Faculty Achievements

 

They are more than outstanding scholars and teachers of the law; they are engaged and passionate advocates who work to make the world a better place. Following is a partial list of the many achievements, publications, lectures, and activities of our outstanding faculty. For more information on our faculty, including links to profiles, biographies, publications, and works-in-progress, visit law.scu.edu/faculty.

 

Publications, Lectures, and Academic Engagements

Professor Angelo Ancheta

Professor Angelo Ancheta has authored a paper for the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School titled "A Constitutional Analysis of Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Voluntary School Integration Policies." The paper examines constitutional doctrine and policy options for school districts in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions on voluntary school integration policies. He also made a presentation in Sept. 2007 on contemporary interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education at Harvard Law School.

 

Ancheta has also written "From Desegregation to Diversity: Integration Ideals and the Trajectory of Post-Bakke Affirmative Action Law," which is included in the book Bakke at 30: A Touchstone for American Postsecondary Education (Stylus Press, 2008), as well as "Citizenship by Birth," which will appear in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan Reference USA). On Sept. 20, 2007, he presented a historical and legal analysis of desegregation policy at a Town Hall forum in Little Rock, Arkansas, as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the integration of the city’s Central High School.

 

 

Professor Pat Cain gave a panel presentation in Aug. 2007 at the ABA annual meeting in San Francisco, sponsored by the Individual Rights Section and focusing on problems caused for same-sex couples by the law’s failure to recognize their relationships. Her talk was on tax issues. She also gave a presentation on estate planning for same-sex couples at the annual Lavender Law Conference, sponsored by the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, an ABA affiliate. In Sept. 2008, Cain will become treasurer of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). She is a past president of SALT.

 

 

Professor Lia Epperson

Professor Lia Epperson recently authored an article on racial discrimination in education for The Chicago Companion to the Child (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She also presented "Reconciling Federalism, Equality and Accountability in School Desegregation Jurisprudence: The Future of Racial Inclusion in Public Schools," at the University of Iowa College of Law Writers Workshop in Iowa City.

 

Professor Epperson authored two op-eds following the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding voluntary racial integration plans in public schools: "Equal Educational Opportunity—We’re Not There Yet," San Jose Mercury News, July 1, 2007; and "Finding the Good in a Bad Decision," N.Y. Amsterdam News, July 5, 2007 (picked up by other papers as well, including the Jackson Advocate). She has also served as a guest on radio shows discussing the potential impact of the cases. Further, she was selected via a competitive process to present her paper, "Supreme Power: Examining the Role of the Executive Branch in Determining the Meaning and Scope of School Integration Jurisprudence," at a Nov. 9 symposium at University of California Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. The symposium is titled Setting the Agenda: Examining the Critical Legal Issues Facing African-Americans and Minority Communities in the 2008 Election. The paper will be published in the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy. In July, she presented "The World from Grutter to Parents Involved and the Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans," as part of a panel on the future of racial integration in education at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on Amelia Island, FL.

 

 

Professor Anna Han presented "Real Estate Investment under China’s New Land Use Laws" at a national teleconference in Jan. 2007. She also served as the keynote speaker for the licensing executives’ annual conference in March at Hewlett-Packard headquarters in Palo Alto. On Sept. 11, 2007, Han spoke to the Women in Licensing group in Palo Alto on careers in the technology field. On Sept. 20, 2007, she presented "U.S.-China IP Cooperation" at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. The audience was a delegation of high-level People’s Republic of China lawmakers and judges studying at the Center. In Nov. 2007, Han attended the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association convention in Las Vegas and presented "Managing the Management in China: The Challenges of Building and Maintaining an Ethical and Strong Local Management Team in China and Best Practices of Corporate Governance."

 

 

Professor Ellen Kreitzberg

Professor Ellen Kreitzberg’s article (co-authored by David Richter) titled "But Can It Be Fixed? A Look at Constitutional Challenges to Lethal Injection Executions," 47 Santa Clara Law Review 445 (2007), was cited by the Nebraska Supreme Court recently in its ruling that the electric chair is unconstitutional under the state’s constitution. In Jan. 2008, she testified before the California Commission on the Wrongful Administration of Justice about a study and report she had prepared for the Commission.

 

 

Professor Ken Manaster’s book, Environmental Protection and Justice: Readings on the Practice and Purposes of Environmental Law, was published in its third edition by LexisNexis Law School Publishing.

 

 

 

Professor Tyler Ochoa

Professor Tyler Ochoa co-authored a casebook on U.S. copyright law that was published in China in June 2007. He selected and edited the cases and wrote an introduction to each case and an introductory essay in English; his text was translated into Mandarin and the cases were annotated by Professor Chen Huiping of Xiamen University. Ochoa presented "Limits on the Duration of Copyright" at the 13th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, CA, on Aug. 1.

 

Ochoa spoke on a panel entitled "Video Games: Property and Privacy," at Intellectual Property and the Internet, a conference sponsored by the State Bar of California’s Intellectual Property Law Section. In Oct. 2007, he gave a talk titled "Who Owns an Avatar? Assessing Claims of Copyright Ownership in Virtual Worlds," at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Vancouver, Canada. The panel was organized by SCU Law School Professor Eric Goldman. In Nov. 2007, he presented "Property Rights in Video Games" at the 32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, sponsored by the State Bar of California’s Intellectual Property Law Section. He also spoke on a panel entitled "Museum Licensing, The Next Generation" at the annual conference of the Museum Computer Network in Chicago.

 

 

Professor Bob Peterson’s article, "Underground Regulations—Can’t Live With ’Em, Can’t Live Without ’Em," was published in the State Bar of California’s magazine, Business Law News, in 2007.

 

 

Dean and Professor Donald Polden spoke on the subject of legal scholarship at American law schools at the annual meeting of the Southeast Association of Law Schools in Florida. Polden has had two articles published: "Educating Law Students for Leadership Roles and Responsibilities," 39 Toledo Law Review 101 (2008), and "Educating Law Students for Professional and Community Leadership," The Complete Lawyer (2007). In Feb. 2008, Dean Polden spoke on the subject of educating law students for leadership abilities at a workshop at the University of Maryland School of Law. The program was co-sponsored by the James MacGregor Burns Academy for Leadership at the University of Maryland.

 

 

Professor Cookie Ridolfi

Professor Cookie Ridolfi testified in July 2007 at a hearing of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice and presented her report titled "Prosecutorial Misconduct: A Systemic Review."

 

 

Professor Kandis Scott’s chapter titled "Approaches to Autonomy in Capital Punishment and Assisted Suicide" was printed in a recently published book, Autonomy in the Law. She also published a piece entitled "Grass Roots Civil Society in the Development of Democracy" in Political Studies, the journal of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

 

 

Professor Gary Spitko presented his work-in-progress, "An Empirical Study of Will Substitutes: The Creation of New Knowledge to Challenge Old Assumptions" (co-written with Mary Louise Fellows of the University of Minnesota and Charles Q. Strohm of the University of California Los Angeles), at the Jan. 2008 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (section on donative transfers, fiduciaries, and estate planning), in New York. He presented his article "Open Adoption, Inheritance, and the ‘Uncleing’ Principle" at the Santa Clara Law Review’s 2008 Symposium, When Change Comes Home: Legal Repercussions and Comparative Perspectives on the Transforming Structure of American Households. The latter article will appear in a symposium issue of the 2008 Santa Clara Law Review.

 

 

Professor Gerald Uelmen was selected for the second consecutive year for the annual list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. The list was published in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento Daily Journals.

 

 

Professor Stephanie Wildman co-authored the casebook, Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, and Problems, published by LexisNexis Law School Publishing. Portions of the book were recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for "LSN Educator: Courses, Materials & Teaching."

 

The Editorial Board of Foundation Press has approved a proposal for a new text, titled Gender and Law Stories, to be written by Wildman. Professor Wildman also published "Anti-Discrimination Laws are Limited" in Discrimination: Opposing Viewpoints 179 (2008).

 

 

Professor David Yosifon presented a paper at Feminist Theory and Economic Vulnerability, a conference at the University of Colorado Law School. The paper concerns topics of feminism and corporate theory. His law review article, "Legal Theoretic Inadequacy and Obesity Epidemic Analysis," will be published by the George Mason Law Review.

 

 

Evangeline Abriel, LARAW faculty member, co-authored with Sally Kinoshita of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a report, "Application of Protection Remedies for Victims of Domestic Abuse, Human Trafficking, and Crime Under U.S. Law to Persons Physically Present in the U.S. Territories." The report was prepared for the organization Legal Momentum. In April 2007, she conducted training on immigration relief for victims of human trafficking, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee Services, in Philadelphia. In May 2007, she gave a presentation on immigration relief for victims of abuse and crime to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 2007 Network Gathering, Modesto, Calif. She gave a presentation on rights removal under the VAWA at a training presented by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2007. Her short article, "The New U Visa Interim Regulations: Part I," was published in XI Catholic Legal Immigration News 6-8 (Oct. 2007). She presented oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 5, 2007, in Guerra-Valdez v. Gonzalez. The 2007 edition of The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants, by Evangeline Abriel and Sally Kinoshita, was recently issued on CD by the ILRC.

 

 

Senior Fellow Wil Burns

Senior Fellow Wil Burns will deliver the keynote address at the first Inaugural Conference on the Art, Science and Skill of Advocacy Instruction, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Fla., in November; the title of his presentation will be "Warming Up to Climate Change Litigation: Beyond Massachusetts v. EPA." The Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, a project of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and the American Museum of Natural History, has asked Burns to draft several teaching modules on the interface of conservation biology and international environmental law regimes. The modules will be tested in conservation biology courses at Harvard, Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Stanford.

 

Burns serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy. He recently spoke to the Peoria (Ill.) World Affairs Council on adaptation responses to climate change under the Kyoto Protocol. He also has been named to the Editorial Board of Environmental Justice, a new journal that focuses on that topic. Burns spoke at a conference, The Global Initiative: The Progress of International Environmental Law, sponsored by the International Law Students Association and the University of Denver Law School, in Oct. 2007.

 

 

Vinita Bali, director of the Law School’s Academic Support Program, published an article, "Data Privacy, Data Piracy: Can India Provide Adequate Protection for Electronically Transferred Data?" 21 Temple International & Comparative Law (Spring 2007). In June 2007, the paper was listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for "LSICL: International Adjudication" papers. The article has been accepted for republication in the book Data Privacy Law (Amicus Books, ICFAI University Press). Bali was elected to the executive committee of the Academic Support Program Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and will be chairing the program committee.

 

 

Assistant Dean Vicki Huebner’s article "The U.S.-Germany International Education Administrators Program" was published in The NALP Bulletin (Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan.). The article concerned her participation in a Fulbright Scholar Program for higher education professionals.

 

 

Clinical faculty member Lynette Parker participated in three workshop panels at the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women in Lexington, Ky., in Nov. 2007. The panels included: "Advanced Immigration Relief in Proceedings: Adjustment and Inadmissibility Issues in VAWA Cases"; "Remedies in Removal Proceedings for Immigrant Survivors: Part II"; and "Representing Traumatized Clients." She developed and coordinated the workshop on representing traumatized clients. She also gave a workshop, "Representing Traumatized Clients and Vicarious Trauma," at the Nov. 2007 annual retreat of the Law Foundation of Santa Clara County.

 

 

Gifts, Grants and Awards

Professor Angelo Ancheta and the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center have received the following awards: From the State Bar of California, an award of $33,136 to support the workers’ compensation and immigration legal services programs; from the County of Santa Clara, an amendment that provides $30,000 to support immigration legal services program; from the City of San Jose, $26,531 to support the workers’ compensation and immigration legal services programs and the Center’s administration. The Community Law Center also received a one-year renewal award of $34,509 from the State Bar of California to support the Center’s work in providing legal services to low-income clients in the area of workers’ rights.

 

 

Mary Dullea Hood, Executive Law Librarian at SCU,was honored by San Jose State University, where she earned a graduate degree in library sciences in Nov. 2007.

 

 

Clinical faculty member Scott Mauer received the Darryel Nacua Award given by the Watsonville Law Center at its annual awards reception in Oct. 2007.

 

 

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