There is broad agreement that it takes too long to build “big things” in the U.S.—particularly large infrastructure projects ...

Byron Sher, a long-time Stanford Law School professor and California state legislator who helped usher in landmark ...

In Memphis, Tennessee, the board of education is still required to “provide and maintain separate schools for the use and ...

(Originally published in The Volokh Conspiracy on September 16, 2026.) ...

The federal government increasingly relies on private companies to govern: Palantir for foreign intelligence, Amazon for cloud computing, Starlink for ...

After months of work and successive elimination rounds, two teams earned a spot in the final round of Stanford Law School’s 2026 Kirkwood Moot Court Competition: Samuel Himmelfarb, JD ’27, and Esther ...

This is what we’ve seen since Bush v. Gore, which is an escalating number of court cases with each election,” said Nate Persily, a professor at ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform how government agencies do their work. Rapid developments in AI have the potential to reduce the cost of core governance functions, improve the ...

Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford Law School professor who helped pass the 2018 state net neutrality law, said it’s essential ...

The Lawyers for a Sustainable Economy Initiative matches nonprofits and startups working in the field of environmental sustainability with law firms providing pro bono legal services. Over the past ...

We’re talking about last-minute changes to election infrastructure, which could lead to either confusion or affect the ...