June 7th, 2012

Students simulate White House war-room drama in class born of Ethics & War series

Stanford undergraduate and law students simulate Cabinet war-room meeting on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike against Syria for The Ethics and Law of War class, which grew out of the two-year Ethics & War series. Read more »

August 18th, 2009

Draper Hills Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development complete training

Rising leaders from some of the world's most challenging nations, including China, Russia, Ukraine, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, recently completed a three-week seminar at Stanford as Draper Hills Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development. This year's extraordinary fellows included members of parliament, government advisors, civic activists, jurists, journalists, international development experts and founders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The program, now in its fifth year, seeks to foster linkages among democracy, economic development, human rights, and the rule of law, and has received generous gifts from William Draper III and Ingrid von Mangoldt Hills. Read more »

February 10th, 2009

Obama swiftly lays Bush era to rest

Allen Weiner, CISAC faculty member, was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the actions President Obama took during his first week in office to convey a single message: the Bush administration is over. Read more »

February 14th, 2008

O'Melveny & Myers funds faculty chair at Stanford Law School honoring former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher

STANFORD, Calif., February 14, 2008 - Stanford Law School today announced that O'Melveny & Myers law firm and a number of its current and retired partners have committed $1.5 million over five years to permanently endow the Warren Christopher Professorship of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy. The gift is one of the largest from a law firm to fund a faculty position at the law school. Read more »

December 1st, 2007

Summer Fellows Program brings civic activists, policymakers to Stanford

Larry Diamond---Hoover Institution senior fellow, CDDRL democracy program coordinator, and former senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq---has just discussed causes and consequences of corruption and international efforts to control it with a room full of visiting fellows. This is not just a group of learned political scientists, however, and Diamond does not hesitate to follow a sophisticated piece of analysis with a hard-nosed, view-from-the-ground assessment. He has, for instance, just told the fellows what he thinks of a major development institution. ("I think the World Bank needs to be ripped apart and fundamentally restructured.") He has extended the concept of a "resource curse" to include not just oil but also international assistance. ("In many countries, aid is like oil; it's used for outside rents.") He has recommended that institutions learn the "dance of conditionality" and exercise selectivity, choosing countries to invest in based on demonstrated performance. But the 27 fellows around the table know a thing or two about corruption. Most of them face it in their home countries; many of them have made fighting it part of their work. And almost all of their hands go up to tell Diamond that there is something he missed, or something he got right. Read more »