Margaret Russell spoke to the San Benito Freelance about the legal issues when a private property owner displayed a Confederate flag.

Santa Clara University School of Law faculty member Robert J. “Bob” Peterson was quoted in The Economist about the use of Shakespeare quotes in courts. From the article: After all, as Robert Peterson pointed out in “The Bard and the…

Allen Hammond was quoted in a story on KJZZ about potential conflicts of interest by a regulator in Arizona.

Eric Goldman’s Forbes blog posts about ex parte seizures and other issues were quoted extensively in Patently O, Washington Post, TechDirt and others.

A recent New York Times opinion piece quoted Santa Clara University School of Law faculty member Stephanie M. Wildman during its discussion of systemic bias against blacks. The full article, “Dear White America” by George Yancy, is available on the New York Times website.

Deep Gulasekaram wrote an op-ed for the American Constitution Society blog on the legality of excluding Muslims from the United States. Read the op-ed.

Stephen Diamond was quoted in a Bloomberg article about a possible proxy fight against Yahoo’s board due to investors’ upset over the company’s stock’s lackluster performance and decision not to sell its share in Alibaba. Read more.

Stephen Diamond was quoted in a U.S.A. Today article about Yahoo ceasing plans to sell its share of Alibaba. The Yahoo board is downplaying the focus on selling the company’s web assets. Read more.

Tseming Yang  wrote an op-ed for the McClatchy/Tribune news chain, praising the U.S. plan for reducing carbon emissions. The piece ran in 28 publications with combined circulation of 800,000 and estimated readership of 2.6 million.

The High Tech Law Institute won a 2015 Innovator Award from The Recorder. The article discusses some of the Institute’s recent initiatives, including the creation of the Entrepreneurs Law Clinic, Privacy Law Certificate, and Engineer to Patent Attorney Program. Read…