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This course will help students understand, navigate, use, and develop ethical best practices for a range of AI tools, with a focus on their applications in legal practice and research. Students will learn to evaluate, select, and use the most effective AI tools for legal tasks through hands-on practice with both general and legal-specific AI tools. They will explore real-world benefits and limitations, develop and apply best practices, and engage in the critical thinking necessary to competently use AI in legal practice. Throughout the quarter, students will build a framework for identifying and applying ethical and professional responsibilities with regards to AI usage. The learning objectives for this course are (1) Explain common AI concepts and why they matter for legal practice and research; (2) Critically assess AI tools; (3) Use AI tools effectively, ethically, and responsibly in legal practice and research; and (4) Strategically apply acquired knowledge and skills to effectively adapt as AI tools evolve. Learning AI tools requires a hand-on approach, so students will complete in-class exercises and 3 homework projects. In addition to the four regular meetings, a one-hour session will be held during week one, likely in the evening or on a weekend (time TBD). Special Instructions: Enrollment in LAW 4065B is for LLM STUDENTS ONLY.

This 1-unit, mandatory pass course provides a hands-on introduction to the use of artificial intelligence in audit and tax practice. Designed for law students but open to students in all schools, the course offers practical exposure to how AI tools are transforming white-collar professional services beyond traditional legal practice. The course consists of three intensive simulations: Session 1: Personal income tax simulation. Session 2: Corporate income tax simulation. Session 3: Audit simulation. In each session, students will use AI tools to complete realistic professional tasks. Students may use tools available through the law library (e.g., Harvey) and will also receive access to AI platforms designed specifically for accounting and audit functions that are not otherwise available to students (e.g., Accrual). Several of these accounting-focused tools are currently in development. When such tools are used in the simulations, the entrepreneurs building them are expected to join the class to demonstrate their platforms, discuss design decisions, and engage with students about the evolving role of AI in audit and tax practice. This course is particularly well suited for students who: Want practical exposure to AI tools used in white-collar professions beyond law; Plan to work in tax law, securities law, corporate governance, or in-house roles interacting with finance and accounting teams; or Seek to understand how AI will reshape auditing, tax compliance, and financial oversight. No technical background is required. Elements used in grading: Series of reflection papers (no exam).

The growing tension between China and the rest of the world after the COVID-19 outbreak has made it more important than ever for businesses and their advisers to understand the legal framework in China and related compliance issues. Given their need to survive the current economic crisis, which will likely last for some time, foreign businesses--however guarded they are--must keep a watchful eye and be ready to seize opportunities arising from an economy that is too big to give up. Designed to prepare students for different opportunities that are likely to touch on China and its regulatory framework, this introductory course examines Chinese legal rules and principles in select business-related areas, including intellectual property, dispute resolution (e.g., arbitration and litigation), foreign investment law, antimonopoly law, environmental protection, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on her 25 years of experience handling issues related to U.S.--China relations, politics, and legal reforms, the instructor will, wherever appropriate, conduct discussions that help shed light on the role of China in the new world order. Through active class participation and analysis of legal and business cases, students will learn both the law on the books and the law in action, as well as strategies that Chinese and international businesses alike can use to overcome limitations in the Chinese legal system. Leaders from the law and business communities will be invited to share their experiences and insights. This course is particularly suitable for law students, MBA students, and students enrolled in the East Asian Studies Program. Undergraduates who have permission from the instructor may also take this course. A Stanford Non-Law Student Course Registration Form is available on the SLS Registrar's Office website. Elements used in grading: class participation (20%), team project (40%), and extended take-home exam (40%). For the team project component, students will work with another student enrolled in the class to produce an analysis of a judicial case or legislation in China and discuss, for example, the implications of the related Chinese legal principles for businesses and/or major differences between these principles and similar U.S. legal principles. Quality team projects may have the opportunity to be included in the professional journal published by the China Guiding Cases Project ("CGCP"), which is led by Dr. Mei Gechlik, the instructor, and her global team of nearly 200 members. Team projects selected for publication will receive editorial input from the CGCP.

In this introductory course to the field of comparative law, we will consider a broad range of sociolegal challenges faced by democratic nations today, focusing most especially on Western Europe and the United States, and to a lesser extent on Latin America. How do different countries address the same core challenges? And to the extent that they adopt differing approaches, why do they do so--and how do they compare? We will study a range of legal institutions and practices, including such topics as legal education, the role of judges and judging, constitutional courts and judicial review, criminal procedure and punishment, and the rise and regulation of consumer culture. In contrast to the traditional comparative law course, we will also devote substantial time to such pressing public-law questions as racial equality and affirmative action, gender equality and sexual harassment, and church-state relations. In lieu of the final exam, students may opt to write a research (R) paper). After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), with consent of the instructor. Students taking the course for R credit can take the course for either 3 or 4 units, depending on the paper length. Elements used in grading: Class participation; and exam or research paper.

The establishment of a global system of international justice reveals that the promises made during the Nuremberg era are not mere history. Over the past two decades, the international community has undertaken a considerable investment in enforcing international criminal law in conflict and post-conflict situations with the establishment of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Cambodia, and Lebanon. In addition, new hybrid models and multilateral investigative institutions are in operation, attesting to the creativity of justice advocates. Meanwhile, national courts are increasingly exercising expanded forms of criminal jurisdiction over international and transnational crimes. The International Criminal Court (ICC) sits at the apex of this system, although it is plagued by challenges to its legitimacy, erratic state cooperation, and persistent perceptions of inefficacy and inefficiency. Moreover, the global commitment to international justice remains inconsistent as calls for criminal accountability for the situations in Sri Lanka, South Sudan, and Syria -- among others -- go unanswered. This course will introduce students to the law, institutions, and actors that constitute the system of international justice and to the political environment in which this system is situated. Readings will map the once and future international criminal law institutions, offer an elemental analysis of international crimes and forms of responsibility as they have evolved in international law, and focus on the challenges of pursuing criminal prosecutions for international crimes. Jurisprudence from the various international and domestic tribunals will be scrutinized with an emphasis on understanding the prosecution's burden, available defenses, and sources of proof. The course will also engage new and perennial debates about the suitability of using criminal justice mechanisms to respond to mass atrocity situations and consider alternatives from the domain of transitional justice. In addition to the substance of international criminal law, this course will also serve as an introduction to international legal reasoning, law-making, and institutional design. It will complement existing courses at the Law School covering comparative law, international organizations, international human rights, criminal law, and public international law. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer, with consent of the instructor, from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement. Elements used grading: Attendance, Class Participation, Written Assignments; Exam or Final Paper. Cross-listed with Human Rights ( HUMRTS 116) and International Policy ( INTLPOL 354).

The U.S. and the European Union (which comprises 27 European states and 450 million people) have the largest bilateral trade relationship in the world. Over 50% of the world's GDP is generated on the Transatlantic Marketplace. U.S. companies rely on the EU market for more than half of their global foreign profits, and U.S. investment in the EU is currently three times greater than U.S. investment in the whole of Asia. In recent years, this has tremendously heightened the need for a sound understanding of the legal system of the EU, especially for business and technology lawyers. Responding to this need, this course will, first, examine the internationally unique legal system of the EU as such, as it is applicable to any field of substantive and procedural EU law. Thus, we will look at the legal nature and the different sources of EU law and its relationship with the national law of the EU Member States, including European human rights and fundamental rights protection standards. We will cover the relevant EU law enforcement actions including state liability issues for breach of EU law as well as the jurisdiction of both European Courts and relevant remedies in national courts. Secondly, we will explore the legal framework governing business activities in the EU, from the perspective of a business entity as an internationally operating actor in a European business environment. In this context, we will focus on the most essential fields of EU business law, i.e. (a) the four fundamental economic freedoms of the European Internal Market for goods, services, capital, and persons (enterprises, workforce, immigration), including the legal and economic implications of Brexit, (b) EU competition (antitrust) law, and (c) the new digital European Internal Market and EU data protection and privacy laws. Special attention will be given to the question how companies established outside the EU can efficiently use EU business law to pursue their interests in the EU. Additional study and research opportunities for students in EU law, building on this course, can be found on the SLS EU Law Initiatives website ( https://law.stanford.edu/transatlantic-technology-law-forum/european-union-law-initiatives/). Special Instructions: After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer, with consent of the instructor, from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement. Grades for students enrolled in section (01) will be based on writing assignments. Students taking the course for R credit can take the course for either 2 or 3 units, depending on the paper length. Elements used in grading: Writing assignments or research paper.

This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the law--domestic, foreign, and international--governing international business transactions. We begin by looking at several issues that cut across many types of transactions: the role of international lawyers, international dispute resolution, the place of international law in the U.S. legal system, the extraterritorial application of domestic law, and corporate social responsibility. In addition, wewill look at some of the principal kinds of regulation, foreign and domestic, that apply to each, including antitrust law, securities law, tax law, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. These introductory sessions are followed by a series of problems, each focused on a different type of transaction: transnational sales, agency and distributorship agreements, licensing of intellectual property, foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. The course will be taught using the problem method rather than the standard case discussion method. Students will be assigned to represent a party in each of these problems. The students will negotiate their respective party's position during the class. The solution to these problems will require the utilization of cases, treaties and international agreements, materials in the textbook, and US statutes. There will be a final exam. The exam will be one problem similar in format to those discussed in class. Elements used in grading: class participation, and an in class final exam. This class is open to ALL students (except 1Ls). There are no prerequisites.

This course is structured around a quarter-long, simulated negotiation exercise which provides an in-depth study of the structuring and negotiating of an international business transaction. This class will be taught in counterpart with a class at Berkeley Law School. Students in this class will represent a U.S. pharmaceutical company, and the students in the class at Berkeley will represent an African agricultural production company. The two companies are interested in working together to exploit a new technology developed by the pharmaceutical company that uses the cassava produced by the African agricultural production company. The form of their collaboration could be a joint venture, a licensing agreement or a long term supply contract. The negotiations between the two classes will take place through written exchanges and through real-time negotiation which will be conducted both in-person and via videoconferences. The purpose of the course is to provide students with an opportunity (i) to experience the sequential development of a business transaction over an extended negotiation, (ii) to study the business and legal issues and strategies that impact the negotiation, (iii) to gain insight into the dynamics of negotiating and structuring international business transactions, (iv) to learn about the role that lawyers and law play in these negotiations, (v) to give students experience in drafting communications, and (vi) to provide negotiating experience in a context that replicates actual legal practice with an unfamiliar opposing party (here, the students at Berkeley). Students will also learn about the legal and business issues that may arise in joint ventures, supply agreements and licensing agreements. The thrust of this course is class participation and active involvement in the negotiations process. Students are expected to spend time outside of class, working in teams, to prepare the written exchanges, to prepare for the live negotiations (as well as online negotiations in a world where these will be increasingly the norm), and to prepare for class discussions. Class discussions will focus on the strategy for, and progress of, the negotiations; collective evaluation of the class's preparation for, and performance in, the negotiations; and the substantive legal, business and policy matters that impact on the negotiations. In addition to the regular Monday class, the class will meet on Saturday September 27 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Stanford Law School (necessitated by the late start for the Stanford quarter this year and the need to sync with the Berkeley class). In addition, classes will meet for the live negotiations on four Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM (10/4, 10/11, 10/25 and 11/1) in the San Francisco office of DLA Piper (555 Mission Street; close to Montgomery St. BART station), and one Thursday evening (via Zoom) at 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (10/16). The four Saturday classes will end at 1:30 PM, except for 11/1 which will end at 2:30 PM. Due to the Thursday and Saturday classes, this class will conclude on November 3. Admission to this class is by consent of instructor. The maximum class size is 21, which will include students from GSB or other departments. Attention Waitlist Students: Students on the waitlist for the course will be admitted if spots are available on the basis of their position on the waitlist and degree of study; all waitlist students are encouraged to attend the first class and will be notified as spaces become available. Attention Non-Law Students: You must complete and submit both a consent application form and a Non-Law Student Course Add Request Form to the Law School Registrar's Office (Room 100). See Stanford Non-Law Student Course Registration on the SLS Registrar's Office website. Prerequisites: A course in basic negotiations (e.g., Law 7821) or comparable prior experience is recommended. Elements used in grading: Class participation, written assignments and final paper. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and submit a Consent Application Form available on the SLS Registrar website https://registrar.law.stanford.edu/. Click SUNetID Login in the top right corner of the page and then click the "Consent Courses" tab. See Consent Application Form for instructions and submission deadline.

This course offers an introduction to the law and practice of international arbitration, the leading mechanism for resolving cross-border commercial disputes. Globalization has meant that individuals, corporations, and governments are increasingly parties to international transactions. Each year, thousands of disputes arising from these transactions are submitted to arbitration, rather than to traditional domestic courts. Arbitration's promise of neutral, enforceable, and efficient dispute resolution has allowed it to flourish, despite criticisms of high cost, systemic bias, and lack of transparency. The course will equip students with the theoretical foundations and key practical skills for engaging in the practice of international commercial arbitration. Core areas of study will include the drafting of arbitration agreements; the appointment of arbitrators; the conduct of arbitral proceedings; and the enforcement of arbitral awards. Attention will be given to instances where common law and civil law traditions intersect, particularly in the use and production of evidence. Role-playing exercises and video clips from arbitration proceedings will bring concrete examples to the classroom. Elements used in grading: Attendance, class participation, written assignments, final exam.