By Vanessa L. Holton, General Counsel, The State Bar of California On August 23, 2018, a California appeals court held that the State Bar does not need to modify private demographic information that it received from bar applicants in order to produce a supposedly anonymous dataset for the public. This important decision ensures that state agenciesContinueContinue reading “Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color”
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The Resilience of Racism, by Sarah Zemelman
In 1980, I was an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law and taught a class called “Representing the Underrepresented,” which was a hands-on class aimed at helping law students know what it takes to help change the world for the better through strategic litigation. One of my students was Mark Zemelman. I toldContinueContinue reading “The Resilience of Racism, by Sarah Zemelman”
Separating children from their parents violates international law
By Prof. Connie de la Vega, the Marshall P. Madison Professor And Academic Director Of International Programs and Dean’s Circle Scholar at the University of San Francisco School of Law Separating children from their parents violates international law and in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child which has been ratified by every countryContinueContinue reading “Separating children from their parents violates international law”