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Women in leadership pave the way for future generations Photo by Maddie Monroe | The State News "Recognize where we come from and where we still have to go and then (recognize) that we have to be inclusive in the movement of womens rights ... and make sure that we hold each other up as...

White House Archives Deborah Rhode at the White Houses 2011 Champions of Change event. View full image At the age of 31, Deborah Rhode ’74, ’77JD, became the first female Yale College graduate elected to the Yale Board of Trustees. She and her husband, Ralph Cavanagh ’74, ’77JD, arrived at the introductory dinner and found their place cards on the table. Deborah’s card read “Deborah Rhode.” Ralph’s read “Ralph Rhode.” It was 1983, and back then, it was almost a reflex to...

Deborah Rhode, Stanford law professor and authority on legal ethics, dies at 68 Harrison Smith © Stanford Law School Deborah L. Rhode became only the second woman to receive tenure at Stanford Law School, where she taught since 1979. As a law student at Yale in the mid-1970s, Deborah L. Rhode worked at a legal aid clinic, helping clients who were unable to afford lawyers for their divorce cases. Local lawyers were charging too much, she recalled — $1,000 just to fill out ...

Deborah Rhode and her dog Stanton. Photo: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD/Stanford Magazine on January 11, 2021 Law professor Deborah Rhode, a renowned legal ethics and gender law and policy scholar, died on Friday at 68. To wrap Rhode’s countless board positions, awards, publications, and accomplishments otherwise is an impossible task. Over the course of her legal career, Rhode authored 30 books on gender, ethics and public policy and became the most cited scholar in legal ethics.  “I don’t know of ...

Skip to main content Stanford law Professor Deborah Rhode, leading voice on legal ethics and womens rights, dies at 68 FacebookTwitterEmail Stanford Law Professor Deborah Rhode, one of the nation’s leading scholars on legal ethics, has died at 68.Stanford Law School Stanford Law School Professor Deborah Rhode, one of the nation’s leading scholars on legal ethics, has died at age 68. Rhode had taught at Stanford since 1979, when she became the third female law professor in the school’s his...

The legal academy lost one of its finest scholars and teachers when Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School died on January 8, 2020, at the age of 68. She was only the second woman to join the faculty there, a position she held for 41 years. Professor Rhode was one of the nation’s leaders in the law of sex discrimination, as well as in legal ethics and the legal profession. It would be hard to think of a gender law scholar whose work was both so widely cited and so broad in scope. Amon...

Bay Briefing: California will open mass vaccination centers - but theyre not for everyone just yet FacebookTwitterEmail Mario Jones (left), with the Oakland Fire Department, gets his second dosage of the Pfizer vaccine from nurse Virginia Barrett (right) at St. Rose Hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Hayward, California. They were administering both the first dosage and second dosage of the vaccine.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, Jan. 12, and Bay Area...

Trump attorneys risk disciplinary action over wave of election suits John Kruzel © Getty Images Trump attorneys risk disciplinary action over wave of election suits The attorneys behind President Trumps failing effort to overturn the election are facing mounting ethics complaints for advancing what critics say is a frivolous legal campaign designed to delegitimize President-elect Joe Bidens win and bolster Trumps post-election fundraising. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well ...

One step closer to inclusionary housing in Cape Town 14 Dec 2020 Recouping public good in the form of affordable housing from private developments is a powerful tool with which to tackle equitable access to land and the right to a home. The recent settlement of litigation around The Vogue property development between Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) and the City of Cape Town (the City) inches our city one step closer to a more just and equal Cape Town. “Litigation is a political tool that, when used strat...

Women leaders and jurists honour the work and life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Human Rights Day As part of the Leaders for Generation Equality campaign, UN Women, together with Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession, and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, paid tribute to the global legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a high-level interactive discussion with eminent leaders, jurists and ex...