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This Week's Experts – August 8, 2006



Overview

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

World

  • Mideast Conflict
  • Nuclear proliferation: North Korea & Iran
  • Mexico's Disputed Election Results

Nation

  • Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating
  • U.S. Immigration Hearings
  • Gay Marriage
  • U.S. Soldiers Charged in Iraq Rape, Murder Probe

California

  • California Prison Reform


World

Mideast Conflict & Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea, Iran & Libya

Allen S. Weiner
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching), Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, and Co-director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution
650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights

Mexico's Disputed Election Results

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: International Law and the Economy


Nation

Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating

Joseph A. Grundfest
W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
650 723.0458
Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital

U.S. Immigration Hearings

Jayashri Srikantiah
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching), Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
650 724.2442
Expertise: Immigration law, Civil Rights, Immigrants Rights

Gay Marriage

Jane Schacter
Professor of Law
650 724.9492
Expertise: Constitutional Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law
Michael S. Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law Emeritus
650 723.0322
Expertise: Family law, Law and Social Change, Children and Public Policy

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

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


California

California Prison Reform

Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
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.

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.

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 co-director 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.