As the new academic year begins, Dean Donald Polden introduces new members of the faculty, including visiting faculty, Senior Fellows and LARAW faculty. He also reports on recent activities and accomplishments of faculty and staff.
Faculty/Staff Activities
Alisa Guglielmo in the law school’s Office of Student Affairs was appointed to the University Student Affairs Committee for a 3 year term. Diane Cascio and Joanie Schuller are serving on the University Staff Assembly Council, and Whitney Alexander, Patrick Ferguson and Jeanette Leach are serving on the University Staff Affairs Committee.
Professor June Carbone published an article (with Paige Gottheim) titled Markets, Subsidies, Regulation And Trust: Building Ethical Understandings Into The Market For Fertility Services, 9 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 509 (2005) and a book chapter titled “Back To The Future: The Perils And Promise Of A Backward Looking Family Law Jurisprudence,” in Reconceiving the Family:Critique of the American Law Institute’s Principles of the law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She also participated in the following conferences and made presentations or submitted papers:
*Second Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law, Capital Law School, Columbus, Ohio, April 7, 2006, ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN AN ERA OF POLARIZATION: AN INSTITUTIONAL EXAMINATION OF WHY ADOPTION MAY BE THE NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR THE RECOGNITION OF PARTNERSHIP (Paper completed and to be published in the Capital University Law Review)
*EACLE Symposium, American University, Washington, DC, May 26, 2006, Autonomy to Choose What Constitutes Family: Oxymoron or Basic Right? (paper completed and to be published in Ius Gentium vol. 13 Autonomy for Spring 2007).
*Law and Society, Baltimore, July 6th, 2006, Parenthood Ex Ante or Ex Post: How Louisiana and California Manage to Have it Both Ways (paper accepted for publication in Journal of Law and Family Studies, due in December)
Professor Carbone also prepared and submitted a book chapter on Elizabeth Morgan, to be published in Family Law Stories, and prepared ( with Naomi Cahn) an article, titled Examining The Biological Bases Of Family Law: Lessons To Be Learned For The Evolutionary Analysis Of Law, submitted and accepted for International Journal of Law in Context (2006)(peer reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press).
Professor Stephen Diamond recently completed a paper with Jennifer Kuan, an economist at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, on the IPO of the New York Stock Exchange. The SSRN URL is
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=891865
Professor Diamond also served as a scholar in residence for one week at the University of Kansas Department of Sociology this past spring. While there he led a graduate student seminar on the new forms of capitalism in the post cold war era.
Professor Diamond is working on a new book manuscript tentatively entitled Three Dimensional Capitalism: Silicon Valley and the Rise of the New Global Economy.
Professor Diamond published an op-ed on the proposed worker retirement buyout at General Motors on the website of Dissent magazine. The URL is
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=646%22
Professor Tyler Ochoa spoke on Recent Developments in Copyright Law at the 50th Annual Conference on Developments in Intellectual Property Law at JohnMarshallLawSchool in Chicago in May. In August, he spoke on An Overview of Intellectual Property Law for visiting MBA students from the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong.
Professor Jiri Toman reports that his article, “The 1954 Hague Convention and its First Protocol: Genesis and History. Rationale for the Revision of the Convention and Adoption of the Second Protocol: its Contribution to the Scheme of Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict” was published in: Seminario Regional – La Protección de los Bienes Culturales en case de Conflicto Armado: Un Desafío y une Oportunidad para América Latina y el Caribe ». Buenos Aires, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto de la República Argentina, 2006, pp. 37-53.
In March, Professor Stephanie Wildman and Professor Margalynne Armstrong spoke at NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity) in June in Chicago about Teaching About Race. Professor Wildman also served as a consultant (in May) at Vanderbilt University School of Law about their Center for Social Justice.
Teaching Fellow Susie Morse had her article, “The How and Why of the New Public Corporation Tax Shelter Compliance Norm,” accepted for publication by the Akron Law Review in its coming volume.
LARAW Instructor Karen Markus published a bibliography of 34 of her articles in an article entitled Scholarship by Legal Writing Professors, 11 Legal Writing 59 (2005). She also reports the article entitled “Putting Yourself in the Shoes of a Student With Dyslexia,” which discusses the latest brain research and how to deal with law students with learning disabilities, will be published in this fall’s edition of Perspectives, a national legal writing journal.
Kudos to Professor Angelo Ancheta and the AlexanderCommunityLawCenter staff: Angelo Ancheta (Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center) has received renewal funding of $30,000 from the Santa Clara County Social Services Agency to support “Legal Assistance for Low-Income Immigrants.”
This award focuses on providing services to low-income individuals on matters related to immigration. The Center provides services through advice clinics, representation in courts and administrative agencies, workshops to community groups, preparation and distribution of community education materials, appearances in the media regarding changes in the law, plus full representation and brief service immigration cases.
Over the past six years, the County Social Services Agency has provided $287,371 in funding for this program.
New Members of the Faculty of Law:
Assistant Professor Eric Goldman joins the Santa Clara Law faculty to teach in the IP curriculum and will direct the High Technology Law Institute in August 2006. Previously, Professor Goldman was an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Previously, Professor Goldman practiced Internet and technology law in the Silicon Valley for eight years, first as an attorney at Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, CA, and then as General Counsel of Epinions.com, an internet start-up company. Professor Goldman also taught cyberspace law at Santa Clara University School of Law as an adjunct instructor from 1997 to 2002. Professor Goldman received his undergraduate degree in economics and business from UCLA in 1988. Professor Goldman received his MBA with an emphasis in entrepreneurial finance from UCLA in 1994. He received his JD from UCLA School of Law in 1994. He was the editor of the UCLA Law Review. Professor Goldman joins the faculty to teach Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property and to direct the High Technology Law Institute. His scholarship is primarily focused on the legal and social implications of new communication technologies; recent articles have analyzed adware/spyware, search engines and spam.
Assistant Professor David G. Yosifon joins the Santa Clara Law faculty to teach Business Organizations and Professional Responsibility. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa ClaraUniversity, Yosifon served as a visiting professor at Rutgers Law School-Camden, and at New YorkLawSchool. Prior to joining the academic ranks he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, LLP. Professor Yosifon received his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1995. After Rutgers he attended graduate school at CarnegieMellonUniversity in Pittsburgh, where in 1997 he received a Masters Degree in American Social History. He received his J.D. from HarvardUniversity in 2002 (Magna Cum Laude). His scholarship is focused on the application of social psychology, and allied social sciences, to law and legal theory. His recent work advances this approach to legal theory through a critique of the conception of human agency that informs conventional legal theoretic and social policy assessments of the obesity epidemic in the United States.
New Visiting Professors of Law
Professor John A. Bogdanski has been a member of Lewis & ClarkLawSchool faculty since leaving practice in 1986. In the fall of 1992 he was a visiting professor of law at StanfordUniversity. He is a five-time winner of Lewis & Clark’s Leo Levenson Award for excellence in law teaching, which was most recently bestowed upon him by the class of 2003. He will teach Federal Corporate Income Taxation and Partnership Taxation at Santa Clara. He earned his juris doctor from StanfordLawSchool in 1978, a bachelor’s degree from St. Peter’s College (summa cum laude) in 1975, and he is a member of Order of the Coif. He is the author of the treatise Federal Tax Valuation and the editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal Valuation Strategies. He has written many articles on federal tax law, and he is currently the Closely Held Business and Valuation columnist for Estate Planning magazine. He is admitted to the U.S. Tax Court Bar and the Oregon and California state bars.
Professor Neil P. Cohen is a professor emeritus of The University of Tennessee College of Law. During his tenure at the College of Law, Professor Cohen held the UTK Distinguished Service Professor of Law and W.P. Toms Professor of Law. Professor Cohen’s areas of expertise are criminal law and procedure, and evidence. He will also teach a Sentencing Seminar. He earned an LL.M. from HarvardUniversity in 1972. He earned his juris doctor from VanderbiltUniversity and his bachelor’s degree from YaleUniversity in 1967. He received a diploma in criminology from CambridgeUniversity in 1972. Professor Cohen is the author or co-author of 10 books and has been published in many law reviews, including the Harvard Journal of Legislation. His book, The Law of Probation and Parole (1999), has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Prof. Cohen also drafted the gender-neutral version of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate, Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Procedure and assisted in drafting the Tennessee Rules of Evidence and the Tennessee Penal Code, as well as the modernized Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Baroness Ruth Deech will serve at Distinguished Visiting Professor at Santa Clara beginning August 2006. Baroness Deech was appointed as a Governor in October 2002 for a four year term. She studied law at Oxford and did graduate studies in the United States. She will teach Contemporary Legal Issues: A British Perspective on Assisted Reproduction, Science and the Public at Santa Clara. She has published in the fields of family law and property law. She was called to the Bar (InnerTemple) in 1967. She was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Anne’s College from 1970 until she was elected Principal of the College in 1991. At Oxford she was responsible for student recruitment, outreach and bursaries. She was Chairman of the UK Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) from 1994 to 2002. The HFEA was established by legislation in 1990 to consider ethical questions arising from advances in medicine, and to regulate research and treatment of infertility. Ruth Deech is a trustee of the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation, a Bencher of the InnerTemple and holds an honorary doctorate from Strathclyde University. She was created DBE in 2002 and appointed a life peer in 2005 (Crossbencher).
Professor Peter Mirfield is a member of the OxfordUniversity law faculty. He received his BA in Jurisprudence in 1971, BCL in 1972 and MA in 1976 from OxfordUniversity. Professor Peter Mirfield’s teaching interests are in Evidence, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence and Administrative law. Professor Mirfield will teach Comparative Criminal Law and Evidence at Santa Clara. His scholarship and teaching interest are primarily in evidence. Recent publications include Philson on Evidence (Sweet & Maxwell 2005) and Essays for Colin Tapper (2003).
Professor Peter T. Wendel is a member of Pepperdine University School of Law faculty. He served for three years as an assistant professor at St. Louis University School of Law before joining the Pepperdine faculty in 1991. He will teach Wills and Trusts and Community Property at Santa Clara. He earned his juris doctor from University of Chicago Law School in 1983 (cum laude). He also received a master’s degree from St. LouisUniversity in 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree from University of Chicago in 1979 (cum laude). Professor Wendel has recently published three books: A Possessory Estates and Future Interests Primer (2nd ed. West); Emanuel’s Wills, Trust and Estate (Aspen); and Exam-Pro Property (West). A member of the Illinois, Missouri, and American Bar Associations, Professor Wendel teaches primarily in the property and wills and trusts areas of law.
Senior Fellows
William C.G. Burns will serve as a Senior Fellow at Santa Clara beginning August 2006. Previously, Mr. Burns was an Associate Professor in the International Environmental Policy Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. He will teach courses in international and environment law, and he will advise and mentor the law school’s external moot court teams. He received his Ph.D. in international environmental law from University of Wales Cardiff School of Law in the United Kingdom in 2005. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from BradleyUniversity in 1980. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (http://www.jiwlp.com) and Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Society of International Law. His research focuses on climate change and international wildlife law, as well as operationalization of the precautionary principle in international environmental law regimes.
New LARAW Faculty
Stephen Smith graduated from Northeastern University and received his law degree from Hastings College of the Law. After graduation, he was law clerk to the Hon. Richard A. Enslen, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, and was attorney-advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor – Office of Administrative Law Judges. He was subsequently associated with the law firms Pillsbury Winthrop and Skjerven Morrill. His article, Due Process and the Subpoena Power in Federal Environmental, Health and Safety Whistleblower Proceedings, was published at 32 University of San Francisco Law Review 533 (1998).
Also, for the 2006-2007 academic year, Mary Szto, Ida Bostian and Michael Rooke-Ley and Sunwolf are returning as visiting professors of law. Eric Schneider is returning as a Senior Fellow and Susie Morse is returning as Teaching Fellow.
