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…
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…
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…
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.
Michael Vargas wrote an opinion piece for the San Jose Spotlight arguing that race-based affirmative action in college admissions is still needed. Read the article.
Anna Han spoke to KCBS news about Trump’s threat to ban WeChat, which is the last unrestricted app between the U.S. and China. WeChat is ubiquitous in China with most people using it. Listen to the clip.
LA District Attorney Concedes Conviction Reversal and Dismisses Case SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 12, 2020— Arturo Jimenez, a 44-year-old man who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1995, had his conviction reversed and all charges dismissed. The Northern California Innocence…
This Fall, Santa Clara Law will welcome three new members to its faculty: Sue Guan, Nicholas Serafin, and Mary Procaccio Flowers JD ’12. “We are proud to welcome these three new faculty members. With their varied and unique fields of…