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This Week's Experts – November 21, 2006

Overview

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

World

  • Nations Sign Nuclear Reactor Agreement
  • Syria & Iraq Resume Diplomatic Relations
  • Israel's Supreme Court Recognizes Same-Sex Marriages Performed Abroad
  • Lopez Obrador Declares Himself Mexico's 'President'
  • Anti-Government Protests in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Iraq
  • North Korean Nuclear Talks
  • Nuclear proliferation: Iran
  • Madrid Train Bombing Trial

Nation

  • Judge Denies Christine Jennings' Request to Expedite Lawsuit Challenging Her Congressional Race
  • BALCO Steroids Case-Reporters' Prison Terms
  • Detention
    • Terrorists Suspects/Gitmo
    • Indefinite Detention of Immigrants
  • Corporate Governance
    • Stock Options Backdating
    • Transparency in Executive Compensation
    • HP
  • Fair Use & Copyright Issues
  • 9/11 Health Issues
  • Tobacco Cases
  • Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
  • Same-Sex Marriage
  • Immigration

California

  • Prisons & Sentencing
    • Transfer of Inmates to Out-of-State Prisons
      • California Sentencing Reform
    • Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform
    • Parole Revocation/Back-end Sentencing
    • SCOTUS - Cunningham v. California
  • CA Supreme Court Rules Bloggers Can't be Sued for Posting Defamatory Statements Made by Others
  • Stem Cell Research Effort Receives $181-Million

World

Nations Sign Nuclear Reactor Agreement

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

Syria & Iraq Resume Diplomatic Relations

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

Israel's Supreme Court Recognizes Same-Sex Marriages Peformed Abroad

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
650 723.0322
Expertise: Family law, Law and Social Change, Children and Public Policy

Lopez Obrador Declares Himself Mexico's President

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

Anti-government Protests in Oaxaca, Mexico

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

Iraq

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

North Korean Nuclear Talks

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
Joe Edelheit Ross
Stanford Law Review (JD '07)
650 274.8688
Expertise: Intelligence Reform

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

Madrid Train Bombing Trial

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

Nation

Judge Denies Christine Jennings' Request To Expedite Lawsuit Challenging Her Congressional Race

Derek Shaffer
Executive Director of Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center
202 441.2910
Expertise: Constitutional Law
David Levine
Residential Fellow, Center for Internet and Society
650 725.9451
Expertise: Electronic Voting Machines, Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property Law

BALCO Steroids Case-Reporters' Prison Terms

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

Detention: Terrorist Suspects & Gitmo

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

Detention: Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

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

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
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

Corporate Governance: 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

Corporate Governance: HP

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

Fair Use & Copyright Issues

Anthony Falzone
Executive Director, Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project
650 736.9050
Expertise: Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, Patents

9/11 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

Tobacco Cases

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

Western Hemisphere Initiative

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

Same-Sex 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

Immigration

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

California

Prisons & sentencing: Transfer Of Inmates To Out-Of-State Prisons

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

Prisons & Sentencing: California Sentencing Reform

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

Prisons & sentencing: 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

Prisons & sentencing: Parole Revocation/ Back-end Sentencing

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

Prisons & sentencing: SCOTUS - Cunningham v. California

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

CA Supreme Court Rules Bloggers Can't Be Sued For Posting Defamatory Statements Made By Others

Jennifer Stisa Granick
Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society and Lecturer in Law
650 724.0014
Expertise: Constitutional Rights, Electronic Surveillance
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

Stem Cell Research Effort Receives $181-Million

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


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.

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.

Anthony Falzone

Falzone, an intellectual property litigator with more than eight years of experience, has represented technology and media clients in a wide array of intellectual property disputes including copyright, trademark, rights of publicity, and patent matters. Prior to joining Stanford Law School, he was as a partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen LLP.

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.

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.

David Levine

Levine is an expert in the use of electronic voting machines, copyright, fair use, intellectual property law and the impact of copyright law in the arts. Levine has been published in the New York State Bar Association's Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal and the Holy Cross Journal of Law and Public Policy. The Florida Law Review will soon publish Levine's paper, "Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure," which discusses the impact of trade secrecy protection on public infrastructure projects conducted by private entities. Levine has worked on a variety of cases in the intellectual property and technology litigation fields. Most recently, Levine was an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department, Office of the Corporation Counsel.

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.

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.

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.