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Most lawyers and other professionals spend a significant amount of time in meetings and working in teams or groups for a variety of purposes, and many report that this can be a frustrating experience. As the practice of law becomes more complex, it includes more and more situations where organizations and groups of people need to work together leading projects, organizations, and teams; planning complex legal strategies; developing firm policies; working with corporations or other multi-person clients; or participating in shareholder meetings, public commissions and councils, corporate and non-profit Board of Directors meetings. Group functionality and outcomes can be significantly improved by any group members who has the awareness and skills of a facilitator, whether or not that person is formally designated as the facilitator. The interactive class methodology will combine discussion with many exercises and roleplays, putting facilitation tools into practice every step of the way. We will examine group dynamics and learn skills used by professional facilitators to prevent common problems and elicit the best work of a group. We will explore how to prepare effectively with clear goals, collaborative problem definition, inclusive process design and a well-structured agenda. We will also discuss and practice core meeting management skills such as how to balance voice and participation, build consensus, inspire creativity and promote principled evaluation and decision-making. Finally, we will identify and apply communication skills that keep group sessions productive and tools to manage difficult moments and problem behaviors. Class Schedule dates: January 23, January 30, and February 6; Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Elements used in grading: Class attendance, participation and final paper.

This course will teach law students how to research, analyze, write and negotiate basic business contracts and term sheets such as confidentiality agreements, purchase agreement term sheets, limited liability company agreement term sheets, and NVCA financing term sheets as well as related issues lists and client memoranda. After interactive lectures and review of materials regarding principles of negotiation and applicable contract or term sheet provisions, students will be paired in groups to two in order to engage in a series of projects including research, analysis and writing exercises, preparing issues lists, agreement and term sheet markups and client memoranda, negotiation sessions, and proposing solutions to get to an agreement (or not). Students are encouraged to use AI to expedite and enhance client service, but students are also responsible for verifying the accuracy of information provided by AI tools and understanding such work product in connection with class projects and discussion. Students should leave the course with a solid foundation for more principled, persuasive and successful writing, analysis, research, client communication and counterparty negotiation in a variety of business contexts. Students are expected to learn foundational tools necessary to research and write clear, effective, plain language business issues lists, client memoranda, term sheets and contracts and analyze other transactional documents and writings used in complex business transactions. The class exercises are also intended to help students improve their research, writing, analysis, and editing skills and develop sensitivity to the expectations of attorneys and clients with whom they will be working. The course will appeal especially to students interested in working for a law firm and practicing transactional law (including corporate, private equity, venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, etc.). Special Instructions: Students may not drop this course after first week of class. Students on the waitlist for the course will be admitted if spots are available on the basis of priority and degree program. Elements used in grading: Attendance, Class Participation, Written Assignments.

This 2-day, 1-unit workshop offers law students the opportunity to practice trial advocacy and oral argument skills in a low-stakes setting. Four different workshops will run: oral argument, deposition, cross examination, and direct examination. Stanford Law alums working as plaintiffs' attorneys will serve as workshop facilitators and will offer specific, concrete feedback to students. Stanford Law alums will also provide demonstrations of openings and closings, and students will have the opportunity to learn about their practices throughout. Students of all levels of familiarity with trial and oral argument are welcome. The goal is to provide students the opportunity to practice, and every opportunity to practice improves skills. Students will have the opportunity to select into workshop groups based on level of familiarity. Some preparation ahead of time will be required, but the course's overarching aim is just to get students on their feet. In addition to Shanin Specter, facilitators (subject to change) include: Rich Bridgford (Bridgford Law), Nathan Werksman (Merson Law), Patrick Ntchobo (Edelson), Hannah Matsunaga (Davis Levin Levingston), Rachel Green (Katz Banks Kumin), Faaris Akremi (Bredhoff Kaiser), Jake Seidman (Gibbs Mura), Larry Liu (Susman Godfrey), Olivia Flechsig (Allred Maroko Goldberg). All meals throughout will be provided. Note, while students are free to sign up for as many workshops as they want, only students who participate in the full workshop will receive course credit. Attendance will be taken on both Friday and Saturday. PLEASE NOTE: For purposes of the JD degree requirements, these units count toward the maximum 31 units permitted for non-traditional law school coursework, as outlined SLS Student Handbook for the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence at https://law.stanford.edu/office-of-student-affairs/the-doctor-of-jurisprudence-jd-degree/. Deliverable: In addition to participating in all workshops, enrolled students must end the class with a 2-page reflection paper (double spaced), due by 5:00 pm on Monday April 13, reflecting on what they learned during the course of the workshop and how they plan to continue to hone their skills going forward. Elements Used in Grading: Attendance, class participation, written assignment, oral feedback. Preliminary Schedule (Subject to Change): Friday, April 10: 12:45-1:45 PM -- Lunch talk with Shanin Specter: "How to Integrate Your Aptitude Into Practice Skills"; 2:00-2:30 PM -- Demonstration of an Opening Statement/Closing Argument; 2:45-4:05 PM -- Oral Argument workshop - 1Ls will have the opportunity to argue the issues raised in the Federal Litigation brief - 2Ls and 3Ls will be given a short prompt to argue (no outside research required); 4:20-6:00 PM -- Deposition workshop - Students will take turns playing the witness and will be coached by the workshop facilitators on phrasing questions - Students will have the opportunity to sign up for various "tracks" including: New to depositions, Pinning down the evasive witness, Fact witness deposition; 6:30 PM onwards -- Dinner and Happy Hour. Saturday, April 11: 8:00-9:00 AM -- Breakfast & Tips and Tricks for Direct/Cross Examinations with all facilitators; 9:10-10:30 AM - Direct Examination workshop - Students will have the opportunity to sign up for various tracks including: New to direct examination, Plaintiff direct, Expert witness direct; 10:30-11:00 AM -- Demonstration of an Opening Statement/Closing Argument; 11:10-12:30 PM -- Cross Examination workshop; Students will have the opportunity to sign up for various tracks including: New to cross examination, Crossing the defense's expert witness, Crossing a corporate representative; 12:30-close -- Lunch and Job Search/Networking Advice Session.

The seminar on corporate governance meets in the Autumn and Spring quarters and forms the core of the LL.M. Program in Corporate Governance & Practice. The course, designed to be taken in conjunction with Corporations in Autumn, takes an economic approach to the analysis of corporate law. In particular, we ask why American corporate law has its particular structure. We will seek to understand how the separation of ownership and control produces agency costs, and the ways in which corporate law seeks to remedy these costs through techniques like disclosure, fiduciary duties, shareholder litigation, voting, and hostile takeovers. We will read and discuss ongoing debates among scholars and practitioners about the agency cost framework, the merits and limits of current legal policies, and the role of institutional arrangements like activist shareholders. We will also consider the relevance of these disputes, and the effectiveness of corporate law and governance more generally, in the context of a variety of real-life incidents. No knowledge of economics is presupposed, so the course will also introduce basic economic and financial concepts necessary to understand these concepts. Some course sessions will feature outside speakers, who will complement the discussions with real-world examples drawn from practice. Attendance and active participation are important to the success of the seminar and an important factor in the overall grade. Students are expected to have carefully read and reviewed assigned materials in advance of each session. Students will be required to submit short reflection papers that evaluate, critique, and discuss some or all of the assigned readings. Students will also be asked to prepare presentations and case studies. The class will be graded H/P/R/F in Autumn Quarter and Spring Quarter. This course is required for and limited to students in the Corporate Governance & Practice LL.M. Program. Elements used in grading: Class participation, attendance, and assignments. Class will meet according to the schedule set forth by the Registrar's office.

The Environmental Law & Policy Colloquium offers students the opportunity to learn about contemporary environmental law and policy matters. These matters include, among other areas, climate law, land conservation, natural resources management, wildfire policy, and climate change and migration. The colloquium meets in two quarters. During the autumn quarter, classes meet weekly. In the spring quarter, the class does not meet every week. We will meet for several class sessions during the weekly scheduled time and have a Friday and Saturday workshop where students will present their capstone research papers. Over the course of these two quarters, students will develop, write, and present a capstone research paper on a contemporary environmental law issue related to their home country and/or region. During the autumn quarter, students will begin to develop their capstone research papers by developing their proposals, outlines and literature reviews. During the spring quarter, the students will write and present their research papers. Across the two quarters we will also explore and discuss a diverse range of environmental law and policy matters through readings and class discussions. Over the course of the year, the Colloquium invites a number of guest speakers, including academics and practicing attorneys. Some of the guest seminars take place during regular class hours and some may take place outside of these class hours. Grading in this course is based on analytical reading response papers, the capstone research paper (including the proposal, outline, and literature review), presentation of the capstone research paper, and class participation. This course is required for students in the Environmental Law & Policy LLM Program.

This course enables IELBP advanced degree students to explore selected issues, case studies and policy debates in international economic law and business and global political economy in a highly interactive seminar. The course is a complement to the other core degree requirements of the LLM in IELBP and is discussion oriented. The course offers students the opportunity to engage in dialogue with their classmates as well as experts in the field (including practitioners, Stanford Law faculty and interdisciplinary scholars from other schools, departments, or programs at Stanford University). The course takes on a wide-ranging approach: we will examine legal issues confronting international trade and investment while also focusing on cutting-edge debates arising out of economic globalization; we will explore the complex architecture of international economic law, unpacking how international institutions and public international law sources (formal and informal) regulate: i) international economic relations between and among states, ii) cross-border economic conduct by states, international organizations, and private actors, and iii) cross-border business transactions between private parties. Students are expected to have carefully read assigned materials in advance of each session, and to actively participate during class. Grades for the colloquium are based on students' papers and their classroom performance (e.g., preparation, participation, attendance, etc.). The course extends over two quarters (fall and winter), and students are required to complete both quarters in order to satisfy the program requirement. Topics in the Fall quarter will focus on developments in world trade law, international investment law, economic integration and development, international taxation, international arbitration, trade negotiations and antitrust law among others. Topics in the Winter quarter will be selected based on students' interests, as well as pressing policy concerns in international commerce.

The Law, Science & Technology Colloquium offers students in the Law, Science & Technology LLM Program the opportunity to discuss cutting-edge legal issues at the intersection of law and technology. The colloquium is held in the Fall and Spring quarters and aims to give the LST LLM students a broad overview of the many areas within Law, Science and Technology, as well as the connections between areas. In Fall, we will focus on Internet Law and Intellectual Property, including sessions on privacy, free speech, copyright, and patents, with extra focuses on biotechnology and bioscience. In Spring, we will broaden our scope to a selection of issues including potentially AI, dark patterns, more on biotechnology & bioscience, telecommunications regulation, or legal practice. Furthermore, we will discuss how the law of science and technology is made in the United States, and how lawyers can effect change in these laws. The class will feature several guest speakers who are experts in the field, including potentially Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, technology and IP lawyers, entrepreneurs, and executives from Silicon Valley technology companies. Students are expected to have carefully read the assigned materials in advance of each session, and to actively participate during class. Students will also write a capstone paper on a topic of their choice, in consultation with the instructor. There will also be oral presentations on their capstone papers and on current events in LST. Grades for the colloquium are based on students' papers and their classroom performance (e.g., preparation, participation, attendance, etc.). This course is restricted to students in the Law, Science, and Technology LLM program, and satisfies their "colloquium requirement" for the fall and spring quarter. In fall and spring students will be graded on an Honors/Pass/Restricted Credit/Fail basis. Class will meet in-person unless the Law School's policies state otherwise.

This seminar is restricted to students who are in the SPILS program. The seminar deals with the relationship between legal systems and the societies in which they are embedded. The materials are drawn from studies of many different societies. Among the issues dealt with are: What influence does culture have on the operation of legal systems? What are the social forces which produce particular forms of law? What impact do legal interventions have on society and on human behavior? Elements used in grading: Final paper.

The writing of a work of original scholarship in the area of research that each student chooses is necessary requirement of the JSM degree. During the winter quarter students are expected to submit two draft chapters: 1) any chapter of the fellow's choice in early February; and 2) a draft of the empirical research result's chapter in early March. During the spring quarter students are expected to finalize their research project, and write and submit their final thesis. Towards that end, students must complete and submit a draft of the whole thesis in early April. The final version, revised in response to the adviser's comments, must be submitted by the end of the quarter. The exact dates will be informed in advance by the teaching fellow. Elements used in grading: Thesis. This course is exclusive to SPILS students. The thesis is required for JSM graduation.