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🚨 Call for Abstracts – Tenth Conference for Junior Researchers 🚨
Full details and submission guidelines: https://brnw.ch/21x3YE6

The Law and Society Association at Stanford Law School (LSAS) invites submissions for its Tenth Conference for Junior Researchers, exploring ..."Technology, Social Change, and Law".

🔹 How does technological change generate new law and society issues?
🔹 How do legal institutions respond to technological transformation?
🔹 How can technological advances in social science methods and data science allow scholars to revisit longstanding law and society questions?

📅Date and Location: October 16, 2026, at Stanford Law School
🚨Submission Deadline: July 31, 2026
📩Questions? Contact us at stanfordlawandsociety@gmail.com

“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!

🕶️ Summer Gatherings hosted by Stanford Law School Alumni are here! ☀️
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