Grundfest Appointed to New SEC Committee; Grundfest and Siciliano Named to...
Joseph A. Grundfest, JD ’78, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and senior faculty member of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, has been appointed to the U.S....
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William J. Baer Appointed Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust...
William J. Baer, JD ’75, at a Senate Confirmation Hearing William J. Baer, JD ’75, joined the Obama administration in January after confirmation of his appointment to the U.S. Department of Justice as...
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Sri Srinivasan
In 2002, a 34-year-old attorney in the solicitor general’s office stood before the Supreme Court, preparing to argue what he anticipated would be a close case on the death penalty. “I was...
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Lawyers in the Military
When U.S. Army Capt. Robert Rodriguez, JD ’06, landed a job upon graduation as an associate at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., he thought it would be the start of a long career. “Crowell was...
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A River Runs Through It: Buzz Thompson’s Stint as a Special Master
There is a saying in the West, sometimes attributed to Mark Twain: “Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.” Indeed, Westerners have been fighting over this scarce resource for decades,...
View ArticleThinking Like a Policy Analyst
If the halls of the Internal Revenue Service could ever be described as abuzz, it would have been last summer. I arrived in D.C. for my summer internship in June of 2013, less than a month after the...
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Fixing American Democracy
Last April, soon after I accepted Stanford’s offer to join its faculty, I received a call from Robert Bauer and Ben Ginsberg, the lawyers who had represented President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt...
View ArticleGould Named Chairman of California Agricultural Labor Relations Board
William B. Gould IV, Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, was appointed chairman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board as of March 2014 by Governor Jerry Brown. Gould, an...
View ArticleKarlan Selected for DOJ Civil Rights Division Post
Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, was appointed deputy assistant attorney general in the Department...
View ArticleReicher Elected to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board
Dan Reicher, JD ’83, professor of the practice of law and executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, was elected in 2013 to the U.S. Department of Energy’s 19-member...
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