SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Sept. 23, 2005. Weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is to issue its’ decisions in three California death penalty cases involving an African-American, a Latino and a Native American man, the first statewide study examining how…

Santa Clara University School of Law celebrated the grand opening of its new facilities in Loyola Hall, on Friday, September 9th.  Loyola Hall provides 29,000 square feet of expanded office space for the law school’s programs and activities.  It is…

by David Terrazas, ‘03 Ms. An Le, in a Social Justice Monday presentation on September 12, demonstrated to attendees that inhumane working conditions for immigrants in the United States are plainly visible if one only makes the effort to recognize…

Jessica Tillson (SCU 2L) clerked for the prestigious Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica.  The Court hears claims for violations of human rights against member states, and usually sits in panels of 7-8 judges drawn from…

Santa Clara University Law School’s international and comparative law programs and activities have been brought together under the umbrella of the newly created Center for Global Law and Policy.  The Center’s director is Professor, and former Dean, Mack A. Player. …

by Hasan McGee, ’03 and Sonja Zavala, ’03 In the first Fall Social Justice Diversity Lecture, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Harvard Law School) shared his views about the direction of the Supreme Court in light of developments that had taken…

Susan Bandes, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law will speak on “Repellant Crimes and Rational Deliberation:  Emotion and the Death Penalty” at a Faculty Forum on September 14, 2005. Susan Bandes is widely known as…

HE COULD SWAY OTHER JUSTICES, BUT NOT ALWAYS By Brad Joondeph Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s passing, after a rather heroic battle with thyroid cancer, has created a second vacancy on the Supreme Court and set the stage for another confirmation…

For the first time since the downturn began in 2001, Law Career Services is hosting the largest number of employers for its annual fall recruiting season.  “We have over ninety registrations in our fall recruiting program this year,” reports Assistant…

Santa Clara University School of Law is pleased to present Benefit for Justice 2005, an auction fundraiser that provides funds to the Public Interest & Social Justice Endowment at Santa Clara University.  This year the Adobe Lodge will host the…