Yesterday, Santa Clara University School of Law was pleased to announce the largest-ever gift of $10 million in matching and direct funds by tech pioneer Howard Charney and his wife Alida Schoolmaster Charney to help fund a new technologically advanced,…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 11, 2014 — A veteran Silicon Valley tech-company founder and technology pioneer has donated $10 million in matching and direct funds to Santa Clara University School of Law to fund a new technologically advanced, collaboration-oriented law school building.…
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Hossam Bahgat, who won the 2014 Katharine and George Alexander Law Prize from Santa Clara University School of Law for his work as founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was recently quoted in the New York Times about the…
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Washington, DC (Nov. 17, 2014) – Today, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is officially releasing its latest report, Material Indifference: How Courts Are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases, a…
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Professor Margaret Russell has written on op-ed for the San Jose Mercury News about traveling to El Salvador to observe the 25th anniversary of the massacre of 6 Jesuit priests there. Read the op-ed.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12, 2014 – With Facebook, Google, Twitter and other tech giants teaming up to advance open-source software, and companies like Tesla embracing the spirit of the open-source trend, legal questions abound about the uses and limitations…
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Professor Cookie Ridolfi and Todd Fries, Operations Director of the Northern California Innocence Project, will speak at the official release of the report “Material Indifference: How Courts Are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases” at The National Press Club in…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 3, 2014 — In a fitting tribute to a man who spent his life promoting the use of the law for equality and justice, a $2 million gift from Katharine V. Alexander in honor of her beloved…
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Santa Clara Law is one of the nation’s most outstanding law schools, according to The Princeton Review. Santa Clara is ranked #9 on the list of “Best Environment for Minority Students” in the new 2015 edition of “The Best 169…
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Professor Brad Joondeph wrote a post for SCOTUSblog on Comptroller v. Wynne, scheduled for oral argument on November 12. The ruling will decide what steps the Constitution requires of states, if any, to ensure that personal income taxes do not…
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