David Ball discussed the impact of Proposition 47 with KTVU news, as it relates to the recent looting of several Bay Area retail stores. “…these crimes that you’re describing are robberies. Armed gangs storming a store like at the marijuana…
On December 2, 2021, Thiadora Pina presented the Workshop “Expanding and Teaching Lawyer Cultural Competence” at NALP’s Professional Development Institute (PDI) Conference in Washington, D.C. The PDI delivers timely and substantive programming in lawyer training and professional development, with a…
Julie Henderson JD ’87 has been appointed as Director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation by Governor Gavin Newsom. Henderson has served as Acting Director at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation since 2021 and has been Deputy Secretary…
Alice Busching Reynolds JD ’93 has been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom as the next President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Ms. Busching Reynolds was previously the senior advisor to the Governor Jerry Brown for climate, the environment…
Michelle Oberman spoke with WBUR in Texas to discuss what happens when the right to an abortion is not guaranteed in every state, which might happen if the Supreme Court decides to uphold Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks…
Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the right to free speech for public employees, and how “the reach of government regulation has been slowly creeping into more and more private conduct.” Read the article. “The general…
Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 co-wrote an article on The Conversation website about how in Australia, first nations children make up 20% of all missing children, but get a fraction of the media coverage that missing white children receive. “In…
Margaret Russell was interviewed by the First Amendment Coalition on “Understanding The Role Of The First Amendment In Civil Rights Movements”. “The U.S. Supreme Court, under the Warren Court, had really defined First Amendment freedoms in a much more uniform…
Professors Laura Norris and Mary Fuller will be presenters at a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) webinar on Dec. 7 at Noon ET (9am PT). They will highlight why diversity in innovation matters and offer some of the…
Eric Goldman was quoted by Courthouse News Service about a case where two people filed a class action lawsuit against PeopleConnect, which collects and stores information and photos from high school yearbooks and posts them on classmates.com. Eric Goldman, a…