The Three Strikes Project and the quest for clemency reform
Stanford Law’s Michael Romano is working to secure the release of Californians serving life sentences for minor crimes under the state’s Three Strikes law.
The judicial branches in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia are taking innovative actions to check leaders with authoritarian tendencies, according to a new paper by Diego Zambrano.
Stanford Law’s Lisa Ouellette on the problem with patents
The law “has long favored coming up with an idea over doing the work to implement that idea in practice.” Stanford Law’s Lisa Ouellette explains the innovator-inventor gap.
Fresh water markets under the eye of a public watchdog could ensure the best distribution of a dwindling resource, according to a new book by Buzz Thompson.
Student report spurs action by the California Parole Board
Stanford Law’s Criminal Justice Center reported on the number of women in prison for homicides linked to intimate partner violence. Their work pushed the wheels of policy change – and fast.
The end of race-based affirmative action is an opportunity to think creatively about the role of higher education in our society, says Stanford Law’s Ralph Richard Banks.
