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“Every idea has a root, every institution we interact with has a foundation, and every person we meet has a background, a source of their own.”
~ Jared James Hrebenar, JD ‘26
In his commencement speech “The Sources of Our Success,” Jared emphasizes graduation as a ...moment to recognize the sources of one’s success: parents, friends, families, partners, faculty, staff, administrators, and classmates. As Jared sees it, “If the day had footnotes the citations would far outpace the text.” He graduates with plans to practice commercial litigation in Washington DC. Congrats, Jared!
Read the full article for the 2026 commencement ceremony. Click the link in our bio!
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Mingle with alumni, connect with classmates, and extend a warm welcome to the newest members of our SLS community: our recently admitted students.
Events will be hosted in cities across the country. See all locations and sign up at ...https://brnw.ch/21x3WDL
What if the public held an equity stake in the companies reshaping it?
In this episode, Stanford Law alumni Jeremy Bearer-Friend (JD ’14) and Sarah Polcz (JSM ’12, JSD ’20) join co-host Professor Richard Thompson Ford to discuss a proposal requiring leading AI firms to pay a portion ...of their taxes in equity rather than cash. Those shares would be placed into a public trust — a structure intended to help distribute AI’s gains more broadly.
The conversation asks a central question: If AI was built on vast amounts of human-generated text, images and creative work, who should share in the wealth it produces?
Listen now: https://brnw.ch/21x3UuM
Meet Lejla Tuholjaković, LLM ’26. A Bosnian-Austrian lawyer originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lejla built her legal career in Austria before coming to Stanford Law School. During her time at SLS, she served as Financial Officer of the International Law Society, worked as a Research ...Assistant on Sustainable Finance and Carbon Markets, and was an Associate Editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Economics & Business. Lejla completed the Corporate Governance & Practice LLM track and now heads to New York as she transitions into the U.S. legal market.