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A new report from SLS's Law and Policy Lab, "Regulating the Legal Enablers of Russia’s War on Ukraine," highlights how Western lawyers help Russian oligarchs evade sanctions by hiding and transferring offshore wealth.
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Join us on Thursday, May 23rd from 4:30-7:00 pm in Room 290 at SLS for the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law ceremony. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, president and CEO of the International Peace Institute (IPI), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the first ...President of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, is the recipient of the prize and will be presenting a lecture. Register for the event at the link below.
The Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law "recognizes original and distinguished contributions to the development of the role of law in international relations." It is given in honor of Jackson H. Ralston, an international and labor lawyer, who was an international law lecturer at SLS.
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SLS’s Rule of Law Impact Lab advocates for accountability of Guatemala’s Attorney General in brief on behalf of former U.S. ambassador before Guatemala’s Constitutional Court.
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El Laboratorio de Impacto sobre el Estado de Derecho de la ...Facultad de Derecho de Stanford aboga por la rendición de cuentas del Fiscal General de Guatemala en un escrito en nombre del ex embajador de EE.UU. ante la Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala.
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Today marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark decision that stated "[segregated education is] inherently unequal” and “generates a feeling of inferiority as to [Black students’] status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely... ever to be undone.”
Ralph Richard Banks, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law and
Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, recently wrote a piece for Stanford Lawyer titled "Brown v. Board: Success or Failure?" where he weighed in on how the decision has aged:
"Brown at 70 is not aging well. The shortcomings of the decision—necessary to secure unanimity—are becoming ever more apparent. One problem is the narrowness of the decision. The Court merely prohibited the deliberate segregation of the schools by the government. The Court neither required that the government provide integrated schools nor an adequate education." Read more at the link below.