Faculty News

• 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

• Brad Joondeph spoke to KRON 4 TV news about Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings

• Eric Goldman’s October 2020 press quotes

• Eric Goldman is co-editor of the new Advertising & Marketing Law eJournal on SSRN

• Ellen Kreitzberg was on KTVU discussing the high-profile death penalty case of Scott Peterson

• Professor Eric Goldman Authors Op-Ed on Why Prop. 24 is the Wrong Policy Approach

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to Buzzfeed News about ICE plastering billboards about immigration around Pennsylvania

• David Ball spoke to KTVU-TV news about a woman being held on $500,000 bail for vandalism of San Jose Mayor’s home

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about an upcoming SCOTUS case that could okay discrimination toward LGBTQ+ people

• David Yosifon wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle about the effectiveness of a new California law on corporate board diversity

• CPUC cites comments from the Broadband Institute of California to support decision ordering PG&E to develop an app for public submission of photos of PG&E safety issues

• Evangeline Abriel spoke to Law360 about SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett and immigration rulings

• Brad Joondeph spoke to multiple news outlets about Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett

• Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an op-ed for The Recorder on Proposition 20

• Let’s Talk About Privacy: Privacy Law Takes Center Stage Globally and at Santa Clara Law

• Eric Goldman’s September 2020 press quotes

• Tyler Ochoa spoke to Yahoo news about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death affecting a ruling on Google v. Oracle

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to Vice News about Border Patrol turning away asylum seekers at the border

• Margaret Russell was a guest on KQED radio remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Michael Vargas wrote on article for San Jose Spotlight arguing that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the last giant of the Supreme Court

• Anna Han spoke to KTVU TV news about privacy concerns with WeChat and TikTok

• Brad Joondeph spoke to KRON TV news about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s influence and her replacement

• Sandee Magliozzi spoke on a panel for the Centre for Legal Innovation’s Reinvent Legal Business series

• Catherine Sandoval listed in a protocol.com article about Biden’s possible pick to chair the FCC

• Anna Han spoke on a panel on increasing diversity in the legal professio

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight on the politics and policing of gay sexuality

• Ruth Silver Taube co-wrote an op-ed for San Jose Inside about companies exploiting the pandemic to cheat workers

• Talking Back to the Law

• David Yosifon Appointed to Canisius Professorship

• Eric Goldman’s August 2020 press quotes

• Eric Goldman published a roundup of his projects during the pandemic shutdown

• Pat Cain quoted in the Mercury News about a proposal to tax California’s richest residents

• Margaret Russell spoke with KNTV news about a conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris isn’t eligible to be Vice-President

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight arguing for the continuation of race-based affirmative action in college admissions

• Anna Han spoke to KCBS news about Trump’s threat to ban WeChat

• Northern California Innocence Project Client Arturo Jimenez Exonerated

• Santa Clara Law Welcomes Three New Faculty Members

• Mattia M. Corsiglia JD ’08 quoted in a Mercury News article about the prosecution of a San Jose police officer for white-collar crime

• Eric Goldman’s July 2020 press quotes

• Margaret Russell did a KQED radio piece about remembering John Lewis

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to KTVU news about parents who filed suit against the closure of in-person learning

• Ellen Kreitzberg spoke to KGO news about Santa Clara County District Attorney making reforms as a result of George Floyd’s murder

• Ellen Kreitzberg quoted by the Mercury News about the Santa Clara County District Attorney making wide-ranging reforms

• Toward Inclusive Legal Education

• Adjunct Professor Helen Christakos joins Fenwick

• Ellen Kreitzberg quoted in the Mercury News about the Santa Clara County District Attorney abandoning the death penalty

• Margaret Russell has been awarded the Mesa Neighborhood Fellowship by Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes Station CA

• Michael Vargas wrote an article for San José Spotlight about the Supreme Court’s historic decision in Bostock v. Clayton County

• Stephanie Wildman wrote a post on white privilege for NYU Press’s blog

• Three New Fellows Join Santa Clara Law

• Deep Gulasekaram discussed the Supreme Court DACA decision on All Things Considered

• Devin Kinyon and Laura Norris JD ’97 quoted in a Daily Journal article about the bar exam

• Eric Goldman’s June 2020 press quotes and webinar appearances

• Deep Gulasekaram was a guest on KQED Forum discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling to keep DACA in place

• David Ball spoke with ABC7 about the meaning of defunding the police

• Karla De La Torre ’09, JD ’14 was interviewed by Telemundo about her experience as a beneficiary of DACA

• Kelley Kulick JD ’98 and Professor Ellen Kreitzberg were quoted in a Mercury News article about a not guilty verdict delivered in a death penalty case

• Eric Goldman has co-founded two new organizations dedicated to online trust and safety

• Margaret Russell was interviewed by KQED radio on the Supreme Court’s ruling that gay and transgender workers are protected under the Civil Rights Act

• David Ball quoted by KTVU news about California’s zero bail policy for low-level suspects during the coronavirus pandemic

• Michael Vargas wrote an article about Pride for San Jose Spotlight

• David Ball was interviewed by multiple radio and TV news outlets for his expertise on the history of policing

• David Ball was interviewed by KCBS radio about what defunding police departments could look like

• Eric Goldman widely quoted in multiple press outlets about Trump’s executive order on social media

• Professor Emeritus Jost Baum has passed away

• Catherine Sandoval submitted comments to the CPUC regarding safety gaps in PG&E’s 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

• Eric Goldman was interviewed by Bloomberg on Trump’s executive order on social media

• Eric Goldman quoted in New York Times about Trump’s executive order on social media

• Colleen Chien and Evan Hastings JD ’19 co-authored a post on the Patentlyo blog arguing for contextual patent disclosure for open innovation because of Covid-19

• Devin Kinyon quoted in Daily Journal article about the possibility of California adopting the Uniform Bar Exam

• Deep Gulasekaram spoke to KTVU News about the Justice Department’s claim that California’s phase 2 reopening violates the constitution

• Ruth Silver Taube co-wrote an op-ed for San Jose Inside on California paying care homes to house Covid-19 patients

• Evangeline Abriel wrote an op-ed for the Mercury News arguing that the CDC’s restriction on border crossings because of Covid violates U.S. Law

• Deep Gulasekaram has an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about cities claiming to be sanctuaries for businesses and refusing to enforce state health laws

• Meghan Piano BS ’04, JD ’07 and Lecturer Ashanti Mitchell are delivering care packages to homeless camp residents during the pandemic

• Stephen Diamond quoted in multiple press outlets about Elon Musk’s tweets

• Eric Goldman quoted in Yahoo news and The Independent about a lawsuit against Fox news that claims the network spread false information about coronavirus

• Deep Gulasekaram was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle about Trump’s proposal to ban most migration to the U.S. for 60 days because of Covid-19

• Dorothy Glancy was quoted on msn.com about the implications of cars’ cameras harvesting data

• Margaret Russell interviewed by Courthouse News about a lawsuit against Fox News for downplaying the Covid-19 pandemic

• Michael Vargas wrote an op-ed on the economic fallout from COVID-19

• Colleen Chien co-wrote an oped about how coronavirus emergency relief is denied to business owners with criminal records

• Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman Receives $150,000 Knight Foundation Grant for Continued Research on Online Content Liability Issues

• Eric Goldman’s Emojis and the Law article reviewed in Jotwell

• Brit Benjamin JD ’17 wrote an article for The Recorder arguing that the bar exam doesn’t protect the public from misconduct

• Lynette Parker and Ruth Silver Taube JD ’93 are being nationally honored for their work to curb human trafficking

• Santa Clara Law remembers Professor Emeritus and international law scholar Jiri Toman, who has passed away

• David Friedman quoted in Forbes about the economic impact of COVID-19.

• Missy O’Connell and NCIP mentioned in law.umich.edu about the exoneration of Ricky Davis

• Deep Gulasekaram interviewed on Fox 2 News about the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act

• Colleen Chien quoted in Slate about using algorithms in criminal justice

• Colleen Chien and Eric Goldman wrote to Congress about the benefits of Section 230

• Eric Goldman’s March 2020 Press Quotes

• Michael Vargas wrote an op-ed for San Jose Spotlight on protecting the most vulnerable during Covid-19

• Stephen Diamond co-wrote an opinion piece about highly paid CEOs for MarketWatch

• Professor and Dean Emeritus Donald Polden lectures U.S. Army lawyers on leadership

• Catherine Sandoval and Allen S. Hammond, IV to conduct webinars on the importance of net neutrality to public safety

• Michelle Oberman quoted in Mother Jones about infanticide and pleading insanity

• Deep Gulasekaram wrote an article for SCOTUSblog about how the Supreme Court upheld a decision allowing state identity-theft prosecution of noncitizens

• Francisco Rivera co-authored a report which calls for a new global treaty to address violence against women and girls

• Eric Goldman participated in a point/counterpoint in the Wall Street Journal about Amazon’s liability for marketplace sales

• Lydia de la Torre quoted in San Francisco Public Press about the California Consumer Privacy Act

• Catherine Sandoval quoted in Utility Dive about what sectors could be vulnerable to utility shutoffs

• Don Polden quoted in Business Insider about the Federal Trade Commission’s possible attempts to unwind company mergers

• Michelle Oberman interviewed on KQED about the ineffectiveness of the insanity defense for infanticide.

• Michael Vargas wrote an op-ed for San José Spotlight urging an end to the “gay candidate” test

• Missy O’Connell mentioned in U.S. News, the Mercury News, and other outlets for her role in freeing Ricky Davis

• Eric Goldman’s February 2020 press quotes

• Eric Goldman will speak at a Department of Justice roundtable on Section 230

• Michelle Oberman’s commentary was featured in an NPR story about mothers who kill their children. 

• Margaret Russell interviewed on KPCC about the constitutional process behind Trump’s impeachment

• Michelle Oberman quoted in MSN, USA Today and other outlets about recognizing warning signs in mothers before they commit filicide

• Kerry L. Mcintosh mentioned in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News about potential consequences of a global halt of human germline editing

• Colleen Chien and Nikki Pope mentioned in cut50 about their involvement in the creation of FirstStep.id, a website that helps formerly incarcerated individuals obtain official forms of identification

• David Ball was mentioned in a Mercury News story about the criminal fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

• Lisa Kloppenberg, who served as dean of Santa Clara Law and has been interim University provost since June 2019, was named provost and vice president for academic affairs

• Santa Clara Law Groundbreaking Study into “High-Conflict Personalities” in Divorce Proceedings to be Published in Family Law Quarterly

• Catherine Sandoval to speak at Stanford on the Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift: The Hacker Paradigm Obscures Risks of Net Neutrality Repeal

• David Sloss spoke to NBC Bay Area news about the Trump impeachment trials

• Michelle Oberman quoted in the Los Angeles Times about Lizbeth Mateo JD ’16’s dedication to serving others

• Michael Vargas wrote a column in San José Spotlight urging Mountain View City Council to repeal their ban on parking recreational vehicles

• Eric Goldman’s January 2020 press quotes

• Ellen Kreitzberg interviewed on NBC Bay Area about Representative Zoe Lofgren JD ’75’s qualifications as impeachment manager

• Catherine Sandoval mentioned in multiple press outlets for her testimony at the House Energy & Commerce Committee Communications Subcommittee’s hearing on media diversity

• David Ball’s January 2020 press quotes

• Ruth Silver-Taube quoted in Legal Reader about wage theft in senior care homes

• Catherine Sandoval testified to Congress on Media Ownership Diversity

• Lynette Parker and Ruth Silver Taube will be the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award recipients for 2020

• Deep Gulasekaram’s December 2019 press quotes

• Alison Malsbury wrote blog posts in Canna Law Blog and LexBlog about various issues in the cannabis industry

• Jeff Windsor featured in BASF Bulletin about a successful multi-million dollar case he litigated

• Steve Diamond quoted in a Lawyerist story about solo law practitioners and in True Viral News about IPOs flopping due to lack of transparency

• Margaret Russell interviewed on KPCC about increased religious diversity in the U.S. changing interpretation of First Amendment

• Eric Goldman’s December 2019 press quotes

• Colleen Chien featured in IP Watchdog about her suggestions for improving patent quality in the U.S.

• Ruth Silver Taube quoted in The Mercury News about difficulties immigrants face with reporting wage theft

• Catherine Sandoval quoted in ABC7 News and NBC Bay Area about the need to protect low-income or rural users under the proposal to turn PG&E into a customer-owner cooperative

• Jean Love received the 2020 SALT Great Teacher Award from the Society of American Law Teachers

• Sandee Magliozzi, Rupa Bhandari and Thiadora Pina were speakers at the NALP/ALI CLE Professional Development Institute in Washington, DC

• Eric Goldman and second-year law student Jess Miers co-wrote an op-ed for ARS Technica about how to regulate awful content on the internet

• Deep Gulasekaram and Ellen Kreitzberg interviewed about the testimony given at the impeachment hearings by Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan on NBC Bay Area

• Alison Malsbury wrote an article in LexBlog and Canna Law Blog about ongoing trademark controversies in the cannabis industry

• Deep Gulasekaram interviewed on KPCC about the creation of the 14th Amendment

• Eric Goldman mentioned in Digital News Daily and Search Marketing Daily about the dangers of anti-competitive software program blocking

• Colleen Chien featured in Legal Theory Blog about a paper she wrote about ensuring patent quality

• Evangeline Abriel quoted in Law 360 about the Trump administration’s lack of clarity about their restrictive border policies and the DACA rescission

• David Ball quoted in The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee for a story on issues affecting the closure of California state prisons

• Lynette Parker quoted in the Mercury News and East Bay Times about the DACA program’s effectiveness in eliminating eligibility for immigrants with serious criminal convictions

• Catherine Sandoval quoted in Frontline about clauses that would scuttle PG&E’s reorganization plans

• Catherine Sandoval was quoted in The Mercury News about PG&E’s legal responsibility to update their system for fire prevention

• Alison Malsbury wrote a blog post in Canna Law Blog and LexBlog about letters from the FDA about its ability to regulate topical CBD products

• Deep Gulasekaram was interviewed by KTVU about the impeachment inquiry and by the SF Chronicle about Gov. Newsom’s pardon of immigrants with past criminal convictions

• David Ball quoted in SlashDot about the issue of poverty when imprisoning low-level criminals

• Colleen Chien featured in IPWatchdog for her testimony about patent quality given to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property

• An article by Stephanie Wildman about Christine Blasey Ford was published in the St. John’s Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

• Margalynne Armstrong to participate in a debate at UC Berkeley about reparations for slavery

• Vangie Abriel was quoted by Law 360 on the Supreme Court arguments on DACA

• Vangie Abriel spoke at the American Immigration Lawyers Association California Chapters Conference

• Alison Malsbury wrote posts in Canna Law Blog about various issues pertaining to the legalization of cannabis