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The Best Llm Tax Programs According To Tax Hiring Authorities, Taxtalent

Articles About GGU Law

Golden Gate University School of Law ranked in the top ten LL.M. tax programs in the United States.

TaxTalent recently ranked the top Tax LL.M. programs in the United States. The Top-10 programs in the ranking were (in order) NYU, Georgetown, University of Florida, Boston University, Villanova and Michigan (tied for 5th), Northwestern, DePaul, University of Miami, New York Law School, and Golden Gate University.

The results are based on a survey of 128 corporate in-house tax department employees who were "asked to select up to five schools (out of 31) with LLM Tax programs that they hold in highest …

Law Library Orientation - August 2013, Michael Daw

Orientation

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Global Insider: Despite Challenges, Bangladesh War Crimes Trials Bring Justice, An Interview With Zakia Afrin, Global Insider

Interviews

Last month, a war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh handed down a guilty verdict against Islamist party leader Ghulam Azam, its fifth conviction of a prominent political figure for involvement in atrocities committed during the country’s 1971 war for independence. In an email interview, Zakia Afrin, an adjunct professor in international law at Golden Gate University who focuses on intra-state conflict and peacebuilding, discussed the state of Bangladesh’s war crimes trials and the lessons they yield for other contexts.

Law Schools’ Untapped Resources: Using Advocacy Professors To Achieve Real Change In Legal Education, Wes R. Porter

Publications

If the current law school model is dilapidated, then the remodel requires more than a face-lift; it requires real structural and architectural changes. Legal education (finally) must cater to the needs of students. By most accounts, that means teaching students the knowledge, skills, and values required to serve clients and solve problems. However, to reinvent legal education in a meaningful way, law schools must involve and elevate their former second-class citizens on the faculty: advocacy professors, clinicians, and legal writing instructors. These faculty members already teach, and have long taught, in the way that would represent real change in law …

Prestigious American Bar Association (Aba) Award To Ggu Law’S Environmental Law And Justice Clinic (Eljc), Lisa Lomba

Press Releases

The Environmental Law & Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law (GGU Law) has received the Dedication to Diversity and Justice Award from the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. The award recognizes and honors the accomplishments of leading organizations in the areas of environmental justice and those who embrace a commitment to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in the areas of environment, energy, and natural resources. GGU Law’s ELJC received the award for its achievements in significantly reducing pollution in numerous underrepresented communities living amidst manufacturing and power plants.

Epa: Violation Of Airborne Lead Standards At Two California Airports Agency Continues To Delay Action On Toxic Effects Of Lead In Aviation Fuel, Earthjustice

Articles About Faculty

This press release from Earthjustice highlights the work of Prof. Behles and the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic.

Tweeting - For Better Case Analysis, Wes R. Porter

Publications

Teaching case analysis is always a challenge. The skill of case analysis is critical for our courses and mock trial teams - and for a career in litigation. While jury addresses, witness examinations, and motions in limine involve case analysis, we miss something when this skill is not isolated from other parts of trial presentation. We sought to better segregate the skill of case analysis and diagnose related issues independently. We focused more on case analysis in our advocacy curriculum and created a consistent, written requirement (expectation) to segregate the the skill of case analysis.

Reinforcing Demands For Gender Justice: The War Crimes Tribunal Of Bangladesh, Zakia Afrin

Publications

Ferdousi was one of the first women who came forward to acknowledge being a victim of rape and sexual slavery during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. Today she has become part of the youth movement in Bangladesh, known as the Shahbag movement, supporting the International Crimes Tribunal and demanding the maximum penalty for those who are found guilty. In 2010, the Bangladesh Government, led by Sheikh Hasina, set up the International Crimes Tribunal and charged as many as 12 individuals for participating and assisting in war crimes and crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan. …

Early Disclosure Would Gut Judicial Complaint System, Susan Rutberg, Peter Keane

Publications

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Future Of The Legal Profession, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

Many books and articles in the last few years describe a "profession in crisis" with no shortage of demons to blame: many equity partners in large law firms pursuing ever increasing profits, tenured law professors sitting on big salaries with no incentive to change how they teach, accrediting institutions imposing expensive regulation on law schools, and the examples of finger-pointing continue. In the words of YouTube sensation Kid President, "I think we all need a pep talk."

Commencement Program 2013

Commencement

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2013 Awards Ceremony Program

Commencement

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2013 Annual Report For Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School Of Law, Janet Fischer

Annual Reports

Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School of Law, or, simply, DC@GGULaw, is the institutional repository for the law school’s intellectual work and contributions to the field of law, whether produced by faculty, students, centers or conferences. This report highlights the major accomplishments of DC@GGULaw since its launch on July 1, 2010.

Lying In The Sun, Andy Brunner-Brown

GGU Law Review Blog

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Couple Marks 20 Years Of Helping Gay Law Students, Elliot Owen

Articles About GGU Law

Golden Gate University third year law school student Kate Baldridge was awarded the Michael A. Zamperini / W. Clay Burchell Endowed Scholarship during an event last month at the Coblentz Patch Duffy and Bass LLP offices in San Francisco's Ferry Building.

Viewpoint: Happier Law Students, One Client At A Time, Susan Rutberg

Publications

It's not your parents' legal education anymore. To lawyers who came of age in days of yore, legal education today would be almost unrecognizable. True, students still learn how to analyze appellate opinions, and at some schools, still survive the socratic method. But at Golden Gate University and an increasing number of other schools, legal education consists of multiple opportunities to intertwine theory and practice; build oral and written communication skills, learn the values of the profession and shape professional identity, both in and beyond the classroom.

The Ip Law Book Review, Vol. 3 #2, April 2013, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

REVIEWS AND REVIEWERS:

Review Symposium: William Patry's How to Fix Copyright
Reviewed by Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Reviewed by Alfred C. Yen, Boston College Law School
Author’s Response by William Patry, Google, Inc.

THE KNOCKOFF ECONOMY: HOW IMMITATION SPARKS INNOVATION by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman. Reviewed by David Fagundes, Southwestern Law School.

DIE GEMEINFREIHEIT: BEGRIFF, FUNKTION, DOGMATIK (THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: CONCEPT, FUNCTION, DOGMATICS) by Alexander Peukert. Reviewed by Marketa Trimble, William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Marriage And The Court: San Francisco's Role In The Debate, Kathleen Morris

Publications

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Practice Perfect, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

Institutions of higher education and law schools in particular are currently addressing new questions about the value and form of the education they offer, due, in part, to economic reality, practical necessity, and public scrutiny. Changes in the nature of the legal profession and the market, the cost of legal education, and most recently the purpose of the third year of law school, have each been at the center of professional conversations, public debate and media stories about reform.

Like my colleagues at other law schools, I am certainly involved with these critical conversations. I am also working with GGU …

Professor William Gallagher: The Practice Of Intellectual Property Law - In The Classroom, Lisa Lomba

Publications

In recent years there has been a lot of buzz in legal education about the need for law schools to produce more “practice ready” graduates. GGU Law has long prided itself on providing rigorous, practical legal education, and Professor William Gallagher’s course, IP Litigation: Trademark and Copyright, is at the forefront of this tradition.

Professor Mort Cohen: An Advocate Professor's Journey, Leeor Neta

Publications

Professor Mort Cohen has taught at GGU Law for 30 years. In addition to teaching, Cohen has taken on pro bono cases as an advocate, most recently in service of the elderly and mentally ill. In 2012, Cohen successfully represented two individuals and the California Association of Mental Health Patients Rights Advocates in K.G. Et al v. Meredith as a Marin County Public Guardian. In an unprecedented, unanimous decision, a three-judge panel in The California Court of Appeal, First District stated that patients could not be treated with mind-altering drugs without their informed consent. It further stated that the County …

Trademarks As Search Engine Keywords: Much Ado About Something?, David Franklyn, David A. Hyman

Publications

We report on the results of a two-part study, including three online consumer surveys and a coding study of the results when 2500 trademarks were run through three search engines. Consumer goals and expectations turn out to be quite heterogeneous: a majority of consumers use brand names to search primarily for the branded goods, but most consumers are open to purchasing competing products. We find little evidence of traditional actionable consumer confusion regarding the source of goods, but only a small minority of consumers correctly and consistently distinguished paid ads from unpaid search results, or noticed the labels that search …

Golden Gate Lawyer, Spring/Summer 2013, Lisa Lomba

Golden Gate Lawyer

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Ggu’S New Dean, Rachel Van Cleave, Eric Christiansen

2012-2017: Rachel Van Cleave

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Hero Athletes, Andy Brunner-Brown

GGU Law Review Blog

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City-Attorney-Sponsored Unlawful Detainer In California Part I: Mandated Information 2013 Report To The California Legislature, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

As mandated by Chapter 244, Statutes of 2009

Menlo Park City Councilwoman Kirsten Keith Honored With 2013 Ggu Law Public Interest Award, Lisa Lomba

Press Releases

The Golden Gate University School of Law Public Interest Law Foundation has selected GGU Law Alumna Kirsten Keith (JD 94), City Council Member and former Mayor of Menlo Park as its second recipient of the Drucilla Stender Ramey Public Interest Achievement Award. The award, named in honor of GGU Law’s former dean and public interest champion, honors individuals in the GGU community whose outstanding work has advanced justice and social change in the lives of vulnerable populations.

Proposition 8 Oral Arguments, Cassie Heuckroth

GGU Law Review Blog

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Friends In Low Places, Cassie Heuckroth

GGU Law Review Blog

Found on the blog at: http://ggulawreview.org/2013/03/20/friends-in-low-places/

Hollingsworth V. Perry: United States Supreme Court Grants Certiorari To Hear The ‘Prop 8′ Case, Executive Online Editor

GGU Law Review Blog

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