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Law School Faculty, Administration, and Services

Philip J. Jimenez

Professor of Law

Philip Jimenez is a native Californian. After three years of military duty, he pursued his B.A. at the University of Utah, where he majored in political science and Russian. He worked in public relations for Pan American Airways in San Francisco, Düsseldorf, and Berlin. He entered law school at University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1966. During his studies there, he was co-founder and contributing editor of El Grito, a journal of contemporary Mexican-American thought.

Following graduation, Jimenez spent four years in practice with California Rural Legal Assistance. He joined the Santa Clara University law faculty in 1973 and teaches Pleading and Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, and International Business Transactions. He has directed Santa Clara’s summer programs in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Strasbourg and Budapest.

Jimenez has consulted for the Ministries of Justice in Thailand and Korea, as well as for the Korean Legal Center in Seoul. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Boalt Hall, and the University of Puget Sound, and a visiting lecturer at many universities in the Far East. His interests include music, photography, and architecture.

Bradley W. Joondeph

Professor of Law

Brad Joondeph joined the Santa Clara University law faculty in 2000, specializing in constitutional law and taxation. He graduated from Stanford University (B.A.,1990) and Stanford Law School (J.D.,1994). He served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1994-95) and to the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor (Supreme Court of the United States, 1999-2000). He has authored several articles about federalism, judicial decision making, and American constitutional development, including “Law, Politics, and the Appointments Process,” 46 Santa Clara L. Rev. 737 (2006), “Rethinking the Role of the Dormant Commerce Clause in State Tax Jurisdiction,” 24 Virginia Tax Rev. 109 (2004); “Bush v. Gore, Federalism, and the Distrust of Politics,” 62 Ohio St. L.J. 1781 (2001); and “A Second Redemption?” 56 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 169 (1999).

Ellen Kreitzberg

Professor of Law

Ellen Kreitzberg was born and raised in Livingston, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 with a B.A. in history and received her J.D. in 1977 from George Washington University School of Law.

Before joining the Santa Clara University law faculty in 1988, Kreitzberg was a trial attorney for the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., while also representing death row inmates on a pro bono basis.

Kreitzberg is an expert in the area of criminal law and the death penalty. She has written primarily on issues involving the death penalty including Understanding Capital Punishment Law, (LexisNexis) and "But Can it Be Fixed? A Look at Constitutional Challenges to Lethal injection Executions". She organizes and directs the Death Penalty College, a six-day residential program held at Santa Clara every year to train lawyers assigned to the defense of a capital case.

Kreitzberg lives in Palo Alto with her husband, Tom; her two children, Erika and Kristoffer; and their dog, Teton. She enjoys camping, running, traveling, and getting out to the mountains with her family.

Jean C. Love

John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law

Jean C. Love is the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law. She previously served as the Martha-Ellen Tye Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa (1991-2007) and a Professor of Law at U.C. Davis (1972-91).

A member of the Order of Coif and a recipient of three Distinguished Teaching Awards (from the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and UC-Davis School of Law), she is a former co-president (with Patricia Cain) of the Society of American Law Teachers and is also a member of the American Law Institute. She has served on committees of the American Association of University Professors, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, and the Association of American Law Schools. She also served as a member (1977-80) and the Chair (1981-82) of the California Law Revision Commission.

She has published more than 20 law review articles and book reviews with a focus on tort law, remedies, and constitutional tort law. She has published two books on Soviet Law and she has co-authored several legal casebooks on tort law, legal remedies, and an introduction to the Anglo-American Legal System. The titles of her two Thomson-West casebooks are Equitable Remedies, Restitution and Damages (7th ed. 2005) and An Introduction to the Anglo-American Legal System (4th ed. 2004).
She earned her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1965.

Kerry Lynn Macintosh

Professor of Law

Kerry Lynn Macintosh received her B.A. from Pomona College in 1978, graduating first in her class. In 1982, she received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Macintosh joined the Santa Clara University law faculty in 1990. She has published extensively in the fields of electronic commerce, commercial law, and contracts. Her work was honored in 1993, when the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers awarded her its national writing prize. In 1995, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Her research interests also include assisted reproduction, cloning, and genetic engineering.  Cambridge University Press published her book, Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law, in 2005.

Macintosh has served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and Hastings College of the Law.  In 1992, University of Michigan law students voted her co-recipient of the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching.

She is married to Mark D. Eibert, a trial attorney, and has twin sons, Peter and Quinn.

Kenneth A. Manaster

Professor of Law

Kenneth Manaster was born in Chicago and received his bachelor’s degree and law degree from Harvard University. He studied in Peru on a Fulbright Fellowship, served as a law clerk for Judge Bernard M. Decker of the U.S. District Court in Chicago, and was in private practice in Chicago. He then became an assistant attorney general of Illinois, heading the Chicago office of the attorney general’s Environmental Control Division.

Since joining the Santa Clara University law faculty, he principally has taught Environmental Protection Law, the Seminar in Environmental Law, Torts, and Administrative Law. He also has taught environmental law courses at Stanford Law School, the University of Texas, and the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. He has held the position of visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School.

Manaster was a member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Hearing Board for seventeen years, serving as its chair from 1978 to 1989. He also chaired the Public Advisory Committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s study of toxic pollutants in the Santa Clara Valley. He has written numerous law review articles on environmental law and other subjects. He co-authored State Environmental Law, a two-volume treatise, and co-edits California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice, a six-volume treatise. He wrote Environmental Protection and Justice, first published in 1995, and Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens, which came out in 2001. Since 1990 he has served as Counsel to the environmental law group at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco.

Manaster lives in Los Altos with his wife, Ann, and their son, Cole. His daughter, Jenny, is an occupational therapist. One of his continuing avocations since childhood is playing the violin. In recent years, he has enjoyed (at least the first few miles) running 10K races.

Gary G. Neustadter

Professor of Law

Gary Neustadter was born and raised in Los Angeles. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics (1968) and his law degree (1971) from UCLA. He practiced commercial litigation with a Los Angeles firm prior to his move to Northern California.  He joined the Santa Clara University law faculty in 1975.

Professor Neustadter teaches Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights, Commercial Finance, and Contracts. His research interest is consumer bankruptcy. He has served as a part-time volunteer attorney for Community Legal Services of Santa Clara County and has chaired the Section of Debtor/Creditor Relations of the Association of American Law Schools. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and he has also served as President of the University’s Faculty Senate.

Professor Neustadter lives in San Jose, Calif. with his wife, Patty.  They have two adult daughters, Rachel and Stephanie. Coaching youth soccer is his favorite avocation.  

Michelle Oberman

Professor of Law

Michelle Oberman is a graduate of the University of Michigan Schools of Law and Public Health. Her academic career began at DePaul University College of Law, where she specialized in the area of health policy and the law, with particular emphasis on the intersection of women’s health, poverty, criminal law and public health issues. In fall 2004, Professor Oberman moved to the Santa Clara University School of Law, where she accepted a post as a professor of law.

Oberman’s professional activities center on health law concerns. She lectures to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from law school faculties to health care professionals to community-based interest groups. In addition to her academic experience, Oberman has been affiliated with a variety of health care organizations, and currently serves on the GESCR committee at University of California San Francisco (oversight committee for stem cell research).

As a legal scholar with a background in public health, Oberman’s research focuses on legal and ethical issues relating to adolescence, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. In recent years, she has written about statutory rape, postpartum mental health issues and the law, filicide, substance abuse by pregnant women, and the fiduciary obligations of health care providers to their patients. In addition to teaching in the area of health law, Oberman teaches Criminal Law and Contracts.

Tyler Ochoa

Professor of Law

Tyler Ochoa was born in Los Angeles and grew up in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and communication, with distinction, from Stanford University in 1983. He received his J.D. degree, with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 1987. He is a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.

Following graduation, Ochoa was a clerk for the Hon. Cecil F. Poole of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and an associate with the law firm of Brown & Bain in Palo Alto, Calif., where he specialized in copyright and trade secret litigation involving computer software. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, he was a professor and co-director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School.

Ochoa joined the law school faculty in 2003. He served as the academic director of the High Technology Law Institute during the 2005-2006 academic year. He teaches Copyright, Trademarks and Unfair Competition, International and Comparative Intellectual Property, Rights of Publicity, and Torts.

Ochoa and his wife, Karin Carter, live in Dublin, Calif. They have three children from their previous marriages: Marisa, Erik, and Elizabeth.

Robert W. Peterson

Professor of Law
Director, Graduate Legal Programs

Robert Peterson was born in Florida in 1942. A “Navy brat,” he grew up with no fixed abode. He graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in mathematics in 1963 and from Stanford Law School in 1966, where he served on the Stanford Law Review. Prior to joining the Santa Clara University law faculty in 1970, he taught at the University of Illinois (as a teaching fellow) and at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. He also clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham in 1968-69 and earned a Diploma in Law from Oxford University in 1977.

Peterson teaches Civil Procedure, Torts, Product Liability, Evidence, and the Judicial Externship Seminar. He also served over five years as associate dean for academic affairs. In addition, he has spent many summers directing Santa Clara’s programs in Oxford, Tokyo, and Costa Rica.

Peterson serves as a mediator for the United States District Court.  He is also completing his second term on the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Insurance Law, including one year as Chair of the Committee.

When not engaged at the School of Law, Peterson and his wife, Bonnie, and daughter, Valerie, spend much of their time house building (they have built four); kayaking; or rafting such rivers as the Rogue, Tuolumne, Snake, Salmon, and Colorado.

Mack A. Player

Professor of Law

Mack A. Player was dean of the Santa Clara University School of Law from 1994 to 2003.  He came to Santa Clara from Florida State University, where he had been the Atkinson Professor of Law, associate dean, and co-director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center. Player currently teaches Employment Discrimination, Disabilities Law, and Contracts. He has published extensively, primarily in the area of employment law. These publications include Cases and Materials in Employment Discrimination Law and Employment Discrimination in a Nutshell. Player is an elected member of the American Law Institute and was the founding chair of the Section on Employment Discrimination of the Association of American Law Schools.

Player was born in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from Drury College in Springfield, earned his J.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and was awarded an LL.M. with highest honors from George Washington University. Upon graduating from law school he served as a law clerk to Judge Floyd R. Gibson of the United States Court of Appeals. For 19 years (1967-1986) he was on the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he was the Alumni Association Distinguished Professor and Regents’ Professor of Law. In 1970, he became an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1986-87 he was the scholar-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Justice. He joined the law faculty at Florida State University in 1987, and served as associate dean from 1991-92. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Hawaii. Player served two years as an appellate attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor and as a scholar-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Player is married and has two sons (neither of whom are lawyers). His wife, Jeanne M.L. Player, is an attorney who serves as an administrative judge for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Kevin P. Quinn, S.J.

Professor of Law

The Reverend Kevin P. Quinn, S.J. is Executive Director, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, see www.scu/edu/ignatiancenter, and Professor of Law.  He joined the Ignatian Center in 2006, and the Santa Clara University law faculty in 2007, from Georgetown University where he was a Professor of Law and a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.  At Santa Clara University, he offers a seminar in Bioethics and the Law.

Father Quinn entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1973.  He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1985.  He is a graduate of Fordham University and holds advanced degrees in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.  He received his law degree and Ph.D. (in jurisprudence and social policy) from the University of California at Berkeley.

After finishing law school, he clerked for Judge Joseph M. McLaughlin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and also served as a visiting lecturer in law at Santa Clara University.  Father Quinn began teaching at Georgetown in 1994, and was appointed Professor of Law in 2000.  His scholarship is primarily in health care ethics.  At Georgetown, he taught Civil Procedure, Decedents’ Estates, Jurisprudence, and offered seminars in Legal Justice and Bioethics and the Law.