Two members of Santa Clara Law’s Immigration Law Society, Osvaldo Hidalgo Otamendi and David Doyle, testified in a packed public hearing before the Santa Clara County Human Rights Commission to oppose proposed changes to the county’s Sanctuary Jurisdiction policy. They…
In 2018 the Santa Clara Law Center for Social Justice and Public Service, along with Criminal Law Society at Santa Clara University, co-hosted the first “speed screening” criminal records expungement clinic at Santa Clara Law. More than twenty clients were…
Santa Clara Law students placed 2nd in the Clara Barton Competition on International Humanitarian Law, at the American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington D.C. The competitors were Marco Segura, Cory Culver and Camilla Amato. Team coordinators were Joey Eisenberg and…
Santa Clara Law Professional Responsibility students in Professor Flagsberg’s fall class recently scored a victory in the California Supreme Court. In December, the Court granted requests made by the students & Professor Flagsberg to depublish the case of People v. Hayes (2018)…
Santa Clara Law’s American Constitution Society (ACS) Chapter was recognized as the Student Chapter of the Week. The selected chapters are ones that have held exceptional programming, have aligned themselves with the priorities of the national office or have established…
A resource guide produced by recent grads Sheila Cook ’18 and Iva Gaylord ’18 for Deep Gulasekaram‘s Spring 2018 Immigration Law & Policy Practicum is being used to help undocumented students. The resource guide (Navigating Graduate School: A Guide for…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 12, 2018— On Aug. 13, Santa Clara University School of Law welcomed 213 full-time and 31 part-time students embarking on their first year of law school. The class is 55 percent female, and 50 percent of…
Students in Deep Gulasekaram‘s Spring 2018 Immigration Law & Policy Practicum were asked to engage in transformative advocacy around some of the most pressing issues in immigration regulation and enforcement. Their goal was to produce publicly available research that could…
Eight first-year Santa Clara Law students were selected to participate in this year’s Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Program (BAMSCP), sponsored by the Santa Clara County Bar Association. The BAMSCP program, led by co-chairs Ram Fletcher J.D. ’05 and Jennifer Leung J.D. ’08,…
by Elena Applebaum and Chase Donahoo Santa Clara University School of Law students Elena Applebaum and Chase Donahoo, enrolled in Professor Catherine Sandoval’s Energy Resource Law Course, prepared comments in opposition to the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) regarding their…