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Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law. It employs about 50 faculty and hosts over 500 students who are working towards their Juris Doctor.
Stanford Law School is one of the most prestigious and elite law schools in the United States, typically ranking in the top three in the US News & World Report annual rankings of law schools and currently ranked second.
The late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist and former Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor are both Stanford alumni, as is Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George.

Academics and admissions

Stanford Law School has a small student body, and a very low student to faculty ratio. Class sizes are among the smallest of any top law school, with first-year classes of approximately 170 students. (External Link

) The academic program is flexible and includes a diverse array of courses and clinics. As first years, students take courses in criminal law, civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, torts, property, and legal research and writing. Upper level courses range from business law to international law and include a growing clinical program. The Supreme Court Clinic has successfully brought over twenty cases before the Court, making it one of the most active Supreme Court practices of any kind. (External Link

) Because of its proximity to other top academic programs on campus, there has been a growing focus on joint degree programs and classes with other professional schools, such as business, medicine, and education.
   Students run about thirty student organizations and publish seven legal journals. The most influential journal is the Stanford Law Review. Advocacy skills are tested in the Kirkwood Moot Court competition.
   Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford holds 500,000 books, 360,000 microform and audiovisual items, and more than 8,000 current serial subscriptions.
   Between 4,000 and 5,000 students apply for admission each year. Selection is intense: the median undergraduate grade point average of students is around 3.9 and the median LSAT 170.(External Link

) Beyond numbers, Stanford places considerable emphasis on factors such as extracurricular activities, work experience, and prior graduate study. About three quarters of the members of each entering class have one year or more of prior work experience - often in politics, nonprofits, teaching, banking, or consulting - and over a quarter have completed another graduate degree. In 2006, Stanford Law School's acceptance rate was 8.7%, one of the lowest in the nation. (External Link

) The Law School also accepts a small number of transfers each year.

Programs and centers

Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP)
Rule of Law Program
Stanford Program in International Law
Stanford Program in Law, Economics & Business
John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST)
Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution Programs

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance

Center for E-Commerce

Center for Internet and Society (CIS)

Center for Law and the Biosciences

Gould Negotiation and Mediation Teaching Program

Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN)

Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Stanford Center for Computers and the Law (CodeX)

Stanford Law Review

Notable alumni

The Law School has a distinguished history of producing leaders in the judiciary, academia, corporate law, finance, government, and the public interest. Upon graduation, most students join law firms or clerk for a judge. About 25% of each graduating class clerks. (External Link

) Stanford alumni practice in 50 countries and 49 states, and are partners at 94 of the 100 largest law firms in the United States. (External Link

) Despite its small size, recently, Stanford has produced the third most professors of law in the country (External Link

) and the fourth most clerks to the Supreme Court. (External Link

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Michael Arrington (1995), Internet journalist and entrepreneur

Carlos Bea (1958), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Xavier Becerra (1984), U.S. Congressman (1984–present)

Riley Bechtel (1977), billionaire, Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Group

Jeff Bingaman (1968), U.S. Senator (1983–present)

Joshua B. Bolten (1980), White House Chief of Staff (2006–present)

Raymond Bonner (1967), investigative reporter for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune

Brooksley Born, first woman named to the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary

Amanda Brown, author of Legally Blonde

Mark Chandler (1981), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Cisco Systems

Warren Christopher (1949), U.S. Secretary of State (1993–1997)

Frank Church (1950), U.S. Senator (1957–1981)

Robert Cochran (1974), creator of the television shows 24 and La Femme Nikita

Daniel Cooperman (1976), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple Corporation

Dorian Daley (1986), Vice President and General Counsel of Oracle Corporation

David C. Drummond (1985), Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google

William Donlon Edwards (1939), U.S. Congressman (1963–1995)

John Ehrlichman (1951), infamous figure in the Watergate scandal

Scott Fedewa (1995), dot-com entrepreneur and author

Raymond C. Fisher (1966), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Ronald M. George (1964), Chief Justice of California (1996–present)

Matt Gonzalez (1990), first Green Party candidate elected to local office, garnered 47% of votes for mayor of San Francisco

Shirley Hufstedler (1949), first United States Secretary of Education (1979–1981), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1968–1979)

Procter R. Hug, Jr. (1958), Judge and former Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Michael Jacobson (1981), Senior Vice President and General Counsel, eBay Inc.

Michael Klarman (1983), Constitutional Law scholar and law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law

Rebecca Love Kourlis (1976), Executive Director at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

Dahlia Lithwick (1995), Senior Editor at Slate

Carlos R, Moreno (1975), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (2001–present)

Dorothy Wright Nelson (1953), Senior Judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

William Neukom (1967), first General Counsel at Microsoft, current president of the American Bar Association

Ronald Kenneth Noble, Secretary General of Interpol and law professor

William Albert Norris (1954), Judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Sandra Day O'Connor (1952), first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006; retired)

Mark Oldman, co-founder of Vault.com and wine critic

Penny Pritzker (1984), billionaire, CEO of Pritzker Realty

William Rehnquist (1952), Chief Justice of the United States (1986–2005)

Jeffrey Reuben III, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and former Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission

Sally Ann Rocker (1987), Managing Director at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC.

Anthony Romero (1990), Executive Director of the ACLU (2001–present)

Pamela Ann Rymer (1967), Judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Sian Seerpoohi Elias, chief justice of New Zealand

Peter Thiel (1992), founder of Paypal

John Van de Kamp (1959), Attorney General of California (1982–1991)

Kent Walker (1987), Vice President & General Counsel of Google

J. Clifford Wallace (1949), Senior Judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Bill Walton (never graduated), former NBA basketball player

Carlos Watson (1995), television host

Katharine Weymouth (1992), publisher of the Washington Post

Dennis Woodside (1980), Vice President, UK, Benelux and Ireland of Google

Notable faculty

When assessed by academic peers, the law faculty is ranked one of the three most accomplished in the country. In 2006, the National Law Journal included six Stanford faculty - professors Jeffrey Fisher, Joseph Grundfest, Mark Lemley, Lawrence Lessig, Kathleen Sullivan, and lecturer Thomas Goldstein - on its list of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country.]

Barbara Babcock

-- civil procedure

Joe Bankman

-- reformer of California tax law

Gerhard Casper -- former president of Stanford University

Joshua Cohen -- political philosophy

Jeffrey Fisher

-- appellate litigation

Mariano-Florentino ("Tino") Cuellar

-- regulatory policy, legislation, international security, criminal law, migration and refugees; former U.S. Treasury official

Marc Franklin

-- media law

Lawrence Friedman

-- legal history

Paul Goldstein

-- international intellectual property; copyright; trademark; author of best selling novel

Jennifer Granick -- intellectual property and First Amendment scholar and practitioner

Henry T. "Hank" Greely -- leading bioethicist.

Joseph Grundfest -- former chair of the SEC

Pamela S. Karlan

-- anti-discrimination; voting rights; appellate litigation

Larry Kramer

-- current dean; constitutional law; conflict of laws

Lawrence Lessig -- constitutional law; cyberlaw

Mark Lemley

-- patent law

Larry Marshall

-- public interest advocate instrumental in convincing the governor of Illinois to place a moratorium on executions

Jennifer Martínez -- represented Jose Padilla before the Supreme Court

Robert Rabin

-- torts

Margaret Radin -- property law

Deborah Rhode

-- legal ethics

Kathleen Sullivan -- former dean; constitutional law

Alan Sykes

-- international law & economics

Allen Weiner

-- international law

Robert Weisberg -- criminal law

Popular culture

The creator of the television show 24 is a Stanford Law graduate.

Although the movie Legally Blonde was filmed as though it were about Harvard Law School, it was based on the writings of a former student about her experiences at Stanford Law.

Arnold Vinick, the fictional Republican candidate for President of the United States in the final season of The West Wing was a Stanford Law graduate.

The school has been mentioned in several movies, such as The Devil Wears Prada and to rather comic effect in Ace Ventura. Additionally, the eponymous character Greg of Dharma & Greg was an alumnus of Stanford Law School.

In the movie Beaches, the character of Hillary goes on to study law at Stanford Law School as is her family's tradition and becomes a human rights lawyer.

In the movie Die Hard, villain Hans Gruber reads the educational history of CEO Joseph Takagi aloud when searching for him in a crowd of hostages. He is described as a graduate of the University of California, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Law School.Further Information

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