Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Iran: United States Bars Iranian Bank Accused of Weapons Role
- Elections In Latin America: Chavez Sworn In/Venezuela
Nation
- President Bush Speech On U.S. Strategy In Iraq
- Troop Increase and War Funding/Separation Of Powers
- U.S. Business/Corporate Governance
- Stock Options Backdating/Apple Inc. and Steve Jobs
- Stanford's Securities Class Action Report: 2006 Decrease In Law Suits
- Executive Compensation/CEO Pay
- U.S. Congress
- House Votes To Raise Minimum Wage
- Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court and circuit Courts
- Environment/Climate Change
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report: Human Influence On Climate
- Immigration Reform
- Detention/Terrorist Suspects and Gitmo
California
- Governor Orders Cuts To Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
- Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform
- Governor Budgets for Sentencing Commission
- Transfer of Inmates to Out-of-State Prisons
- Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform
- Parole Revocation/Back-end Sentencing
- SCOTUS - Cunningham v. California
World
Iran: United States Bars Iranian Bank Accused of Weapons Role
- 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
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Law and the Economy, Separation of Powers
Elections In Latin America: Chavez Sworn In/Venezuela
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Law and the Economy, Separation of Powers
Nation
President Bush Speech On U.S. Strategy In Iraq - Troop Increase & War Funding/Separation Of Powers
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Law and the Economy
- Jenny S. Martinez
- Associate Professor of Law
- jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.2749
- Expertise: Separation of Powers, Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
U.S. Business/Corporate Governance - Stock Options Backdating/Apple Inc. and Steve Jobs
- 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
- Michael Klausner
- Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law
- klausner@stanford.edu
- 650 723.6433
- Expertise: Banking and Financial Institutions, Business and Corporate Law, Law and Economics, Nonprofit Organizations
- Deborah L. Rhode
- Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
- rhode@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0319
- Expertise: Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility
U.S. Business/Corporate Governance - Stanford's Securities Class Action Report: 2006 Decrease In Law Suits
- 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
U.S. Business/Corporate Governance - Executive Compensation/CEO Pay
- Robert M. Daines
- Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
- daines@stanford.edu
- 650 736.2684
- Expertise: Business and Corporate Law, Law and Economics
U.S. Congress - House Votes To Raise Minimum Wage
- William B. Gould IV
- Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus
- wbgould@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2111
- Expertise: Labor Law
Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court and circuit Courts
Multiple experts available, depending on ruling/area of law. Please e-mail/call judith.romero@stanford.edu/650 723.2232 for best match.
Environment/Climate Change - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Report: Human Influence On Climate
- Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
- Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
- dsivas@stanford.edu
- 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
- megc@stanford.edu
- 650 723.4057
- Expertise: Coastal Law, Science, and Policy; Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Immigration Reform
- Jayashri Srikantiah
- Associate Professor of Law (Teaching), Director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- jsrikantiah@law.stanford.edu
- 650 724.2442
- Expertise: Immigration law, Civil Rights, Immigrants Rights
Detention/Terrorist Suspects and Gitmo
- Jenny S. Martinez
- Professor of Law
- jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.2749
- Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
California
Governor Orders Cuts To Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
- Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
- Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
- dsivas@stanford.edu
- 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
- megc@stanford.edu
- 650 723.4057
- Expertise: Coastal Law, Science, and Policy; Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform - Governor Budgets for Sentencing Commission
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform - Transfer of Inmates to Out-of-State Prisons
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform - 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
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform - Parole Revocation/ Back-end Sentencing
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Prisons and Criminal Sentencing Reform - SCOTUS - Cunningham v. California
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 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.
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. He co-directs the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.