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The federal government increasingly relies on private companies to govern: Palantir for foreign intelligence, Amazon for cloud computing, Starlink for

Nate Persily joins Pam Karlan to discuss efforts to change the rules governing the 2026 elections and the legal battles over how those changes would affect voting.

Featuring Rabia Belt, Professor of Law and Professor of History (by courtesy), Stanford Law School Abstract: Who was mentally competent to vote? Nineteenth-century American lawmakers often treated…

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Technological change affects the Constitution not only by creating new problems of constitutional interpretation, but also by changing the distributio

A new kind of leader is emerging across the legal sector. These professionals combine legal expertise with an engineering mindset, helping shape how l

In their Essay, Hoang Pham, Hannah Cha, and Rashon Poole argue that contemporary disputes over "AI bias" are best understood as normative di

Promise Mabilo does not need an air-quality monitor to know when the pollution in Emalahleni is especially bad. In the coal country of South Africa’

In decision after decision, the conservative justices are ignoring the evidentiary record that lower courts have worked hard to establish.

Judges face an unsatisfactory menu of AI options. A secure, judiciary-controlled sandbox for testing frontier models is the better path.

Looking for a good book or two to dig into during the summer? The Stanford Law School Faculty Summer Reading List offers up some of our professors

(Originally published by Stanford Report on August 25, 2026.) Four states kicked off a closely-watched trial against Meta last week, alleging that the

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During the 2025-26 academic year, Stanford Law School faculty members and academic staff garnered an array of awards for their books, articles, teachi

Stanford Law School Professor Easha Anand, co-director of the law school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, has been elected to the American Law Ins

AI is racing into everyday medicine. The rules of the road are still being written. Dr. Michelle Mello of Stanford, professor at both the Law School and the School of Medicine, and co-leader of its…

Opinion: Uber’s revised terms requiring access to documents exchanged with third-party litigation funders are likely unlawful but could effectively discourage lawsuits.

(Originally published by The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI on July 23, 2026.) Bureaucracy moves slowly, and decades of outdated provisions

Stanford’s Allen Weiner examines how the U.S. war with Iran raises questions about the president’s power to wage war and negotiate peace.

In the age of AI, research integrity has become critical infrastructure, writes Stanford Law School's Rachel A. George.

As legal and democratic institutions come under renewed strain around the world, interest in the rule of law as a field of study has grown. But profes

Jeff Fisher discusses a term marked by major rulings across executive power, voting, and civil rights, and what they signal about the Court’s trajectory.

Across several rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority either outright overruled, or else functionally gutted, several precedents this term.

The overlooked technology wreaked havoc on the Strait of Hormuz—and global trade.

With continued generous support from the Wilson Sonsini Foundation, this prestigious fellowship honoring legendary Bay Area attorney Harry Bremond offers Stanford Law School 2L and 3L students a…

Resolving an unemployment claim often turns on asking the right questions. Adjudicators must determine which facts matter, identify what is missing or

What does it actually take for democracy to work?

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

Looking for a good book or two to dig into during the summer? The Stanford Law School Faculty Summer Reading List offers up some of our professors

The 2026 commencement ceremony at Stanford Law School was a celebration of 259 graduates and of the communities that carried them to the day. As the C

In 1895, Wong Kim Ark returned by steamship to San Francisco, the city where he had been born to immigrants from China. He was denied entry. The Supre

At the intersection of AI and law, the ground is shifting faster than almost anyone can keep up with. Hosted by Irene Liu of Stanford Law School’s AI Initiative, AI Sidebar brings together leading…

With few exceptions, the federal courts of appeals have jurisdiction over—and only over—“final decisions” of the district courts. Yet there is a little-known but highly consequential rule, known as…

Attorneys throughout the country are looking for innovative ways to secure justice for victims of federal misconduct. In a new guide, Stanford Law Pro

By the time they graduated from Stanford Law School in 2007, Joe E. Ross, Afam Onyema, Ari Simon, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett had formed a close bon