Santa Clara, CA – For more than two decades, Maurice Caldwell has fought to prove his innocence after he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life behind bars. On Thursday, a San Francisco Superior Court judge granted his request…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 26, 2011—Santa Clara University Law Professor Catherine J.K. Sandoval has been named by Gov. Jerry Brown to be one of two new commissioners on the five-member California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Sandoval joined SCU in 2004.…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2011 — Angelo Ancheta, who teaches election and voting-rights law at Santa Clara University School of Law and is director the University’s Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center, has been named to the 14-member…

Five Santa Clara Law alumni were among the nominees for the Best Bay Area Corporate Counsel Awards, sponsored by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and the San Francisco Business Times. Finalists were honored at a private reception on February…

Three students in the 2012 Santa Clara University School of Law’s graduating class have been singled out for special recognition. Nicole Bartz was awarded the Mabie Trust Award for the Outstanding Graduate of the Class of 2012. Award criteria are academic…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 4, 2012— Lynette Parker, a supervising attorney specializing in immigration with Santa Clara University School of Law’s Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center (KGACLC), received an Unsung Hero Award from the Victim Support Network for…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 1, 2012—In response to the growing call for greater openness and collaboration in legal scholarship, the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal is now available as an open-access journal to scholars from any university…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 3, 2012— A profound sort of justice is required to heal nations in which mass atrocity such as genocide, torture, or the brutal suppression of human rights has occurred. This year’s commencement speaker to the Class…

Santa Clara Law congratulates Dori Rose Inda J.D. ’00 and Nick Livak ’59 JD ’62 who will receive awards in April from the SCU Alumni Association. Dori Rose Inda ’00 will receive the 2012 Ignatian Award, which publicly recognizes alumni…

Eric Goldman, the director of Santa Clara University School of Law’s High Tech Law Institute, has been awarded the IP Vanguard Award by the State Bar of California’s Intellectual Property Law Section, for outstanding contribution to the field of intellectual-property…