Faculty Activities
Following is a partial list of the many achievements, publications, lectures, and activities of Santa Clara Law’s outstanding faculty. Publications, Lectures, and Academic EngagementsAssistant Professor Angelo Ancheta, executive director of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, prepared a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in cases that involve the constitutionality of race conscious school assignment policies in K-12 education and spoke at the press conference for these cases. Associate Professor Stephen Diamond published "Healthy Reminder of Risks of Stock Options," a response to a Financial Times editorial on use of stock options to compensate corporate insiders. His article co-authored with Jennifer Kuan of Stanford, "Ringing the Bell on the NYSE: Might a Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient?" appears in the spring issue of Duquesne Business Law Journal, and will appear as a chapter in an edited collection called Demutualization of Stock Exchanges: Issues and Country Experiences. Diamond was featured as a distinguished "alumni" of the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in a recent law firm publication, Alumni Network.
Assistant Professor Eric Goldman was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in February. His blog was featured in a Law.com article entitled "Blogs to Add to Your Favorites List." Goldman (with Professor Stacey Dogan) prepared an amicus brief for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Rescuecom Corp. v. Google, Inc. He was interviewed on Stanford’s radio sta tion in March concerning his recent publications and professional activi ties. The podcast is available at www.hearsayculture.com. Professor Al Hammond and Assistant Professor Catherine Sandoval received a grant for research they are conducting in conjunc tion with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. To contribute to the literature on media consolidation, they will develop and test a survey instrument examining the relationship between minority and female media ownership and media consolidation. This research is relevant to the FCC’s examination of media consolidation policies in light of the remand of Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC, 373 F.3d 372 (2004). Associate Professor Anna Han presented "Understanding and Navigating the Cultural Business Practices in the Far East" to the State Bar of California in Santa Clara in September and, in August presented "China’s Changing Legal System and How it Affects the Chinese" to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. She also spoke at the annual All Hands meeting of the Silicon Valley General Counsel Association in Santa Clara on "Doing Culturally Aware Business in the Greater China Region." She was asked by the United Nations Development Programme to review and comment on the Contract Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which will be passed by its National Assembly. This is Bhutan’s first contract law, formalizing a system of contract for mation that has previously been gov erned by customs and practices. She presented "Recent Developments on China’s Patent Law" at International Law West in Santa Clara. Professor Ellen Kreitzberg agreed to serve on the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Self Study Steering Committee, which will supervise the University’s self study process as it moves towards reaffirmation of accreditation by the WASC.
Professor Kenneth Manaster published the article "Fairness in the Air: California’s Air Pollution Hearing Boards" (24 UCLA J. of Environment Law and Policy 1 (2006)). He also published "California’s Air Pollution Hearing Boards: An Introduction" in California Environmental Law Reporter (Oct. 2006) No. 10 (Lexis Nexis). Professor Cynthia Mertens was named to the University’s Subcommittee on Educating for Competence, Conscience, and Compassion, as a part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges self-study process.
Dean Donald J. Polden published a chapter on strategies to enhance the effectiveness of law school deans in a collection of articles, Law School Leadership Strategies (Aspatore Publishing 2007). He was named to the Standards Review Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and was also elected to the Law School Council by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California. The Council advises California’s Committee of Bar Examiners on matters relating to the content and format of the state bar examination.
Professor Margaret Russell’s article "Justice Delayed" was part of a group of articles from Santa Clara Magazine that received a Gold Award at the District VII CASE conference in the magazine writing category. The article was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Santa Clara Magazine. Professor Russell, who is serving as president of the University’s Faculty Senate, was named to the University’s Subcommittee on Promoting a Community of Inclusive Excellence as a part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges self-study process. Professor Alan W. Scheflin presented a workshop with FBI hypnosis specialists discussing the application of hypnosis in solving crimes at the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis conference. He received the Society’s Award of Merit and also serves on its Ethics Committee. Professor Scheflin was a co-presenter of a workshop, "You Are Under Arrest! Forensic Hypnosis 2007," and a workshop, "The 1994 ASCH Guidelines on Using Hypnosis With Memory: An Update," at the 2007 joint meeting of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He was also a co-presenter of a workshop, "Forensic Skills for Clinicians Working with Dissociative Disorders," at the 23rd International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence in the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.
Professor Kandis Scott has been named Freeman Foundation Professor of Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. She started a faculty workshop series at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center to address past problems involving the Chinese faculty in the intellectual life of the institution. Both Chinese and American faculty members have made presentations on pertinent topics to Chinese and American scholars. She also spoke to the clinical program of Wuhan University Law School on clinical education in the U.S., and presented "Gender in Legal Clinical Education" to the Chinese Conference on Gender Discrimination, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
Professor Jiri Toman delivered the keynote address at an international conference, Culture is a Basic Need: Responding to Cultural Emergencies, held in The Hague in September. He also published an article for the conference. He published "The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies: The Response of International Law" in The Prince Claus Fund Journal (Vol. 14, 2006). His article was based on a presentation at the international conference on this topic in September.
Assistant Professor Beth Van Schaack served as a plaintiffs’ trial counsel in a landmark human rights case against two Salvadoran generals found guilty of torture. Her work has also involved prosecuting war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and tracking the atrocities of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Visiting Professor Peter Wendel has offered a BLSA Academic Success Workshop at SCU and at law schools across the country with the help of members of the National BLSA. Those schools included Washington University in St. Louis, Pepperdine University, U.C. Davis, U.C. Hastings, Boston College, Boston University, University of North Carolina, DePaul, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova, Boalt Hall, and the national BLSA academic retreat in New Orleans. He also presented at Villanova School of Law’s Fourth Annual Symposium on Catholic School of Thought and the Law (presented by the school’s Journal of Catholic Social Thought) and at the University of Warwick’s Learning in Law annual conference.
Assistant Professor David Yosifon presented a paper, "Legal Theoretic Inadequacy in Obesity Epidemic Analysis," at the Fourth Annual Conference on Legal Responses to the Obesity Epidemic at Northeastern University School of Law in November; he also presented a paper, "The Implicit Persistence of the Rational Actor in Behavioralist Legal Analysis," at the Georgetown Conference on Socio-Economics in January. He presented "The Ethics of Incivility in Legal Practice," to Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc.’s All Lawyers Meeting, in February. He also became a member of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership of the Markkula Center For Applied Ethics at SCU, and presented "Tensions Between California and Mainstream Approaches to Lawyer-Client Confidentiality Norms," at the organization’s April meeting. He also became a contributing blogger to The Situationist (http://thesituationist.wordpress.com), a new blog dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches to legal analysis and policymaking.
Professor Kathleen "Cookie" Ridolfi and Case Manager Mary Likins of the Northern California Innocence Project spoke as panelists at the Judicial Council of California’s Science and the Law Steering Committee’s regional meeting in San Francisco in October. They addressed the presentation and evaluation of scientific evidence, ethical considerations, and the adequacy of court rules and facilities. The steering committee selected only 12 individuals to present at this event. Representatives from the judicial, legal, and scientific communities attended to assess the impact of science and technology on the California courts. Senior Fellow Wil Burns will publish Adjudicating Climate Change: Sub-National, National, and Supra-National Approaches (Cambridge University Press). His piece on the eighth meeting of the Convention on Migratory Species will be published in an upcoming edition of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law. He was also appointed a topics editor on Biodiversity and International Environmental Law for the Encyclopedia of Earth, a publication of the National Council for Science and the Environment. He spoke on the future of the International Whaling Commission at the Cape Cod Whaling Museum (IWC) in Brewster, Mass., and at Moss Landing Marine Laboratory. He was also interviewed by Voice of America’s Tokyo Bureau in August regarding the latest meeting of the IWC. He spoke to a U.C. Hastings class in public international law on the Kyoto Protocol. He presented "The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black and Mediterranean Seas: The Viability of Regional Approaches to Cetacean Management" at the International Law Association’s annual conference in New York, and presented "International Regimes on Ballast Water Management" to the Maritime Law Socity at Stetson College of Law. He judged the finals of the IEL Moot Court Competition at Stetson College of Law. His "International Environmental Law" section of the American Bar Association’s International Law and Practice annual review was published in International Lawyer during the summer. He also published "The Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas: The Beginning of the End?," 10, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, co-authored with Professor Richard Caddell. He authored an article for the Stanford Spring 2007 Symposium: Climate Change Liability and the Allocation of Risk, which focused on the use of the Straddling Stocks Convention to pursue climate change associated damages to fish species.
Law Clinic Supervising Attorney Lynette Parker served as co-editor for the Nineteenth Annual AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) California Chapters Conference Handbook. She also served as the discussion leader on the Naturalization/Citizenship Panel at the conference, held in Monterey in November, and co-authored an article with the other panelists. She also had an article on immigration law accepted for publication by The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Assistant Dean Elizabeth Enayati Powers (International and Comparative Law and executive director of the Center for Global Law and Policy) taught a course at the law school of the University of Warsaw (Poland) in February. She was selected for a Fulbright Award to support her teaching in Europe in the Spring semester. Julia Yaffee, Senior Assistant Dean for Student Services, moderated a panel, "The ‘Wired’ Generation: How Communication Technology is Transforming Student Culture," at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in January. She also gave a presentation on the Law School Survey of Student Engagement at the Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual con ference in Boston in March. LARAW Faculty Member Sean Raft published the article "Imagining a Progressive and Comprehensive Consumption Tax" in the Oregon Law Review. Grants and Good News Assistant Professor Angelo Ancheta, executive director of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, received a one-year renewal award from the State Bar of California to help low-income clients in the areas of workers’ rights, workers’ compensation, immigration, and consumer matters. He also received a five-month award from the California Consumer Protection Foundation to support the "Consumer Rights Project," which will help low-income individuals with limited English pro ficiency regarding their rights as consumers in telecommunication issues. Teaching Fellow Susie Morse is pleased to announce the arrival of her new baby girl, Samantha Jean. Morse also had her article, "The How and Why of the New Public Corporation Tax Shelter Compliance Norm," published in 75 Fordham Law Review 961 (2006).
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