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Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession

Through a multidisciplinary approach to teaching, research, and policy, the Rhode Center works to make civil justice more equitable, accessible, and transparent and to promote the legal profession’s commitment to the public interest.

Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession

Through a multidisciplinary approach to teaching, research, and policy, the Rhode Center works to make civil justice more equitable, accessible, and transparent and to promote the legal profession’s commitment to the public interest.

Focus Areas

Access to Justice and Innovation

The U.S. in the grips of an access-to-justice crisis. We seek to address this crisis through policy and system-level reform and designing tools to help people access legal assistance.
Access to Justice and Innovation

Law and Lawyering Into the Digital Future

A wave of new technologies is transforming the legal system. We aim to equip lawyers with the tools they need to help society chart a wise, ethical, and humane course.
Law and Lawyering Into the Digital Future

Protecting Consumers and Clients in Litigation

The civil legal system is experiencing fundamental transformation. We are dedicated to a rigorous assessment of how it protects consumers, particularly those enmeshed in complex litigation.
Protecting Consumers and Clients in Litigation

A Stronger, More Diverse Profession

While women and persons of color attend law schools in significant numbers, they remain stubbornly underrepresented in the highest echelons of the profession.
A Stronger, More Diverse Profession

Rhode Center in the Spotlight

Access to Justice and Innovation

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Rhode Center’s Civil Justice Fellows Program a Resounding Success

Access to Justice and Innovation

Rhode Center and Legal Design Lab Launch Major Collaboration with LA Superior Court

Access to Justice and Innovation

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Center Produces Groundbreaking Empirical Scholarship on Secrecy in Federal Litigation

Access to Justice and Innovation

The Legal Innovation Toolkit Provides Resources to Re-think Legal Regulation

Access to Justice and Innovation

Center's Filing Fairness Project Assists Courts in Improving Tech-Based Solutions to Increase Access

Access to Justice and Innovation

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Center Offers Innovative Course on Access to Justice and Legal Ethics
About Deborah Rhode

In Memoriam:
Deborah L. Rhode

Before her death on January 8, 2021, Deborah L. Rhode was the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Founder and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession. She was the nation’s most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the author of 30 books in the fields of professional responsibility, leadership, and gender, law and public policy.

Past Projects

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Lawyers as Leaders:

Through publication, curricular development, and programming, the initiative sought to increase the presence of leadership theory and experience for Stanford law students and our wider community.

Lawyers as Leaders

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Legal Design Lab:

The Rhode Center launched the Legal Design Lab in 2014 and incubated it within the Center until 2020. We are so proud that, under Margaret Hagan’s leadership, it is now a thriving stand-alone entity.

Legal Design Lab

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