Deadline Extended: AIPLEF AWARDS Santa Clara Law can nominate one student to compete for various national awards administered by the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation, including the prestigious Jan Jancin Award with a cash prize of $5,000. The nominated…
At the National Innocence Network Conference last weekend in Portland, Oregon, Professor Frank Baumgartner at The University of North Carolina addressed the consequences of “wrongful liberty.” Wrongful liberty refers to the tragic situation in which an innocent man or woman…
The High Tech Law Institute is pleased to present The USPTO AIA Trial Roundtable View the PTAB AIA Trial Invitation Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA) to host a Complimentary Receptionimmediately following the Roundtable The Patent Trial and Appeal…
Over the weekend, 500 justice advocates gathered in Portland, Oregon for the annual Innocence Network conference. Approximately 116 were exonerees who spent 1749 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, and the others included attorneys and other staff who…
This is a list of clerkship positions recently added to OSCAR. To see other recently added clerkships, follow the “Judicial Clerkship” tag to see other posts. To see all available clerkship positions, please go to: https://oscar.uscourts.gov/. If students have any…
The International Human Rights Clinic is off to a great Spring Semester. Twelve students are working on several cases and projects that involve environmental justice, children with disabilities, violence against women, human trafficking, local implementation of U.S. human rights treaty…
Wrongfully convicted prisoners seeking exoneration could be given improved access to DNA testing through the passage of Senate Bill 980. Introduced by California State Senator Ted Lieu, the bill would provide greater access to available evidence for people requesting DNA…
WHO: Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-2010) and one of the five authors of a United Nations report on the detention of captives at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay. WHAT: A discussion of…
In most walks of life, it’s easy to explain why an immoral action is immoral. You catch someone stealing your purse and you might say, “You should not do that. I have a right to my property, it’s against the…
We saw it time and again this past NFL season. A bang-bang play, a coach’s challenge to the resulting call by the officials, and a seemingly endless delay before a judgment was finally rendered. And we saw it recently at…