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Explore Issue 114 of Stanford Lawyer Magazine

The Summer/Fall 2026 issue of Stanford Lawyer Magazine is now online, featuring our story on Stanford Law's Neukom Center for the Rule of Law, which works to strengthen legal institutions and train lawyers to defend the rule of law at a pivotal moment.
Promise Mabilo, South African Clean Air Activist, Wins Stanford Bright Award 7

Promise Mabilo Honored with Stanford’s 2026 Bright Award

Promise Mabilo, a South African environmental justice activist who has spent years organizing communities affected by coal pollution, received Stanford University’s 2026 Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability during a September 28 online event hosted by Stanford Law School.

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Register for The Future of the Legal and Medical Professions Symposium, Oct. 26

Law and medicine have long been distinct professions, but they are increasingly confronting the same fundamental questions.

💡How will AI change expert work, and how should institutions adapt?
Read more💡How can the professions ensure access to essential services for those who cannot afford them?
💡How can the professions maintain public trust and confidence?

Stanford Law School and Stanford Medicine are bringing together leaders and thinkers from across both fields for a full-day symposium to examine what the professions can learn from one another as they navigate this period of rapid change.

Learn more and register: https://brnw.ch/21x64oi

How often is AI showing up in articles published by top law reviews?

In a guest post published on the Volokh Conspiracy, Julian Nyarko examines 571 articles from flagship law reviews at the top-ranked law schools, using estimates from Pangram’s AI detection software.

The study Read morefound that AI signals appeared more often in article text and abstracts than in footnotes, challenging assumptions about where AI might be used in legal scholarship.

The research raises questions that extend beyond detection: When does AI assistance become authorship? And what level of disclosure should academic publishing expect?

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x62MB

Professor Jack Balkin did not come to Stanford Law with an uplifting Constitution Day message.

In a wide-ranging—and, by his own account, decidedly sobering—lecture, the Yale Law professor argued that new technologies are reshaping constitutional power, weakening democratic Read moreinstitutions, and accelerating what he calls “constitutional rot.”

Read more about Balkin’s Constitution Day talk at Stanford Law:

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Technology, Power, and ‘Constitutional Rot’ | Stanford Law School

The federal government increasingly relies on private companies to govern: Palantir for foreign intelligence, Amazon for cloud computing, Starlink for

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