Margaret Russell was interviewed by the First Amendment Coalition on “Understanding The Role Of The First Amendment In Civil Rights Movements”. “The U.S. Supreme Court, under the Warren Court, had really defined First Amendment freedoms in a much more uniform…
Professors Laura Norris and Mary Fuller will be presenters at a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) webinar on Dec. 7 at Noon ET (9am PT). They will highlight why diversity in innovation matters and offer some of the…
Eric Goldman was quoted by Courthouse News Service about a case where two people filed a class action lawsuit against PeopleConnect, which collects and stores information and photos from high school yearbooks and posts them on classmates.com. Eric Goldman, a…
Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with KTVU Fox-2 news about the ongoing Theranos trial, and the report by government regulators which found that Theranos’s Edison machine wasn’t able to perform basic lab tests and made errors in patients’ test results. “It shows…
Michelle Oberman spoke to WBUR NPR in Texas about the restrictive Texas abortion law. Listen to the program.
Catherine Sandoval spoke with CBS news about how the a tree leaning against a power line caused the deadly 2020 Zogg fire. PG&E had slated the tree for removal, but never followed up to cut the tree down. PG&E’s lawyers…
Margaret Russell spoke to Associated Press about how a dismissal of a juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial shows the risk of bias in big cases. The juror dismissed from Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial joked to a court security…
Deborah Moss West JD ’94 will receive 2021 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award on November 9, 2021. These annual awards honor member bar association attorneys for being exemplary in promoting the cause of diversity in the legal profession and the …
Nick Serafin‘s forthcoming article on the 13th amendment, “Redefining the Badges of Slavery,” received an honorable mention in the 2022 Scholarly Papers Competition sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Read more about the competition.
Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 wrote an opinion piece for the Mercury News about how America is neglecting its missing indigenous women. In the article, Judge Hyman discusses why the likes of Gabby Petito receive our attention while others like…