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This Week's Experts – August 22, 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
  • Possible Power Transition in Cuba
  • Terrorist Arrests in U.K. & Germany
  • Saddam Hussein Trial
  • Ruling Regarding David Hicks, Gitmo

Nation

  • NSA's Surveillance Program
  • Stock Options Backdating
  • Transparency in Executive Compensation
  • Lie-Detection Technologies
  • New Restrictions on Tobacco Companies
  • Immigration
  • Gay Marriage

California

  • California Prison Reform


World

Mideast Conflict, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea & Iran, & Possible Power Transition in Cuba

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

Terrorist arrests in U.K. & Germany

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

Saddam Hussein Trial & Ruling Re David Hicks, Gitmo

Jenny S. Martinez
Assistant Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law


Nation

NSA's Surveillance Program

Alan B. Morrison
Senior Lecturer in Law
650 725.9648
Expertise: Separation-of-Powers, Administrative Law, Public Interest Law
Joe Edelheit Ross
Editor, Stanford Law Review (JD '07)
650 274.8688
Expertise: Intelligence Reform

Stock Options Backdating & Transparency in Executive Compensation

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

Lie-Detection Technologies

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

New Restrictions On Tobacco Companies

Robert L. Rabin
A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law
650 723.3073
Expertise: Regulation of Health and Safety Law

Immigration

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


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 is an affiliated faculty member with 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.

Alan B. Morrison

Morrison was the director of Public Citizen Litigation Group, the Washington, D.C.-based consumer rights advocacy group he cofounded with Ralph Nader in 1972, and an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is a member and past president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Robert L. Rabin

Rabin is an expert on torts and legislative compensation schemes. He is currently an advisor to the ongoing American Law Institute Restatement of Torts Third project, and has been the program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation, as well as a reporter for the American Law Institute Project on Compensation and Liability for Product and Process Injuries and the American Bar Association Action Commission to Improve the Tort Liability System.

Joe Edelheit Ross

Ross was editor of the "Stanford Law & Policy Review" issue on "Spies, Secrets and Security: The New Law of Intelligence" regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, domestic surveillance, and intelligence reform. Ross served as a speechwriter and consultant to the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and as a naval intelligence officer for eight years, ashore and at sea in the Middle East, the Korea Peninsula, and South America.

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.