California Assembly Bill 885, which authorizes courts to inform a jury when a prosecutor has intentionally concealed evidence of innocence, recently passed off the Assembly floor and is headed to Governor Brown’s desk to be signed. AB 885, authored by…
A youth sports team provides the unique opportunity to have a group of adolescents sit together—boys, no less—look each other in the eye, and discuss some of life’s most important issues, all from a place of trust. It’s actually quite…
We had some VIPs in the NCIP class yesterday! As part of our module on eyewitness misidentification, NCIP law students served as jurists in a mock trial that demonstrated how compelling an eyewitness can be to a jury—even if there…
September 26, 2014, 1-5:00pm @SCU- Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner sponsors “Navigating the Software Patent Landscape in the European Patent Office: An Examiner’s View”. Learn about the EPO approach to software patents from EPO patent examiners, then participate in interactive patentability workshops moderated…
Han Tak Lee, 79, was released Friday after spending 24 years behind bars in a Pennsylvania prison for a wrongful arson-murder conviction. A federal judge ruled this month that the conviction was based on faulty fire science and ultimately overturned…
FIFA, the international governing body for the sport of soccer, has been criticized for many things. The laundry list would include, but certainly not be limited to, the following: The selection of Qatar as the host site of the 2022…
It was a dreary morning on Treasure Island on Thursday, August 14th, 2014, as a group of curious public defenders, detectives, and prosecutors came together for arson investigator Paul Bieber’s showcase event: a live burn of two furnished mockups, one…
Are you interested in Intellectual Property, Privacy, Internet, Venture Capital, Biotech, Start Ups and other areas of high tech law? Interested in finding out about the new Privacy Law Certificate? The High Tech Law Institute invites you to attend the…
As you probably have read, University of Oklahoma freshman star football recruit Joe Mixon has been charged with misdemeanor assault and has been suspended from the university’s football team for the upcoming season for his role in an altercation at…
To help us cope with the minor setbacks and injustices in life, we have developed certain aphoristic tidbits. Displayed often on bumper stickers and t-shirts, they include sayings like “It is what it is,” or the French version “C’est la…
