Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Mideast Conflict: UN Security Resolution 1559
- Nuclear proliferation: North Korea, Iran and Libya
- Mumbai Train Bombings
- Saddam Hussein Trail
- China Delays Verdict on NYT Researcher
Nation
- Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
- Abortion Bill Debate in Congress
- Gay Marriage
- U.S. Immigration Hearings
- Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating
World
Mideast Conflict – Un Security Resolution 1559 and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea, Iran and Libya
- Allen S. Weiner
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of war, Human Rights
Mumbai Train Bombings
- Allen S. Weiner
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
- Stanford Law School
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Human Rights
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: Law and International Security, Federal and International Criminal Law
Saddam Hussein Trial
- Jenny S. Martinez
- Assistant Professor of Law
- jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
- 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
- Stanford Law School
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892
- Expertise: Law of War, Human Rights, International Law, International Security
China Delays Verdict on NYT Researcher
- Allen S. Weiner
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
- Stanford Law School
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892
- Expertise: Law of War, Human Rights, International Law, International Security
Nation
- Allen S. Weiner
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching) and Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of war, Human Rights
Bush Vetoes stem Cell Bill
- Henry T. "Hank" Greely
- Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics, Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Center for Biomedical Ethics' Program on Stem Cells in Society
- hgreely@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2517
- Expertise: Health Law, Genetics and Law, Biotechnology Law
Abortion Debate in Congress and Gay Marriage
- Jane Schacter
- Professor of Law
- chacter@law.stanford.edu
- 650 724.9492
- Expertise: Constitutional Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law
- Michael S. Wald
- Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
- mwald@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0322
- Expertise: Family law, Law and Social Change, Children and Public Policy
Raid On Congressman’s Office Ruled Legal
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
U.S. Immigration Hearings
- Jayashri Srikantiah
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching)
- jsrikantiah@law.stanford.edu
- 650 724.2442
- Expertise: Immigration law, Civil Rights
Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating
- Joseph A. Grundfest
- W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
- grundfest@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0458
- Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital
- grundfest@stanford.edu
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.
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 Securities Class Action Clearinghouse and codirects the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School.
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.
Jane Schacter
An expert on both the constitutional implications and state-court rulings of gay marriage. Served as assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, clerked for Judge Raymond J. Pettine of the U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island; and was a litigation associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston. She is an expert in constitutional law, legislation, sexual orientation and the law, and civil procedure.
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, who is involved in the California cases regarding gay marriage, 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.