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This Week's Experts – July 11, 2006



Overview

Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:

World

  • Mumbai Train Bombings
  • Nuclear proliferation
    • North Korea
    • Iran
  • Saddam’s Defense’s Closing Arguments
  • G8 Summit

Nation

  • Geneva Protections Applied to Gitmo
  • Terrorism/bomb plots in NYC
  • U.S. Soldiers Charged in Iraq Rape, Murder Probe
  • Options Backdating
  • Raid on Congressman’s Office Ruled Legal
  • U.S. Immigration Hearings
  • Gay Marriage
  • Creation of Test-Tube Father

California

  • Governor Schwarzenegger’s Prison Reform Plan


World

Mumbai Train Bombings

Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
650 724.5892
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Human Rights
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
Expertise: Law and International Security, Federal and International Criminal Law

G8 Summit

Laura K. Donohue
Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation Fellow
Expertise: National Security and Individual Rights; Counterterrorist Law in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey and Israel
Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
Stanford Law School
650 724.5892
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Human Rights

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea & Iran

Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Law of War, Human Rights

Saddam’s Defense’s Closing Arguments

Jenny S. Martinez
Assistant Professor of Law
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
Stanford Law School
650 724.5892
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Human Rights


Nation

Geneva Protections Applied To Gitmo

Jenny S. Martinez
Assistant Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
Expertise: Law of War, Human Rights, International Law, International Security
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: Law and International Security, Federal and International Criminal Law

Terrorism/Bomb Plots In Nyc

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: Law and International Security, Federal and International Criminal Law

U.S. Soldiers Charged In Iraq Rape, Murder Probe

Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
Expertise: Law of War, Human Rights, International Law, International Security

Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating

Joseph A. Grundfest
W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
650 723.0458
Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital

Raid On Congressman’s Office Ruled Legal

Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

U.S. Immigration Hearings

Jayashri Srikantiah
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching)
650 724.2442
Expertise: Immigration law, Civil Rights

Gay Marriage

Michael S. Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
650 723.0322
Expertise: Family law, Law and Social Change, Children and Public Policy

Creation Of Test-Tube Father

Henry T. "Hank" Greely
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law
650 723.2517
Expertise: Health Law, Genetics and Law, Biotechnology Law


California

Governor Schwarzenegger’s Prison Reform Plan

Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.061
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure


Bios

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Cuéllar teaches at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation and served as senior advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Enforcement. He has published the leading academic paper on the operation of federal money laundering laws. Cuéllar is an expert on complex criminal, regulatory, and transnational problems, and the federal and international organizations responsible for managing them.

Laura K. Donohue

Donohue took part in the closed roundtable discussion on National Security and Human Rights in Moscow, Russia, on June 29, 2006, on the eve of the G8 Summit in Saint Petersburg hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, and the New Eurasia Foundation. Donohue was a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she served on the Executive Session for Domestic Preparedness and the International Security Program. In 2001, the Carnegie Corporation named her to its Scholars Program, funding the project "Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism."

Henry T. "Hank" Greely

Greely directs both the Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics’ Program on Stem Cells in Society, and chairs the steering committee for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and serves as an advisor on California, national, and international policy issues.

Joseph A. Grundfest

Grundfest, a former SEC Commissioner, is a nationally prominent expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. He has served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors as counsel and senior economist for legal and regulatory matters. Grundfest heads the award-winning Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse and codirects the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Jenny S. Martinez

Martinez argued the 2004 case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla in the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to clarify the constitutional protections available to post-9/11 "enemy combatants" who are U.S. citizens. Martinez performed the rare feat of a clerkship triple crown, clerking on a federal appellate court, the United States Supreme Court (with Justice Stephen Breyer), and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (with Judge Patricia Wald). Martinez’s scholarship makes the first major attempt to synthesize and analyze the important new phenomenon of an increasing number of international tribunals operating in a globalized environment, but without any supervening sovereign authority to which they are all bound.

Jayashri Srikantiah

Srikantiah directs the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School. She served as the associate legal director of the ACLU of Northern California and a staff attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Srikantiah has litigated extensively on behalf of immigrants, and her experience includes challenges to mandatory and indefinite detention policies in the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael S. Wald

Wald served as deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services, and senior advisor to the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a board member of Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Wald drafted the American Bar Association's Standards Related to Child Abuse and Neglect.

Allen S. Weiner

Weiner is the codirector of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Resolution. For more than a decade, he served at the United States Department of State, first as Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, and then as Attaché and Counselor for Legal Affairs in the United States Embassy in The Hague. He is an expert on international law and the response to the contemporary security threats of international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including in North Korea and Iran.

Robert Weisberg

Weisberg is director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. A frequent commentator and expert on white-collar crime, criminal law and procedure, sentencing, and criminal justice reform, he has served as a consulting attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the California Appellate Project, working on death penalty litigation in the federal courts. He is also versed in commercial law and secured transactions.