Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez Visits Chicago

Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez visited Chicago to meet with alums and share news from the Farm this evening. In a wide-ranging Q&A session, she responded to questions about key challenges facing the Law School, its clinical programs, and other new developments there.

I had the opportunity to ask Dean Martinez, who was appointed in April this year, about the one or two things she wanted people to remember from her deanship. She eloquently shared her vision for the Law School, which was both forward-looking and outward-looking.

She saw how the challenges and opportunities from technology transcend intellectual property and raising novel issues in many other areas of the law. Preparing tomorrow’s lawyers means legal education will need to evolve to respond to that challenge, and the Law School has already developed several exciting new programs to do that.

She also spoke about the importance of preparing law students for an internationally interconnected legal practice, which means going beyond studying comparative law in the classroom to actual immersion and continual connection with jurisdictions outside the U.S.

For an interview featuring Dean Martinez, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the future of technology and society, see http://bit.ly/SLSMartinez