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This Week's Experts – September 13, 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
  • Mexico's Elections

Nation

  • HP Inquiry
    • Pretexting
    • Corporate Governance
    • Technology & Privacy Issues
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Fires CEO
  • Glaxo-Smith-Kline Reaches Settlement with IRS
  • Gitmo
    • Bush Transfers 14 CIA Detainees to Gitmo
  • Administration Admits to CIA's Covert Prison System
  • Freelance Journalist Ordered to Turn Over Footage to Grand Jury
  • American Citizen Refused Entry Back Into U.S. from Pakistan
  • Immigration
  • Stock Options Backdating
  • Transparency in Executive Compensation
  • 9/11 Workers Lung Health Issues
  • Embryonic Stem Cells
  • NSA Surveillance Program
  • Gay Marriage

California

  • California's Global Warming Legislation
  • 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

Mexico's Elections

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


Nation

HP - Pretexting & Corporate Goverance

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
Michael Klausner
Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law
650 723.6433
Expertise: Corporations, Banking
Deborah L. Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
650 723.0319
Expertise: Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

HP - Technology & Privacy Issues

Lauren Gelman
Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society
650 724.3358
Expertise: New Technologies and the Law, Law, Technology and Privacy
Jennifer Stisa Granick
Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society and Lecturer in Law
650 724.0014
Expertise: Constitutional Rights, Electronic Surveillance

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Fires CEO

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

Glaxo-Smith-Kline Reaches Settlement With IRS

Joseph Bankman
Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business
650 725.3825
Expertise: Business and Corporate Law, Law and Economics, Taxation

Gitmo - 14 Detainees Transferred To Gitmo

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

Adminstration Admits To CIA's Covert Prison System

Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
Laura K. Donohue
Fellow at Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center & Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation
Expertise: National Security and Individual Rights; Counterterrorist Law in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey and Israel

Freelance Journalist Ordered To Turn Over Footage To Grand Jury

Derek Shaffer
Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center
202 441.2910
Expertise: Constitutional Law

American Citizen Refused Entry Back Into U.S. From Pakistan & Immigration

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

Embryonic Stem Cells & 9/11 Rescue Workers Lung Health Issues

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
650 723.2517
Expertise: Health Law, Genetics and Law, Biotechnology Law

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

NSA 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
Laura K. Donohue
Fellow at Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center & Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation
Expertise: National Security and Individual Rights; Counterterrorist Law in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey and Israel

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's Global Warming Legislation

Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
650 723.0325
Expertise: Environmental Law
Margaret "Meg" Caldwell
Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
650 723.4057
Expertise: Coastal Law, Science, and Policy; Environmental and Natural Resources Law

California Prison Reform

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


Bios

Joseph Bankman

A leading scholar in the field of tax law, Bankman is the author of two widely used casebooks on the subject. His writings on tax policy cover topics such as progressivity, consumption tax, and the role of tax in the structure of Silicon Valley start-ups. He has testified before Congress and other legislative bodies on tax compliance problems posed by the cash economy and worked with the State of California, coauthoring a bill that helps to simplify tax filing by giving low-income taxpayers the option of receiving a ReadyReturn—a completed tax return prepared by the state.

Margaret "Meg" Caldwell

Caldwell was selected as the chair of the California Coastal Commission, and also serves on the board of the California Coastal Conservancy and as a member of California Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force. She is an expert on the environmental effects of local land use decisions, the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, and developing private and public incentives for natural resource conservation. Caldwell holds a joint appointment as a Senior Lecturer with the Woods Institute for the Environment.

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.

Laura K. Donohue

Donohue took part in the closed roundtable discussion on National Security and Human Rights in Moscow, Russia, on June 29, 2006. 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."

Lauren Gelman

Gelman frequently writes and speaks about the interaction of new technologies and the law, represents clients in Internet litigation and advocacy matters, and consults with businesses on new technologies. Gelman holds an appointment as an Adjunct Lecturer in Stanford's School of Engineering; her research focuses on the legal implications of technologies that increase citizens' opportunity to participate online. Gelman previously served as the Public Policy Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and as the Associate Director of Public Policy for ACM, the largest association of computer scientists in the world.

Jennifer Stisa Granick

Executive Director of CIS, Jennifer Granick, was selected as a "Woman of Vision" by Information Security Magazine in 2003, recognizing the top 25 women in computer security. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Honeynet Project, which collects data on computer intrusions for the purposes of developing defensive tools and practices.

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 co-directs the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School.

Michael Klausner

Klausner, a leading scholar of corporate law and corporate governance, has conducted in-depth empirical studies of outside director liability and takeover defenses in firms at their initial public offering. He also has done theoretical work on the overall structure and function of corporate law, and his recent scholarship has focused on securities litigation, directors' and officers' liability insurance, and the liability risk of outside directors.

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.

Deborah L. Rhode

Rhode, one of the nation's leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and professional responsibility, is a prolific author of articles and books on the regulation and reform of the legal profession. She is the founding director of Stanford University's Center on Ethics and she has headed Stanford Law School's Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession. A former president of the Association of American Law Schools, Professor Rhode is also a regular columnist for the National Law Journal.

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, South Korea, and Latin 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.

Derek Shaffer

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.

Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas

Sivas has been the Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic since 1997 and serves as the President of the American Environmental Safety Institute. Sivas is a nationally recognized expert on environmental law and is well-versed on the laws governing California's coastal policy.

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.