Santa Clara Law Events
To view ALL Santa Clara University events, go to the SCU University Events Calendar.
APD 1L Property Practice Exam for Full-time students
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010
Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Sections: 1 & 2 (Mertens) Friday, 2/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 127
Sections: 3&4 (Armstrong) Friday, 2/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 139
Sections: 5&6 (Glancy) Friday, 2/19/10, 12pm-3pm Banann 142
APD 1L Criminal Law Practice Exam for Part-time students
Saturday Feb. 20, 2010
Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Sections: 7&8 (Oberman) Saturday, 2/20/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 142
Introduction to the Bar Exam I: Intro to the California Bar
Friday March 12, 2010
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Bannan 142
Bannan 139 - Audit room
APD 1L Property Practice Exam for Part-time students
Saturday, March 13, 2010
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Sections: 7&8 (Stanley) Saturday, 3/13/10, 9am-12pm Bannan 142
Intro to the Bar Exam II: Essay Writing A
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Bannan 142
Bannan 139 - Audit room
APD 1L Con Law I Practice Exam for Full-time students
Friday, March 19, 2010
Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Section: 1 (Steinman) Friday, 3/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 236
Section: 2 (Schwartz) Friday, 3/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 237
Sections: 3&4 (Gulasekaram) Friday, 3/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 127
Sections: 5&6 (Joondeph) Friday, 3/19/10, 12pm-3pm Bannan 135
Intro to the Bar Exam III: Performance Test
Friday, March 19, 2010
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Bannan 142
Bannan 139 - Audit room
Intro to the Bar Exam IV: Multiple Choice Workshop
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Intro to the Bar Exam V: Essay Writing B
Friday, March 26, 2010
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Bannan 142
Bannan 139 - Audit room
Intro to the Bar Exam VI: Planning for Success
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Bannan 142
Bannan 139 - Audit room
For all minority and other students who are interested in pursing a legal career.
To RSVP for this event, please go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MinorityLawDay2010
Space is limited, so please RSVP by Monday, March 15.
USPTO - An Insider's Perspective, presented by Ray Chen, USPTO Solicitor
At the Double Tree Hotel, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose
NVIDIA Legal & Patent Team, presented by Kimberly Winer & Rich Domingo of the Legal group at NVIDIA Corporation
USPTO Solicitor Ray Chen is flying in from Washington to provide students with an insider's view of working at the US Patent and Trademark Office. He'll also discuss internships and other student opportunities.
Bannan 142
Developments and Initiatives at the USPTO: A Conversation with Ray Chen, Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor
5:30 - 6:30pm presentation
6:30 - 7:00pm reception
For more information and to register for the event please visit the event page listed below.
Join us for a co-sponsored briefing with Greenberg Traurig
More details to follow
Join us on April 7, 2010 for a discussion on Reidentification with
Professor Paul Ohm, University of Colorado Law School
Professor Chad Raphael, Santa Clara University
Ms. Cynthia Dwork, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
More information to follow
Part of the IT, Ethics & Law Colloquium Series cosponsored by the High Tech Law Institute; the Center for Science, Technology, & Society; and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Looking Back at the Statute of Anne and Looking Forward to Challenges of the Future
April 9-10, 2010
Berkeley, CA
Cosponsored by the High Tech Law Institute and
the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
2010 marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law, and provides a suitable occasion for looking back at the influence of this law on the history and evolution of copyright in the Anglo-American tradition and for looking forward at what lessons we can learn from this history that might better help us surmount the challenges that lie ahead for copyright in the twenty-first century.
At this two-day conference on April 9-10, 2010, an outstanding set of scholars and other experts from various disciplines will explore the past and future of copyright.
For more information please visit the website listed below.
Social Justice Forum: Writing by SCU Law Faculty
Thursday, February 11, 2010 from noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139
Professor David Yosifon will lead a discussion of his forthcoming article:
"Corporate Social Responsibility After Citzens United"
This article develops a new argument for why corporate law should depart from the shareholder primacy norm which presently dominates American corporate governance. The argument begins by highlighting shareholder primacy theory’s reliance on the availability of external government regulation to curb corporate exploitation of non-shareholding stakeholders in the corporate enterprise, including workers and consumers. The shareholder primacy norm in corporate governance engenders a public choice problem that makes reliance on such external regulation implausible. Profit seeking corporations work to undermine the development of the very regulatory institutions that shareholder primacists would charge with curbing corporate operations. The shareholder primacy corporation enjoys critical advantages over other corporate stakeholders in the competition for regulatory favor. Because of their capital concentration, limited liability, singular interest, and relatively small numbers compared to other groups and individuals in our society, corporations can routinely beat out other corporate stakeholders competition for regulatory favor. This public choice problem is well recognized within regulatory theory generally, but it is under-theorized in corporate law and corporate theory. When forced to confront this public choice problem, shareholder primacists usually prescribe greater regulation of corporate political activity in order to insulate the political process for corporate influence. But this article suggests that the First Amendment’s guarantees against government regulation of speech makes such a response implausible.
Confronting this analytic dead-end, this article concludes that the only viable response to the public choice problem in corporate law is to alter corporate governance regimes such that firms are not managed in the exclusive interests of shareholders, but instead operate under a multi-fiduciary regime which requires directors to attend directly to the interest of multiple stakeholders at the level of firm governance. This article examines in particular the implications of charging firm managers with being fiduciaries of consumers, as the interest of consumers as corporate stakeholders is largely undeveloped in corporate law scholarship. Having reached the conclusion that multi-fiduciary corporate governance is necessary, the article then demonstrates that implementing a multi-fiduciary regime is feasible and requires little departure from the fundamental mechanics of corporate governance under the shareholder primacy regime.
Excerpts of the article for discussion will be available to students at on February 1, 2010 outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall or at http://law.scu.edu/socialjustice/file/David%20Yosifon%20Article.pdf.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., February 11, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Leonard Baynes (St. John’s University School of Law)
Race and the Media
Leonard Baynes is a Professor of Law and Director of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John’s University Law School. He has written over twenty-five articles on race, racism and the law, communications law, business law and the intersection of those disciplines.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., February 25, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Christine Bachen (Santa Clara University Department of Communications)
Media, Youth, and Families
Dr. Bachen teaches a variety of media studies courses, such as Introduction to Mass Communication, Media and Youth, and Media Audience Studies. She also teaches Quantitative Research Methods and the Capstone course. Her primary research interests focus on the use of media by young people and families.
Spring 2010 Visiting Practitioner Mar. 11-12, 2010
Social Justice Visiting Practitioner R. Samuel Paz (Civil Rights Law & Litigation Consultant, Law Offices of R. Samuel Paz)
Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series - Considering the Social Justice Aspects of a Career in Protecting Human and Civil Rights, March 11, Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Food will be provided. Limited space is available for lunch with Mr. Paz at 1 p.m. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551-1720 to sign up for the lunch group. A Wine and cheese reception will be held on Thursday, March 11 at 5 p.m. in the Strong Common room Co-hosted with PI&SJ Coalition.
Office Hours: Mr. Paz will hold office hours for students interested in social justice practice in Heafey 223 on Thursday, March 11th from 2:30 to 4 p.m. and on Friday, March 12th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551-1720 to sign up to meet with him during these times.
Social Justice Thursday Essential Issues on March 18, 2010 from Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 333. Food will be provided.
Reading group for 1Ls. Sumi Cho and Robert Westley, Critical Race Coalitions: Key Movements That Preformed the Theory, 33 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1377, 1377-80, 1388-99 (2000).
Facilitators will be Students from New Orleans Alternative Spring Break.
The Social Justice Thursdays Essential Issues series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas. Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall. Light lunch will be provided.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., March 18, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Allen Hammond, IV. (Santa Clara University School of Law)
Structural Regulation of Mass Media; Consolidation, Diversity and the Public Interest
Allen Hammond is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law where he holds the Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Chair and founded the Broadband Institute of California. He conducted a study for the FCC examining the effects of its multiple ownership policies on minority and women owned firms. He has submitted comments to the FCC on its multiple ownership rules and broadband policy.
Cesar Chavez Birthday Celebration - Co-sponsored by La Raza
Wednesday, March 31st at 4:30 p.m. in Wiegand, Arts & Sciences
"Sowing the Seeds of Justice" film painting a portrait of Cruz Reynoso, who felt the sting of injustice as a child, and later, as a lawyer, judge and US Civil Rights Commissioner, fought for over five decades to eradicate discrimination and inequality for all.
Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at noon in Bannan 139. Food will be provided
Edison A. Jensen (Law Office of Edison A. Jensen)
Justice and Healthcare for the Poor
Edison A. Jensen is a civil litigator with a particular interest in healthcare law as it affects the Latino/Farm worker population. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Salud Para la Gente, Inc. (www.splg.org) a federally qualified health center. In addition, he serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dominican Hospital (Catholic Healthcare West). Mr. Jensen was the founding Chairman of the Pajaro Valley Health Trust which is a conversion foundation serving the needs of the poor in the Pajaro Valley. Mr. Jensen is the recipient of numerous awards for his pro bono work with the farm worker community. While a student at SCU Law he served as President of La Raza Law Students Association . He is currently President of La Raza Lawyers of Santa Cruz County.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., April 1, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Becky Lentz, Ph.D. (McGill University)
Linguistic Engineering; The FCC’s Computer Inquiries and their Legacy for Communications and Internet Regulation
Becky Lentz is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She wrote her dissertation at University of Texas at Austin on the FCC’s Computer Inquiries, then served for six years as the Ford Foundation’s first program officer for electronic media policy before joining the faculty of McGill.
Social Justice Thursday Essential Issues on April 8, 2010 from Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 333. Food will be provided.
Reading Group for 1Ls. Julie A. Su, Making the Invisible Visible: The Garment Industry’s Dirty Laundry, 1 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 405, 405-17 (1998).
Facilitator will be Lynette Parker
The Social Justice Thursdays Essential Issues series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas. Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall. Light lunch will be provided.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., April 8, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School)
Wiretapping the Internet
Paul Ohm is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School at Boulder. Prior to joining the Colorado faculty, he was an Honors Program trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law Regulation
Professor Catherine Sandoval teaches the Spring 2010 Social Justice Workshop: Mass Media and Internet Law and Regulation: Promoting Access and Protecting the Public Interest.
Thur., April 15, 2010: 4:10 p.m. in Bannan 137. Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Strong Common room.
Lee Tien (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
The Law and Policy of Internet Privacy
Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He specializes in free speech law and its intersections with intellectual property and privacy law.
Women and Law Stories Conference: The Power of Women’s Stories II: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System
Friday, April 16, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Bannan 142
Law schools began offering Women and Law courses in the early 1970s. Since that time, many textbooks have examined law through the lens of feminist legal theory. Women continue to feel the impact of changing legal developments in areas as disparate as violence against women, sexual harassment, discrimination at work, mothering and reproduction, families, women and the legal profession, education, and health. Yet scholars have often neglected the power of women’s stories and what these stories teach us about law and social change. This conference focuses on the women whose lives led to these legal changes and who continue to inspire the need for further progress. It also celebrates WOMEN AND THE LAW STORIES (ELIZABETH SCHNEIDER & STEPHANIE WILDMAN, eds., Foundation Press) (forthcoming).
Public Interest & Social Justice Law Celebration and Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Williman Room in the Benson Memorial Center. Reception to follow from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the patio outside the Williman Room.