1L Student Guides
Overview
These student guides were created by Stanford Law students for other law students, and approach DE&I issues in the 1L curriculum from a student perspective. The course context guides currently focus on civil procedure, contracts, and torts cases, with plans to expand to the rest of the 1L curriculum.
Course Context Guides
These course context guides provide short summaries of cases, point out issues related to DE&I that inform the case, and provide links to other resources that discuss the case from a DE&I perspective.
This folder contains context for the following cases:
Conley v. Gibson
Erie v. Tompkins
International Shoe
Swanson v. Citibank
Turner v. Rogers
World-wide Volkswagen v. Woodson
This folder contains context for the following cases:
Angel v. Murray
Lumley v. Wagner
Webb v. McGowin
Whity City v. PR
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture
This folder contains context for the following cases:
Palsgraf v. LIRR
Critical Conversations Reader
This reader and syllabus contains resources on critical conversations on race, power, and the curriculum, focusing particularly on the 1L curriculum from a critical race theory perspective. This reader was developed, researched, and put together by SLS students.