Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
World
- Darfur
- Turkey-Iraq Border Tensions
- US-Turkey Relations
- Iran's Nuclear Program
Nation
- Iraq
- Contractors in Iraq
- Military Funding
- Greenhouse Gases-Accelerated Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- Home Mortgage Crisis
- American Antimissile System
- Mukasey Hearing
- Mistrial in Islamic Charity Terrorism Financing
- Guantanamo Detainees
- Jena 6 Hearing
- Amgen Patent Victory Over Roche
- Immigration
- Workplace Enforcement
- New DHS Rules
- E-Verify System
California
- State Prisons & Criminal Sentencing Reform
- California Sentencing Legislation
- Prison Funding
- Assembly Appropriations Report
- Proposed Sentencing Commission, Little Hoover Commission Report
- Prison Overcrowding
World
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
Turkey-Iraq Border Tensions
- 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
US-Turkey Relations
- 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
Iran's Nuclear Program
- 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
Nation
Iraq: 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
Iraq: Military 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
Greenhouse Gases- Accelerated Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
- Director, Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law
- dsivas@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0325
- Expertise: Environmental Law, Climate Change / Global Warming, litigates environmental protection cases in federal courts
Home Mortgage Crisis
- G. Marcus Cole
- Professor of Law, The Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, and Associate Dean for Curriculum
- gmcole@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Contracts, Venture Capital
American Antimissile System
- 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
Mukasey 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
Mistrial in Islamic Charity Terrorism Financing
- 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
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
Jena 6 Hearing
- Richard Thompson Ford
- George E. Osborne Professor of Law
- Contact: call Amy Poftak at 650 725.7516 or email poftak@law.stanford.edu
- Expertise: Antidiscrimination Law, Critical Theory, Jurisprudence, Race and the Law
Amgen Patent Victory Over Roche
- Timothy R. Holbrook
- Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law
- tholbrook@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.7958
- Expertise: Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks)
Immigration: Workplace Enforcement
- Dan Siciliano
- Lecturer in Law and Executive Director, Program in Law, Economics and Business
- siciliano@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.9045
- Expertise: Immigration and the Economy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance
Immigration: New DHS Rules
- Dan Siciliano
- Lecturer in Law and Executive Director, Program in Law, Economics and Business
- siciliano@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.9045
- Expertise: Immigration and the Economy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance
Immigration: E-Verify System
- Dan Siciliano
- Lecturer in Law and Executive Director, Program in Law, Economics and Business
- siciliano@law.stanford.edu
- 650 725.9045
- Expertise: Immigration and the Economy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance
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
G. Marcus Cole
Cole takes an empirical law and economics approach to research questions such as why corporate bankruptcies increasingly are adjudicated in Delaware, and what drives the financial structure of companies backed by venture capital. He has been a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has scholarly interests that range from classical liberal political theory to natural law and the history of commercial law. In November 2006, Cole was part of a group of regulatory experts, who, represented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold federal preemption in Watters v. Wachovia Bank.
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.
Richard Thompson Ford
A leading expert on civil rights and anti-discrimination law, Richard Thompson Ford has distinguished himself as an insightful voice in the ongoing cultural dialogue involving race and multiculturalism. His academic inquiry has focused on the definition of political and legal boundaries as instruments of social regulation and as cultural phenomena, with a particular emphasis on the racial and demographic implications of these structures. Before joining the Stanford Law in 1994, Ford was a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, a litigation associate with Morrison & Foerster, and a housing policy consultant for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also been the Commissioner of the Housing Authority of San Francisco.
Timothy Holbrook
Holbrook is Associate Professor of Law, and Associate Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. This semester, heÕs teaching IP: Patents and IP: Trademark as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where his practice focused on patent and appellate litigation.
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.
Dan Siciliano
In addition to serving as executive director of the Program in Law, Economics, and Business, and co-director of Stanford's Directors' College, Siciliano is a senior research fellow with the Immigration Policy Center and a frequent commentator on the long-term economic impact of immigration policy and reform. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Prior to his position at the law school, he co-founded the Immigration Outreach Center in Phoenix, Arizona and served as executive director for five years.
Deborah A. "Debbie" Sivas
Sivas has been the Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic since 1997. She is a 1987 Stanford Law School graduate, clerked for a federal court, serves as president of the board for two NGOs, and has litigated many significant environmental cases in federal court on behalf of nonprofit organizations.
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.