Santa Clara Law Events
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Various times and locations.
Various times and locations.
Various times and locations.
Admissions Events
Location: The Decathalon Club
Co-Sponsored with the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee
Oral Arguments of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal to be held at Santa Clara Law
American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Cyberspace Committee's Winter Working Meeting
Social Justice Welcome Day
Join us for the first Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series on August 28: Public Interest & Social Justice Law Welcome Day
Part I: Public Interest & Social Justice Law Overview: Introduction to Resources at SCU
Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Food will be provided
Part II: Public Interest & Social Justice Law Welcome Day Reception
5 to 6 p.m. in the Bergin Strong Common room
Facilitator: Stephanie M. Wildman
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service provides a locus for public interest and social justice study and service. The Center builds a community for students, faculty, lawyers, and others who share the commitment to giving voice in the legal system to marginalized, subordinated, or underrepresented clients and causes.
Faculty will join Stephanie M. Wildman to discuss the following article on Thursday, September 4, 2008 from Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Pizza will be provided.
Introduction to Legal Education: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Foreword: Toward a Race Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education, 4 S. CAL. REV. L. & WOMEN’S STUD. 33 (1994) and Jerome McCristal Culp, Autobiography and Legal Scholarship and Teaching: Finding the Me in the Legal Academy, 77 VA. L. REV. 539 (1991).
Facilitators: Stephanie M. Wildman & Margalynne J. Armstrong
The Social Justice Thursdays Essential Issues series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.
Social Justice and Con Law Issues Film Series
Wednesday, September 10, Noon to 1 p.m. in the Arts and Sciences Wiegand room.
Featuring the social justice documentary "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story" (2000). Facilitator Margaret Russell.
Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series: Funding Summer Work: Endowment Summer Grants, LGBT Summer Grants, and Stevens Fellowship Information Session
Thursday, September 11, 2008 in Bannan 139 from Noon to 1 p.m. Pizza will be provided.
Facilitators: Richard Berg, Ken Manaster, and Vicki Huebner
Learn About Funding Social Justice Summer Work
Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowships:
Two $5,000 Fellowships to be Awarded for Summer 2009
In honor of United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Skip Paul ’75 established the Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowships at Santa Clara University School of Law. These Fellowships provide financial assistance to Santa Clara University Law Students to fund public interest and social justice law summer positions.
Public Interest Endowment Summer Fellowships:
Fellowships to be Awarded for Summer 2009
The Public Interest Endowment provides funding for public interest and social justice work done by law students in the summer months. This fellowship opportunity is for Santa Clara University Law Students working full-time in qualifying public interest and social justice positions.
LGBT Legal Issues Summer Fellowships
Two $5,000 Fellowships to be Awarded for Summer 2009
Santa Clara University School of Law students who plan to work full-time for a LGBT organization, in a position doing legal work, may apply for this LGBT Legal Issues Summer Grant. Applicants should show a demonstrated commitment to and interest in the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgernder individuals and people living with HIV, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Eligibility: Fellowships will be awarded to Santa Clara University Law School students who have completed at least one year of full-time or part-time study ***by the time the fellowship will begin***. Each applicant must secure a full-time summer law position with a public interest and social justice organization.
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, September 11, 2008 from 4 p.m. in Bannan 110.
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State University) Towards Full Participation: The History and Relevance of Language Assistance for English Learning Voters
Constitution Day Supreme Court 2008-09 Term Preview
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Food will be provided.
Come learn about the latest pending cases for the United States Supreme Court.
Facilitator: Brad Joondeph
Reading Group for 1Ls. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Foreword: Toward a Race-Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education, 4 S. CAL. REV. L. & WOMEN’S STUD. 33 (1994) and Jerome McCristal Culp, Autobiography and Legal Scholarship and Teaching: Finding the Me in the Legal Academy, 77 VA. L. REV. 539 (1991).
Facilitator: Jean Love
Food will be provided.
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, September 18, 2008 from 4 p.m. in the Arts & Sciences Wiegand room
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Joaquin Avila (Seattle University): Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 4 p.m. in the Adobe Lodge followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Sylvia Lazos (UNLV - Boyd School of Law)
"Democracy: Judges and Demography"
Benefit for Justice: Annual Fundraiser for the Public Interest and Social Justice Endowment
Friday, Sept. 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the California Mission Room, Benson Center
The Benefit for Justice is the primary fundraising event for the Public Interest and Social Justice Endowment at the law school. The Endowment funds scholarships and summer grants, and provides income supplement grants to graduates practicing public interest and social justice law. The Benefit will take place as an afternoon reception consisting of an award ceremony and a live auction featuring items donated by professors. Tickets will be on sale in the Bannan Lounge in September. Dates and times will be posted on the Social Justice Blog, as well as in the Grapevine. Ticket prices include the opportunity to win door prizes and to bid lunches, dinners and social events with esteemed members of the law school’s faculty. Tickets also include hors d’ oeuvres and beverages (beer and wine will be sold separately).
Thursday, October 2, 2008 from noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139
Speaker TBA
Food will be provided.
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, October 9, 2008 from 4 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Deep Gulasekaram (SCU) and Karthick Ramakrishnan (UC - Riverside): Immigrant Political Participation and Non-Citizen Voting
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, October 16, 2008 from 4 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Kathay Feng (Common Cause): Redistricting and Election Reforms
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Food will be provided.
Reading Group for 1Ls. Margaret E. Montoya, Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, 15 CHICANO-LATINO L.REV. 1, 2-26, 17 HARV. WOMEN’S L.J. 185, 186-209 (1994).
Facilitator TBA
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 4 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Martha Mahoney (University of Miami): Electronic Voting
Thursday, October 30, 2008 from noon to 1 p.m. location TBA
Skip Paul '75 "Working for Social Justice, Without Lawyering"
Food will be provided.
Social Justice Workshop: Voting and the Law of Democracy
Thursday, October 30, 2008 from 4 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
Judy Nadler (Senior Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, SCU and former Mayor and City Council member, City of Santa Clara): Campaign Ethics and Financing): Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions
Thursday, November 6, 2007 Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139
Reading Group for 1Ls. Patricia J. Williams, Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideas from Deconstructed Rights, 22 HARV. C.R. C.L. L. REV. 401 (1987).
Facilitator Catherine Sandoval
Social Justice and Con Law Issues Film Series
Thursday, November 6, 5 p.m. in the Arts and Sciences Wiegand room.
Featuring the social justice documentary "Soul of Justice" (2006). Facilitator Stephanie M. Wildman.
Social Justice Visiting Practitioner Michelle Jawando (People for the American Way Foundation)
Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series - Shattering the Myth: An Examination of the New Politics of Voter Suppression, November 13, Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. Food will be provided. Limited space is available for lunch with Ms. Jawando at 1 p.m. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551.1720 to sign up for the lunch group.
Wine and cheese reception on Thursday, November 13 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Strong Common room Co-hosted with PI&SJ Coalition.
Office Hours: Ms. Jawando will hold office hours for students interested in social justice practice on Thursday, November 13th and Friday, November 14th. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551-1720 to sign up to meet with her during these times.
Law and Social Justice Case Study Conference
Friday, November 21, 2008 from 10 am to 3 p.m. location TBA
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service and students in the Law and Social Justice Seminar are pleased to invite you to attend the Case Study Conference. Students in Law and Social Justice will describe their research on social justice cases, legislation, and issues. We encourage interested students, faculty, and staff to attend some or all of the sessions. To reserve lunch, call or e-mail the Center for Social Justice & Public Service at (408) 551-1720 or socialjustice@scu.edu.
Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday with readings from his "Letter from Birmingham Jail." The event will be held in a location TBA at noon on January 20, 2009. Reserve a box lunch through the Center for Social Justice at 408.551.1720 or socialjustice@scu.edu no later than Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at Noon.
King Week Part 2: Social Justice Forum: Writing by SCU Law Faculty - Facilitators Margalynne J. Armstrong and Stephanie M. Wildman
Social Justice Thursday: Civil Procedure/Constitutional Law
Thursday, January 29, 2009 from noon to 1 p.m. location TBA. Food will be provided.
Reading Group for 1Ls. Robert S. Chang, Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space, 81 CAL. L. REV. 1241, 1 ASIAN L.J. 1 (1994).
Facilitator will be Marina Hsieh
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 4 p.m. in the Adobe Lodge followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Tanya Hernandez (George Washington)
Employment Discrimination in the Age of "Diversity"
Social Justice and Con Law Issues Film Series
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at noon location TBA.
Featuring the social justice documentary "The Supreme Court: The Rehnquist Revolution" (2007). Facilitator Margalynne Armstrong.
Social Justice Visiting Practitioner Elizabeth Birch (Birch & Company)
Social Justice Thursday Speaker Series - Social Justice Lawyering: Equality for the LGBT Community, February 12, Noon to 1 p.m., location TBA. Food will be provided. Limited space is available for lunch with Ms. Birch at 1 p.m. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551.1720 to sign up for the lunch group.
Wine and cheese reception on Thursday, February 12, 2009 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Strong Common room co-hosted with PI&SJ Coalition.
Office Hours: Ms. Birch will hold office hours for students interested in social justice practice on Thursday, February 12th and Friday, February 13th. E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu or call 551-1720 to sign up to meet with her during these times.
Social Justice Thursday Essential Issues - Law and Social Change: Developments in Sexual Orientation
February 19, 2009 from Noon to 1 p.m. location TBA
Reading group for 1Ls: Thomas B. Stoddard, Bleeding Heart: Reflections on Using the Law to Make Social Change, 72 N.Y.U. L. REV. 967, 969-87, 990-91 (1997) and Nan D. Hunter, Lawyering for Social Justice, N.Y.U. L. REV. 1009, 1011-13, 1017-22 (1997).
Facilitator will be Patricia Cain
Food will be provided.
Social Justice Thursday Essential Issues on March 12, 2009 from Noon to 1 p.m. location TBA
Reading group for 1Ls. Sumi Cho and Robert Westley, Critical Race Coalitions: Key Movements That Preformed the Theory, 33 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1377, 1377-80, 1388-99 (2000).
Facilitators will be Margalynne Armstrong, Jetaun Stevens, and Lauren Vazquez
Monday, March 19, 2009 from noon to 1 p.m. location TBA
Speaker TBA
Food will be provided.
Social Justice and Con Law Issues Film Series
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 5 p.m. in the Arts and Sciences Wiegand room.
Featuring a social justice documentary TBA.
Social Justice Thursday Essential Issues on April 9, 2009 from Noon to 1 p.m. location TBA
Reading Group for 1Ls. Julie A. Su, Making the Invisible Visible: The Garment Industry’s Dirty Laundry, 1 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 405, 405-17 (1998).
Facilitator will be Lynette Parker
Public Interest & Social Justice Law Celebration and Graduation Ceremony on Thursday, May 21, 2008 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Williman Room in the Benson Memorial Center. Reception to follow from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the patio outside the Williman Room.