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Trump’s Executive Orders, Culture Wars, and Civil Rights | Stanford Law School

SLS Professor Ralph Richard Banks is featured in the latest episode of the Stanford Legal Podcast to discuss how the disparate impact doctrine works, why it matters, and what’s at stake when it’s attacked in the name of “meritocracy.” Listen here: law.stanford.edu/stanford-leg...

Redrawing Democracy | Stanford Law School

In the latest episode of Stanford Legal, Stanford's Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily on the redistricting push in Texas, recent signals from the Supreme Court about the Voting Rights Act, and the future of voting and redistricting in America.

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Expert Officers Under Political Supervision | The Regulatory Review The Supreme Court validates political control over public health decisions.

Stanford Law School’s Anne Joseph O'Connell authored an opinion piece, "Expert Officers Under Political Supervision,” published by @theregreview.bsky.social on how the Supreme Court validates political control over public health decisions. Read it here: www.theregreview.org/2025/07/24/o...

Health and Rural Energy Decisions: Lessons From Missouri and Wisconsin - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (MSCCH) This webinar will present findings from a new report by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Stanford University, Renewable Energy Transitions and Health in Rural America.

🌿💡 Join Stanford Law Prof. Deborah Sivas on Aug 6 for a webinar on health and energy in rural communities! Discover insights from a new report on making energy choices that prioritize local health.

🔗 Learn more and register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/health...

SCOTUS says parents can opt kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ characters. What's next? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ+ themes are used.

@npr.org's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ+ themes are used. Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

Analysts warn of fallout over new Trump tariff threats Analysts raised concerns over economic and diplomatic consequences after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday (July 12)  to impose a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting on August 1. Mary Lovely, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, warned that Trump's tariffs will cause price increases and job losses in due course, while Alan Sykes from Stanford Law School said he was worried whether the U.S. could be considered a credible party in future negotiations.

Stanford Law School's Alan Sykes was a guest on @reuters.com in "Analysts warn of fallout over new Trump tariff threats." Watch it here: www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Stanford Law’s Lisa Ouellette Helps Shape New Report on Drug Development Reform | Stanford Law School The diseases causing the most suffering and death in the United States do not always attract investment in new treatments. That’s the disconnect exp

“Despite billions in public and private funding, therapeutic development in the United States remains poorly aligned with the country’s most pressing health needs,” says SLS’s @patentscholar.bsky.social, co-author of a new @theNASEM report on drug development reform. law.stanford.edu/stanford-law...

X ordered its Grok chatbot to ‘tell like it is.’ Then the Nazi tirade began. Antisemitic outbursts from the chatbot promoted by Elon Musk shows how AI companies often face minimal consequences when their projects go rogue.

“If you can trick it into saying stupid and terrible things, that is less interesting unless it’s indicative of how the model is normally performing,” says Stanford Law School's Nathan Persily via @washingtonpost.com. Read more here: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Are the Courts Checking Trump — or Enabling Him? Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 07/15/2025 · 20m

Stanford Law School's Michael McConnell was a guest on The Opinions in "Are the Courts Checking Trump — or Enabling Him?" Listen to him discuss the role of the courts in President Trump’s second term here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The future of AI and the law An authority in applying language models in legal and regulatory settings says that his field is only getting started lowering costs and improving access to the legal expertise of artificial intellige...

Stanford Law School's Daniel Ho was a guest on an episode of the Future of Everything, "The future of AI and the law," where he discusses how the law is ripe for AI innovation, but a lot is at stake. Listen to it here: engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...

The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center

“States are not permitted to create their own immigration detention system,” said Stanford Law School's Lucas Guttentag for @nytimes.com in "The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center." Read more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Trump v. CASA and the future of the universal injunction This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. The best that can be […]

"The best that can be said for Trump v. CASA is that it could have been far worse," said Stanford Law School's Mila Sohoni in her post, "Trump v. CASA and the future of the universal injunction," published by @scotusblog.com. Read it here: www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/trum...

Are Investors Too Complacent About Tariffs and Rates Uncertainty?

“I generally recommend that corporations wait to see how Delaware law evolves,” said Stanford Law School's Joseph Grundfest for @nytimes.com in "Are Investors Too Complacent About Tariffs and Rates Uncertainty?" Read more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...

Lucy Ricca Named Executive Director of Stanford Law School’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law | Stanford Law School July 22, 2025 – Stanford, CA — Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Lucy Ricca as executive director of the Sally B. and William

Congratulations to Lucy Ricca, named executive director of Stanford Law’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law, starting Sept. 1. She’ll help lead the center alongside Prof. Diego Zambrano to advance the rule of law worldwide. Read more: law.stanford.edu/press/lucy-r...

Trusted Climate Data for Effective Policy: A Roadmap for Action | Stanford Law School By: Victor Y. Wu, Oliver Edelson, and Allison Weinstock Ambitious governmental, corporate, and market pledges to cut carbon emissions can be fulfilled

New post: "Trusted Climate Data for Effective Policy: A Roadmap for Action" at law.stanford.edu/2025/07/21/t... via
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Opinion | The Cities and States That Are Getting It Right Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.

San Francisco is reinventing city government, with help from SIEPR's Dan Ho and his AI work with @stanfordlaw.bsky.social RegLab. @pahlkadot.bsky.social and Robert Gordon write in today’s @nytimes.com about this and other city and state efforts to modernize the public sector.
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Private equity courts law firm investments New laws and workarounds are giving PE a bite at one of the few industries it's yet to influence.

Stanford Law School's David Freeman Engstrom was quoted by @axios.com in “Private Equity Courts Law Firm Investments." Read more here: www.axios.com/pro/merger-d...

This national monument is ‘part of the true history of the USA’. Will it survive Trump 2.0? Sáttítla Highlands, with its unique lava-flow landscape, feels like ‘another planet’, but its protected status, granted by Joe Biden, is now threatened

“There’s no language in there that suggests that [Trump] could de-designate or roll back what prior presidents have done,” said SLS's Deborah Sivas for @theguardian.com on the future of the national monuments under the Trump Administration. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding Costs for scientific progress and the public could be profound if the Trump administration succeeds in significantly cutting research funding.

Stanford Law School's Lisa Larrimore Ouellette wrote a post, “The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding,” published by @justsecurity.org. Read it here: www.justsecurity.org/116486/trump...

Welcome back to Stanford Law, Professor Fred O. Smith Jr., JD ’07! He’ll teach constitutional law courses and a first-of-its-kind class on posthumous legal interests. Smith calls his return a “wonderful homecoming.”
Read the announcement: law.stanford.edu/press/consti...

Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? RFK Jr has direct control, but Senate testimony in May that someone else is running the agency has created confusion

“We generally think having exclusive duties go ‘up’ to the agency head... is a good thing. But here many don’t trust the secretary on these matters," said Stanford Law School's Anne Joseph O'Connell for @theguardian.com. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley authored an opinion piece, "As July 4 approaches, Supreme Court signs away American democracy," published by @mercurynews.com. Read it here: www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/l...

‘A Period Of Great Constitutional Danger’: Pam Karlan A longtime Stanford Law professor and seasoned Supreme Court advocate, Professor Karlan has strong views on the current constitutional moment.

Stanford Law School's Pamela Karlan was a guest on the Original Jurisdiction podcast in "A Period Of Great Constitutional Danger." Watch it here: davidlat.substack.com/p/stanford-l...

Will AI hold up in court? Attorneys say it's already changing the practice of law Time- and money-saving tech could shake up the lawyer-client relationship.

“One way you get good legal instincts for logical arguments is by getting the reps in—trying things, and doing them over and over,” said Stanford Law's Mark Lemley for @fortune.com in "Will AI hold up in court? Attorneys say it’s already changing the practice of law." fortune.com/2025/06/26/a...

California just rolled back a landmark environmental policy. Here's what it means. The landmark California environmental legislation that lawmakers have voted to walk back will allow for crucial infrastructure to take place.

"The opposition seems to be centered around the exemptions for high-speed rail and advanced manufacturing, which is quite broadly defined," said Stanford Law School's Deborah Sivas for ABC News on California's rollback of a landmark environmental policy. abcnews.go.com/US/californi...

Trump wants to prioritize denaturalization. Here's what Californians should know Legal experts explain what is unique — and not unique — about California’s situation as the Trump administration gears up for more denaturalization proceedings.

“There’s a big risk of abuse of the denaturalization power here, but the Supreme Court, the courts generally, have been very protective of naturalized citizens,” said Stanford Law School's Lucas Guttentag for @sfchronicle.com. Read more here: www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

It's illegal in most states for private equity to buy a law firm. Lawyers have figured out a workaround. Legal ethics rules largely bar non-lawyers from owning law firms. MSOs offer a chance to get around that rule.

The @stanfordclp.bsky.social's report, "Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on Regulatory Change," was cited by @businessinsider.com in a discussion on how it's illegal in most states for private equity to buy a law firm. Read more here: www.businessinsider.com/law-firms-ou...

Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley wrote an article, "Where are all the Prior Art Users in Patent Cases?", published by the AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Read it here: www.aipla.org/docs/default...

Medical Tourism into Japan: Can Japan Ride the Big Wave? | Stanford Law School Shin Koike LLM, student fellow, Center for Law and the Biosciences Introduction Medical tourism—traveling to another country to receive medical care

Japan is ramping up efforts to attract medical tourists, focusing on language support and international cooperation. But how will it ensure ethical standards are maintained? Read more in a recent blog post by Stanford Law School's Center for Law and the Biosciences: law.stanford.edu/2025/06/18/m...

How has social media transformed the landscape of free speech? Professor Evelyn Douek discusses the increased opportunities and threats to expression in a thought-provoking Q&A for Legal Aggregate: law.stanford.edu/2025/06/25/t...