Innocence Projects at Santa Clara University and California Western School of Law Share $2 Million Grant for Ongoing Post-Conviction DNA Testing. The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law and the California Innocence Project (CIP)…

It is important to applaud lawyers who show courage, self-sacrifice, and a commitment to justice. But it’s even better to back that praise with a $1 million endowment for a Prize recognizing those qualities. In 2007, Santa Clara University’s School…

SANTA CLARA, Calif.,  Nov. 3, 2011 – A half-day conference Nov. 18 will explore how social and other media affect modern trial practice, including issues like cameras in the courtroom, “gotcha” Facebook photos popping up in divorce cases, jurors Tweeting…

Santa Clara University School of Law professor Beth Van Schaack—a longtime expert and scholar in international criminal and human rights law—will be attending the arraignment of Abd Al-Ramin Al-Nashiri, the first defendant to be prosecuted before a Guantanamo Bay military…

In a case representing a record third exoneration in one year, NCIP lawyers assist in getting a Los Angeles man’s murder and attempted robbery convictions set aside by uncovering new evidence of innocence.    Contact: Linda Starr, NCIP Legal Director:…

Veritas Initiative, Innocence Project, Innocence Project New Orleans and Voices of Innocence Will Embark on Nationwide Tour Seeking Policy Reforms to Prevent Prosecutorial Misconduct Death Row Exoneree John Thompson, Who Was Stripped of His $14 Million Civil Award for Prosecutorial…

Santa Clara Law alums are cordially invited to serve as negotiation round judges at the Region 9 rounds of the 2011-2012 ABA Negotiation Competition, hosted this November by Santa Clara University. This year’s topic is real estate law. The competition…

Linda Starr was named one of the Daily Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers of 2011. She was recognized for her outstanding work with Santa Clara Law’s Northern California Innocence Project. Three Santa Clara Law alumni were also named to the Top…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara University School of Law hosts its second Santa Clara Law Constitution Day for Youth on Friday, September 16, 2011 as part of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. A hundred local high school students from…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 22, 1011—Step back in time 100 years, to witness the jury-tampering trial that changed the course of famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow’s life forever: 1912’s The People v. Clarence Darrow. This trial will be re-enacted Saturday,…