The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
The following reflection is a guest post written by Jackson Bai, an alumnus of the Sejong Korea Scholars Program, which is currently accepting student applications until November 1, 2025.
Global stock exchanges today operate in a transformed environment. They remain commercial enterprises competing for listings, but they are also strategic assets deeply embedded in state policy and geopolitical rivalry.
A new journal explores the legal landscape of outer space. “On the West Coast, and especially in Silicon Valley, space is happening all around us … Stanford is uniquely positioned to bring law into that conversation.” Stanford Law School lecturer Erik Jensen and Dinsha Mistree, an affiliate of the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, are serving as advisors to the Stanford Space Law Society.
Invoking national security and the economic rivalry with China, the Trump administration is pursuing legally dubious interventions and control of private industry, with potentially high costs for US dynamism. Like the panic over Japan's rise in the 1980s, the administration's response is unwarranted and counterproductive.
Spanning medicine, public health, and East Asian studies, Richard Liang’s rare academic path at Stanford has fueled collaborations that bridge research and policy across borders and disciplines.
Congratulations are extended to the 2024–2025 student honorees from Hiroshima Prefecture, Kagoshima City, Kawasaki City, Kobe City, Oita Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) is pleased to announce its 2025–26 cohort of Skyline Scholars: Professors Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang, Ke Wang, and Jing Zhang*.
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is pleased to welcome five pre- and postdoctoral fellows who will join us for the 2025-26 academic year. These scholars will spend the academic year focusing on the Center's four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
A new paper by Stanford Graduate School of Business finance professors Anat Admati and Paul Pfleiderer, and Nathan Atkinson, PhD ’19, an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, explores how the rules governing corporate misconduct can fall short of their objectives and even encourage worse behavior.
The center offers multiple fellowships in Asian studies to begin in fall quarter 2026. These include a postdoctoral fellowship on political, economic, or social change in the Asia-Pacific region, postdoctoral fellowships focused on Asia health policy and contemporary Japan, postdoctoral fellowships and visiting fellow positions with the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab, and a visiting fellow position on contemporary Taiwan.
Landsbergis, formerly the minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, will have simultaneous affiliations across the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
