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Report On The Second China-Asean Expo 18-21 October 2005, Nanning, Guangxi, China, Sompong Sucharitkul

Publications

This is a preliminary report on the Second CHINA-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA, aliter ACFTA for ASEAN-CHINA) Exposition at Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China on 18-21 October 2005. The purpose of this report is to bring to the attention of international business circles, traders and investors alike from within and outside the CAFTA geographical confines new openings and continuing phenomenal growth in business and investment opportunities in the combined ASEAN-CHINA region of East and South-East Asia with a thriving body of 1.85 billion consumers, by far the largest potential single market on earth at any …

Highlights Of Legislative Accomplishments Of 2005, California Senate Office Of Research

California Senate

"Highlights of Legislative Accomplishments of 2005" summarizes significant measures passed by the Legislature this year. The document is arranged by policy area and includes actions taken by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2005 the governor signed 729 measures and vetoed 232. Of those signed into law, most will take effect on January 1, 2006.

A Subdued Year For California Lawmakers: The New California Employment Legislation Effective January 1, 2006, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Publications

This legislative update will address the most significant employment legislation signed and vetoed this year. It will also highlight a significant deadline for employers from last year’s enacted legislation. Finally, this update will describe two relevant propositions rejected by the people of the State of California.

City Rivers: The Urban Bankside Restored

Environmental Law Symposia

Conference proceedings from the Law & Policy Symposium held at Golden Gate University School of Law, November 18, 2005.

What Is To Be Done? Legislators Look At Redevelopment Reforms, Senate Local Government Committee, Senate Transportation & Housing Committee, Assembly Housing & Community Development Committee, Assembly Local Government Committee, Assembly Judiciary Committee

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.

Using Dna To Free The Innocent, Susan Rutberg, Janice Brickley

Publications

No abstract provided.

Revenue And Taxation Legislative Summary 2005, Assembly Committee On Revenue And Taxation

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Honorable Johan Klehs, Chair
Honorable Mimi Walters, Vice Chair
Honorable Joe Canciamilla
Honorable Judy Chu
Honorable Chuck DeVore
Honorable Dave Jones
Honorable Sally Lieber

STAFF:
Kimberly Bott, Chief Consultant
Sabrina Landreth, Principal Consultant
Christine Hiersche, Committee Secretary

2005 Bill Summary, Assembly Committee On Public Safety

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Mark Lena, Chair
Jay La Suer, Vice Chair
Rebecca Cohn
Mervyn M. Dymally
Jackie Goldberg
Todd Spitzer
Vacancy

COMMITTEE STAFF
Gregory Pagan, Chief Counsel
Kathleen Ragan, Counsel
Heather Hopkins, Counsel
Steven Meinrath, Counsel
Kimberly Horiuchi, Counsel

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

Review Of The Federal Department Of Justice Investigation Of California State Mental Hospitals, Senate Select Committee On Developmental Disabilities And Mental Health

California Senate

Today we are going to be talking about the investigations in our state hospital system by the United States Department of Justice. In both their reviews of the children's and adult programs at Metropolitan State Hospital in Southern Califomia, as well as the more recent review in Napa State Hospital, the Department of Justice found significant and substantial deficiencies in virtually every aspect of patient care. Sadly, this is not the first time such concerns have been raised. And sadly and alarmingly, since the issuance of these reports, problems have continued, including suicides and homicide.

Additionally, as noted in the …

Gone With The Wind, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article reviews what landlords can and can’t do when confronted with an abandoned tenant in California, including considerations of CC 1951.2, security deposits and the impact of the CC 1950.7 mandates to return return the unused part of a security deposit—even when the damages may exceed the security deposit.

Reinforcing The Seams: Guaranteeing The Promise Of California’S Landmark Anti-Sweatshop Law - An Evaluation Of Assembly Bill 633 Six Years Later, Marci Seville

Women’s Employment Rights Clinic

Today, AB 633 stands as a landmark law with great potential — much of it yet to be realized — to fight against the proliferation of sweatshops and corporate abuse in the garment industry, and to serve as model legislation for other low-wage industries across California and around the nation in which workers are denied their most basic workplace rights. In documenting the successes of AB 633, as well as presenting the challenges garment workers still face in recovering their wages under the law, this report seeks to provide an answer to the pivotal question: Has AB 633 fulfilled its …

An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, Clifford Rechtschaffen

Publications

This report analyzes key policy decisions, as well as actions and inaction under health, safety, and environmental laws, that could have better protected New Orleans from the effects of Katrina before the hurricane and those that could have improved the emergency response in its wake. In the area of public health, safety, and the environment, the paper explores the implementation of wetlands law and policy, bad decisions regarding the construction and maintenance of the levee system designed to protect New Orleans, pollution prevention and clean-up laws, and energy policy. In the area of emergency response, it reviews policy decisions related …

Viktor, Myron Moskovitz

Publications

No abstract provided.

An Ounce Of Prevention: A Foster Youth's Substantive Due Process Right To Proper Preparation For Emancipation, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Publications

Part I of this article considers the current challenges facing youth preparing to leave foster care. Youth are failing to receive adequate preparation services while still in the custody of the government. Consequently, emancipated youth are disproportionately represented in homeless, unemployed, uneducated, and incarcerated populations. Part II examines the specific constitutional rights of youth in foster care. As persons in a custodial relationship with the government, foster youth have a substantive due process right to be free from physical and emotional harm. This protection includes services and training as required to “meet the basic needs” of a child. Emancipation preparation …

Gore Headlines Liberal Confab, Justin Scheck

History of GGU Law

Al Gore spoke at GGU Law to headline a kickoff party for 'the local chapter of the American Constitution Society.

Notes From The Underground, Vol.5#13, May, 2006

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

A Just World Under Law: A Just And Peaceful World Under The Rule Of Law, Sompong Sucharitkul

Publications

Presentation given to the Fourteenth Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law in combination with the Fifteenth Annual Fulbright Symposium at Golden Gate University School of Law.

Professor Bernie Segal: 33 Years Of Inspiring Law Students, Lorri Ungaretti

Articles About Faculty

Professor Bernard Segal is recognized as an effective, dedicated teacher by his colleagues and remembered fondly by hundreds of former students. On December 6, 2004, Bernie was one of several people honored at the Golden Gate University alumni awards luncheon.

Commencement Program, 2005

Commencement

No abstract provided.

The Urban Bankside: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Guana, Catherine A. O'Neill

Publications

This white paper describes briefly the remarkable journey of community-based environmental justice advocates over the last 15 years and their impact on environmental regulation. It will also describe some of the empirical evidence of disparities and the regulatory dynamics that make these inequities an intractable problem, despite the collective efforts of grassroots leaders, environmental justice organizations, public interest law firms, and governmental officials. The paper then focuses on one important set of issues that must be tackled in order to achieve environmental justice: those involving injustice in risk regulation.

Law Library Gazette, February 28, 2005

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

A Shallow Fix: The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act Leaves Hard Brownfield Questions Unanswered, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

The shortcomings of UECA are on the front end, at the point when state and local environmental agencies decide to approve environmental covenants at a particular site.

Taking Title To Servient Tenements, Roger Bernhardt, Joyce Palomar

Publications

This article addresses how to protect clients who are acquiring property from taking it subject to easements that may not be recorded and may not be evident from the current physical appearance of the property.

Top Legal Scholars Join Golden Gate Paris Program Faculty, Lorri Ungaretti

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

White Proudly Serves As Dean Of Golden Gate Law, Alex Sachare

2004-2008: Frederick White

Alumni magazine Columbia College Today profiles Fred White.

Class Action, Fall/Winter 2005

Class Action

No abstract provided.

Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation, The Right Of Publicity, And The Attenuation Of Free Speech: Lessons From The Schwarzenegger Bobblehead Doll War (And Peace), William T. Gallagher

Publications

The "right of publicity" is an unusual, relatively under-developed, and controversial form of state-law created intellectual property that protects against the unauthorized appropriation of one's likeness, image or identity. Even in California, with its prominent entertainment and celebrity industries, the right of publicity has many vague and uncertain contours and its scope remains undefined In particular, one issue that remains unclear in California (and in most other jurisdictions that recognize rights of publicity) is the proper balance between rights of publicity and First Amendment rights of free speech and expression. This issue was squarely and dramatically raised by the ODM …

Conversational Cross-Examination, Susan Rutberg

Publications

This Article discusses the benefits of the more subtle, conversational style of cross-examination as an alternative to the stereotypical gladiator style of cross-examination.

This article also includes an Appendix of the Laws of Cross-Examination of each state.

The Baby And The Bathwater Too: A Critique Of American Library Ass’N V. U.S., Marc H. Greenberg

Publications

In June 2003, the Supreme Court, in United States v. American Library Ass’n, sent tremors through libraries nationwide when it reversed a finding of the United States District Court (USDC) in Philadelphia that held the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was facially violative of the First Amendment rights of library patrons. Under CIPA, all libraries that accepted federal funding to cover the costs of providing Internet access to their patrons were required to install filtering software programs on their computers to prevent patrons from seeing any material that was obscene or “harmful to minors.” The law was not limited to …