President's Pages.

• Author: Plasse, Stephanie

From the time of our election, the Editorial Board of the Stanford Law Review had the opportunity to plan for a year that promised to be a watershed: the start of the tenure of the first woman to serve as Dean and the much-touted advent of the millenium. In selecting and preparing our pieces for publication, we have concentrated on what the premiere journal of Stanford Law School can uniquely contribute to legal scholarship at this juncture.

Our new Dean Kathleen Sullivan has called Stanford Law School "a world class institution in Paradise." In a similar vein, we have aimed for Volume 52 to reflect the qualifies that set Stanford apart--the strength of the preeminent faculty across a variety of fields; the international posture that looks beyond the traditional Anglo-American and European civil traditions; the position at the heart of the high-tech revolution of Silicon Valley.

In Issue 1, we publish a collection of articles in the area of corporate law that continues a dialogue begun in Volume 51. Of special note, Lynn M. LoPucki's article, The Essential Structure of Judgment Proofing--along with his earlier Yale Law Journal article on the death of liability--has sparked a lively debate on the potential demise of liability by corporations which shirk judgments against them. Issue 1 opens with Steven L. Schwarcz's critique of LoPucki's thesis which becomes the focal point of three brief responses that follow.

Issue 2, dedicated to former Dean Paul Brest, will feature essays in honor of his years of service to the school. Deborah L. Rhode, a leading legal ethicist and Stanford's Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, reflecting on her service as the minority legal counsel during the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, will explore the role of lawyers in the year's most public legal proceeding. In addition, Kenji Yoshino, a rising scholar, will propose his innovative theory of a bisexual erasure in the academic and public discourse.

A trio of scholars will take a critical look at prosecution, violence and race in Issue 3. Recent public incidents of violence--from the mass murder at Columbine High School in Colorado to the brutal torture of Abner Louima in New York City--have shocked the nation. Against this background, Professors Angela P. Hams, Anthony V. Alfieri, and Richard Delgado engage in a colloquy on the impact that the prosecution of violence has on communities.

The notes in our first three issues, as well as the...