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Teaching Scholars
From 2000 to 2008 Santa Clara University School of Law sponsored a Teaching Scholar position each academic year in order to bring to the campus law graduates preparing for a career in law teaching. Santa Clara University School of Law has been committed to enhancing diversity in the legal profession and academy.
The Teaching Scholars have been given opportunities to teach two courses in the public interest and social justice law curriculum and to prepare an article for publication. The Teaching Scholars have worked closely with Santa Clara University School of Law’s Center for Social Justice and Public Service and the Center’s director, Stephanie M. Wildman. The Center sponsors programs, discussion groups, and panels throughout the year as well as the Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Law Retreat (with SALT) each spring. The Teaching Scholars have participated in the intellectual life of the Center and all other aspects of the Public Interest and Social Justice Law program.
Previous Teaching Scholars:
2007-08 Teaching Scholar, David Ball
2006-07 Teaching Scholar, Ida L. Bostian
2005-06 Teaching Scholar, Ida L. Bostian
2004-05 Teaching Scholar, Michael Chang
2003-04 Teaching Scholar, Patricia Massey
2002-03 Teaching Scholar, Angela Riley
2000-02 Teaching Scholar, Grace Hum
Center for Social Justice and Public Service 2007-2008 Teaching Scholar David Ball
Professor Ball received his J.D. from Stanford in 2006, where he graduated with Academic Distinction. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1992-1994, where he received a BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, where he received a BA in History with Highest Distinction and Honors in Creative Writing.
Professor Ball’s two main areas of research interest are in criminal law and Islamic law. Within criminal law, he is focused on what happens after sentencing: corrections, parole, and habeas. Within Islamic law, his long-term project is to help restore two foundations of Islamic legal thought: ikhtilaf (respect for minority opinions) and ijtihad (the use of reasoned discourse in developing the law).
Professor Ball’s research project at Santa Clara will argue that the denial of parole on the basis of a prisoner’s commitment offense violates the Sixth Amendment jury right as established in the Apprendi line of cases. He will teach two courses in Spring 2008: Islamic Legal Methodologies and the California Prison System.
Center for Social Justice and Public Service 2006-07 Teaching Scholar Ida Bostian
The 2006-2007 Teaching Scholar is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Ida L. Bostian. Professor Bostian recently completed her first year of law teaching at Santa Clara, where she taught International Human Rights Law and Critical Race Theory, as well as directed the study abroad program and taught Introduction to Public International Law in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2006-07, Professor Bostian will teach Remedies and Critical Race Theory, and she will again direct and teach in the Geneva/Strasbourg program.
Professor Bostian’s scholarship focuses on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, as well as U.S. Foreign Relations and National Security Law. In addition to her recently published piece, Cultural Relativism in International War Crimes Prosecutions: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 12 ILSA J. INT’L & COMP. L 1 (2005), she recently completed a manuscript, “Speaking about the Destruction of the Armenians”: Early Failures in International Criminal Justice and Lessons for Today. In 2006-07, she will draft a casenote for the Santa Clara Journal of International Law on the recent Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, as well as one or more related articles on the role of international law in U.S. domestic court decisions regarding “enemy combatants.”
Professor Bostian received her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University Law Center, where she also earned a Certificate in National Security Law. Previously, she graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1999 (where she was first in her class), after which she clerked for Judge Michael Murphy of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. She then worked as a general litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter, LLP from 2000-04.
During her first year at Santa Clara, Professor Bostian participated in numerous faculty panels and other community events, speaking on topics such as executive power in the war on terror and the use of torture by the United States. She also facilitated a first-year Social Justice reading group session, a Teaching Scholar tradition that she will repeat this autumn. She will also moderate a panel on “Trying Enemy Combatants” at International Law Weekend-West to be held at Santa Clara in February 2007, as well as respond to papers at a Gender and the Law Conference in April 2007. In the past, Professor Bostian has volunteered as a crisis counselor for victims of domestic violence, and in the summer of 2005 she volunteered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to raise awareness about the current genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
Center for Social Justice and Public Service 2005-06 Teaching Scholar Ida Bostian
The 2005-2006 Teaching Scholar is Ida L. Bostian. Professor Bostian recently received her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University Law Center, where she also earned a Certificate in National Security Law. Previously, she graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1999, after which she clerked for Judge Michael Murphy of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. She then worked as a general litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter, LLP from 2000-04. She has also volunteered as a crisis counselor for victims of domestic violence, and most recently volunteered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to raise awareness about the current genocide emergency in Darfur, Sudan.
Professor Bostian’s research focuses on international human rights and humanitarian law, particularly on the growing influence of international criminal tribunals and on the impact of the “global war on terror†in these fields. Her proposed research while at Santa Clara will consider the role that international human rights and humanitarian law does or should have in the “enemy combatant†cases in U.S. domestic courts. She is teaching International Human Rights Law in the Fall and will teach Critical Race Theory in Spring 2006.
Center for Social Justice and Public Service 2004-05 Teaching Scholar Michael Chang
The 2004-2005 Teaching Scholar is Michael Chang. Professor Chang, an ‘04 graduate of UCLA School of Law, received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in 2001. He also has an MA in socio-cultural anthropology from the New School for Social Research. His research practices are based on qualitative sociological and anthropological methods and theory as is relevant to the jurisprudence practiced in critical race theory.
His dissertation, Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The “Asian Donorgate” Controversy in Perspective, has been published by Lexington Books. Here is the publisher’s description:
The Asian American activist and political communities viewed 1996 as a watershed year, in which the Democratic Party took seriously its Asian American constituency – until the “Asian Donorgate” campaign finance controversy complicated that representation. In the ensuing public discourse Chinese Americans, and by proxy all Asian Americans, were depicted as foreigners subversively attempting to buy influence with U.S. politicians. While neither disputing nor confirming the guilt of the individuals charged in this episode with raising illegal foreign campaign money, Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship highlights the conflation of Asian transnational capital and government interests with Asian Americans and the resulting racialization, foreignization, and even criminalization of this large community. Scholar Michael Chang asks, Will the perception of the Asian American as the “perpetual foreigner” continue to reproduce itself uncritically, heightening during times of media-supported nationalism? This incisive work contributes greatly to current debates on civil rights and on the meaning of “citizenship” and “belonging” among a transnational community and in a globalized world.
Professor Chang’s proposed research project while at Santa Clara will consider “An Asian American Interest Convergence Problem” addressing equality as it relates to citizenship status. He will teach Critical Race Theory in Spring 2005.
