stacy
Human Rights for the 21st Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture

Co-hosted by Stanford International Human Rights Law Association (SIHRLA)

“This fundamental and timely book responds to the pressing need among international lawyers and human rights advocates for a stronger theoretical foundation to support international human rights law.”
— M.N.S. Sellers, University of Baltimore

Lawrence Lessig
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

Co-hosted by Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA)

“Remix is a wealth of interesting examples and theories on how and why digital technology and copyright law can promote professional and amateur art. As [Lessig] sees it, reforming copyright law is the only way to salvage it: 'We can't stop our kids from using the technologies we give them to remix the culture around them.'”
— M.J. Stephey, TIME

Richard Thompson Ford
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse

Co-hosted by Black Law Student Association (BLSA)

“Engagingly written and urgently argued, Ford's take on how identity politics in America have gone horribly wrong manages to be both provocative and fair.”
— Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Samantha Barbas, (SLS '10)
The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons

Lawrence M. Friedman Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy

Co-hosted by Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association (SESLA)

“Historian Barbas' thoroughly researched and footnoted biography of the powerful gossip columnist who virtually invented celebrity journalism asks to be taken seriously as a chronicle of American history at a pivotal time.”
— Publishers Weekly

Geoffrey King (SLS ’09)
Liberty Portrait Studio: Political Demonstrations, March 2003 to March 2008

Co-hosted by American Constitution Society (ACS)

An opening for an exhibit of photographs of political demonstrations taken by Geoffrey King between March 2003 and March 2008. This exhibit open in the Robert Crown Law Library, August–December 2008.

Paul Goldstein
A Patent Lie

Co-hosted by Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA)

“A Patent Lie, the new novel by Paul Goldstein, trumps John Grisham's work in every way.”
— Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered

Yifat Holzman-Gazit
Land Expropriation in Israel

“Dr. Holzman-Gazit's book is a dispassionate, insightful and illuminating exploration of the relationship between legal and political institutions and the power and non-power of courts to affect policy in the modern world.”
— Lawrence M. Friedman

Barbara Olshansky
Democracy Detained: Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror

“This important book portrays an administration dedicated to... dismantling the rights that were partially instituted by the Constitution and deepened and enriched through dedicated struggle ever since.”
— Noam Chomsky