Santa Clara Law had the honor of hosting the Regional Mock Trial Competition on behalf of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Student advocates tried the case of Taylor v. Big City Electric where…
By Donald J. Polden, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law The Santa Clara University School of Law has lost one of its great friends, graduate Justice Eugene M. Premo BA ’57, JD ’62. He passed away on January 25, 2021,…
Santa Clara Law placed highly in several rankings in the Winter 2021 issue of PreLaw Magazine, including #4 in the nation for our tech law program, and an A+ ranking for our international law program. This year, Santa Clara is…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 16, 2020 — Michael J. Kaufman, a nationally renowned educator, scholar, and expert on civil procedure and education law and dean at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has been appointed dean of Santa Clara University…
Santa Clara Law has been named a Top Law School for Criminal Law for 2020 by PreLaw Magazine.
Santa Clara Law has been named a Top Law School in Racial Justice for 2020 by PreLaw Magazine. The criteria used were centers, clinics, journals and other offerings for students, as well as racial makeup of the student body.
Experienced law school administrator and innovation leader, Joy Baker Peacock, rejoins Santa Clara Law as the Managing Director of the Privacy Law Initiative and Interim Managing Director of the High Tech Law Institute. The new Privacy Law Initiative was created…
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…
CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH 2020 June 19 is celebrated as Juneteenth in the U.S. and many other countries as well. Historically, Juneteenth commemorates a defining moment in American history: the June 19, 1865, conveying of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation and…
Franky Carrillo, a wrongfully convicted prisoner exonerated through the work of the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP), is one of eight exonerees profiled on the Netflix series “The Innocence Files”. He was freed in 2011 after serving 20 years for…
