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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).

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.

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.

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.

The Emerging Domestic Market Advisory Group Progress Report #1, Assembly Committee On Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy

California Assembly

Members;
Juan Arambula, Chair
Jim Silva, Vice Chair
Anna M. Caballero
Felipe Fuentes
Bonnie Garcia
Curren D. Price, Jr.
Mary Salas

Committee Staff:
Toni Symonds, Chief Consultant
Jone McCarthy, Committee Secretary

Assembly Republican Caucus, Office of Policy:
Julia King, Senior Consultant

A Line Drawn In Water: Aquifers Beneath The Mexico-United States Border, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

This article examines the conservation of the bi-national Mexicali-Imperial Aquifer and the litigation and Congressional response to the proposed lining of the All-American Canal from cross-border natural resource and international law vantage points.

Using Constitutional Adjudication To Remedy Socio-Economic Injustice: Comparative Lessons From South Africa, Eric C. Christiansen

Publications

This article seeks to explore the effectiveness of constitutional protection and court adjudication of social welfare rights as tools to address and remedy social injustice and economic inequality. The focus of this examination will be on South Africa and its post-apartheid Constitution that enumerates rights and protections intended to remedy the economic injustices of the country's past. This article argues that the model of adjudicating social rights in South Africa is exportable to other countries, while clarifying the reasonable expectations and potential contributions of such adjudication toward the achievement of socio-economic justice. Part I addresses two questions: first, why look …

The Key To Successful Independence: State-Funded Postsecondary Educational Assistance For Emancipated Foster Youth, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Publications

As individuals in state custody, children accepted into the foster care system have a substantive due process right to be free from harm. This due process right imposes an affirmative duty on states to protect foster youth and properly prepare them for emancipation. At the age of eighteen in most jurisdictions, youth emancipate from state custody into adulthood with the hope of successful independence. In reality, a large proportion of public
wards actually emancipate into homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration.

The public is increasingly recognizing the plight of youth aging out of foster care, and state and federal legislatures are responding …