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This Week's Experts – January 17, 2007

Overview

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

World

  • Iraq
    • Troop Increase
    • War Funding
  • Nuclear Proliferation: Iran & North Korea
  • Former U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Faces Indictment
  • U.S. and South Korea Seek Free-Trade Deal
  • Britain Tries 6 in Bomb Plot
  • Possible Power Transition in Cuba

Nation

  • Fair Use & Copyright Issues
    • Apple, Cisco Battle over iPhone
  • Libby Trial
  • Potential Vioxx Class Action Suit
  • U.S. Supreme Court Okays IBM's Pension Plan
  • Balco Steroids/Fourth Amendment
  • The New Congress
  • Detention/Terrorist Suspects & Gitmo
  • Online Free Speech: Eli Lilly Case
  • Executive Compensation/CEO Pay
  • Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court & Circuit Courts

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
    • Appeals Court Throws Out Sentence of 'Millennium Bomber'
  • Ninth Circuit
    • Video Conferencing for Oral Arguments
    • California Energy Rates

World

Iraq: Troop Increase

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: International Law and the Economy, Separation of Powers
Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Separation of Powers, Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law

Iraq: War Funding

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: International Law and the Economy, Separation of Powers
Jenny S. Martinez
Associate Professor of Law
650 725.2749
Expertise: Separation of Powers, Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law

Nuclear Proliferation: Iran & North Korea

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

Former U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Faces Indictment

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Associate Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
650 723.9216
Expertise: International Law and the Economy, Separation of Powers
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. and South Korea Seek Free-Trade Deal

Alan O. Sykes
Professor of Law
650 723.0178
Expertise: International Trade

Britain Tries 6 in Bomb Plot

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

Possible Power Transition in Cuba

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

Nation

Fair Use & Copyright Issues - Apple, Cisco Battle over iPhone

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

Libby Trial

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

Potential Vioxx Class Action Suit

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

U.S. Supreme Court Okays IBM's Pension Plan

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

Balco Steroids/Fourth Amendment

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

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

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

Online Free Speech: Eli Lilly Case

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

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
650 736.2684
Expertise: Business and Corporate Law, Law and Economics

Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court & Circuit Courts

Multiple experts available, depending on ruling or area/law. Please e-mail/call judith.romero@stanford.edu / 650.723.2232 for best match.

California

Prisons & Sentencing: Transfer of Inmates to Out-of-State Prisons

Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

Prisons & Sentencing: California Sentencing Reform

Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
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
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

Prisons & Sentencing: Parole Revocation/Back-end Sentencing

Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

Prisons & Sentencing: Appeals Court Throws Out Sentence of 'Millennium Bomber'

Kara Dansky
Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
650 724.5786
Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
650 723.0612
Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure

Ninth Circuit: Video Conferencing for Oral Arguments

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

Ninth Circuit: California Energy Rates

Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
650 723.0325
Expertise: Environmental 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Alan O. Sykes

A leading expert on the application of economics to legal problems, Sykes has focused his research on international economic relations. His writing and teaching have encompassed international trade, torts, contracts, insurance, antitrust, and economic analysis of law. He has been a member of the executive committee and the board of the American Law and Economics Association, and currently serves as reporter for the American Law Institute Project on Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization. Sykes is associate editor of the Journal of International Economic Law, and a member of the board of editors of the World Trade Review.

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.