cover image   #73 - Fall 2005

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Highlights:
  • Technology's Field Generals. The general counsels at Microsoft, Google, Cisco, eBay, Yahoo!, Qualcomm, Autodesk, and Oracle—Stanford Law School alums, all—have changed the face of the technology industry and redefined the role of the general counsel.
  • Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding. Professor Mark A. Lemley (BA '88) argues that intellectual property law is being led down the wrong path by the growing reliance on inappropriate analogies to real property.
  • From the Dean. Larry Kramer explains why the law school is the world's premier place for teaching and scholarship about law and technology.
  • Faculty Changing the World. Stanford Law School faculty spend a large portion of their time pursuing scholarly research and teaching students. But most of the faculty also devote a substantial amount of energy to projects outside of academia. This past year was no exception.
  • New Faculty and Promotions. The law school hired two new faculty, Norman Spaulding '97 and Daniel Ho, and promoted three others, William Koski (PhD '03), Margaret Caldwell '85, and Helen Stacy.
  • Visiting Professors: 2005-2006. Eight professors from some of the nation's top law schools will be visiting professors at Stanford Law School during the academic year.
  • Chief Justice Rehnquist '52 and Justice O'Connor '52. Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan's tribute to the former classmates.
  • Taking On the Minutemen. Ray Ybarra '05 confronts vigilantes along the Mexican border.
  • Shaking Up Education. Garth Harries '00 helps reform New York City's schools.
  • Reforming Iran. A discussion with Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • But the Scouts, Your Honor. Professor Richard Thompson Ford (BA '88) critiques the Solomon Amendment, which denies federal funding to universities that prohibit military recruiting on campus.
  • Graduation 2005. On May 15, close to 1,600 friends and family gathered at Stanford to celebrate the graduation of the law school's Class of 2005.
  • Directors' College. Stanford Law School hosts business leaders for three-day confab.
  • New Library Director. J. Paul Lomio is named director of the law library.
  • Classmates
  • In Memoriam