Join the Santa Clara Law community as we gather and honor alumni and community leaders. At the Fairmont San Jose from 6-9 pm.
APR 18: CELEBRATION OF ACHIEVEMENT
Author: lawmagazine
MAR 19: SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNI MIXER AT DUANE MORRIS LLP
March 2020
SCU TRUSTEES FUND PRIVACY LAW PROGRAM EXPANSION
Santa Clara University School of Law has received gifts totaling $750,000 from Margaret & Kapil Nanda, Barbara & Paul Gentzkow, and Larry Sonsini, three current or former University trustees, and two of their spouses, to expand upon its highly successful program in privacy law. Read more.
MARCH 30: ALEXANDER LAW PRIZE
The 2020 Alexander Law Prize recipient is David Morales, strategic litigation director of Cristosal with over 25 years of experience in human rights law. More info.
March 2020
BRIAN LOVE AND COLLEEN CHIEN ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Professors Brian Love and Colleen Chien have each authored a chapter in the recently-published “Research Handbook on the Law & Economics of Intellectual Property Law: Volume 2 – Analytical Methods (Peter S. Menell & David L. Schwartz, eds., Edgar Elgar Publishing 2019).” Read more.
GROUNDBREAKING STUDY INTO “HIGH-CONFLICT PERSONALITIES” IN DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS TO APPEAR IN FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY
The grant-funded research for this article was led by Santa Clara Law Professor Michelle Oberman with Bay Area attorney Esther Rosenfeld and 3L Santa Clara Law students Jordan Bernard and Erika Lee. Read more.
PRE-LAW MAGAZINE GIVES TOP MARKS TO SANTA CLARA LAW FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM & DIVERSITY
Pre-Law Magazine gave Santa Clara Law’s International Law program an A+, and the Law School is ranked among the top schools for Asians (#5) and Hispanics (#22). Read more.
ARTICLE ON PRETRIAL RELEASE BY W. DAVID BALL
Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball has a forthcoming NYU Law Review article on the topic of preventive detention of arrestees and whether pretrial decisions can truly be made in a vacuum, or are influenced by unconscious psychological bias. “The human tendency to desire certainty and simplicity may help explain why our default seems to be to keep someone locked up, ‘just in case’—and why this desire is resistant to information and argument,” writes Ball. Read the abstract here.
