Faculty Close-Ups
Read updates on what a few of our faculty members are currently working on below.
Professor Ball's article which reviews ten years of data from California counties notes disparities in the rates at which different counties use the prison system has received a great deal of media attention. Read more... |
Professor Chien's work in the field of patents and intellectual property has been cited by both Congress and the FTC. In 2011, she was invited to attend the signing of the patent-reform law at the White House, and was one of the only full-time patent academics present. Read more... |
Professor Macintosh’s most recent publication is a book entitled “Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and Their Legal Consequences” (Cambridge University Press 2013). |
Professor Oberman is an influential scholar in the areas of women's reproductive health. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Chile for 2011, where she studied the phenomenon of neonaticide in a country in which abortion is completely prohibited. Read more... |
Professor Starr is a co-founder of the Northern California Innocence Project, which has exonerated 13 innocent prisoners in the past 10 years, 3 of them in 2011. Read more... |
In 2011, Professor Van Schaack spent a week observing military commissions proceedings at Guantánamo Naval Base on behalf of the National Institute for Military Justice. She also recently co-authored Cambodia’s Hidden Scars: Trauma Psychology in the Wake of the Khmer Rouge. |
