Shortly before a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators released their bipartisan infrastructure permitting reform legislation—the ...

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

Building the infrastructure needed for the clean energy transition has renewed a long-running debate: How can the United ...

Promise Mabilo, a South African environmental justice activist who has spent years organizing communities affected by coal ...

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

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

Deborah Sivas, director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and an expert on environmental policy, said the commission’s ...

Stanford historian Jonathan Gienapp argues that four years of earnings cannot measure what a liberal arts degree delivers.

Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg said prosecutors could ask Cannon to review Brennan's testimony privately, decide on her own that i ...

The evolution is happening across the country. Columbus, Ohio, law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, for instance, worked with Stanford University ...

Courts, law enforcement institutions, and democratic guardrails face mounting pressure around the world, raising fundamental ...

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