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2016 California Water Law Symposium, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Environmental Law Symposia

This award-winning event is produced by law students from McGeorge School of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, UC Hastings College of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and UC Davis School of Law. This year we will explore innovations needed to address periodic drought as the new normal in California water via six exciting panels. The panels will examine the importance of “thinking globally, acting locally” in the context of key emerging issues.

Conference proceedings attached.

PROGRAM

Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Introduction 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 …

Allan Brotsky Obituary, Sfgate.Com

Articles About Faculty

Obituary for Professor Allan Brotsky, published in SFGate.com at
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=allan-brotsky&pid=177175046&eid=sp_shareobit.

2016-2017 Law Student Handboook, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

2016 Annual Report: Leading The Way, Bay Area Air Quality Management District

Environment, Energy, and Water

No abstract provided.

Threaten Sentencing Enhancement, Coerce Plea, (Wash, Rinse,) Repeat: A Cause Of Wrongful Conviction By Guilty Plea, Wes R. Porter

Publications

Our American criminal justice system is too often described as broken. It was not a clean break in a single, isolated location. Instead, our criminal justice system suffers from many, many little nicks, bumps, and bruises at the hands of its keepers. The evolution of sentencing enhancements within our criminal justice system represents the latest nagging, reoccurring injury. In the ultimate Trojan horse to criminal defendants, the Supreme Court sought to protect the individual rights of the accused with its recent decisions on sentencing enhancements. But at the hands of lawmakers, the judiciary, and prosecutors, criminal defendants suffer more. Our …

Our Supreme Court Tackles Greenhouse Gas Analysis In Eirs, Alan Ramo

Publications

No abstract provided.

Two New Case Developments In Landlord-Tenant Law, Myron Moskovitz

Publications

No abstract provided.

Using A Long Arm To Undo A Fraudulent Conveyance, Marc Greenberg

Publications

No abstract provided.

Passage And Flow Considered Anew: Wild Salmon Restoration Via Hyrdo Relicensing, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

The FERC hydro relicensing process in the United States has often provided an effective mechanism to modify the terms of dam operations to reduce the adverse impacts on fisheries, particularly impacts on wild Pacific Coast salmon. This experience with FERC relicensing suggests that a transparent and scientifically rigorous regulatory framework to periodically review and modify the way dams operate can play a critical role in the restoration of wild fish stocks.

Substantive Equality And Sexual Orientation: Twenty Years Of Gay And Lesbian Rights Adjudication Under The South African Constitution, Eric C. Christiansen

Publications

Examining the historical achievements and failures of the South African Constitution’s sexual orientation protections highlights larger lessons from the last twenty years of constitutionalism in South Africa. In this Article, I use the drafting history, Constitutional Court adjudication, and the practical insufficiencies of the Constitution’s inclusion of sexual orientation-based protections to highlight three categories of insights. These lessons include an encouraging insight regarding the inclusion of novel and progressive elements when drafting modern constitutions; some modest claims about the capacity of courts to combat inequality based on sexual orientation despite the limitations of purely legal victories; and a hopeful affirmation …

Law Schools And Learning Outcomes: Developing A Coherent, Cohesive, And Comprehensive Law School Curriculum, Anthony S. Niedwiecki

Publications

This Article will detail a process that law schools can use to comply with the ABA Standards requiring schools develop their learning outcomes for the entire institution, academic programs, and courses. At the same time, this process can be used as a roadmap for curricular review and planning. As an example, this Article will use the steps that The John Marshall Law School took to review and change its professional skills curriculum. Part I will outline the accreditation requirements for developing and publishing learning outcomes. Part 11 of the Article will provide an overview of the process of curricular planning …

Why Patent Exhaustion Should Liberate Products (And Not Just People), Samuel F. Ernst

Publications

Patent exhaustion is a doctrine that excuses infringement where the patent holder has either authorized the sale of a patented item or licensed its use or sale. Absent an effective contractual restriction, the patent holder's rights in the patented item are exhausted and the patent holder cannot sue for infringement based on further use or resale of the item. This Article explores the question of whether patent exhaustion adheres in the patented device or if it is a defensive doctrine that only adheres to the benefit of particular parties. Traditionally courts have articulated the doctrine as liberating the accused product …

The Lost Precedent Of The Reverse Doctrine Of Equivalents, Samuel F. Ernst

Publications

Proponents of legislative patent reform argue that the current patent system perversely impedes true innovation in the name of protecting a vast web of patented inventions, the majority of which are never even commercialized for the benefit of the public. Opponents of such legislation argue that comprehensive, prospective patent reform legislation would harm the incentive to innovate more than it would curb the vexatious practices of non-practicing entities. But while the "Innovation Act" wallows in Congress, there is a common law tool to protect innovation from the patent thicket lying right under our noses: the reverse doctrine of equivalents. Properly …

The Problem Of Mop Heads In The Era Of Apps: Toward More Rigorous Standards Of Value Apportionment In Contemporary Patent Law, David Franklyn, Adam Kuhn

Publications

This article addresses this critical question of consumer demand surveys. The article argues that the law should always require rigorous apportionment of value based on scientifically-accepted standards of consumer demand measurement. Further, the article discusses how best to achieve this policy goal and how courts have approached it to date. This article then walks through the pertinent case law on apportionment, the role and defensibility of survey evidence, and offers guidance on proper survey design.

Social Function And Value Capture: Do They Or Should They Have A Role To Play In Polish Land Development Regulation, Colin Crawford, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, Dawid Sześciło

Publications

Following the introductory Part I, in Part II, two of the three authors here, both U.S. law professors, seek to identify some conceptual and practical legal tools for a more orderly and balanced land use development in the Warsaw metropolitan region, one that promotes not just economic and industrial growth but one that also serves medium- and longer-term social and environmental interests as well. Part III, written by the third author – a Polish law professor, will evaluate the prospects for, as well as the challenges and impediments to, implementing these legal tools in the Polish context. Finally, in Part …

2015-2016 Mid-Session Legislative Summary, Assembly Committee On Aging And Long-Term Care

California Assembly

No abstract provided.

2016 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, Office Of The Governor

California Agencies

No abstract provided.

Annual Report 14/15, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

California Housing Finance Agency Annual Report for 2014/15.

Annual Report 2015, Bay Area Air Quality Management District

California Agencies

No abstract provided.

Report To The Legislature And To The Governor, Fy 2015-2016, Agricultural Labor Relations Board

California Agencies

No abstract provided.

2016 Annual Report - Leading The Way, Bay Area Air Quality Management District

California Agencies

No abstract provided.

Seventh Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Ggu Law Review Presents: Judicial Insights With Judge Mckeown And Justice Cuéllar, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Series

Program brochure for the Seventh Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Series.

The event features the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court.