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Stanford Center for Racial Justice Students Build Community, Transform Society
As the Stanford Center for Racial Justice marks its 5-year anniversary in 2025, we reflect upon the central role of students in our work. Coming from departments across the university, law students, graduate, and undergraduate students have convened at the Center to support a multitude of projects and initiatives. Whether as interns, fellows, or practicum students, they have all found a unique community at the Center while engaging in rigorous research to advance racial justice. We are thrilled to celebrate their impact in a video featuring their work, insights, and vision for the future.
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In a new opinion essay for Mercury News, Professor Mark Lemley discusses how a pivotal decision by the Supreme Court last week can give the president the power to deport immigrants to countries where they have no connection. According to Lemley, this also paved the way for the executive branch to ...deport U.S. citizens.
"Americans are getting ready to celebrate the founding of our country this week," Lemley writes. "Unfortunately, by then it will be too late. American democracy died last week, just shy of this country’s 249th birthday."
Read more here: https://stanford.io/4nUQQUx
Amid escalating federal pressure on universities, Stanford Law School alum Greg Lukianoff, JD ’00, joins the Stanford Legal Podcast in its latest episode, "Free Speech Under Fire: Greg Lukianoff Discusses the Battle for Free Expression on College Campuses."
Lukianoff ...discusses the free speech firestorms engulfing universities like Harvard and Columbia. He also expands on his essay, “Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard," breaking down the Trump administration’s tactics to punish elite institutions, from defunding threats and faculty interference to student visa crackdowns, while also calling out universities themselves for stifling dissent and eroding public trust in higher education.
Listen here: https://stanford.io/4kLBuiB
Stanford law Professor Lucas Guttentag was a guest on KTVU in "Deportation by the numbers: Comparing Trump, Biden, and Obama's immigration tactics."
Guttentag, who has served in senior policy positions in the Obama administration at the Department of Homeland Security, and ...in the Biden administration at the Department of Justice, explains how recent administrations have approached deportations.
Watch the segment: https://stanford.io/4eRtR8J
“Would I want to be on the Supreme Court? You bet—but not enough to have trimmed my sails for an entire lifetime.”
As a guest on a recent episode of the podcast Original Jurisdiction, Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan “isn’t afraid to go there,” according to host David Lat, as ...she candidly recounts her path from Supreme Court clerk through civil rights litigation, academia, and the DOJ. Karlan also reflects on what she calls a period of “great constitutional danger”—marked by the politicization of the courts and the hollowing out of expertise at the Department of Justice. Listen to the wide-ranging interview: https://stanford.io/4kz2sK3