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Stanford Law professors Pamela Karlan and Jonathan Gienapp are co-leading “America at 250,” a new course open to students across Stanford that invites them to think critically about where America has been, what it has inherited, and where it might need to go next.
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“America at 250,” a new interdisciplinary course, asks where the country has been and where it might go.
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Through training, testing, and in-house innovation, Stanford Law’s Robert Crown Law Library is becoming a model for how law schools can employ AI and prepare future lawyers for a new era of practice.
Over the past two and a half years, the library team has built an AI framework that spans ...research guidance, tool testing, pedagogy, technical development, and training for students, faculty, and staff.
It also recently added two AI-focused librarians, roles Williams believes are the first of their kind in U.S. academic law libraries.
“Our librarians were experimenting with AI long before anyone asked them to,” says Beth Williams, the Robert Crown Law Library’s associate dean and a senior lecturer. “In fact, much of our AI infrastructure happened organically. People on the team saw where the future was headed and moved quickly in that direction.” Read more in #StanfordLawMag: https://brnw.ch/21x2qii
Tort reformers have long argued that contingency fees can put too much money in plaintiffs’ lawyers’ hands. A new article by Deborah L. Rhode Center researchers Nora Freeman Engstrom and Brianne Holland-Stergar asks a more basic question: Are contingency fees competitive at all?
Their ...answer: Not really.
In their recently published article, “Competition and Contingency Fees,” the authors reveal striking price uniformity, little public disclosure of fee information, and a market where clients cannot compare lawyers on price or performance.
They argue for greater transparency, including standardized “closing statements” that would show how contingency fee cases actually resolve, including what clients recover, what lawyers are paid, and how long cases take. The goal is to give clients better information, help policymakers regulate based on evidence, and make the market work more competitively.
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In a new article, Stanford Law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom and University of Montana Professor Brianne Holland-Stergar tackle one of the longest-s
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At the recent CodeX LLM x Law Hackathon, the clock was ticking, whiteboards were filling up, and Stanford Law students Joshua Waldman, JD ’27, and Will Dinneen, JD ’28, were feverishly using AI to take copyright infringement search to the next level.
Created with teammates Chris Um of ...Cornell and Dhanin Wongpanich of UC Berkeley, the prize-winning tool they dubbed “Warhol” goes beyond “does an image look similar?” to ask whether it might raise a real infringement problem. Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x2jR8