We’re excited about the high tech curriculum we’ve lined up for you in 2013-14. To help you prepare for Fall registration, we have compiled a spreadsheet of all high tech law courses being offered in Fall. View the spreadsheet. Except…
We’re excited about the high tech curriculum we’ve lined up for you in 2013-14. To help you prepare for Fall registration, we have compiled a spreadsheet of all high tech law courses being offered in Fall. View the spreadsheet. Except…
On May 24th, Oklahoma became the 50th and final state to pass a post-conviction DNA testing law. 306 people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States since DNA testing first became…
Over the past nine months, the International Human Rights Clinic at Santa Clara Law has engaged in fact-finding and research to investigate local responses to human trafficking in the California Bay Area, focusing on Santa Clara and Alameda Counties. Our research…
NBC Bay Area News recently ran a story about the successful work of NCIP’s law students, who have helped win the freedom of 17 exonerees since 2001. “It’s pretty amazing. I get to set innocent people free from prison. Let…
On May 10th, a Guatemalan court convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity for his part in the killing of more than 1700 Ixil Mayans in the early 1980s, during the Guatemalan Civil War. This…
This summer, we encourage you to consider taking the Venture Capital course, a 2 unit course that qualifies for the High Tech Law Certificate requirement and satisfies the Professional Skills requirement. The course is being taught by Graham Burnette, an…
Exonerees Antione Day and Jarrett Adams are tirelessly working with the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Life After Innocence program to help exonerees find housing after their release from prison. The Life After Justice Center in Chicago was created…
Years ago I blogged about the tax treatment of alimony payments ordered by the courts in the case of a divorce or dissolution of a same-sex relationship. I thought I had also blogged about the probable tax treatment of property…
The case, Windsor v. United States, will be handed down by the Supreme Court sometime in the next 6 weeks. At that time we will know whether or not DOMA remains good law. Discussions about the Windsor case and its…
NCIP and Orrick, Herrington, Sutcliffe client George Souliotes, whose conviction was overturned last month after he demonstrated “actual innocence,” will be retried, Stanislaus County prosecutors announced Monday. Read the LA Times story here.