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This Week's Experts – October 3, 2006



Overview

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

LAW SCHOOL FACULTY INDUCTED INTO ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dean Larry Kramer and Professor Larry Lessig are being inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country's oldest honorary learned societies, October 7, 2006 in Boston, MA.

Supreme Court

  • Balance of the Court
  • Federalism, States Rights
  • Commerce
    • Interstate Commerce Clause
    • Torts, Punitive Damages
    • Patents, IP
  • Labor
  • Executive Powers
  • Statutory Interpretation
  • Individual Rights
  • First Amendment
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Death Penalty, Sentencing
  • Terrorism, Detention
  • Elections and Voting

World

  • Nuclear proliferation: North Korea & Iran

Nation

  • Rep. Foley's Resignation
  • Fastow Sentencing
  • American Citizens Allowed Entry Back Into U.S. from Pakistan
  • Immigration - Mexican Border Fence
  • HP Inquiry
    • Congressional Inquiry
    • Corporate Governance
    • Pretexting
    • Technology & Privacy Issues
  • Corporate Governance
  • Stock Options Backdating
  • NSA Surveillance Program
  • Gitmo

California

  • California's Global Warming Legislation
  • California Sentencing Reform
    • SCOTUS Case: Cunningham v. California
    • Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform


Supreme Court

Balance of the Court

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law
Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
Jeffrey L. Fisher
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching)
650 724.7081
Expertise: Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, The Supreme Court

Federalism, States Rights

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law

Commerce - Interstate Commerce Clause

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law

Commerce - Torts, Punitive Damages

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

Commerce - Patents, IP

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law
Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
650 723.4605
Expertise: Antitrust, Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks, Copyright), Technology and the Law

Labor

Alison D. Morantz
Assistant Professor of Law
650 725.5256
Expertise: Labor and Employment Law

Executive Powers

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law

Statutory Interpretation

Jane Schacter
Professor of Law
650 724.9492
Expertise: Constitutional Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law
Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law

Individual Rights

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law
Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
Deborah L. Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
650 723.0319
Expertise: Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility
Jane Schacter
Professor of Law
650 724.9492
Expertise: Constitutional Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law

First Amendment

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law

Criminal Procedure

Jeffrey L. Fisher
Associate Professor of Law (Teaching)
650 724.7081
Expertise: Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, The Supreme Court
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

Death Penalty, Sentencing

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

Terrorism, Detention

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

Elections and Voting

Derek Shaffer
Executive Director of Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center
202 441.2910
Expertise: Constitutional Law


World

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea & Iran

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


Nation

Rep. Foley's Resignation

Deborah L. Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
650 723.0319
Expertise: Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility

Fastow Sentencing

Michael Klausner
Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law
650 723.6433
Expertise: Corporations, Banking
Joseph A. Grundfest
W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
650 723.6433
Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital

American Citizens Allowed Entry Back Into U.S. From Pakistan & Immigrationz: Mexican Border Fence

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

HP Inquiry - Congressional Inquiry

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

HP Inquiry - Pretexting & Corporate Governance

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
Robert M. Daines
Pritzker Professor of Law and Business
650 736.2684
Expertise: Business and Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Law and Economics
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

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
Robert M. Daines
Pritzker Professor of Law and Business
650 736.2684
Expertise: Business and Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Law and Economics
Dan Siciliano
Executive Director, Program in Law, Economics and Business
650 725.9045

NSA Surveillance Program

Derek Shaffer
Executive Director of Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center
202 441.2910
Expertise: Constitutional 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
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

Gitmo

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


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 Sentencing Reform - SCOTUS Case: Cunningham v. California

Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy

California Sentencing Reform - Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform

Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy


Bios

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.

Robert M. Daines

An internationally recognized corporate law scholar, Daines is widely known for his rigorous statistical analysis of empirical data on the relationship between economic theory and corporate governance and contracting in practice. His recent work has focused on issues in corporate governance, such as CEO pay, mandatory disclosure regulations, and the use of classified boards of directors.

Kara Dansky

An internationally recognized corporate law scholar, Daines is widely known for his rigorous statistical analysis of empirical data on them relationship between economic theory and corporate governance and contracting in practice. His recent work has focused on issues in corporate governance, such as CEO pay, mandatory disclosure regulations, and the use of classified boards of directors.

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."

Jeffrey L. Fisher

A leading Supreme Court litigator and nationally recognized expert on criminal procedure, Fisher has argued several and worked on dozens of other cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. His successes include bringing and winning the landmark cases of Blakely v. Washington, in which the Court held the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to sentencing guidelines and Crawford v. Washington, in which he persuaded the Court to adopt a new approach to the Constitution's Confrontation Clause.

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.

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.

Mark A. Lemley

Lemley, a preeminent scholar of intellectual property law, has published over 70 articles and six books, and tried cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and federal district courts. His legal scholarship focuses on how the economics and technology of the Internet affect patent law, copyright law, and trademark law. Professor Lemley has testified numerous times before Congress and the California legislature on patent, trade secret, antitrust, and constitutional law matters.

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.

Alison D. Morantz

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.

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.

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

Shaffer specializes in complex litigation matters, particularly those involving governmental bodies and unsettled constitutional and statutory questions. He has variously served as lead counsel and lead associate in several high-profile trial and appellate matters, with clients that have included six states, and in tribunals that have included the United States Supreme Court, numerous United States Courts of Appeals and District Courts, state supreme courts, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Dan Siciliano

Siciliano is an expert on Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Practice, and serves on the Academic Council of Corporate Board Member magazine as an expert on these topics. He is a Truman Scholar who has worked with both public and private organizations including teaching and research at Stanford's Hoover Institute and macroeconomic policy analysis at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C.

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.

Kathleen M. Sullivan

An outstanding litigator who has argued multiple cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Kathleen M. Sullivan is a nationally prominent scholar and teacher of constitutional law. Her work focuses on both the practice and jurisprudence of constitutional law, and she has written articles on such diverse topics as: federalism, freedom of religion and speech, affirmative action, and constitutional theory. She is the author of the nation's leading casebook in constitutional law. On redistricting: Sullivan served as Vice Chair, National Commission on Federal Election Reform, 2001. On campaign finance reform: she testified before the United States Senate, Committee on Rules and Administration, Hearing on the Constitution and Campaign Finance Reform, 2000; and she served as co-counsel for Senator Mitch McConnell in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U.S. 93 (2003).

Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson

A leading expert in environmental and natural resources law and policy, Thompson has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. Thompson is chairman of the Natural Heritage Institute and a board member of the Resources Legacy Fund.

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.