Santa Clara University’s School of Law announced the appointment of three new distinguished faculty chairs, including national legal superstars Patricia Cain and Jean Love. "We are pleased to introduce three faculty members who have been awarded Chairs of Excellence in law and policy," said Dean Donald Polden. "These passionate legal scholars will make significant contributions to our ongoing efforts to educate future lawyers who lead."
"The high quality of the faculty at Santa Clara Law has always been a hallmark of our institution," added Polden. "Our newly appointed chairs will continue that legacy."
ABOUT THE NEW DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS
PATRICIA A. CAIN is the Inez Mabie Distinguished Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law. She previously served as Vice Provost and Aliber Family Chair in Law at the University of Iowa, and as a member of the faculty at the University of Texas for 17 years. She is the author of numerous articles and several book chapters, treatises, and casebooks including Tax Planning for Unmarried Couples (Prentice Hall 1980); Property Law: Outlines(Casenotes 1997, 1999) (with Sheldon Kurtz); Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts In the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement(Westview Press 2000); and Sexuality Law(with Arthur S. Leonard)(Carolina Academic Press 2005). She earned her J.D. degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Georgia and her A.B. degree from VassarCollege.
ALLEN S. HAMMOND IV holds the Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Chair at Santa Clara University. A professor at Santa Clara Law since 1998, he serves as director of the Broadband Institute of California, President of the Alliance for Public Technology, director of the Law and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa ClaraUniversity, and as board member and past chair of the SBC Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel. He is the author of many articles and the editor, with Barbara S. Cherry and Stephen S. Wildman, of Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999). He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, his M.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. from GrinnellCollege.
JEAN C. LOVE is the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor at Santa Clara Law. She previously served as the Martha-Ellen Tye Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa (1991-2007) and as Professor of Law at U.C. Davis (1972-91). A recipient of three Distinguished Teaching Awards (from the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and U.C. Davis School of Law), she is the author of numerous articles and two books on Soviet law, and she has co-authored several legal casebooks, including 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. and B.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
