Faculty News

• Santa Clara Law Former Dean Don Polden Weighs in on Amazon’s Lawsuit Against the NLRB

• Santa Clara Law Highly Ranked for its Outstanding Programs

• Attendees Share in Fun and Learning at WIPIP 2024 “Game of Drones”

• Is Constitutional Law Unconstitutional? David Sloss Shares Criticisms of the Supreme Court

• NCIP’s Melissa (Missy) O’Connell ’03 Appointed Judge

• Michelle Oberman Featured on KCBS In Depth: A Conversation on Abortion and Reproductive Rights

• Pat Cain Receives the Inaugural AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Award

• Santa Clara Law Adds Two Tech/IP Stars to Its Faculty

• Mary Fuller Chosen as USPTO’s Silicon Valley Regional Director

• Professor Brad Joondeph and Judicial Ethicist Jeremy Fogel Discuss Supreme Court Conduct at Charney Hall

• Santa Clara Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Receives Congressional Commendation for Work on Gender Equity

• Santa Clara Law Associate Clinical Professor Linsey Krolik Named Co-Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate

• Santa Clara Law Faculty Recognized at University-Wide Faculty Awards Ceremony

• Santa Clara Law Welcomes New Faculty and Instructional Staff

• Thiadora Pina Wins the 2023 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award

• Santa Clara Law Welcomes Anna Benvenue, Inaugural Director of the Flex JD Program

• Professor Eric Goldman in the News – June/July 2023

• NCIP’s Linda Starr Transitions

• NCIP’s Speaking Engagement at Alcatraz Kicks Off New Partnership

• Santa Clara Law Launches 2023 Issue of Discern Magazine

• Inaugural Professor Nancy Wright Social Justice Award, Pro bono Hours, Keynote Speaker, and More

• Admitted Students Days a Huge Success

• Day of Giving Brings Largest Number of Gifts Ever!

• International Human Rights Clinic Offers Training on Groundbreaking New Environmental Human Rights Treaty

• Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Matthew Desmond Talks About his New Book “Poverty, by America”

• “A brilliant mind and a heart of gold”—Celebrating Tara Berta, winner of the 2023 Alexander Law Prize from Santa Clara University School of Law

• Special Thanks to All for an Incredible Benefit for Justice Celebration and Auction 2023

• Santa Clara Law Hires its First Senior Diversity Officer

• Congratulations to the Santa Clara Law Trial Team!

• 17 Years of Celebrating Diversity & Inclusion

• Professor Eric Goldman Takes a Dynamic Approach to Connecting with the Media Regarding his Technology Law Expertise

• KGACLC Hosts Diversity Update

• Santa Clara Law’s Privacy Law Certificate named one of 10 most Innovative Programs in the Nation 

• Sandoval Confirmed to Federal Chemical Safety Board

• Santa Clara Law Lecturer Linsey Krolik Tapped for State Privacy-Law Group

• Teresa Kopriva Joins Santa Clara Law as Assistant Dean for External Relations

• Professor Ellen Kreitzberg was Quoted Regarding the Sentencing in the Theranos Case, and Appeared on Good Morning America

• Center for Social Justice and Public Service Hosts “Reimagining Reparations in California”

• Northern California Innocence Project Year in Review

• Innovator Diversity Pilots Conference Draws 350 Intellectual Property Leaders and Attendees

• Newly Appointed Inaugural Albert J. Ruffo Assistant Professors of Law

• NCIP Holds First In-Person Gala in Three Years

• Haynes Boone Enlists Santa Clara Law Profs for Firm Leadership Development Program

• Professor Evangeline G. Abriel Recent Speaking Engagements

• Santa Clara University Celebrates Inauguration of Julie H. Sullivan, the First Woman and First Lay President

• Workshop Promotes Diverse Leaders in Legal Education

• Book on Education by Santa Clara Law Dean Kaufman released in paperback

• Prof. Kerry Lynn Macintosh published a review of Prof. Hank Greely’s book, CRISPR People.

• Santa Clara Law Professor Gulasekaram explores the past, present, and future of gun control in the US

• New Internet Law Casebook from Respected Internet Expert and Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman

• Lynette Parker, with the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center, has received a $1,405,686 award from the County of Santa Clara.

• ACT program promotes empathy, broadens perspectives

• TaxProf Blog featured a post on Professor Cain’s new article, Taxation of Unmarried Partners

• Stephen Diamond spoke with MarketWatch about possible litigation after Elon Musk pulls out of Twitter deal

• Margaret Russell spoke to KQED about the latest Supreme Court Term

• Section 230 and the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality

• Professor Kreitzberg Plays a Role in California State Jury Video & History of Jury Service

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Mercury News about the ouster of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin

• Silicon Valley Business Journal Names Margaret Russell a 2022 Woman of Influence

• David Sloss Co-Wrote an Op-ed for Truthout about Gun Control

• Longtime Infrastructure-Safety Expert Prof. Sandoval Nominated to Biden Safety-Investigation Board

• Colleen Chien’s paper “The Inequalities of Innovation” was quoted in a VICE article about psychedelic patents

• Stephen Diamond spoke with KTVU news about Elon Musk possibly walking away from the deal to buy Twitter

• Eric Goldman’s May 2022 press quotes

• Margaret Russell spoke with KQED about the draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade

• Ruth Silver Taube wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about California’s proposed Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act

• Professors Laura Norris and Colleen Chen to speak on United States Patent and Trademark Office panel

• David Sloss wrote an op-ed for The Diplomat arguing that the U.S. should ban Chinese and Russian state media companies from large social media platforms

• Stephen Diamond spoke to MarketWatch about Elon Musk apparently suffering from buyer’s remorse in his bid to buy Twitter

• Margaret Russell spoke with KQED about protests outside of Supreme Court justices’ homes after after the leaking of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade

• David Ball spoke with Patch about San Jose officials using misleading data in their statements that early jail release has led to a crime spike

• Michelle Oberman spoke with WTMJ-AM about how the repeal of Roe v. Wade will disproportionately effect poor people

• Michelle Oberman spoke with WBUR radio about expanding abortion access in Latin America

• Stephen Diamond spoke with CNBC about Governor Newsom’s executive order on cryptocurrencies

• Stephen Diamond spoke with The Business of Business about Elon Musk and the lawsuit against Tesla’s SolarCity acquisition

• Devin Kinyon Elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

• Eric Goldman’s April 2022 press quotes

• Michelle Oberman was quoted extensively by the Picayune Sentinel about what will happen if Roe V. Wade is overturned

• Tyler Ochoa discussed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts by the Girl Scouts with Bloomberg News

• Stephen Diamond spoke with Protocol about the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple

• Stephen Diamond spoke with MarketWatch about Elon Musk buying Twitter

• Deep Gulasekaram was a guest on KPCC AirTalk about Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

• Tyler Ochoa discussed the Boy Scouts defeating a trademark lawsuit brought by the Girl Scouts over the use of the term “scouting” on the Bloomberg Law Podcast

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with KCBS news radio about the pending execution of Melissa Lucio by the State of Texas

• Laura Norris wrote an article for the Ciocca Center titled “Don’t Kill the Deal: Retrain(ing) the Legal Brain”

• Northern California Innocence Project Helps Exonerate San Francisco Man Wrongfully Incarcerated for 32 Years

• Acting President Lisa Kloppenberg to Discuss Her Book on Trail-Blazing Legal Scholar and Jurist Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson

• Margalynne Armstrong spoke with KBLA  Talk Radio about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court and Critical Race Theory

• Margaret Russell spoke to PBS News Hour about the January 6 committee’s probe, and the SCOTUS nomination

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle about thefts in wealthy Bay Area communities being blamed on South American crime syndicates

• Eric Goldman’s March 2022 press quotes

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 spoke with CBS Los Angeles News about the recent rise in robberies

• Margaret Russell wrote an article for the Conversation about how Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing is a flashback to how race and crime featured during Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 hearings

• Colleen Chien to give Mervis Lecture at William and Mary Law School

• 100% Employment for Inaugural Tech Edge J.D. Graduates

• Nicholas Emanuel’s book Remedies: Basic Principles, Authorities, and Problems was published by Carolina Academic Press

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with NPR news discussing how people who are convicted get sentenced to death

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Daily Journal about proposed changes to the Violence Against Women Act

• Ruth Silver Taube will be moderator for “Addressing Human Trafficking in the Global Supply Chain”

• Ruth Silver-Taube received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement award from the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking

• Eric Goldman’s February 2022 press quotes

• Brad Joondeph spoke with the Boston Globe about a possible nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

• David Ball spoke with the East Bay Times regarding Santa Clara County building $390 million new jail

• Margaret Russell spoke with ABC 30 News about the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will hear two challenges to affirmative action

• Catherine Sandoval spoke with KUOW-FM bout the failure of PG&E to prevent their equipment from starting the Dixie Fire

• Deborah Moss-West JD ’94 spoke on the opening plenary panel of OneJustice’s 2022 California Pro Bono Conference

• Margaret Russell spoke with PBS News Hour about Biden’s SCOTUS nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

• Margaret Russell was on PBS News Hour discussing potential SCOTUS nominee California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger

• Stephen Diamond quoted in Cybernews.com about blockchain and cryptocurrency and the need for Congress to regulate them

• Ellen Kreitzberg interviewed by KCRW about Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to dismantle death row

• Margaret Russell spoke with KQED about President Biden’s promise to nominate a black woman to be the next Supreme Court Justice

• Deep Gulasekaram was on Jim Bohannon’s podcast discussing Justice Breyer’s retirement

• Stephen Diamond quoted by Fortune Magazine about how Neuralink may have misled regulators about Elon Musk’s leadership role in the company

• Evangeline Abriel spoke at the national Midwinter Conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association

• Eric Goldman’s January 2022 press quotes

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke with KQED on Zoe Lofgren’s new immigration bill

• Northern California Innocence Project and Team Secure Release of Wrongly Convicted Father in Infant Son’s Death

• Stephen Diamond spoke at a February 9 Protocol event about the future of crypto regulation

• Colleen Chien featured in article, Leading by Example: Insight from IP Leaders of the Public Sector

• Helen Christakos named a 2022 “Top Cybersecurity Lawyer” by the Daily Journal

• Catherine Sandoval spoke with KQED radio about whether PG&E can operate without starting wildfires

• Santa Clara Law Hires Two New Faculty Members

• Santa Clara Law Faculty Honored and Presented at the AALS 2022 Annual Meeting

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Daily Journal about how legal system silos are harming domestic violence victims

• Michelle Oberman spoke with San Jose Outside about how equitable access to abortion services in San Jose is not a guarantee

• Michelle Oberman spoke with the New York Times about what a post Roe v. Wade America would look like

• Catherine Sandoval spoke with ABC 10 News about how PG&E will get off of federal criminal probation soon

• Michael Vargas wrote an article on lessons from Rittenhouse and McMichael trials for San Jose Spotlight

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Mercury News about combating smash and grab robberies

• Santa Clara Law’s Northern California Innocence Project Turns 20

• David Sloss wrote a blog post for the American Constitution Society on his work to get Congress to reduce the electronic amplification of misinformation

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with AP about Elizabeth Holmes taking the stand in her criminal fraud trial

• Eric Goldman’s December 2021 press quotes

• Margaret Russell spoke with KPIX news about the possibility of other rights being up for review if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

• David Ball discussed the impact of Proposition 47 with KTVU news as it relates to recent looting of Bay Area stores

• Thiadora Pina presented a workshop on teaching lawyer cultural competence NALP’s Professional Development Institute Conference

• Michelle Oberman spoke with WBUR in Texas to discuss what happens when the right to an abortion is not guaranteed in every state

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the right to free speech for public employees

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 co-wrote an article about how missing indigenous children in Australia receive little media coverage

• Margaret Russell interviewed on “Understanding The Role Of The First Amendment In Civil Rights Movements”

• Laura Norris and Mary Fuller will be presenters at a USPTO webinar on diversity in innovation

• Eric Goldman’s November 2021 press quotes

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with KTVU Fox-2 news about the ongoing Theranos trial

• Michelle Oberman spoke to WBUR NPR in Texas about the restrictive Texas abortion law

• Catherine Sandoval spoke with CBS news about how PG&E’s negligence caused the deadly Zogg fire

• Margaret Russell spoke to AP about the dismissal of a juror in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial

• Deborah Moss West to receive 2021 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award

• Nick Serafin’s article on the 13th amendment received an honorable mention in the Association of American Law School’s 2022 Scholarly Papers Competition

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Mercury News about how America is neglecting its missing indigenous women

• Gary Spitko gave a webinar on vaccine mandates through the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with NBC news about non-verbal communication in the trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

• Margaret Russell spoke to KQED Forum about SCOTUS hearing challenges to the Texas abortion law

• Margaret Russell spoke with NPR about the University of Florida barring professors from testifying in a voting rights case

• Dean Michael J. Kaufman Recognized for his Contributions to the Legal Profession and Jesuit Education

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with NBC news about interviews former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes gave to CNBC

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Daily Journal about the need for our justice system to become more victim-centric

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the need to reform California’s recall process

• Eric Goldman’s October 2021 press quotes

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol about Robinhood’s citing of the First Amendment to the Securities and Exchange Commission

• Devin Kinyon appointed chair of California State Bar’s Law School Council for 2022

• Michelle Oberman received the 2021 Faculty Senate Professor Award

• Stephen Diamond spoke to MarketWatch about the Facebook whistleblower situation

• Colleen Chien to be keynote speaker at Suffolk Law’s Third Annual Intellectual Property & Innovation Conference on October 1

• High Tech Law Institute Publishes Diversity In Innovation Best Practices Guide to Help Increase Inventorship by Women and Minorities

• Lourdes Turrecha spoke to Wired about Apple’s child sexual abuse material scandal

• Eric Goldman’s September 2021 press quotes

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol.com about a dispute between Coinbase and the SEC over crypto lending

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to Law 360 about immigrants’ gun rights

• Brad Joondeph spoke to KRON news about Texas’ new abortion restrictions

• Tyler Ochoa quoted by Courthouse News about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals siding with Sirius XM in dispute over pre-1972 music royalties

• Margaret Russell quoted in the Los Angeles Times about L.A. County paying $400,000 to Grace Community Church after the church violated the county’s Covid rules

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke to KTVU news about the case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

• Anna Han interviewed by KTVU news about the criminal fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes

• Eric Goldman’s August 2021 press quotes

• Patricia Cain was on Above the Law’s “The Jabot” podcast speaking about the book she co-edited, “Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors”

• Banning Trump on Social Media

• Northern California Innocence Project was profiled by San Jose Inside

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight on how the LGBTQ+ community should focus on passing queer-friendly legislation

• David Ball quoted by Mission Local about how a rape case could proceed regardless of accuser’s wishes

• Eric Goldman’s July 2021 press quotes

• Michelle Oberman quoted in Healthy Woman bout how abortion opponents are chipping away at reproductive rights

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight that critiques the mainstream LGBTQ+ rights movement

• Santa Clara Law’s Tech Edge JD program profiled in LexBlog

• Stephen Diamond spoke with Protocol.com about Robinhood’s broken IPO

• Catherine Sandoval was on the Energy Bar Association’s Energy Exchange podcast discussing her energy safety work

• Catherine Sandoval spoke to CNBC about PG&E’s problem with their equipment causing wildfires

• Dean Michael Flynn appointed to the Content Scope Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners

• Eric Goldman’s June 2021 press quotes

• Patricia Cain was on the Forbes magazine Tax Notes podcast discussing tax challenges for the LGBTQ community

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol about Robinhood’s IPO

• David Ball spoke to KTVU-SF about a proposed gun ordinance in San Jose

• Comments made by Catherine Sandoval in a June 1 filing to PG&E’s felony probation judge were quoted in California Energy Market

• Pat Cain was on the TaxNotes podcast discussing taxes and the LGBTQ community

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to NPR LA about a Supreme Court ruling about people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons

• David Sloss has published “Sovereignty and National Constitutions” in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal

• Two Professors Named to Endowed Professorships

• Margalynne Armstrong to guest on the Special Report on Facebook live discussing Rodney King and police brutality

• Silicon Valley Business Journal Names Laura Lee Norris a 2021 Woman of Influence

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Mercury News on the link between mass shootings and domestic abuse

• Margaret Russell about Stephen Miller’s allegation that the Biden administration’s economic recovery programs discriminate against whites

• Don Polden spoke to KNTV news Santa Clara County’s requirement that businesses track covid vaccination status of employees

• Eric Goldman’s May 2021 press quotes

• Margaret Russell spoke to NPR Oregon about federal prosecutors federal prosecutors charging protestors with civil disorder

• Professor Colleen Chien Joins U.S. Commerce Department as Part-Time Senior Counselor

• Don Polden was interviewed by NBC Bay Area on lawsuits by employees challenging the requirement to get the Covid vaccine

• Pat Cain was on the Good Law/Bad Law podcast, discussing sex discrimination, glass-ceilings, and women law professors

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke to KTVU news about a California law that forbids 14 and 15-year-old juveniles being tried as adults

• Lourdes Turrecha spoke to Tom’s Guide about recent dumps of user data from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Clubhouse

• David Ball spoke to KTVU Fox 2 News about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and what’s next for police reform

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke to NBC Bay Area news about the wait for the jury’s decision in the George Floyd murder case

• What happens when homelessness is illegal? Santa Clara Law students’ research shows things get worse for people without homes.

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the new San Jose police chief and how he will engage with the LGBTQ+ community

• Margaret Russell spoke to KQED radio about a teacher suspended after attending the January 6 capitol riot

• Eric Goldman’s April 2021 press quotes

• Margalynne Armstrong’s article “Are We Nearing the End of Impunity for Taking Black Lives?” was mentioned in SheFlexx

• Tyler Ochoa quoted by Marketwatch about the latest battle between Oracle Corp. and Google over “fair use” of software code

• Colleen Chien was on the Center for American Progress Action podcast discussing the “second chance gap”

• Catherine Sandoval formally requested a federal district court probe PG&E for potential charges after the company withheld documents from the court’s investigation of a deadly 2020 wildfire

• Margaret Russell quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle about a lawsuit by former SF school board Vice President who made anti-Asian tweets

• Scott Maurer quoted in a WalletHub article on debt consolidation

• David Ball spoke with KTVU news, the Mercury News and Business Insider about a California Supreme Court ruling to shrink the role of cash bail in jailings

• Eric Goldman’s March 2021 press quotes

• Anna Han and Angela Kwok JD ’02 were on a panel discussing women in venture capital

• Lydia de la Torre Appointed to California Privacy Protection Agency Board

• Lourdes Turrecha spoke to KOFY TV about a lawsuit against Clearview AI gathering data from social media to sell to law enforcement

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for the San José Spotlight about bills to keep transgender youth from playing school sports

• Michelle Oberman quoted in a Seattle Times article about a woman who was arrested 23 years after her infant son was found dead in a trash can

• Harvard Law School’s H2O blog covered Santa Clara Law’s Defunding Casebooks Conference

• Stephen Diamond was interviewed by the Financial Times on a new secondary market for trading shares of private startups in Silicon Valley

• Eric Goldman spoke to USA Today about a lawsuit against the creator of a viral GoFundMe campaign

• Lourdes Turrecha quoted in San Francisco Chronicle about a $650 million class-action settlement to be paid by Facebook for violation of privacy laws

• Honorable Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for the Daily Journal about efforts to reform the criminal justice system in California

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol.com about cryptocurrency company Coinbase going public, and about how much Stripe is worth

• David Ball spoke to the East Bay Times about a state Senate bill that would allow civilians to become candidates for sheriff

• Eric Goldman’s February 2021 press quotes

• A re-release of Stephanie Wildman’s “Privilege Revealed”

• Renowned internet law expert Professor Eric Goldman named Knight Visiting Scholar

• Margaret Russell spoke with KPIX-TV news about Santa Clara County’s order banning indoor gatherings being allowed to stand

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol.com and KCBS radio about Robinhood’s CEO’s response to the GameStop stock revolt

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to KTVU news about Trump being sued over the capitol riots, and Biden’s immigration reform bill

• Lisa Kloppenberg’s casebook on dispute resolution ranked as one of 10 best mediation books of all time

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to KTVU news about Trump’s impeachment trial

• Stephen Diamond spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about a couple facing charges on coronavirus testing fraud

• Michael Vargas wrote for San José Spotlight on how the Biden administration has brought with it a wave of relief for the LGBTQ+ community

• Deep Gulasekaram quoted by Buzzfeed and the National Law Review about possible obstruction of Biden’s immigration policies

• Michelle Oberman’s research on abortions in El Salvador cited by Lifenews.com

• Eric Goldman’s January 2021 press quotes

• Brad Joondeph spoke to KRON news about the constitutionality of Trump pardoning those who took part in the capitol breach

• Linda Starr quoted in East Bay Times and Mercury News about possibilities for criminal justice reform with the next California Attorney General

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke with KQED radio on Biden’s immigration reform plan

• David Ball quoted in multiple press outlets about a parolee struck and killed two people on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco

• Francisco Rivera Juaristi quoted by Capital and Main about the possibility of Trump administration officials being prosecuted for immigration policies

• Deep Gulasekaram quoted in Buzzfeed on Trump’s DHS making agreements with states to give them notice of immigration policy changes

• Ruth Silver Taube quoted in a Mercury News article about Milpitas’ new anti wage theft and human trafficking ordinance for builders

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the need to expand the federal judiciary

• Colleen Chien wrote an article for Michigan Law Review titled “America’s Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap”

• Catherine Sandoval spoke with KOFY-SF about PG&E’s hiding of problems with their equipment

• Don Polden spoke with MarketWatch about antitrust lawsuits against Google

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke with KTVU-TV news and KGO radio about calls for a 2nd impeachment of Trump

• Brad Joondeph spoke to KRON TV news about Trump’s second impeachment

• Stephen Diamond has a post on Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog about his new paper “The Myth of Corporate Governance”

• Eric Goldman wrote an op-ed on Section 23 for the Mercury News and East Bay Times

• Law student and Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center Director honored by Charles Houston Bar Association

• Stephen Diamond spoke to Protocol.com about the NY Stock Exchange’s flip-flopping over delisting Chinese tech stocks

• In Memoriam: Nancy A. Wright JD ’80

• In Memoriam: Ray Bernstein

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle about Trump’s new citizenship test being more difficult

• Eric Goldman’s December 2020 press quotes

• Michelle Oberman quoted in a Medium article about police use of genealogy databases to solve decades-old newborn killing cases

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with KCBS radio on the rush of federal executions during the Trump administration’s transition period

• Catherine Sandoval and Al Hammond filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on FCC v. Prometheus Radio Broadcasters

• Honorable Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an article for the SF Daily Journal on the obsoletion of misdemeanors as a remedy for an overburdened criminal justice system

• Ruth Silver Taube JD ’93 Selected as a 2021 Modern-Day Abolitionist Award Recipient

• Evangeline Abriel is co-writer of the 8th edition of the VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants

• Don Polden spoke with MarketWatch about the government’s lawsuit against Facebook for anti-competitive behavior

• Wildfire Watchdogs: Faculty and Students at Santa Clara Law Fight to Protect Californians from Power Shutoffs and Wildfires

• Eric Goldman co-wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle arguing for a permanent ban on political ads on social media

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to Buzzfeed News about how ICE expelled 33 immigrant children back To Guatemala after a judge said they couldn’t

• Eric Goldman’s November 2020 press quotes

• Deep Gulasekaram published a post on the Balkinization blog on presidential immigration federalism

• Michelle Oberman quoted in article about a woman who was accused of murdering her daughters

• Eric Goldman co-edited a new ebook on Zeran v. AOL, the most important Section 230 case

• Devin Kinyon has been appointed to the State Bar’s Law School Council

• Santa Clara Law Professor Colleen Chien Named to President-Elect Biden’s Transition Team

• Margaret Russell discussed Covid-19 and the Bill of Rights on KALW radio

• Catherine Sandoval spoke to KXTV news about PG&E’s “criminal thinking”

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight on the LGBTQ community’s historic gains in the November election

• David Ball spoke to the East Bay Express about the failure of California’s Proposition 25

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to ABC7 news on the fate of the ACA in the Supreme Court and California v. Texas

• Honorable Eugene Hyman JD ’77 has a letter in the LA Daily Journal in response to article criticizing domestic violence reforms proposed by newly elected L.A. District Attorney

• Philip Jimenez Fighting for Justice in Mongolia

• Ruth Silver Taube quoted in a Santa Clara Magazine article about efforts to relieve the economic pain of workers laid off due to Covid

• Colleen Chien, Nicholas Halkowski JD ’20, and Rodney Swartz JD ’21 co-authored a post on PatentlyO on Patent Eligibility (101) and 112 Guidelines

• David Sloss wrote a post on Opinio Juris about the need to regulate disinformation on social media

• Pat Cain spoke to SiliconValley.com about the economic impact to individuals of the coronavirus pandemic

• Margaret Russell spoke to USA Today about the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett

• Anna Han spoke to NBC Bay Area news about a consumer’s dispute with a data recovery company

• Margaret Russell spoke to KNTV NBC news about Trump’s call for voters to spend election day as poll observers

• Don Polden spoke to ABC TV News and KGO TV regarding an antitrust lawsuit filed against Google

• Deep Gulasekaram was on AirTalk on KPCC radio discussing the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court