Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Myanmar
- Iraq Security Plan
- North Korea Nuclear Weapons
- Darfur
Nation
- Supreme Court
- Stoneridge Investment Partners V. Scientific-Atlanta
- Medellin V. Texas
- Torture Appeal Declined
- Guantanamo Detainees
- US Congress
- Wiretapping Bill
- No Child Left Behind
- War Funding
- Contractors in Iraq
- Children's Healthcase
- Farm Bill
- US Business
- UAW-Chrysler Talks
- Patent Reform
- Vonage/Sprint Patent Settlement
- Securities Fraud
- Stock Options Backdating
- Insider Trading
- Chinese Import Safety and Regulation
- Michael B. Mukasey Confirmation Hearing
California
- State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform
- California Sentencing Legislation
- Prison Funding
- Assembly Appropriations Report
- Proposed Sentencing Commission, Little Hoover Commission Report
- Prison Overcrowding
World
Myanmar
- Allen S. Weiner
- Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: Contemporary Security Threats, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Iraq Security Plan
- Allen S. Weiner
- Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: Contemporary Security Threats, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
North Korea Nuclear Weapons
- Allen S. Weiner
- Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: Contemporary Security Threats, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Darfur
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Criminal Law, International Security, Separation of Powers
Nation
Supreme Court: Stoneridge Investment Partners V. Scientific-Atlanta
- 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
Supreme Court: Medellin V. Texas
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Criminal Law, International Security, 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 / GTMO
- Allen S. Weiner
- Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution
- aweiner@stanford.edu
- 650 724.5892 or 650 724.4818
- Expertise: Contemporary Security Threats, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation, International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights
Supreme Court: Torture Appeal Declined
- 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 / GTMO
- Barbara Olshansky
- Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights
- bolshansky@law.stanford.edu
- 650 736.2312
- Expertise: International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Detention related to Terrorism / GTMO, Immigrants' Rights
Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees
- 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 / GTMO
- Barbara Olshansky
- Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights
- bolshansky@law.stanford.edu
- 650 736.2312
- Expertise: International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Detention related to Terrorism / GTMO, Immigrants' Rights
US Congress: Wiretapping Bill
- Derek Shaffer
- Executive Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center
- shaffer@stanford.edu
- 650 723.7739
- Expertise: Constitutional Law, Unsettled Constitutional and Statutory Questions, Complex Litigation
US Congress: No Child Left Behind
- William Koski
- Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education
- bkoski@stanford.edu
- 650 724.3718
- Expertise: Children and the Law, Education Law, Educational Politics, Policy Analysis
US Congress: War Funding
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Criminal Law, International Security, Separation of Powers
US Congress: Contractors in Iraq
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
- tcuellar@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: International Criminal Law, International Security, Separation of Powers
US Congress: Children's Healthcare
- Henry T. "Hank" Greely
- Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics
- hgreely@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2517
- Expertise: Biotechnology, Heath Law and Policy, Law and the Biosciences, The Food and Drug Administration
US Congress: Farm Bill
- Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr
- Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Director, Woods Institute for the Environment
- buzzt@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2518
- Expertise: Natural Resources Law, Water Law, Environmental Law, Property
- Woods Institute Farm Bill website
US Business: UAW-Chrysler Talks
- William B. Gould IV
- Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus
- wbgould@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2111
- Expertise: Comparative Law, Labor and Employment Law, Sports and Entertainment Law
US Business: Patent Reform
- Mark A. Lemley
- William H. Neukom Professor of Law
- mlemley@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.4605
- Expertise: Antitrust, Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks, Copyright), Technology and the Law
US Business: Vonage/Sprint Patent Settlement
- Mark A. Lemley
- William H. Neukom Professor of Law
- mlemley@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.4605
- Expertise: Antitrust, Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks, Copyright), Technology and the Law
US Business: Securities Fraud
- 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
US Business: 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
US Business: Insider Trading
- 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
US Business: Chinese Import Safety and Regulation
- Alan O. Sykes
- Professor of Law
- asykes@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.0178
- Expertise: Antitrust, Contracts, Insurance, International Law, International Trade, Law and Economics, Torts
Michael B. Mukasey Confirmation Hearing
- Deborah L. Rhode
- Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
- rhode@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0319
- Expertise: Antidiscrimination Law, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Sex and the Law
- Barbara Olshansky
- Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights
- bolshansky@law.stanford.edu
- 650 736.2312
- Expertise: International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Detention related to Terrorism / GTMO, Immigrants' Rights
California
State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform: California Sentencing Legislation
- 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 Funding
- 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: Assembly Appropriations 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, 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: 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
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. Recent projects address the role of criminal enforcement in managing transnational threats, the physical safety of refugee communities in the developing world, legislative and budgetary dynamics affecting the federal Department of Homeland Security, and the impact of bureaucratic structure on how institutions implement legal mandates.
Kara Dansky
Dansky is an expert on California sentencing policy and a member of the Little Hoover Commission Advisory Committee on Sentencing Reform. Previously, she was a staff attorney, with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a staff attorney for the Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons.
William B. Gould IV
A prolific scholar of labor and discrimination law, William B. Gould IV has been an influential voice on worker-management relations for over forty years and recently served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Professor Gould has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970 and 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. Professor Gould is the recipient of five honorary doctorates for his significant contributions in the fields of labor law and labor relations.
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.
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.
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. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2001, Koski was a lecturer in law at Stanford and a supervising attorney at the law school's East Palo Alto Community Law Project.
Mark A. Lemley
Widely recognized as a preeminent scholar of intellectual property law, Mark Lemley is a prolific writer, having published over 70 articles and six books, and an accomplished litigator, having tried cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and federal district courts. His major contributions to legal scholarship focus on how the economics and technology of the Internet affect patent law, copyright law, and trademark law. Professor Lemley has testified numerous times before Congress and the California legislature on patent, trade secret, antitrust, and constitutional law matters and currently serves as of counsel at Keker & Van Nest in their intellectual property and antitrust divisions.
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.
Barbara Olshansky
Known for her groundbreaking work on the 2004 Rasul v. Bush case, in which the Supreme Court of the United States overruled a lower court ruling and found that American courts have jurisdiction over claims brought by Guantanamo detainees who are foreign nationals, Olshansky is a leading voice in international human rights and humanitarian law. Prior to her appointment at Stanford Law, she led the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights and served as CCR's deputy legal director litigating civil and human rights cases and supervising new lawyers. She has also served as a union-side labor and plaintiff's employment discrimination lawyer and argued cases for the Environmental Defense Fund.
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. A former president of the Association of American Law Schools, Professor Rhode is also a regular columnist for the National Law Journal.
Derek Shaffer
Shaffer specializes in complex litigation matters, particularly those involving governmental bodies and unsettled constitutional and statutory questions. He has variously served as lead counsel and lead associate in several high-profile trial and appellate matters, with clients that have included six states, and in tribunals that have included the United States Supreme Court, numerous United States Courts of Appeals and District Courts, state supreme courts, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.
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.
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr.
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. He is the founding director of the law school's Environmental and Natural Resources Program, director of and a senior scholar at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior scholar at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. Thompson is chairman of the Natural Heritage Institute and a board member of the the Nature Conservancy of California, the American Farmland Trust, the Resources Legacy Fund, and the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation.
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.