Catherine Sandoval was listed in a protocol.com article about Joe Biden’s possible pick to chair the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) if he wins the election. Professor Sandoval previously served as the first female Hispanic commissioner of the California Public Utilities…
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Anna Han spoke on a panel focusing on increasing diversity in the legal profession for the Conference of California Public Utility Counsel (CCPUC). Interim Dean Han was invited to speak by two Santa Clara Law alumni, Tara Kaushik JD ’03…
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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 that are exploiting the pandemic to cheat workers. Read the op-ed. “Just 17 percent of workers who’ve gone through the difficult process to secure a court judgment ordering…
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When first-year law students are learning what constitutes self-defense in a criminal case, their professors typically turn to a classic law casebook’s analysis of People v. Goetz. In 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a white New Yorker, gunned down four Black teens…
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This year, Santa Clara Law Professor David Yosifon was appointed to a five-year term as the Peter Canisius SJ Professorship at Santa Clara University. This endowed chair position includes an annual grant to support Yosifon’s research. In a letter announcing…
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Eric Goldman spoke to Business Insider about Trump’s threat to ban Tik-Tok in the U.S.; to Yahoo Finance about an autonomous driving engineer who went to prison after stealing trade secrets from Google as he defected to Uber (republished in…
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Eric Goldman has published a roundup of his projects since the pandemic shutdown in mid-March, including the publication of new editions of two casebooks, and scholarship. Read the post.
Pat Cain was quoted in an article that ran in the San Jose Mercury News and the East Bay Times about a new debate spurred by the economic fallout from the Coronavirus about taxing California’s richest residents. Read the article.
Margaret Russell spoke with KNTV NBC Bay Area news about the conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris doesn’t qualify to be Vice-President because her parents were immigrants. Listen to the clip.