Professor Beth Van Schaack will be speaking at a faculty forum on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 on “Human Rights Litigation in the U.S. as Civil Universal Jurisdiction.” The forum is held at 12:00 noon in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall. Professor Van Schaack teaches Pleading and Civil Procedure, Journal of International Law, Social Justice Workshop: Transitional Justice and International Law Practicum at Santa Clara University’s School of Law. She received her B.A. from Stanford University (1991) and her J.D. from Yale Law School (1997). Prior to coming Santa Clara’s Law School she was a practicing attorney with Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto (1999 – 2002), Acting Executive Director and Staff Attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco (1998-1999 and Law Clerk, Office of the Prosecutor, International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Hague (1997 – 1998).
On March 28 and 29, 2005 Santa Clara University School of Law will hold two panel discussions on cases that are now pending before the Supreme Court of the United States. On Monday, March 28th, Professors Bradley Joondeph, Jiri Toman and Beth Van Schaack will lead the panel on Medellin v. Dretke, which concerns the right of foreign nationals to meet with a consular officer under the Vienna Convention, and whether such right is enforceable in a federal court. On Tuesday, March 29, Professors David Friedman, Bradley Joondeph and Tyler Ochoa will lead the panel on MGM v. Grokster, which presents the question of whether distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing computer networking software may be held contributorily or vicariously liable for copyright infringement committed by their customers. These panel discussions are taking place on the same days that the oral arguments are being presented at the Court.
On Friday, April 1, 2005, Professor F. Scott Kieff, will present a faculty forum on “Comparative Institutional Analysis of Intellectual Property .” Professor Kieff is the W. Glenn Campbell & Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow Hoover Institution at Stanford University and an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. He joined the faculty of Washington University in July of 2001, after transitioning from his practice as a trial lawyer and intellectual property lawyer by visiting as an Assistant Professor at the
University of Chicago Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law. He took up his present faculty fellowship at Stanford in September 2003, after two years of a faculty fellowship at Harvard Law School as John M. Olin Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics and Business. The faculty forum is held at 12:00 noon in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall.
Dr. Rona M. Fields is speaking at a School of Law Faculty Forum on Thursday, April 7 at 12:00 noon in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall and from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Daly Hall Room 207. She is the author of Martyrdom: The Psychology Theology and Politics of Self Sacrifice (Greenwood/Praeger). She served on the Amnesty International Medical Commission in the Campaign to Abolish Torture and developed the protocol for the psychological examination of torture victims while a Fellow at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (Norway). She continues to be actively engaged in forensic psychology and consults with police and sheriff’s departments as well as with United Peace Keeping operations. She has worked as a print and broadcast journalist in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Most recently she is using her expertise on terrorism to develop hi-tech programs to predict, analyze and prevent terror actions.
