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A Higher Hurdle: Barriers To Employment For Formerly Incarcerated Women, Marci Seville

Women’s Employment Rights Clinic

This report finds that a criminal record tends to serve as a barrier to employment for women. These realities can potentially impact their ability to successfully reenter their home communities, reunite with and care for their children, and act as viable participants in society. A criminal record adds an additional hurdle to employment for women and increases their vulnerability to discrimination. Research from this study may impact legislation and policies addressing education and professional training, processes to seal and expunge records, employment disparities, employer discrimination, and increased use of unnecessary or inappropriate background screening techniques.

Comments On The Epa’S Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under The Clean Air Act, 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008)

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

No abstract provided.

Comments On The Epa’S Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under The Clean Air Act, 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008), Deborah Nicole Behles

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

On behalf of Communities for a Better Environment and Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University submits these comments in response to EPA’s Federal Register publication of its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act, which solicits public comment on how to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and how to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008).

Protection Of Journalists In Situations Of Armed Conflict : Enhancing Legal Protection Under International Law, Hong Tang

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to highlight the specific conditions created by armed conflicts (international and internal armed conflicts), and to survey and discuss the international laws (governing both sovereign states and international intergovernmental organizations, or governing either sovereign states or international inter-governmental organizations) that can promote better protection for journalists in the circumstances of armed conflict. This dissertation also serves to reaffirm those elements of international humanitarian law that apply to the protection of civilians and journalists in situations of armed conflict; to reestablish and promote the authority of those basic rules on both international and national levels; …

Amicus Brief In State Of California, Et Al. V. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

No abstract provided.

2008 Bill Summary, Assembly Committee On Public Safety

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Jose Solorio, Chair
Greg Aghazarian, Vice Chair
Joel Anderson
Hector De La Torre
Fiona Ma
Anthony Portantino

COMMITTEE STAFF:
Gregory Pagan, Chief Counsel
Kathleen Ragan, Counsel
Kimberly Horiuchi, Counsel
Nicole Hansen, Counsel
Gabriel Caswell, Counsel

Sue Highland, Committee Secretary
Toni J. Nakashima, Committee Secretary

Three Lessons For Lawyers, Roger Bernhardt, Christine Tour-Sarkissian

Publications

This article discusses a recent California case illustrating some potential ethical dangers for lawyers as to conflicts of interest, secret profits (while helping a client secure a mortgage loan) and elder abuse claims.

Urban Parks Equity: Income, Race & Open Space, Unknown

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

2007-2008 Legislative Bill Summary, Assembly Committee On Natural Resources

California Assembly

Committee Members:
Loni Hancock, Chairman
Jean Fuller, Vice Chair
Greg Aghazarian
Julia Brownley
Felipe Fuentes
Rick Keene
John Laird
Lori Saldana
Lois Wolk

Committee Staff:
Lawrence Lingbloom, Chief Consultant
Dan Chia, Senior Consultant
Elizabeth MacMillan, Senior Consultant
Aurora Wallin, Committee Secretary

Everyone Deserves Defense, Peter Keane

Publications

In his decades as a public defender, Peter Keane represented murderers and other criminals as skillfully as he could – even when he knew they were guilty . Keane believes every one, no matter what they’ve done, deserves to have somebody on their side.

“Urban Parks Equity” Theme Of Environmental Law Symposium At Golden Gate University School Of Law On November 14

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Renaissance Redux? Chastity And Punishment In Italian Rape Law, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

This essay examines an Italian sexual assault case that received significant media attention. The Corte d'appello of Cagliari concluded that the defendant was not entitled to a reduced sentence when he was convicted of sexually assaulting his fourteen-year-old stepdaughter. On review, the Third Section of Italy's Corte diCassazione held that the lower court's refusal was erroneous. Cassazione faulted the appellate court for failing to consider that the victim had already engaged in sexual activity with others. This case illustrates how changing rape laws on the books does not always bring about immediate change in attitudes. Indeed, notions of chastity and …

Child Care Funding Sources For California School Districts, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

School districts represent a large portion of the child care delivery system. They operate a mix of child care centers and programs, serve a range of children of different ages, and fund their programs from a variety of federal, state, and local sources. It is not uncommon that, at different times of the day, and in different classrooms, different regulatory standards apply. State policymakers recognize that school districts, and other providers, face challenges in navigating and weaving together the myriad of federal and state funding streams adding local and private funding sources to the mix - to serve families in …

Perilous Predicting, Roger Bernhardt, Daniel B. Bogart

Publications

This article considers the difficulty of drafting future rental provisions as illustrated in California National Bank v. Woodbridge Plaza, LLC.

Cybercrime Against Businesses, 2005, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

No abstract provided.

The Effective Approaches Of International Law Regarding Cartels, Sanghyun Lee

Theses and Dissertations

A free market system based on both freedom of contract and protection of property principles operates challenged by demand and supply. Under a free market system, demand by consumers and supply by producers determine the price and quantity of a product in a market. Competition policy leads suppliers to compete among themselves in sales terms or conditions. Competition toward attracting consumers through lower prices is an important principle for working a free market. Competition law is supposed to protect the functioning of the market.

However, it is against competition law principle for competitors to conspire to fix prices or to …

Law Library Orientation - August 2008

Orientation

No abstract provided.

Golden Gate University School Of Law Selects Professor Alan Ramo As Acting Dean

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Listings, Leases, And Liabilities, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses the California case Blickman Turkus v. MF Downtown Sunnyvale which could have been a rich source of guidance as to brokers’ commissions, disclosure duties, confidential communications, and agency, but instead focused on pleading issues.

Instruments Not Monuments: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel, C. Danny Wang

Publications

No abstract provided.

Letter To Golden Gate University Archivist, Fred White

2004-2008: Frederick White

Letter from Dean White to the Golden Gate University Archivist outlining the achievements of the Law School during his tenure as Law School Dean.

Ggu School Of Law Honors Former Chapter President Allan Brotsky, Carlos Villarreal

Articles About Faculty

Professor Emeritus Allan Brotsky, a member of the faculty at Golden Gate University School of Law for nearly three decades and a luminary of the San Francisco Bay Area legal community, is the first recipient of the Allan Brotsky Pro Bono Award, presented on May 16 at the School of Law Commencement at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco.

This new award recognizes outstanding pro bono work by law faculty and staff in the School of Law.

When First Might Be Worst, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article urges attorneys to make sure that their clients are well advised when deal with the issue of relative priority of leases and loans. The subordination clause may be less important than the nondisturbance and attornment provisions.

Integrity And Ethics In Western Adjudicatory Systems : Toward A Standard, Ruth S. Astle

Theses and Dissertations

As a global community comes closer to a reality in which there is an international rule of law, a borderless standard of ethics and integrity in adjudication must be developed. Since the beginning of structured adjudication of disputes, ethics and integrity have been an integral part of the process. Even in biblical law, ethics and integrity are emphasized. Now, that many legal disputes, especially in the commercial arena including business and trade disputes, are being adjudicated between and among many different states and individuals from many different states, with many different formal and informal adjudicatory systems, the need for ethics …

Reforming Copyright Law In The Digital Age: A Comparative Study Of The Legal Resolutions On P2p Transmission Between Taiwan And The United States, I-Hsien Chiu

Theses and Dissertations

Adjusting legal system of copyright is vigorously in need in the twenty-first century. The abuse of technology has severely damaged the copyright-related industries not only in Taiwan, but also in the United States. Indeed, the lawsuits filed against modern P2P transmission are fairly unprecedented to courts when facing the tension between copyright holders and technology innovators. Therefore, the technological changes provide an enlightened motivation to develop the analysis on whether the approach that legislators and courts take would harmonize private property rights and public interests. Through the arguments, there are meaningful goals the study attempts to achieve. It is essential …

Environmental Law News - Spring 2008

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program, 2008

Commencement

No abstract provided.

Mapping Proportionality Review: Still A "Road To Nowhere", Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

This article examines how a majority of the Supreme Court went out of its way to vacate a punitive damages award in Philip Morris and further reinforced the inconsistency with which it applies the principle of proportionality. When it comes to punitive damages awards, a majority of Justices continue to convey distrust of juries and of trial and appellate court judges who review these awards. However, when it comes to terms of imprisonment, the Court has eschewed substantive review under the Eighth Amendment while insisting that the Sixth Amendment requires that all facts supporting an increase in a sentence be …

Deficient Development Agreements, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case where the county attempted unsuccessfully to alter a parcel’s status by way of a development agreement rather than by a zoning amendment.

Actuarially Speaking: A Plain Language Summary Of Actuarial Methods And Practices For Public Employee Pension And Other Post-Employment Benefits, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

No abstract provided.