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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Santa Clara Law Review arranged its annual symposium for March 20, 2020 on the Santa Clara campus and almost a dozen of the leading sports law professors in the United States and top sports law lawyers were scheduled to…
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Morales is helping prosecute what is considered to be one of the largest unprosecuted war crimes in the world, the 1981 El Mozote massacre.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Mar. 5, 2020—Santa Clara University School of Law has received gifts totaling $750,000 from three current and former University trustees, to expand upon its highly successful program in privacy law. The donors, each of whom contributed $250,000,…
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