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Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

Advancing evidence-based policy through interdisciplinary legal research that empowers communities, informs decision-makers, and drives real-world impact.

  • Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

    Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic offers students rare, hands-on experience with real Supreme Court cases. Under expert faculty guidance, students help represent parties and amici before the highest court in the United States.

  • Mills Legal Clinic

    Students receive hands-on experience doing the real work of lawyers, while providing critical legal services to underserved individuals and communities.

  • ePluribus Project

    ePluribus is an SLS initiative addressing polarization through student-faculty reading groups, dialogue skill-building, and guest speakers. It fosters habits and norms for open, productive discussion in legal and professional settings.

  • Stanford Legal Design Lab

    The Stanford Legal Design Lab conducts research, designs interventions, and develops technologies and policies to promote equal access to justice.

  • Three Strikes and Justice Advocacy Project

    We represent people serving the longest and most unjust prison terms in the country. Most of our clients are serving life sentences under the “Three Strikes” law for minor crimes.

  • Law and Political Economy

    Stanford’s Law and Political Economy (LPE) group explores how law shapes politics and markets, confronting issues like inequality, ecological harm, and corporate power while advancing democratic, just, and sustainable alternatives to legal norms.

  • Global Digital Policy Incubator

    The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce Democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.

  • Stanford Program in Law and Society

    The Stanford Program in Law and Society promotes interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship through events, mentorship, and fellowships. It highlights Stanford Law’s research and supports young scholars in Law and Society academic programs.

  • Program on Platform Regulation

    The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.

  • Federalist Society

    The Federalist Society is a group of libertarians and conservatives focused on preserving freedom, upholding separation of powers, and ensuring the judiciary interprets law as it is, not as it should be, within the constitutional order.

  • American Constitution Society

    The American Constitution Society unites legal professionals to promote a vision of law centered on human dignity, individual rights, equality, and justice, advancing issues like civil rights, privacy, and access to justice for all.
  • Program on Governance and Emerging Technologies

    Program on Governance and Emerging Technologies

    The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.
  • John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics

    John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics

    The John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics supports faculty and student research, issues working papers, holds seminars and lunch discussions, and awards student fellowships in law and economics to Stanford students.

  • Law and Policy Lab

    Stanford Law’s policy-focused curriculum and Law and Policy Lab engage students in real-world legal and policy challenges, applying interdisciplinary research and data analysis to develop solutions for public agencies and nonprofit clients.

  • Stanford Criminal Justice Center

    The Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC) serves as a research and policy institute on issues related to the criminal legal system.

  • Stanford Constitutional Law Center

    The center focuses on the separation and scope of legislative, executive, and judicial powers; the structure of constitutional democracy; democracy, elections, and voting; and the freedoms of speech, press, and religion.

  • Stanford Center for Racial Justice

    The aspiration of SCRJ is a multicultural democracy where our ability to create opportunities, promote wellbeing for all, and advance freedom is not undermined by racism.

  • Stanford Center for Law and History

    The Stanford Center for Law and History (SCLH) brings together faculty, postdocs, and students from across Stanford University to examine the multifaceted interrelationships between law and history.

  • Neukom Center for the Rule of Law

    Neukom Center for the Rule of Law provides academics with unparalleled opportunities to confront the world’s most complex challenges, primarily in developing countries.

  • Deborah L. Rhode Center on Advancing the Legal Profession

    Through a multidisciplinary approach to teaching, research, and policy, the Rhode Center works to make civil justice more equitable, accessible, and transparent and to promote the legal profession’s commitment to the public interest.
  • Cyber Policy Center

    Cyber Policy Center

    Stanford University's research center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy focused on digital technologies impacting democracy, security, and geopolitics globally.