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🕶️ 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 through the link in bio.
Generative AI is changing who can get into federal court.
In a new JOTWELL essay, Stanford Law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom and Aviv Caspi, research lead at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, examine recently released empirical work by Anand Shah and Joshua Levy on AI ...and self-represented litigants in federal court.
The study documents a striking rise in non-prisoner pro se filings, alongside growing evidence of AI-generated text in federal complaints. Engstrom and Caspi see that as a potentially important access-to-justice development: if AI can help people identify valid legal claims and navigate the first steps of litigation, it may begin to chip away at a long-standing civil justice gap.
At the same time, they urge caution. Getting more people into court is not the same as helping them obtain meaningful relief. The next question is whether AI-assisted litigants can overcome procedural barriers, pursue meritorious claims, and secure outcomes that make legal rights real.
Read more in JOTWELL: https://brnw.ch/21x40mx
🚨 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!