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For Brionna Bolaños and Dayle Chung, the Bremond Fellowship offered a chance to pursue racial justice work that was intellectually rigorous and connected to why they came to law school in the first place.
In this video, the Stanford Center for Racial Justice’s most recent Bremond ...Fellows discuss their research on the California Racial Justice Act, sentencing disparities, federalism, immigration enforcement, and the role of courts.
The fellowship, supported by the Wilson Sonsini Foundation, honors Harry Bremond, a trailblazing attorney who joined Wilson Sonsini in 1967 as one of the first Black lawyers in Silicon Valley and helped build the firm’s pro bono program.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare delivery, but the regulatory framework governing its use remains largely undeveloped.
In Episode 13 of KFF's AI Series, Michelle Mello, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Health Policy at Stanford ...University School of Medicine as well as co-leader of the Healthcare Ethical Assessment Lab for AI, examines the critical questions surrounding AI governance in medicine.
As AI tools become integrated into everyday clinical practice, healthcare stakeholders face pressing concerns about accountability, accuracy verification, and regulatory oversight.
Listen to the episode: https://brnw.ch/21x4DV8
Introducing Khurliman Aytniyazova, LLM ‘26
Fond of a welcoming advanced degree community, Khurliman leaves a legacy and was awarded the Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award by her advanced degree group. As the 2026 Advanced Degree Class President, she led with a passion for connecting... with people.
Khurliman will return to her country of Uzbekistan to continue her work in the sphere of investment arbitration with plans to resume her PhD studies.
As corporate defendants introduce aggressive new terms targeting litigation funders, access to justice concerns mount for plaintiffs in resource-intensive cases, writes Brianne Holland-Stergar, a nonresident fellow at Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.
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Uber Technologies Inc.'s new terms require users who sue to disclose litigation funding agreements and waive multiple legal protections. Holland-Stergar notes the company buried the unannounced revisions in a 14,000-word clickwrap agreement few users read.
While the terms face enforceability challenges, they may achieve deterrent effects amid growing opposition to litigation finance. Holland-Stergar argues that despite legitimate questions about the industry, Uber's tactics appear to be "a self-interested attempt to shoo funders away from lawsuits intended to hold the company accountable."
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Opinion: Uber’s revised terms requiring access to documents exchanged with third-party litigation funders are likely unlawful but could effectively...
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