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Master Gardeners, Kathleen Morris

Publications

In legal education, we tend to focus first and foremost on producing graduates who can effectively serve and thrive in the private for-profit, non-profit, and federal government economies. There are pressing reasons to maintain these priorities. And yet, assuming legal educators come to believe -- as Schragger has (and I have) -- that cities belong "at the center of economic and constitutional thinking," it stands to reason that law schools should find a way to place cities among the subjects at the center of legal educational thinking. Now is the time to consider how law schools can help raise up …

15th Annual Recent Developments In Ip Law And Policy Conference, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

Program booklet for the 15th Annual Recent Developments in IP Law and Policy Conference at Golden Gate University School of Law.

Program:

Registration/Check-in 8:30 – 9:00 2nd floor lobby

Welcoming Remarks 9:00 – 9:15 - Director William Gallagher - University President David Fike

Patent Law Year in Review 9:15 – 10:15 - Justin Beck (Beck, Bismonte & Finley LLP) - Brian Mitchell (Mitchell & Company)

Morning Break 10:15 – 10:30

Trademark Law 10:30 – 11:30 Thomas Harvey (Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass, LLP)

Privacy Law 11:30 – 12:30 Adam Sand (Shopkick.com)

Lunch 12:30 – 1:45 Pick up lunch in …

Police Highspeed Pursuits: Giving Police The Authority To Intervene Before The Public Is Harmed, Kevin Ballard

GGU Law Review Blog

Police Pursuits. The idea brings to mind thoughts of bank robbers fleeing from the police after committing a daring heist, only to be pursued by inept cops that wind up crashing into each other as the robbers drive away in perfect Hollywood fashion. However, police pursuits are rarely as glamorous and thrilling. In reality, they are terrifying and dangerous. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) more than 5,000 bystanders or passengers have been killed in police pursuits since 1979.

A Long Journey To Secure Permanent Overtime Rights For California Domestic Workers, Hina B. Shah

GGU Law Review Blog

Domestic workers are crucial part of the economic and social fabric of our country. However, isolated and hidden behind closed doors and mostly unprotected under the law, domestic workers face harsh working conditions.

The Ip Law Book Review, Vol. 7#1, October 2016, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

FROM MAIMONIDES TO MICROSOFT: THE JEWISH LAW OF COPYRIGHT SINCE THE BIRTH OF PRINT, by Neil Weinstock Netanel. Reviewed by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Raymond P. Niro Professor, DePaul University College of Law.

THE PARIS CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY: A COMMENTARY, by Sam Ricketson. Reviewed by Jose Bellido, University of Kent.

Economics And The Evolution Of Non-Party Litigation Funding In America: How Court Decisions, The Civil Justice Process, And Law Firm Structures Drive The Increasing Need And Demand For Capital, Fiona Mckenna, Alan L. Zimmerman, Daniel J. Bush, Cheryl Kaufman

Publications

This paper views civil litigation initiated by a party seeking money damages through the lens of the underlying economics that impact the civil justice system's ability to achieve fair outcomes. It examines how access to capital has impacted the functioning of civil justice in the United States.

End The Death Penalty, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

No abstract provided.

Celebrities, Art, And The Law: When Celebrities Get What They Want And When They Don’T, Cara Alsterberg

GGU Law Review Blog

No abstract provided.

Golden Gate University School Of Law Celebrates Permanent Overtime Rights For California Domestic Workers, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Press Releases

Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. yesterday signed SB 1015, a bill making overtime rights permanent for more than 300,000 nannies and caregivers for seniors and people with disabilities. Golden Gate University School of Law’s Women’s Employment Rights Clinic (WERC) has served as legal counsel to the California Domestic Workers Coalition since 2010 in the Coalition’s effort to extend basic wage and hour protections to domestic workers.

2016 Ggu Law School Viewbook, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Law School Bulletins & Prospectus

No abstract provided.

A 15 Million Dollar Clock: How Much Is Too Much?, Katherine Alphonso

GGU Law Review Blog

No abstract provided.

De-Categorizing Child Abuse - Equally Devastating Acts Require Equally Solicitous Statutes Of Limitations, Rosemary La Puma

Publications

News reports of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests initially shocked and subsequently angered the public. Emboldened by the public's reaction toward sexual abusers, survivors attempted to confront their abusers in civil court. Jurisdictions adjudicated these claims if they were brought within two years of reaching the age of majority. Yet, survivors often did not recognize the damage done to them until several years after they reached the age of majority. And by the time they did, the two-year statute of limitations had passed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, survivors lobbied state legislatures to extend. the time within …

Environmental Law And Justice Clinic 2015-2016 Report, Helen H. Kang

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

Founded in 1994 in consultation with community leaders, the Clinic serves as a training ground for the next generation of social justice advocates and provides critical legal services to under-served communities throughout California and beyond. As one of the first law clinics in the United States to prioritize environmental justice, the Clinic has been widely recognized as a provider of high quality pro bono legal support to communities suffering the most from pollution.

In its third decade of service, the Clinic has focused particular attention on clean drinking water for low-income communities and clean energy for California, while continuing its …

Commencement Program 2016, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Commencement

The commencement program for the class of 2016.

2016 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 from May, 2015 through April, 2016.

Local Control Funding Formula: A Continuum Of Discrimination Against Minority Youth In Education, Alafia Delahaye

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

The issue of public school education funding is at the core of the inequalities between schools located in wealthy school districts and those in low-income school districts. Every state struggles to remedy inequitable funding, partly due to long histories of segregation and racism. Nevertheless, many states continue to believe that allowing localities to manage school funding will remedy the problems, but many localities fail to effectively and fairly manage funds.

Part I discusses the background and legal history of public school education funding in California. Part II describes the recent law passed in California, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) …

The Best Public Defenders Are Anarchists, Rachel A. Van Cleave, Peter Keane

Publications

After decades in criminal defense and in legal education, Golden Gate University School of Law Dean Emeritus Peter Keane is retiring. In addition to serving as dean and leading the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, Keane has also taken on leadership roles with the State Bar and with numerous tasks forces and commissions. He sat down recently with Rachel Van Cleave, the current dean of GGU Law, to reflect on his career.

2016 Poverty Law Symposium, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Poverty Law Symposium
April 20, 2016 12-4 PM

Presentation Schedule:

12:00 PM- Lunch
12:20 PM- Emily Champlin "The Myth of the Welfare Queen: Reproductive Oppression in the Welfare System"
12:40 PM- Stephany Arzaga “An Increase in Immigrant Homeless Youth: A Consequence of the Federal Government’s Failure to Properly Protect Immigrant Refugee Youth”
1:00 PM- Veronica Kontilis “Civil Gideon in San Francisco: Strengthening Protections for Low-income Tenants”
1:20 PM- Break
1:35 PM- Alafia Delahaye "Local Control Funding Formula: A Continuum of Discrimination Against Minority Youth"
1:55 PM- Joey Faber “Avoiding Probate – The Benefits of Proper Estate Planning for Working-Poor”
2:15 …

Habeas For Homo Troglodytes, Aram Hauslaib

GGU Law Review Blog

The chimpanzee is the human’s closest living relative. In fact, chimps are closer to humans than to gorillas or orangutans. Given this, there are those who propose chimpanzees be reclassified to the human genus, Homo, giving them the scientific name Homo troglodytes. The change in the classification could prove critical, as the rights held by men and women today have repeatedly hinged on how they were defined.

Allan Brotsky, 1920-2015, Golden Gate University

Articles About Faculty

Allan Brotsky's obituary, published by Golden Gate University.

Circuit Splits And Empiricism In The Supreme Court, Karen M. Gebbia

Publications

This Article demonstrates, empirically rather than merely in theory, how a failure to apply accurate data to test carefully constructed hypotheses leads to unreliable conclusions concerning the relationship between the Supreme Court and the circuit courts of appeal. Specifically, commentators routinely misapply facially accurate raw data regarding the rate at which the Court reverses circuit court decisions to support unreliable conclusions regarding the comparative degree of accord between the Court and individual circuits. Commentators and the popular press then employ these unreliable conclusions to draw unsupported inferences regarding the reasons for supposed discord between the Court and the circuits, and …

With The People, Against Polluters, Golden Gate University

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

As one of the first law school clinics in the United States to prioritize environmental justice in its work. the ELJC has been widely recognized as a provider of high quality pro bono legal services to neighborhoods suffering the most from pollution. giving underrepresented communities a voice in the legal system. The Clinic offers free legal services to · community groups, public interest organizations. and residents who are working to promote environmental equity.

The Myth Of The “Welfare Queen”: Reproductive Oppression In The Welfare System, Emily R. Champlin

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

This paper focuses on two major policy flaws that are rooted in the racist stereotype of the “welfare queen.” These policies work together to punish single motherhood and deny poor women the ability to control their own reproductive futures. They were enacted under the guise that they will stop the cycle of poverty. In reality, they drive women and families deeper into it.

First, in the background section, this paper gives an overview of the history of the “welfare queen” myth and the dramatic changes in the U.S. welfare system. In the analysis section, part one covers the family cap …

Trump’S Immigration Policy: Borderline Unconstitutional, Josue Aparicio

GGU Law Review Blog

The 2016 Presidential primaries are well on their way, and the issue of immigration reform has been a contentious one, to say the least. This is especially true on the Republican side, where leading candidate Donald Trump has advocated extreme measures to reform immigration policy, such as building a wall between the U.S. and Mexican Border, and temporarily banning Muslim immigrants from entering the U.S.

However, Trump’s other plans for immigration reform, which call for mass deportations and the abolition of birthright citizenship, have dominated discussions. Besides the fact that these two policies are criticized for being impractical and prejudicial, …

Congress Puts The Usda’S Cool Enforcement On Ice, Golden Gate University School Of Law

GGU Law Review Blog

It is more important that Americans have safer food than to know if their steak is “single‑origin”. Especially in the wake of major E. coli outbreaks at mega chains like Chipotle, food safety in the United States should take priority over pseudo‑protectionist policymaking and food transparency.

The Ip Law Book Review, Vol. 6#1, March 2016, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

THE EUREKA MYTH: CREATORS, INNOVATORS, AND EVERYDAY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, by Jessica Silbey. Reviewed by Tina Piper, McGill University Faculty of Law.

INNOVATION &INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – COLLABORATIVE DYNAMICS IN AFRICA, by Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Chidi Oguamanam, and Tobias Schonwetter. Reviewed by Joseph F. Turcotte, York University.

Collection Development Policy For Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School Of Law, Golden Gate University School Of Law Library

Presentations & Papers

No abstract provided.

Judge Halts End-Of-Life Decision-Making For Nursing Home Patients, Bob Egelko

Interviews

An Alameda County judge has ordered state health officials to stop allowing doctors at nursing homes to administer psychiatric drugs or make end-of-life decisions for patients the doctors consider mentally incompetent. An interview with Professor Mort Cohen

Review Of: Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Gender And Violence In Haiti: Women's Path From Victims To Agents, Jaya Ramji-Nogales

Reviews of Faculty Publications

Jaya Ramji-Nogales reviews Professor Duramy's book, Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women's Path from Victims to Agents (Rutgers University Press, 2014).