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This Week's Experts – January 2, 2007

Overview

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

World

  • Iraq
    • Hussein Execution
  • Nuclear proliferation: Iran and North Korea

Nation

  • Stanford's Securities Class Action Clearinghouse: 2006 Filings: A Year In Review
  • The New Congress
  • Gay Marriage
    • Massachusetts
  • New Jersey Panel Urges End to Death Penalty
  • Stock Options Backdating
    • Apple
  • Fair Use and Copyright Issues
  • Monitoring of Social Networking Websites
    • Stickam
  • BALCO Steroids/ Ninth Circuit Ruling Upholding Government's Seizure of Computer Records of MLB Player's Drug Tests

California

  • Prisons & Sentencing
    • Transfer of Inmates to Out-of-State Prisons
      • California Sentencing Reform
    • Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform

World

Iraq - Hussein Execution

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: 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
650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
Expertise: International Security, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights

Nation

Stanford's Securities Class Action Clearinghouse: 2006 Filings: A Year In Review

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

The New Congress

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

Gay Marriage - Massachusetts

Michael S. Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law Emeritus
650 723.0322
Expertise: Family law, Law and Social Change, Children and Public Policy

New Jersey Panel Urges End To Death Penalty

Lawrence C. Marshall
Professor of Law, David and Stephanie Mills Director of Clinical Education, and Associate Dean for Public Interest and Clinical Education
650 723.7572
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Civil Procedure and Litigation

Stock Option Backdating - Apple

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

Fair Use and Copyright Issues

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

Monitoring Of Social Networking Websites - Stickam

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

Balco Steroids/ Ninth Circuit Ruling Upholding Government's Seizure Of Computer Records Of MLB Player's Drug Tests

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

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


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.

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.

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.

Lawrence C. Marshall

A nationally renowned advocate for reform of the U.S. criminal justice system, much of Marshall's scholarly work has focused on issues surrounding the application of the death penalty. Marshall co-founded the world-renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions, for which he served as legal director and represented many wrongly convicted inmates, including a number of inmates who had at one time been sentenced to death.

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.