Times of crisis can be catalysts for political change, says Stanford legal scholar Pamela S. Karlan. For women activists in the early 20th century, the catalyst was World War I.
As the centennial of the 19th Amendment approaches, the milestone in women’s suffrage must also acknowledge the intersection of gender and racial justice in America, says Stanford scholar Estelle Freedman.
In a Q&A, Stanford law Professor David Freeman Engstrom and Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack of the Michigan Supreme Court discuss COVID-19’s challenge to our civil justice system.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, July 9, on two important presidential power cases. Stanford Law Professor David Sklansky discusses the two decisions and their implications.
Stanford Law Professor Michelle Mello answers questions relating to California's biggest spike in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in March, with more than 7,000 new cases confirmed.
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination was facilitated, in part, by law students working in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Immigration law experts Jayashri Srikantiah, the founding director of Stanford Law’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, and lecturer Lisa Weissman-Ward, a supervising attorney with the clinic, discuss the case and decision.
Stanford researchers are working to find strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among the incarcerated and inform mitigation strategies in other high-density living situations.
As questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system dominate the headlines, research by Stanford law Professor John J. Donohue III offers insight into one of the most fraught areas: the death penalty.
