When the Client Is Democracy
“We want to focus on positive reforms,” explains Associate Professor of Law Diego Zambrano, who is also exploring how his lab can work with Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
When students in Associate Professor Diego A. Zambrano’s Law and policy lab practicum met virtually with their clients to discuss a potential redesign of Venezuela’s judiciary, those clients—members of Venezuela’s National Assembly and political opponents of President Nicolás Maduro—were in hiding. Venezuela’s legislative building had just been taken over by Maduro’s security forces, and the lawmakers were all facing arrest.