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This Week's Experts – December 5, 2006

Overview

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

World

  • Iraq
    • UN Ambassador Bolton Steps Down
  • Nuclear proliferation: Iran
  • North Korean Nuclear Talks
  • Debate Over Russian Poison Suspects Extradition
  • Military Seizes Power in Fiji
  • U.S. Trade With China
  • Kashmir
  • Elections in Latin America
    • Venezuela
    • Mexico's Contested Presidential Election

Nation

  • Ninth Circuit Ruling in Doe v. Kamehameha
  • Electronic Voting Machines
  • Congress
    • Abortion
    • Offshore Oil Drilling
    • Paid Sick Days
  • NSA: The Stanford Constitutional Law Center Has Filed an Amicus Brief with the Sixth Circuit in ACLU v. NSA
  • Detention
    • Terrorists Suspects/Gitmo
    • Indefinite Detention of Immigrants
  • Corporate Governance
    • SEC's Investigation into Pequot Capital Management
  • Environmental/Climate Change
    • Greenhouse Gases
  • Fair Use & Copyright Issues
  • 9/11 Health Issues
  • 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

World

Iraq - UN Ambassador Bolton Steps Down

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

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: 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

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

Debate Over Extradition Of Russian Poison Suspects

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

Military Seizes Power In Fiji

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

U.S. Trade with china

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

Kashmir

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

Elections In Latin America - Venezuela & Mexico's Contested Presidential Election

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

Mexico's Contested Presidential Election

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

Nation

Ninth Circuit Ruling in Doe v. Kamehameha

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

Electronic Voting Machines

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

Congress - Abortion

Alan B. Morrison
Senior Lecturer in Law
650 725.9648
Expertise: Separation-of-Powers, Administrative Law, Public Interest Law
Deborah L. Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
650 723.0319
Expertise: Sex and the Law, Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility

Congress - Offshore Oil Drilling

Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
650 723.0325
Expertise: Environmental Law
Margaret "Meg" Caldwell
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program; Senior Lecturer, Stanford Institute for the Environment
650 723.4057
Expertise: Coastal Law, Science, and Policy; Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr.
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Director, Stanford Institute for the Environment
650 723.2518
Expertise: Natural Resources Law, Water Law, Environmental Law, Property

Congress - Paid Sick Days

William B. Gould IV
Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus
650 723.2111
Expertise: Labor Law

NSA: The Stanford Constitutional Law Center Has Filed An Amicus Brief with the Sixth Circuit in ACLU v. NSA

Derek Shaffer
Executive Director of Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center
202 441.2910
Expertise: Constitutional Law
Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean
650 725.9875
Expertise: Constitutional Law

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: Sec's Investigation Into Pequot Capital Management

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

Environment/Climate Change - Greenhouse Gases

Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
650 723.0325
Expertise: Environmental Law
Margaret "Meg" Caldwell
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program; Senior Lecturer, Stanford Institute for the Environment
650 723.4057
Expertise: Coastal Law, Science, and Policy; Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr.
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Director, Stanford Institute for the Environment
650 723.2518
Expertise: Natural Resources Law, Water Law, Environmental Law, Property

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

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


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.

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.

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.

William B. Gould IV

Gould served as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board under the Clinton Administration, has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970. He has arbitrated and mediated more than 200 labor disputes, including the 1992 and 1993 salary disputes between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee.

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.

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.

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.

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. Rhode is also a renowned scholar on the legal status of women and feminist approaches to jurisprudence, and has served as chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Women and the Profession, and director of Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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. He was the U.S. intelligence briefing officer for senior Republic of Korea military commanders and the U.S. Commander of U.S. Forces Korea in Seoul.

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.

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, Jr.

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.

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.