As lawsuits force major changes to Big Tech’s business practices, Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom tells The New York Times: “We’re witnessing an inflection point in the regulation of social media. Courts, not Congress, are promoting accountability and forcing concrete change.”

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How a Legal Backlash Against Big Tech Is Forcing Big Changes

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices...

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Stanford Law mourns the passing of Ronald J. Gilson, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus.

A pioneering scholar of corporate law and governance, Gilson joined the Stanford Law faculty in 1979 and helped transform the field through his influential scholarship.
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“I often wondered how a man with so many demands on his time, whose door was always open to anyone who wanted to come in and talk, managed to produce so much pathbreaking scholarship,” said Professor Curtis Milhaupt, a longtime friend and collaborator.

Dean George Triantis called Gilson “a leader and scholarly pathbreaker in the true sense of the word. His foundational analyses and creativity opened new lines of inquiry that are now central to finance and business law.”

Read our remembrance of a remarkable scholar and colleague:

In Memoriam: Ronald J. Gilson, Pioneering Corporate Law Scholar | Stanford Law School

Ronald J. Gilson, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus, and one of the pioneering scholars of modern corporate law and govern

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Stanford RegLab has been selected for the second round of the Public Benefit Innovation Fund.

With support from the Center for Civic Futures, Stanford RegLab will develop, pilot and test a tool to streamline unemployment insurance enrollment. In partnership with Maryland and Colorado, the ...Read moreproject will assess whether AI can identify missing or unclear information as people apply for benefits.

The goal: Help applicants and agencies navigate the unemployment insurance process more effectively, fairly and quickly.

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