Law School Facts
* Law Department is established: 1893
* Law School is established: 1908
* Type of school: Private
* Term division: Semester
* 2006-2007 Tuition: $37,440
* Library: More than 500,000 books, 360,000 microform and audiovisual items, and approximately 8,000
periodicals
At Stanford Law School, excellence is a given. Our community's engaged faculty and students, influential alumni, dedicated staff is united in its belief that a Stanford Law degree is a powerful tool for change. Our programs intensive curriculum, hands on legal clinics, high-profile academic centers cultivate professional skills and values, inspire new ideas, and engage leaders in developing solutions. And our resources from cutting-edge facilities to the diverse advantages of Stanford University make the Stanford Law campus an ideal environment for exploring and mastering the law.
Excellence, innovation, and a commitment to the future these are Stanford Law School's legacy to each new generation of law students and lawyers. We invite prospective students, partners, and supporters to inspire, innovate, and lead with us.
Snapshot
Stanford University is located in Northern California in the city of Palo Alto, approximately 45 minutes from San Francisco, 30 minutes from the beach, and 3 hours from the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Location
Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
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Faculty and Classes
* Faculty student ratio: 9.2-to-1
* Full-time faculty: 43
* Senior lecturers: 3
* Visiting faculty: 6
* Lecturers and affiliated faculty: 48
* Endowed chairs: 38
* Typical size of first year small section course: 28 students
* Percentage of courses that students can take pass/fail their first
term: 100%
* First top tier law school to have wireless classrooms
Programs
The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST) combines the resources of Stanford Law School including renowned faculty experts, alumni practicing on the cutting edge of technology law, technologically savvy and enthusiastic students, and a location in the heart of Silicon Valley to address the many questions arising from the increasingly prominent role that science and technology play in both national and global arenas. The program acts to help legal professionals, businesspeople, government officials, and the public at large to identify those questions and find innovative answers to them.
The program seeks to:
* Give every Stanford Law student the opportunity to address these issues through innovative
coursework, in preparation for practice at the highest level of law's intersections with science and
technology.
* Raise professional understanding and public awareness of technical and ethical challenges.
* Promote informed public policies on science and technology in national and global arenas.
* Contribute to the international exchange of ideas in the field of Law, Science, and
Technology.
Contact Information for Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
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650 736.8665
Various programs offered in Law, Science and Technology
* Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
Explores the law?s intersection with science and technology in national and global arenas.
* Center for E-Commerce
A neutral forum for scholars, lawyers, and executives to explore e-commerce law.
* Center for Internet and Society
Studies the intersection of law, new technologies, and the public interest.
Cyber Law
* Center for Law and the Biosciences
Examines bioscientific discoveries in the context of the law.
* Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
Raises awareness and supports research on transatlantic technology law issues.
* CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law
A multidisciplinary laboratory exploring how technology can enhance our legal system.
Students
The Program in Law, Science & Technology offers a rapidly growing community of students an intellectually engaging study of science- and technology-driven law and policy. A number of students each year enter Stanford Law School with science and technology backgrounds, take courses within the program's curriculum, and pursue technology-related careers after graduation. Stanford Law School students and alumni enjoy extraordinary career placement both during law school and after graduation in prominent law firms, universities, high technology companies, government, and the judiciary.
Stanford law students are integrally involved with the program, running three successful technology-oriented student organizations:
the Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA),
the Stanford Technology Law Review (STLR), and
Stanford BioLaw.
In addition, students participate in the Cyberlaw Clinic, run by the Center for Internet and Society, as well as other CIS activities.
They often serve as research assistants for faculty members, contributing to the creation and teaching of courses taught under the program's auspices.
For students interested in conducting original research, the Law School awards an annual Brown & Bain Scholarship in High Technology Law for a student research project on law and high technology.
Courses
The LLM academic program includes the following components:
1. An introductory course in American and common law (see below);
2. Participation in an LLM colloquium on current topics related to each specialization;
3. Appropriate courses selected from the regular Stanford Law School curriculum (and, to a limited
extent, from other Stanford University Departments or Programs); and
4. A research paper completed in conjunction with one of these courses.
To meet these requirements, each LLM student will develop an individualized course of study that will be reviewed and approved by the program director. LLM students are required to be in residence at Stanford during the full (nine month) academic year. They are required to take a minimum of 26 credit units (and a maximum of 32 units). Most courses are 3 or 4 units, so the normal course load is 3 or 4 courses per semester.
Related Programs
Additional Law School Programs Related to Law, Science & Technology
The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology combines the resources of Stanford Law School ? including renowned faculty experts, alumni practicing on the cutting edge of technology law, technologically savvy and enthusiastic students, and a location in the heart of Silicon Valley ? to address many of the questions that arise from the increasingly prominent role that science and technology play in our global economy and culture. The program draws on expertise in and beyond the Stanford Law School community, with courses taught by visiting scholars, faculty from other University departments, attorneys, business executives, and scientists. The program offers a small, close-knit community for intellectually engaging study of science- and technology-driven law and policy, including a regular speaker series with prominent academics and practitioners in the field. Stanford law students are an integral part of the program, running three successful technology-oriented student organizations at Stanford: the Stanford Law and Technology Association, the Stanford Law and Technology Review, and the Stanford Biolaw Association.
Besides running its own programs on intellectual property law, the LST program includes three centers each with its own more specific focus: the Center for E-Commerce, the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), and the Center for Law and the Biosciences.
Additional Stanford University Programs Related to Law, Science, and Technology
Relevant to candidates for the Law, Science and Technology LLM are the Law School's teaching and research ties with the Schools of Business, Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Departments of Computer Science and Economics, as well as the following university-wide interdisciplinary programs:
* The Stanford Technology Ventures Program is the entrepreneurship center within the Stanford School
of Engineering. It consists of a series of courses, conferences, internships, websites, and research
activities designed to promote entrepreneurship education.
* The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies was founded in 1996 at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business to build understanding of the issues faced by entrepreneurial companies and individuals.
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