Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Iraq
- Mideast
- Israeli Court Rules that Palestinians Can Sue Israeli Military for Damages
- Nuclear proliferation: Iran and North Korea
- U.S. Trade With China
Nation
- Corporate Governance
- Justice Department Revises Corporate-Charging Policy
- UCLA Data Breach
- VA's AG Proposes Legislation To Block Sex Offenders From Online Networking Sites
- Detention
- Terrorists Suspects/Gitmo
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
World
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
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Mideast - Israeli Court Rules That Palestinians Can Sue Israeli Military For Damages
- 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
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: North Korea and 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
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 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)
- joeross@stanford.edu
- 650 274.8688
- Expertise: Intelligence Reform
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
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Nation
Corporate Governance: Justice Department Revises Coporate-Charging Policy
- Joseph A. Grundfest
- W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
- grundfest@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0458
- Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital
UCLA Data Breach
- Lauren Gelman
- Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society
- gelman@stanford.edu
- 650 724.3358
- Expertise: New Technologies and the Law, Law, Technology and Privacy
VA'S AG Proposes Legislation To Block Sex Offenders From Online Networking Sites
- Lauren Gelman
- Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society
- gelman@stanford.edu
- 650 724.3358
- Expertise: New Technologies and the Law, Law, Technology and Privacy
Detention - Terrorist Suspects & Gitmo
- Jenny S. Martinez
- Associate Professor of Law
- jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.2749
- Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
California
Prisons & sentencing: Transfer Of Inmates To Out-Of-State Prisons
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
Prisons & Sentencing: California Sentencing Reform
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 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
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 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
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
Bios
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.