Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Iran: Economic Sanctions & Pressure to Freeze Assets
- Germany May Prosecute CIA Operatives
Nation
- U.S. Congress
- Senate Move to Bloack President on Increasing Number of Soldiers in Iraq/Separation of Powers
- Minimum Wage Bill
- Creating Long Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act (House, Passed)
- White House
- President's Directive: Political Appointees to Supervise Rules & Policies on Agencies; includes Environment, Civil Rights, Privacy
- Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court & Circuit Courts
- Perjury & Obstruction Trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
- Supreme Court of the United States/Rulings
- Detention/Terrorist Suspects & GITMO
- U.S. Business/Corporate Governance
- Stock Options Backdating
- Executive Compensation/CEO Pay
California
- Proposed Legislation to Ban Spanking of Infants & Toddlers
- State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform
- Little Hoover Commission Report
- Proposed Sentencing Commission
- SCOTUS Ruling on California Sentencing - Cunningham v. California
- Prison Overcrowding
- Parole Revocation/Back-end Sentencing
World
Iran: Economic Sanctions & Pressure to Freeze Assets
- 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: Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Germany May Prosecute CIA Operatives
- 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
- 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: (former attaché to U.S. Department of State), International Law & the Response to Contemporary Security Threats, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Nation
U.S. Congress: Senate to Block President on Increasing Number of Soldiers in Iraq/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, Separation of Powers
- 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, Detention related to Terrorism/GITMO
U.S. Congress: Minimum Wage Bill (Senate)
- William B. Gould IV
- Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus
- wbgould@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2111
- Expertise: Labor Law
U.S. Congress: Creating Long Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act (House, Passed)
- Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
- Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
- dsivas@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0325
- Expertise: Environmental Law, Climate Change
White House: President's Directive - Political Appointees to Supervise Rules & Policies of Agencies; includes Environment, Civil Rights, Privacy
- 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
- Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
- Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
- dsivas@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0325
- Expertise: Environmental Law, Climate Change
Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court & Circuit Courts - Perjury & Obstruction Trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Federal Courts: U.S. Supreme Court & Circuit Courts - Supreme Court of the United States/Rulings
Multiple experts available, depending on ruling or area/law. Please e-mail/call judith.romero@stanford.edu / 650.723.2232 to match expert with ruling/opinion. Or use expert lists at: http://www.law.stanford.edu/news/
Detention/Terrorist Suspects & GITMO
- Jenny S. Martinez
- Associate Professor of Law
- jmartinez@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.2749
- Expertise: Argued Rumsfeld v. Padilla (alleged enemy combatant) in 2004, Civil Procedure and Litigation, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law
U.S. Business/Corporate Governance: Stock Options Backdating
- 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
California
Proposed Legislation to Ban Spanking of Infants & Toddlers
- William Koski
- Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education
- bkoski@stanford.edu
- 650 724.3718
- Expertise: Education Law, Children and the Law, Educational Politics, Policy Analysis
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform: Little Hoover Commission Report
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy, Member of California's Little Hoover Commission
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform: Proposed Sentencing Commission
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy, Member of California's Little Hoover Commission
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform: SCOTUS Ruling on California Sentencing - Cunningham v. California
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy, Member of California's Little Hoover Commission
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform: Prison Overcrowding
- Kara Dansky
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- kdansky@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5786
- Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing Policy, Member of California's Little Hoover Commission
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
State Prisons & 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, Member of California's Little Hoover Commission
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
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.
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.
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.
William Koski
Koski’s scholarly work focuses on the related issues of educational accountability, equity, and adequacy; the politics of educational policy reform; and judicial decision-making in educational policy reform litigation. An accomplished clinical teacher and litigator, he is also the founder and director of the law school's Youth and Education Law Project. Koski’s current research concentrates on the normative case for and policy implications of ensuring equality of educational opportunity in the current context of educational standards, adequacy, and accountability.
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 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.
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.