The Law School Admission Council’s Diversity CommitteeAnnounces a Writing Competition on WHY PIPELINE PROGRAMS TARGETING STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED RACIAL AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE FUTURE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION For decades, studies consistently have shown that students of…
by International Human Rights Clinic Student Anna Saber In 2015, the County of Santa Clara published Home Not Found, a first of its kind report analyzing the cost of homelessness in Silicon Valley. This report, which is “the largest and…
The International Human Rights Clinic is celebrating a big victory! Last night, the City Council of Mountain View passed a resolution to become a Human Rights City. Our students have been working hard with the City for more than a…
2017 Human Rights Essay Competition The Human Rights Essay Award is an annual competition sponsored by the Academy and seeks to stimulate the production of scholarly work in international human rights law. Participants have the flexibility to choose any subject…
Trandafir International Business Writing Competition Topic: Any topic of contemporary international business or economic concern with a legal nexus. Award: Publication and CASH PRIZE of $2,000 Publication: The winning essay will be published in Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, a…
By Elena Applebaum, Senior Editor Today, rapid innovation poses unexpected challenges for lawyers. I met with Santa Clara Law Alum Allonn Levy, who specializes in high profile technology cases, to get an inside view on what it’s like to…
(A version of this story appeared in the spring 2012 edition of NCIP’s newsletter) In February 2008, NCIP received a letter from Obie Anthony. Convicted of murder and robbery in 1995, he maintained his innocence and requested NCIP’s help. It…
By Lucy Salcido Carter, Policy Director and Todd Fries, Operations Director NCIP hosted its second of two 2016 restorative justice circle retreats in late August. Twenty participants gathered at NatureBridge in Marin to share their stories, listen to one another,…
By Dre McEwen, NCIP attorney A beloved mentor once compared the process of post-conviction investigation to the gentle tugging on a thread. The first trip around the file reveals an intuitive nagging, bare hints at the elements of the case…
In a recently filed petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Stanislaus County Superior Court, NCIP attorneys laid out new evidence that proves NCIP client Domingo Bustos Anaya is innocent. Anaya was convicted twenty years ago of the January…