The legal profession provides a disproportionate number of leaders in American society, everywhere from law firms, to politics, the private sector, and the nonprofit realm. Why do so many lawyers end up in leadership positions? How can lawyers do better in these roles? This Symposium will focus on the role lawyers play as leaders in our society. It will bring together leading practitioners in a variety of fields to reflect on diversity in leadership, pathways to leadership, and leadership training in legal education. Each panel will feature leading lawyers in their field and will be moderated by Stanford Law faculty and legal scholars publishing on these topics in the Law Review.
Symposium Schedule
Photos from our 2017 Symposium.
Past Symposia
- 2024 Symposium - Speech at Twenty-First Century Schools and Universities
- 2023 Symposium - Access to Justice
- 2022 Symposium - Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Vote
- 2021 Symposium - Policing, Race, and Power
- 2020 Symposium - Lawyering in the Age of Climate Change
- 2019 Symposium - The Independence of the American Judicial System
- 2018 Symposium - Federalism in an Age of Polarization
- 2016 Symposium - Law of Democracy
- 2015 Symposium - Who Knows?
- 2014 Symposium - The Civil Rights Act at Fifty
- 2012 Symposium - The Privacy Paradox
- 2011 Symposium - The Future of Patents