Overview
Stanford Law School faculty are available to offer legal analysis/commentary on the following news topics this week:
Topics
- Subprime Crisis/Fed Mortgage Plan
- Energy Bill
- Bali Global Warming Agreement
- CIA Tapes Hearing
- Guantanamo
- Wiretapping Vote Delayed
- Death Penalty
- Drug sentencing
- Supreme Court Rulings: Kimbrough v. U.S., Gall v. U.S.
- U.S. Sentencing Commission Votes to Ease Crack Sentences
- U.S. Business
- Facebook Privacy Concerns
- Writers' Strike
- Shareholder Lawsuits
- Securities Fraud
- Stock Option Backdating
- Insider Trading
- Product Liability Suits
- Consumer Product Safety Overhaul
- Barry Bonds/Mitchell Report
- Iran in iraq/Iran Nuclear Program
- Russia/Presidential Succession
- Palestinian Aid
- Pakistan
- Darfur
Topics
Subprime Crisis/Fed Mortgage Plan
- G. Marcus Cole
- Wm. Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law
- gmcole@stanford.edu
- 650 723.9216
- Expertise: Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Contracts, Venture Capital
Energy Bill
- David Victor
- Professor of Law
- dgvictor@stanford.edu
- 650 724.1712
- Expertise: Energy Law and Regulation, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, International Environment, International Law and Economy
- 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
Bali Global Warming Agreement
- David Victor
- Professor of Law
- dgvictor@stanford.edu
- 650 724.1712
- Expertise: Energy Law and Regulation, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, International Environment, International Law and Economy
- 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
CIA Tapes Hearing
- 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
Guantanamo
- 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
Wiretapping Vote Delayed
- Derek Shaffer
- Executive Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center
- shaffer@stanford.edu
- 650 723.7739
- Expertise: Constitutional Law, Unsettled Constitutional and Statutory Questions, Complex Litigation
Death Penalty
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Drug sentencing - Supreme Court Rulings: Kimbrough v. U.S., Gall v. U.S.
- 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
Drug sentencing - U.S. Sentencing Commission Votes to Ease Crack Sentences
- 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
U.S. Business: Facebook Privacy Concerns
- Lauren Gelman
- Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society
- gelman@stanford.edu
- 650 724.3358
- Expertise: New Technologies and the Law, Law, Technology, and Privacy
U.S. Business: Writers' Strike
- 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 (Bond's Legacy, Upcoming Mitchell Report)
U.S. Business: Shareholder Lawsuits
- 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: 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
U.S. Business: Stock Option 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: 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
Product Liability Suits
- Alan O. Sykes
- Professor of Law
- asykes@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.0178
- Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital
Consumer Product Safety Overhaul
- Alan O. Sykes
- Professor of Law
- asykes@law.stanford.edu
- 650 723.0178
- Expertise: Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital
Barry Bonds / Mitchell Report
- 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 (Bond's Legacy, Upcoming Mitchell Report)
- Robert Weisberg
- Edwin E., Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law
- weisberg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.0612
- Expertise: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure
Iran in Iraq/Iran 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
Russia/Presidential Succession
- 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
Palestinian Aid
- 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
Pakistan
- 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
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
Trained as a lawyer and a political scientist, Cuéllar focuses his scholarship on how organizations cope with the legal responsibility for managing complex criminal justice, regulatory, and international security problems. Recent projects address the role of criminal enforcement in managing transnational threats, immigration and refugee policy in the U.S. and the developing world, the scope of "national security" during the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and George W. Bush, the organization of legislative jurisdiction, and the impact of bureaucratic structure on how institutions implement domestic and international legal mandates. Cuellar formerly served as senior advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Enforcement.
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.
Lauren Gelman
In addition to heading up CIS’s litigation and advocacy efforts around free speech, innovation, security, and privacy, Gelman teaches a course at Stanford Law School on Internet privacy. Her research focuses on the legal implications of technologies that increase citizens' opportunity to participate online. Gelman previously was associate director of CIS. Prior to joining Stanford, Gelman was corporate counsel for RealNames Corporation. She also spent six years in Washington, D.C. as the public policy director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as the associate director of public policy for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. She served as attorney of record for Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Administration, in which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bush administration violated the law by ignoring global warming when it set national gas mileage standards for SUVs and pickup trucks.
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.
David Victor
David Victor, an expert in the areas of regulation, energy law, and environmental policy, came to Stanford University in 2001 to start the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). The Program focuses on the economic and environmental consequences of energy consumption, and much of Professor Victor's work involves extensive field research in emerging markets (notably China and India) and in some of the world's poorest regions, including in Africa. Professor Victor teaches regulation at the Law School and continues his work at FSI through a joint appointment. Previously, he directed the Science and Technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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.