Faculty News 2013

Full-Time Faculty News - May

 

David Hasen, Associate Professor of Law

  • He wrote an editorial for MarketWatch on a bill that the Senate is considering to make sure taxes on internet sales are paid.

Brian Love, Assistant Professor of Law

Full-Time Faculty News - April

 

David Ball, Assistant Professor of Law

Pat Cain, Professor of Law

  • She was featured on several dozen public radio stations across the country after she did an interview for Morning Edition about the Supreme Court's hearing on DOMA. She also spoke to NBC Bay Area about the topic.

Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor of Law

  • On April 17, 2013, she testified before the House Judiciary Committee's Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee hearing on “Abusive Patent Litigation: The Issues Impacting American Competitiveness and Job Creation at the International Trade Commission and Beyond”. Here is a link to the hearing. Here is a link to Professor Chien's written testimony. Professor Chien's testimony was reported by Reuters, Computerworld, PCWorld and others.

     

  • She was named a “Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. From the intro sentence: “Chien is a global influence in the intellectual property community.”

Steve Diamond, Associate Professor of Law

  • He spoke to MarketWatch for a widely republished story about Dell's buyout efforts, and to Bloomberg Businessweek about the SEC allowing corporate disclosures via social media.

Dorothy Glancy, Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in a widely reprinted USA Today story about privacy issues surrounding smart cars.

Eric Goldman, Professor of Law and Director, High Tech Law Institute

  • He was quoted by Time Magazine regarding the YouTube copyright case.

     

  • He spoke to the Wall Street Journal about ADA issues online; to the Mercury News about the SEC allowing corporate disclosures via social media; and toMediaPost about AP's win against a clipping service and a New York court upholding the “Amazon tax.” Advertising Age also interviewed him for a story on the value of data.

     

  • He was quoted in Hispanic Business regarding the decision Netflix received from the SEC about announcing corporate milestones, and other information, via social media technologies.

Deep Gulasekaram, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He wrote an op-ed on guns and immigration as barometers of who gets to be an American, for USA Today. It ran in more than a dozen other outlets as well. 

     

  • He spoke with various media, including ABC 7, NBC Bay Area and the Bay City News,  about the Supreme Court's hearing on California's gay-marriage ban, Prop. 8.

Anna Han, Associate Professor of Law

  • She spoke to the press to help analyze Apple's historic move to apologize to Chinese consumers for their warranty program. The following media carried her comments, with the resulting coverage appearing in 140 outlets: San Jose Mercury News, New York Times China Daily, KCBS Radio, and KGO radio.

Ellen Kreitzberg, Professor of Law

  • She discussed California's death penalty with KPCC.

Margaret Russell, Professor of Law

  • She spoke with various media, including NBC Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg Law's radio podcast, and the Bay City News,  about the Supreme Court's hearing on California's gay-marriage ban, Prop. 8.

David Sloss, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Law & Policy

  • He spoke to Bloomberg Law's radio podcast about the controversy over the U.S. drone program.

Clinical Faculty News - April

 

Caroline Chen, Director, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in a Mercury News story which featured Santa Clara Law's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and appeared in about two dozen papers or sites, including the Los Angeles Times and the Arizona Daily Star.

Northern California Innocence Project

  • An Oakland Tribune columnist did an in-depth story, which ran in numerous affiliated papers and sites, about the exoneration by NCIP of Ronald Ross.

Full-Time Faculty News - March

 

Pat Cain, Professor of Law

  • She was on NPR Morning Edition as part of a panel discussing tax implications for the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act

     

  • An AP story in which she talked about possible income tax regulation changes for gay couples was carried in about 450 publications or sites including the Sacramento Bee, Boston Globe,  Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today and the Houston Chronicle.

Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor of Law

Steve Diamond, Associate Professor of Law

  • He was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News regarding the ouster of board members at Hewlett-Packard by major investors, just two years after a major boardroom shake-up.

     

  • was quoted in the Wall Street Journal regarding the “dueling CEOs” in Dell's bid to become private.

     

  • spoke to MarketWatch about H-P's battle with its institutional investors.

Dorothy Glancy, Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in the Washington Post and USA Today about the legal issues with cars being linked to wireless networks. More than 60 percent of vehicles worldwide will be connected directly to the Internet by 2017, up from 11 percent last year, predicts ABI Research.There are few legal standards for what information a vehicle can collect, how it can be used and by whom. Each manufacturer produces its own onboard Internet systems, each with specific rules that few consumers review and even fewer understand, said privacy experts. “People are being duped into giving away a whole lot of information that maybe somebody ought to ask us about first,” said Dorothy J. Glancy, a Santa Clara University law professor who studies privacy and transportation. “It seems to me you ought to get a choice.”

Eric Goldman, Professor of Law and Director, High Tech Law Institute

  • He was named one of “The 50 Most Influential Law Professors Alive Today” by MJE.com.

     

  • was quoted in the Wall Street Journal regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act and online shopping websites.

     

  • was quoted by KQED about Reddit's changes in its user agreement to avoid liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

     

  • spoke to Reuters and Mashable  about new FTC guidelines about advertising on social media. About 60 other publications or sites carried the story.

Deep Gulasekaram, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He was interviewed by KLIV radio about the voting rights act case and by KGO radio about a state senate bill threatening to remove tax-exempt status for entities that discriminate against gay people.

Brad Joondeph, Professor of Law

  • He spoke to the San Jose Mercury News about the Obama administration acting against California's Prop. 8.

Bob Peterson, Professor of Law

  • He co-taught an "Insurance 101" seminar for California legislators and their staff.

David Sloss, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Law & Policy

Jerry Uelmen, Professor of Law

  • He was quoted in the LA Times regarding a trial of ex-city council members in the city of Bell who were charged with corruption.

     

  • spoke to Reuters for a widely reprinted story about the similarities between the swing vote justices on California's high court and the Supreme Court.

Clinical Faculty News - March

 

Northern California Innocence Project

John Schunk, Associate Clinical Professor

  • He published an article, "Indirectly Assessing Writing and Analysis Skills in a First-tYear Legal Writing Course," 40 So. Univ. L. Rev. 47-118 (Fall 2012).

Staff News - March

 

Deborah Moss-West, Assistant Director, Center for Social Justice and Public Service

Full-Time Faculty News - February

 

Pat Cain, Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in CNNMoney about quirks in the adoption tax credit for same-sex couples. About 33 sites picked up the story.

     

  • was quoted in a New York Times article about the tax ramifications for same-sex married couples because, while some states recognize their marriages the federal government does not. Several other papers ran the story.

Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor of Law

  • She presented a new paper at the Patent and Trademark Office's roundtable on software patents at Stanford University.

     

  • has received a $35,000 research grant from the New America Foundation to expand her work relating to “Start-ups and Trolls”. This grant will fund an expanded survey to determine the impacts of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) on the operations, growth, and innovation of startups. This version of the survey will also explore trends in patent purchasing, strategies for responding, and the market for "troll solution" providers.

Stephen Diamond, Associate Professor of Law

Eric Goldman, Professor of Law and Director, High Tech Law Institute

  • He was a guest on an ABC Nightline segment about “revenge porn,” or people posting risqué photos of exes online. He was also quoted about other tech-law cases by the Wall Street Journal, KQED radio, ReadWrite, and InformationWeek.

     

  • For the second year in a row, Professor Goldman has been named North American IP Thought Leader by Managing Intellectual Property. Read more...

Anna Han, Associate Professor of Law

  • She spoke to the San Jose Mercury News about Google leader Eric Schmidt's criticisms of China in a new book. About two dozen other sites or papers carried the story.

Brad Joondeph, Professor of Law

  • He spoke to KCBS and the San Jose Mercury News about the Obama administration's efforts to strike down Prop. 8. About a dozen other papers carried the story as well.

Brian Love, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He spoke with the Chicago Tribune about the rejection by an appeals court of Apple’s request to fast-track its bid for a sales ban on several Samsung phones.

Catherine Sandoval, Associate Professor of Law

  • She was floated as one of the “names under discussion” to be the next FCC chairman, by Time Magazine.

Tseming Yang, Professor of Law

  • He wrote an op-ed urging a balanced approach to energy investment, which appeared in more than 40 papers across the country, including the Kansas City Star, Anchorage Daily News, and the Orange County Register.

Clinical Faculty News - February

 

Caroline Chen, Director, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story that also ran in 17 other publications, about the high incidence of tax-related identity theft in the Bay Area.

Northern California Innocence Project

  • Helped free its 13th wrongly imprisoned person—Ronald Ross of Oakland—and was included in news and editorial pages with stories from Associated Press, KPIX - TV, KGO-TV, ABC7, the Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, KLIV radio and others. Several dozen other papers or sites carried the various stories as well. 

Full-Time Faculty News - January

 

Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor of Law

  • Her study in patent “trolls” and their inordinate pursuit of small startups continued to make news, including in TechCrunch and Newsfactor.

     

  • Commentary from her ran in about 80 publications after she discussed the important patent implications from the Google FTC settlement with Reuters and others, among other patent issues.

     

  • was quoted in a story in Wired about oddball tech moments of 2012.

     

  • spoke with the New York Times about the Federal Trade Commission's settlement with Google in regards to patents covering communications and data transmission technologies for smartphones and tablets.

     

  • was selected to receive the 2013 Professor Eric R. Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award by the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF). Professor Yamamoto is an internationally renowned authority on issues of redress and reconciliation and he has written and spoken extensively about how healing the wounds of past injustice by “doing justice” now can reach deeply into a nation’s social fabric. The award will be presented on Friday, February 1, 2013 at the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty at UC Hastings School of Law.

     

  • paper on the rise of “trolls” as plaintiffs in patent lawsuits was covered by nearly 90 papers or sites, including Dow Jones' All Things D, and a Reuters story that was carried in more than two dozen other sites or papers.

Steve Diamond, Associate Professor of Law

  • He was quoted in a Businessweek article, redistributed in about 10 other outlets, about the Securities and Exchange Commission being urged to reevaluate its disclosure policies.

Eric Goldman, Professor of Law and Director, High Tech Law Institute

  • He wrote a blog for Forbes about lawsuits over “revenge porn,” or people posting risque content to get back at an ex-lover. He spoke to Courthouse News Service ABC7, Media Post, Information Week, Ars Technica, Reuters and others about that and other high-tech legal issues.

     

  • His commentary appeared in several dozen news sites after he discussed Google's settlement; the implications of tech activist Aaron Swartz's suicide, and a lawsuit over online consumer reviews with Reuters and other news outlets.

     

  • appeared in about five dozen stories, after he spoke to numerous outlets including the Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle,  the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, the New York Times,  Boston Globe and others about the FTC's settlement with Google over search practices. He also talked to the (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Times Leader about attorneys using Facebook for photographic evidence to make their cases, and to the Associated Press and MediaPost about a suit over Instagram's Terms of Service.

     

  • was quoted in an article on CNN.com about how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) doesn't specifically mention websites and, therefore is being interpreted as not applying to them.

     

  • wrote an article for Forbes magazine about the FTC’s investigation into Google's search practices. Professor Goldman states, “Ending the investigation into Google’s search behavior is a smart decision by the FTC, but the FTC’s initial decision to investigate Google’s search practices was terrible. We’ve known since the beginning that regulating search results makes no sense.” Read more...

     

  • talked to NPR's Weekend Edition, in a story aired widely nationally, about lawsuits against those who write negative Yelp reviews. He also wrote a multi-part series on "How to Fix Software Patents" based on the recent conference held at SCU, for Forbes.com.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He was quoted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal about the bipartisan Senate proposal for immigration reform. 

     

  • is mentioned in the student newspaper at UC Riverside for his recent article on immigration reform. His article “...provides a systematic, empirical investigation of the genesis of state and local immigration regulations, discrediting the popular notion that they are caused by uneven demographic pressures across the country.”

David Hasen, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He was interviewed by CNBC.com on the payroll tax holiday expiration.  He also was interviewed by KCBS radio and by KLIV radio about the fiscal cliff tax implications. 

Brian Love, Assistant Professor of Law

  • He spoke to Associated Press and Korea Times about a request to lower the damages award in the Apple-Samsung case. Several dozen papers and sites picked up the story.

     

  • appeared in about six dozen stories after speaking to Reuters, Ars Technica, Daily Journal, Bloomberg, mLex and the Pittsburgh Tribune about a $1.2 billion patent judgment against Marvell Semiconductor.

     

  • was quoted in dozens of outlets about the latest phase of the Apple Samsung patent lawsuit, after talking to the LA Times ;and the Korea Times, among others. He also wrote an op-ed for TechCrunch about what should happen in the injunction phase of that case.

Margaret Russell, Professor of Law

  • She spoke to KLIV and KGO radio about the Supreme Court accepting two key gay-rights cases, DOMA and Prop. 8. 

David Sloss, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Law & Policy

  • He commented to the Mercury News about legal charges and possible extradition of John McAfee. Twenty other outlets carried the story.

Ed Steinman, Professor of Law

  • He spoke to the San Jose Mercury News for a widely republished story about a vigilante charged with murder.

Gerald Uelmen, Professor of Law

  • He spoke to the Los Angeles Times for a widely reprinted story about a "bizarre" case in which a rape conviction was voided over questions about whom the alleged rapist was impersonating when he committed the act.

Tseming Yang, Professor of Law

  • He wrote an op-ed piece on the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar which was published by CNN.com

Clinical Faculty News - January

 

Angelo Ancheta, Executive Director, Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Law

  • He received a cy pres award for $62,557.86 in the wage & hour case of Garcia v. Oracle. This latest award bring the Alexander Center's cy pres award total for the year to nearly $105,000.00.

Maitreya Badami, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Northern California Innocence Project

  • She was mentioned in a story about best practices in eyewitness identification in the Orange County Register.

Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Clinic

  • An “Alumni Profile” about him was published by American University in their Human Rights Brief publication. Read more...

Linda Starr, Legal Director, Northern California Innocence Project and Associate Clinical Professor of Law

  • She was quoted in a story in California Lawyer, about the process of restitution for the wrongfully convicted.