STANFORD LAW — On January 9, approximately 500 SLS students, faculty, and staff members attended a one-hour, informal conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer, who served on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) for just under 28 years until his retirement at the end of the last term in 2022. Jenny Martinez, the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean at Stanford Law School and senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, who clerked for Breyer during the Court’s 1998-99 term, led a wide-ranging discussion that touched on Breyer’s formative experiences, his approach to finding common ground with others, his change of mind on the death penalty, and the role of the judiciary in furthering the rule of law, among other topics.