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SAN FRANCISCO

1998-1999

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LAW SCHOOL

olden Gate University School and a major center for professional study of Law is located in the heart in the fields oflaw, technology, inter­ G of downtown San Francisco, national studies, business, management, gateway to the Pacific Rim and one of and public administration. It is accredited the most beautiful cities in the world. by the Western Association of Schools With the legal and financial district on and Colleges. one side and the bustling South of The Law School, founded in 1901, Market area on the other, the school is a is one of the oldest law schools in the short walk from restaurants, shopping, western United States. It is fullyaccredit­ and many attractive downtown plazas. ed by the American Bar Association and With its year-round mild climate, the Committee of Bar Examiners of the the Bay Area is one of the most pleasant State of California and is a member of places in the world to live and work. the Association of American Law From the pines and redwoods of the East Schools. Graduates qualifY to take the Bay and Marin County hills, across the Bar in all 50 states and in the District of magnificent bridges spanning the bay, to Columbia. The school offers a full-time the business and shopping centers of San day program and a part-time evening Francisco, the Bay Area is filled with nat­ program leading to the Doctor of ural beauty and triumphs of the builders' Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree. Combined arts. Outstanding theater, opera, sym­ degrees and graduate degrees are also "Two years ago I attended phony, ballet, and museums, as well as awarded. classes at five California law chamber, avant garde, and rock music Golden Gate's 750 law students schools. My lasting impression groups are at home in San Francisco. include working professionals and recent was the feeling of community Professional and college sports teams college graduates from more than 100 at Golden Gate University. The faculty and students shared a provide entertainment for fans, and undergraduate and graduate institutions. sense of cohesion that I didn't opportunities for athletic and outdoor They come from across the United States see at the other schools. activities abound. and from a number of foreign nations, Golden Gate offered a greater Golden Gate University is a private and represent a wide spectrum of ethnic, variety of clinics and internships nonprofit institution of higher education economic, and cultural backgrounds. -all directed toward real-life experience. Although I was accepted at all the California schools that I applied to, my decision was easy. Now after two years at Golden Gate, I can say that the professors are excellent teachers who enjoy working directly with their students and the atmosphere fosters personal endeavors over overt competition." Elizabeth M. Little Class of '99 President, Student Bar Association

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 1 DEAN'S MESSAGE

he ethic we share at Golden Gate University School of Law is that lawyer­ ing is an honorable profession, worthy of the public trust. Accordingly, we T seek to instill in our students a sense of responsibility to the profession and to the community. Toward that end, we provide students with a solid foundation in legal theory and the skills necessaty to practice law successfully. Students are challenged to view law not merely as rules to be mastered, but also as social policies to be explored and questioned. The Law School faculty has a strong and shared commitment to teaching and to being accessible to students. Combining excellent academic credentials with exper­ tise gained through the practice of law, the faculty is uniquely qualified to bring to the classroom a practical dimension often lacking in American legal education. There is no dichotomy between teaching and research at Golden Gate. Stimulating teaching generates new ideas, which lead to serious scholarship, often involving faculty-student collaboration, while faculty scholarship brought to the classroom enriches the learning experience. Through legal scholarship, community involvement, and litigation arising from our clinical programs, faculty have been instrumental in shaping legal doctrines, many of which have expanded individual rights. Their efforts have influenced the law in such areas as the health rights of institutionalized persons, the property rights of artists, rent control, environmental protection, alternative dispute resolution, employment law, international transactions, criminal law, and immigration policy. Combining a talented and committed faculty with an outstanding curriculum, "The ethic we Golden Gate provides an atmosphere of open and mutually respectful collegiality, giving our graduates the intellectual, emotional, and ethical strength to contribute share at Golden to the profession and to the community.

Gate is that

lawyering is

an honorable Anthony]. Pagano, Dean

profession. We

seek to instill in

our students a

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bility to the

profession and to

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2 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law CONTENTS

Contact us to request the Contents following publications: Why Choose Golden Gate? ...... 4

Brochures Calendar ...... 6 Combined ].D.lM.B.A. Program Juris Doctor Program ...... 7 Public Interest Law Program Combined Degrees ...... 9 Environmental Law Programs I ntegrated Professional Apprenticeship Summer Study Abroad Curriculum (lPAC) ...... 10 Application Materials for Transfer Environmental Law ...... 12 and Visiting Students I nternational Legal Studies ..... 14

Graduate Program Bulletins Corporate & Commercial Law ...... 16 LL.M. in Environmental Law Professional Skills ...... 18 LL.M. and S.].D. in International Public Interest Law .. 20 Legal Studies Clinical Programs ...... n

LL.M. in Taxation Law School Services ... . .~

LL.M. in United States Legal Studies Student Organizations " .... 25

Lea rn i ng Resou rces ...... 26

Graduate Legal Programs .. . .. 28 For More Information Law Career & Alumni Services .... 30 536 Mission Street Alumni Services ...... 32 San Francisco, CA 94105-2968 ...... 34 Tel: (415) 442-6630 Faculty ...... Fax: (415) 442-6631 Adjunct Faculty ...... 44 E-mail: [email protected] Course Concentrations. ..46

Website: www.ggu.edullaw Curriculum Requirements .. .. .48

Course Descriptions. ..49

Admissions ...... 62

Tuition & Scholarships ...... 65

Golden Gate University Financial Aid ...... 67 School of Law is accredited University Policies. ..71 by the American Bar Association Maps & Location .. . .72 550 W. North Street, Suite 349, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Tel: (317) 264-8340 Applications ...... 73-80

Published by Golden Gate University Golden Gate University Bulletin Postmaster: Office of Marketing. (USPS 221-200) Volume XXXVI Send address changes to: August 1998 No.4 Golden Gate University Inquiries and correspondence 536 Mission Street should be addressed to: Published by San Francisco, CA 94105-2968. Admissions Administrator Golden Gate University, Golden Gate University 536 Mission Street. Designer: Michelle Duval 536 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2968, San Francisco in January, March, July, August, Photography: Robert Bryant, California 94105-2968. and November. Bruce Cook, Mark Koehler, Aaron The telephone number is Periodical postage paid at Lauer, John Marriott, Kevin Ng, (415) 442-7200. San Francisco, California. Richard Tauber, Lorri Ungaretti.

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GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 3 WHY Faculty • Clinical Programs. We have one of You will be taught by an accomplished the most extensive clinical programs in CHOOSE and accessible faculty who graduated the U.S. You can earn academic credit from top research law schools and prac­ while gaining valuable legal experience. GOLDEN GATE ticed law before entering teaching. Our (See page 22.) student-to-faculty ratio of 16.7 to 1 is • Litigation Program. Our comprehen­ UNIVERSITY? among the lowest in the nation. sive litigation curriculum is taught principally by full-time faculty. Classes Professional Skills Development are small, and more than two-thirds of

We are a lawyer's law school where the our students take at least one litigation entire curriculum prepares you to prac­ course. Students have opportunities tice law. to compete in regional and national • Integrated Professional competitions . Apprenticeship Curriculum (IPAC). In this unique honors program, students Personalized Career Services participate in a two semester-long Our Law Career and Alumni Services Professional Apprenticeships, applying Office provides you with ongoing the theory learned in class to solving the support from the time you enter the problems of clients. (See page 10.) Law School through graduation and beyond. (See page 30.)

Values

• Public Interest. Golden Gate was ranked top among western u.S. law schools for its commitment to public interest law. The Law School offers financial assistance to students who pursue careers in public interest law, and our in-house clinics provide legal assistance to underrepresented popula­ tions. (See page 20.) • Diversity. You will practice law in a complex and heterogeneous world. A law school that exposes students to a wide range of people and ideas prepares you best for the challenges and opportu­ nities that world will present. At Golden Gate you will study and learn in a diverse, multicultural community.

4 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law !l rnv1 fo 100,PS A1JSCf3AIN[1 3.LV9 N30109 I , , 1998-1999 CALENDAR

Fall Semester 1998 Spring Semester 1999 Summer Session 1999** First Year Orientation Aug. 10-14 Mid-Year Admission Memorial Day Holiday* May 31 First Year Registration Aug. 12 Orientation Jan. 5-8 Independence Day Holiday* Jul. 5 General Registration Aug. 13-14 Mid-Year Admission Instruction Begins Aug. 17 Registration Jan. 6 First 4-week Session Labor Day Holiday* Sep. 7 General Registration Jan. 7-8 Registration May 27-28 Thanksgiving Holiday* Nov. 26-27 Instruction Begins Jan. 11 Instruction Begins Jun. 1 Instruction Ends Dec. 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Instruction Ends Jun. 30 Study Period Dec. 3 Holiday* Jan. 18 Examination Period Jul. 9 Examination Period Dec. 4-17 Presidents' Day Holiday* Feb. 15 Mid-Year Recess* Dec. 21-Jan.3 Mid-Semester Recess Mar. 8-12 Second 4-week Session Instruction Ends May 4 Registration Jun. 28 Study Period May 5-6 Instruction Begins Jul. 1 Examination Period May 7-20 Instruction Ends Jul. 28 Graduation May 22 Examination Period Jul. 30-31

*The Law School and the Law Library will be closed on these days. **The Summer 1999 calendar does not apply to courses in the Integrated Profissional Apprenticeship Curriculum (IPAC).

6 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law JURIS DOCTOR PROGRAM

Golden Gate University School of Law offers options for those wishing to attend law school part-time, either at night or dur­ ing the day, or who wish to commence their law studies in January rather than in the fall. Our flexible scheduling also makes it possible for students to accelerate and graduate in 2% years or to attend to family or professional matters and take longer to graduate. In addition to obtaining a J.D., students can earn specialization certificates and combined degrees.

Full-Time Day Program The full-time day program normally takes 3 years but can be completed in 21, years. Full-time day students who have completed all first-year courses may take one evening course per semester. As we admit no more than 160 full-time day students each year and offer multiple sections of all first-year courses, class sizes are small, ranging gener­ Mid-Year Admission Program ally from 25 to 80, depending on the Full-time day students may begin law course. school in January and complete the J.D. program in 3 years. (Students wishing to Part-Time Evening Program graduate in 21, years should plan to attend Students in the 4-year part-time evening two summer sessions.) Mid-year students program attend class four nights per week normally complete their studies in during their first year. Thereafter, they December and qualifY to take the winter attend three or four nights per week and bar examination, usually given in February. attend one or two eight-week summer UD. Program continued on next page) sessions. Students wishing to graduate in 31, years should plan to attend two summer sessions. Students may transfer from the part-time to the full-time program (or vice-versa) after completing their first year of study.

Other Scheduling Options Students whose work or family commit­ ments make it impossible to attend a full­ time day or part-time evening program can make special arrangements for part-time day attendance with the associate dean for student services after gaining admission to the Law School.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 7 ,

JURIS DOCTOR PROGRAM (cont.)

The Integrated Professional Apprenticeship Curriculum (I PAC)

As an alternative to the standard curricu­ lum, Golden Gate offers the Integrated Professional Apprenticeship Curriculum (IPAC). In this honors program, stu­ dents integrate classroom learning with actual legal experience by participating in two full-time, semester-long Professional Apprenticeships. For more information, see page 10.

Summer Session Golden Gate University School of Law offers an eight-week summer session, open to students from Golden Gate and other ABA-approved law schools. Most classes are scheduled in the evening. The Law School also offers an Environmental Law Summer Program, with full-time, two-week sessions and opportunities to work in the on-site Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. REQUIRED COURSES For more information, see page 12.

Required First-Year Courses Specialization Certificates Civil Procedure I, II Specialization Certificates are awarded in Constitutional Law I Business Law, Criminal Law, Environ­ Contracts mental Law, International Law, Labor Criminal Law and Employment Law, Litigation, Public Property I Interest Law, and Real Estate Law. Torts Requirements for the areas of specializa­ Writing and Research tion vary, but students generally com­ plete coursework and clinical practice to Other Required Courses earn a certificate. Appellate Advocacy Constitutional Law II Combined Degrees Corporations Students attending Golden Gate Criminal Procedure I University School of Law may choose Evidence from a variety of combined degree pro­ Professional Responsibility grams. See the next page for more infor­ Property II mation. Solving Legal Problems Wills and Trusts For course descriptions, see page 49.

8 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law COMBINED DEGREES

Most students earn advanced degrees • International Business separately-for example, the M.B.A. in • Management two years and the J.D. in three more • Marketing years. At Golden Gate, students may • Operations Management pursue a law degree concurrently with a • Organizational Behavior Development master's degree in a related field. Since • Telecommunications Management some courses are credited to both The faculty at Golden Gate degrees, students save time and money University's Law and Business Schools in the combined degree program. offer the best of both worlds. The Law School program provides a thorough Combined J.D./M.B.A. Program knowledge of substantive law through At Golden Gate, students can earn both practice-based courses as well as degrees simultaneously in four years opportunities to put that knowledge into through the regular combined program practice through an extensive clinical and in just three years through the program. Similarly, the Business School streamlined program (see box below). faculty prepares students for the In both programs, a student first technology-based, international market­ applies to and is accepted by the School place they will enter upon graduation. student completes a clinical psychology of Law, and normally does not need to Both programs build on a rigorous internship. The PGSP program is accred­ take the GMAT or GRE to gain admis­ intellectual foundation and add practical ited by the American Psychological sion to the master's program. After the experience to help students apply theory Association. Graduates of the program first semester of law school, the student to current real-life problems. are eligible to take the Bar exam and to applies to the appropriate graduate pro­ be licensed as psychologists. For more gram. The combined program begins in J.D./Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology information, call Anh Nguyen, associate the student's second year of law school. Golden Gate and the Pacific Graduate director of admissions at PGSp, at Students may earn the combined School of Psychology (PGSP) in Palo (650) 843-3412. ].D.lM.B.A. in the following areas: Alto offer a joint ].D.lPh.D. program in • Accounting Law and Clinical Psychology. A student Other Combined Programs • Entrepreneurship follows a seven-year course of study to Students may also earn the following two • Finance achieve both degrees, some years attend­ combined degrees: • Human Resource Management ing classes at the Law School and other • ].D.lM.P.A. in Public Administration • Information Systems years at PGSP. In the seventh year, the • ].D.lM.A. in International Relations

STREAMLINED J.D./M.B.A. PROGRAM

Students who have met M.B.A. prerequi· Golden Gate's streamlined Traditional Programs sites can earn a combined J.D./M.B.A. in J.D./M.B.A. Program M.B.A. Program Requirement only three years through Golden Gate's 21 units of Business School 24 units of core courses streamlined J.D./M.BA Program. Students core courses 12 units of electives spend their first year in law classes, begin 3 units of Business School taking business classes in their second electives J.D. Program Requirement year, and attend one full-time summer 55 units of required Law School 55 units of required courses trimester. They finish both degrees by courses 33 units of electives taking only 100 units. 21 units of Law School electives Total units: 124 Total units: 100

For a brochure describing the streamlined J.D./M.B.A. program, see page 3.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 9 INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL APPRENTICESHIP CURRICULUM

The Integrated Professional IPAC students: all placements. She works with IPAC Apprenticeship Curriculum (lPAC) is • Work in two full-time, semester-long students as they research and select an honors alternative for students Professional Apprenticeships with Apprenticeships that fit their profession­ who want to maximize their legal attorneys. al goals. She will find experienced, com­ 1 experience while in law school. IPAC • Participate in two intensive summer mitted supervising attorneys who can provides an active, hands-on legal programs to develop their skills and work as mentors, providing students i education. After a first year of founda­ prepare them for the Professional with maximum responsibility and sup­ I tion courses, students follow a different Apprenticeships. port. Employers compensate students in schedule in their second and third • Attend special seminars to share their accordance with their ability to pay. years. In the summer, they study in an experiences with other IPAC students. Some jobs are fully paid; others are intensive, interactive simulated law firm • Study with outstanding faculty in unpaid or subsidized by Golden Gate. setting; in the fall, they work full-time Golden Gate's regular courses and in Professional Apprenticeships; and clinics. Intensive Skills Training in the spring, they return to the class­ • Complete law school in three years, Because even a solid first-year curricu­ room. The interactive, practice-based pay the same tuition, and take the lum is not adequate preparation for suc­ summer programs prepare students same required courses as students in cessful Professional Apprenticeships, for the Professional Apprenticeships; the standard curriculum. IPAC includes full-time intensive skills the Apprenticeships provide extended, training during both summers. The first solid, professional legal experience; Professional Apprenticeships summer program puts students in a and the coursework in the spring is During the fall semesters of their second simulated law firm in which they inter­ i :~ ,I informed and even transformed by the and third years, instead of attending view clients, write memos, research legal prior Apprenticeship experience. IPAC regular classes, IPAC students work problems, and undertake a variety of students learn by doing, rather than full-time, performing legal work with other legal tasks under the careful super­ by being told how to do. employers such as law firms, government vision of experienced faculty. The pto­ agencies, corporations, and public gram emphasizes writing, interviewing, interest groups. These Professional counseling, negotiating, and profession­ Apprenticeships provide students with al responsibility. The second summer the type of real-world experience valued offers more advanced training, building by future employers. on the skills and knowledge acquired In order to ensure the highest­ during the students' first two years in quality experience, the IPAC apprentice­ law schoo!. ship administrator screens and approves

SCHEDULE FOR THE INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL APPRENTICESHIP CURRICULUM

Fall Spring Summer 1stVear Foundation Courses: (15 units) Foundation Courses (14 units) 11-week Session (12 units) i.l Civil Procedure I. Contracts. Criminal Civil Procedure II, Contracts, Evidence: Mon.-Thurs. morning (4 units) I Law, Torts, Writing and Research Constitutional Law I, Property, Intensive Skills Training: Mon.-Thurs. afternoon (8 units) Writing and Research (Incorporates 6 units of required courses and 2 skills units)

2ndVear Professional Apprenticeship Required and Elective 11-week Session (12 units) plus Apprenticeship Seminar (3 units) Courses (15 units) Intensive Skills Training, plus required courses (total of 13 units)

3rdVear Professional Apprenticeship Required and Elective plus Apprenticeship Seminar (3 units) Courses (14 units)

10 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL APPRENTICESHIP CURRICULUM

"The student who gets actual legal experience while in law school is far better equipped to perform in the 'real world' of law practice and is far more attractive to potential employers. The Golden Gate law students who come to work with me as judicial externs generally bring with them impressive practical skills and experience." Hon. Lee D. Baxter, 74, Judge, San Francisco Superior Court

Integrated Curriculum year, when they participate in the same For more information about the IPAC offers an innovative curriculum classes as other J.D. students, they also Integrated Professional Apprenticeship by combining Golden Gate's strong attend special monthly programs to lay Curriculum (lPAC), contact: emphasis on classroom teaching and the groundwork for their Professional skills training with a modern version of Apprenticeships. Working together in Assistant Dean Sue Schechter the traditional apprenticeship. In the simulated law firms in the summers and IPAC Administrative Director summer sessions, experienced faculty sharing Apprenticeship experiences, Phone: (415) 442-6625 teach the law using practical exercises, IPAC students form bonds that will E-mail: [email protected] carefully preparing each student to make the transition from student to pro­ or undertake the responsibility of upcom­ fessional easier and can create a lifelong Professor Joan Howarth ing Apprenticeships. During the network. IPAC Academic Director Apprenticeships, students experience IPAC is an honors program. Phone: (415) 442-6645 real-world legal tasks, learning from the Acceptance into the program is competi­ E-mail: [email protected] work they do and the skilled attorneys tive and will be based upon information supervising them. While in Apprentice­ in students' application packets. The ships, IPAC students have no academic IPAC admissions process may include a work other than a seminar taught by telephone interview. faculty to deepen the lessons from the Apprenticeships. During the spring POTENTIAL APPRENTICESHIP PLACEMENTS semesters, students are back in class full­ time, selecting a schedule from the Law In the San Francisco Bay Area School's extensive course and clinical Private Law Finns and COJporations Public Interest/Legal Services Groups offerings. practicing in a variety of fields, including: including: IPAC's various components are • intellectual property • Immigrant Legal Resource Center • civil litigation • Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund designed to complement one another, • commercial transactions • Center on Race, Poverty and the combining to create an exciting, chal­ • environmental Environment lenging, and effective legal education. • international • Battered Women's Alternatives • labor & employment • Equal Rights Advocates In the summer, students learn the law • family law • Employment Law Center/Legal Aid in the context of a simulated practice • immigration Society of San Francisco • La Raza Centro Legal Judicial System including: setting. In the Apprenticeships, they put • Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County • state and federal trial and appellate • San Francisco Neighborhood Legal legal theory into real practice. In the courts Assistance Foundation classroom, faculty help students link • family and other specialty courts Criminal Law Offices including: Federal, State, and Local Government their legal studies to their Apprentice­ • Alameda County District Attorney's Office Agencies including: • San Francisco Prisoner's Legal Services ship experiences. IPAC offers a legal • California Attorney General's Office • San Francisco Public Defender's Office education that proves the truth known • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to all fine lawyers: the line between legal • National Labor Relations Board Outside the Bay Area • San Francisco City and County theory and practice disappears. While most of the placements are in the San Attorney's Office Francisco Bay Area, the IPAC administrator • San Francisco Human Rights works with students to develop placements A Special Community Commission across the country and around the world. • Department of Labor IPAC students form a special commu­ • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nity within the law school. In the first • U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 11 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Today, environmental concerns affect Golden Gate offers a special seminar in nearly every legal area-real estate California Environmental and Natural transactions, corporate decisions, labor Resources Law. negotiations, health and safety, commu­ • In 1996, the Law School inaugurated an nity development, and more. Attorneys Environmental Law Summer Program. must know and plan to satisfy city, state, Attended by students from law schools and federal environmental regulations around the country and by attorneys adopted for the protection of our health, practicing in the field of environmental our natural resources, and the future of law, this program offers specialized our children. environmental courses and clinical opportunities. • Students may participate in the National Beyond the Basics Environmental Law Moot Court com­ • In addition to courses in environmental petition. law, students at Golden Gate can partic­ • Through the student-run Environ­ ipate in a range of advanced seminars mental Law Sociery, students engage and activities or can combine their in a variery of activities, including II interest in environmental law with other organizing symposia on environmental

II specialties. For example, International Issues. Trade and Environmental Protection is • Annually, one issue of the Golden Gate one of several courses that combine University Law Review is devoted to study of environmental issues with articles by students and other scholars international law. Land Use Regulation, on environmental law. The Environmental Implications of Real Estate Transactions, and other Specialization Certificate courses combine real estate law with Students may earn a Certificate of environmental law. Specialization in Environmental Law. The • Since California is at the forefront of program requires classwork, a research many environmental issues, with laws paper, and clinical practice. After learning that frequently set national trends, the laws and regulations governing envi­ ronmental issues, students put their knowl­ edge to work in actual cases handled by the Law School's two Environmental Law "I think Golden Gate's environmen­ Clinics (see below). tal law program is outstanding. The Environmental Law and Justice Environmental Law and Clinic gave me the opportunity to Justice Clinic practice law while in school and to In addition to planning for cleaner com­ meet other attorneys working in munities, specialists in environmental law the field. I now have my own envi­ are working to remediate harms resulting ronmental law practice because of from policies that placed a disproportion­ the skills and connections I gained ate share of pollutants in disadvantaged through the clinic." communities and communities of color, Layne Friedrich, '97 and to prevent such injustice in the future. Partner, Lawyers for Clean Water Golden Gate was one of the first law schools to establish an Environmental Law

12 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

"I don't think (the owner) would have even come to the table-if we didn't have lawyers-or signed our agreement. It really was the student attorneys who negotiated for us. I could have put on a suit and pretended I was a lawyer, but I couldn't have pulled it off." Berkeley resident Rachel Pinderhughes and her community hired the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic to bring a local auto painting business into compliance with Bay Area Air Quality Management District rules.

and Justice Clinic. Working with Professors Rechtschaffen, Ramo, and Eng from offices onsite at the Law School, students partici­ pating in this path-breaking clinic directly represent environmental organizations and community groups in low-income and minority communities. The clinic has received grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Corporation for National Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Bar Association, As You Sow Foundation, The Rose Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.

Environmental Law Clinic Through this field placement clinic, stu­ dents work in the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency, for state and county environmental agencies, or for national and local environmental organiza­ tions, many headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Graduate Program For graduates who wish ro continue their environmental law studies, Golden Gate now offers a master's program (LL.M.) in environmental law. For more information, see page 28.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 13 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES

The Center for Advanced International International Scholarship Legal Studies at Golden Gate provides Each year, international visiting scholars students with knowledge of the funda­ come to Golden Gate to teach, lecture, mental principles of international law and participate in conferences. At the and the current rules that govern their heart of the visiting scholar program is application. The International Legal the exchange of information about how Studies Program provides in-depth various national legal systems operate. coverage of specialized areas of inter­ In recent years, the Law School national law, public and private, as has hosted visitors from: well as international trade law and Argentina comparative law with an emphasis on Austria the legal, cultural, sociological, and Bulgaria business activities of the Pacific Rim, Canada the U.S., the European Community, People's Republic of China and other regions of the world as Republic of China (Taiwan) they interact with Europe and Asia. European Union The program enrolls approximately "American law is a drop of water Finland 75 students from more than 35 in the ocean of law. The whole France nations around the world, including world is so rich in legal custom Germany the United States. that we will be well served to Hong Kong .j begin to understand other Kenya Specialization Certificate approaches." Korea Professor Sompong Sucharitkul J.D. students may earn a Specialization Malawi Certificate in International Law by Malaysia completing a core curriculum and Mexico "San Francisco and especially electing courses from J.D. and LL.M. Netherlands Golden Gate is the best place to programs in International Legal Nigeria do International Studies in both Studies. South Africa ways-academic and social. One Switzerland Graduate Programs meets people from everywhere." Turkey Laurenz Mechmann J.D. students planning to earn an Ukraine (Berlin, Germany) LL.M. in International Legal Studies United Nations LL.M., '96 may be permitted to transfer 6 units of Uruguay approved coursework to that program, earning their advanced degree by tak­ The American Bar Association has ing only 18 additional units. sponsored visits to Golden Gate by Students with an LL.M. or equiv­ Eastern European and African scholars alent may be eligible for admission to studying the United States legal system. the doctoral (S.J.D.) program in The People's Republic of China has International Legal Studies, designing a sent members of its judiciary to study program of study in consultation with Golden Gate's clinical programs. Since a dissertation supervisor. 1997, the Chinese Ministry ofJustice For more information on graduate has sent more than 50 attorneys from programs in international legal studies, provinces throughout China to Golden see page 29. Gate to learn about the U.S. legal sys­ tem. In addition, faculty exchanges have been implemented with the

14 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES

University of Paris X (Nanterre) and the Golden Gate University School of University of Amsterdam. Law has an exchange agreement with The Law School hosts the annual the University of Paris X (Nanterre) Regional Meeting of the American through which a limited number of Law Society of International Law and the School graduates may spend a year of Annual Fulbright Symposium, which study at Nanterre, earning a Diploma of bring together international law scholars European Law. Those graduates who and practitioners from many nations. complete a full year plus an internship The International Law Student period can qualify for a Dipl6me Association sponsors an International d'Etudes Superieures Specialisees Speakers Forum. (DESS) degree. The Law School publishes the Pavilion in the Grand Palace. Annual Survey ofInternational and Student Employment Bangkok, Thailand Comparative Law. Students assist in Students are assisted in finding summer translating and editing articles and employment overseas and internships revIews. with international organizations in the United States. Golden Gate students Overseas Programs have been admitted to internship pro­ Golden Gate sponsors two overseas grams in Belgium, France, Italy, several summer law study programs. The pro­ Asian Pacific countries, and with gram in Bangkok, Thailand, now in its UNIDROIT in Rome. eighth year, offers courses on inter­ national contract and Pacific Rim issues Competitions and includes internships in Bangkok, Each year the Law School participates Hagia Sofia Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Kuala Lumpur, and Hanoi. The other in the Jessup International Law Moot summer abroad program, at the Court Competition and the Manfred University of Marmara in Istanbul, Lach International Space Law Moot Turkey, offers courses in public inter­ Court Competition. The Golden Gate national law, environmental law, and team has received numerous awards. international criminal procedure.

PROFESSOR SOMPONG SUCHARITKUL

Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor Sompong Sucharitkul directs the Golden Gate LL.M. and S.J.D. programs in International Legal Studies, the Center for Advanced International Legal Studies, and the summer program in Bangkok. He has served as Thailand's Ambassador to Japan and several European nations, Thai Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations and other specialized agencies of the U.N., and a member of the International Law Commission. He brings a wealth of knowledge of private and public international law to the program, which has attracted faculty and students from more than 35 nations.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 15 CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW

Corporate and Tax Law Business Law In addition to taking courses in com mer­ Students can earn a Specialization ciallaw and business transactions such as Certificate in Business Law by complet­ Advanced Corporate Taxation, Bank­ ing 6 to 9 units of core business law ruptcy Law, and Negotiable Instruments, courses, plus three additional courses students can earn J.D. credit by taking from one of three core areas: domestic specialized tax courses offered through law, international law, or intellectual the LL.M. in Taxation Program. Those property. interested in international commerce can take courses such as International Labor and Employment Law Business Transactions, Asian/Pacific Trade Students can earn a Specialization Seminar, and International Trade and Certificate in Labor and Employment Envitonmental Protection, offered Law by completing 13 units of electives through our LL.M. in International Legal in this area of concentration, plus clinical Studies Program. practice and a research paper. Past stu­ J.D. students wishing to earn an dents have earned credit by working in LL.M. in Taxation can transfer up to 9 the on-site Women's Employment Rights units of related tax coursework to the Clinic. Others have worked in the Public LL.M. in Taxation Program, earning their Interest/Government Counsel Clinic in advanced tax degree by taking only 17 placements that include the Employment additional units. For more information Law Center, San Francisco Neighbor­ on this graduate program, see page 28. hood Legal Assistance, the National Labor Relations Board, and the EEOC. J.D./M.B.A. Through the Civil Practice Clinic, stu­ Students choosing the combined dents work as law clerks in firms practic­ J.D.lM.B.A. program take certain courses ing employment, labor, or sports law. J.D. students wishing to pursue that are credited to both programs, thus careers in corporate or commercial saving both time and money. They can Property Development and Real Estate law have many unique opportunities earn both degrees in four years thtough at Golden Gate University. the regular combined degree program or Students can earn a Specialization in just three years through the stream­ Certificate in Real Estate Law by com­ lined program. In the streamlined pro­ pleting 13 units of electives in this area, gram, students take some Business School plus clinical practice and a research "I litigate with and against attorneys courses during the second and third years paper. Certain taxation and environmen­ who graduated from other law of law school and attend one full-time tal law courses may be applied to the cer­ schools with backgrounds similar to summer trimester in the Business School. tificate. Clinic placements are through mine. Most of the time, I am the Combined J.D.lM.B.A. degrees are the Landlord-Tenant Law Clinic or the more qualified attorney. Why? In available in accounting, entrepreneurship, Real Estate Clinic. believe that answer lies with the finance, human resource management, Law School's faculty. Many of them information systems, international busi­ were practicing attorneys; they ness, management, marketing, operations incorporate personal experience into management, organizational behavior their teaching." development, and telecommunications Kenneth F. Vierra, Jr., '90 management. For more information on Attorney, Lynch, Gilardi & Grummer J.D.lM.B.A. programs, see page 9.

16 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW

"I think Golden Gate instilled in me an entrepreneurial attitude-the idea that you can do whatever you want to do. It gave me the skills to stick my face out there and go for it. I think there are a lot of lawyers who graduated from Golden Gate who are in business for themselves and doing very welL" Janet Mangini, 79 Sole Practitioner, San Francisco (plaintiff in the landmark case Mangini v. RJ Reynolds)

Entertainment and Golden Gate track current develop­ Intellectual Property ments in national and international The Law School stands on the edge of trademark, patent, copyright, and the so-called "media gulch" in San media law. Students can get practical Francisco, where computers and tele­ experience through the Civil Practice phones, inventors and artists, movie­ Clinic. In addition, they can choose to makers and moneymakers are busy at earn a Specialization Certificate in work creating the virtual world of the Business Law, with a concentration in twenty-first century. Here, lawyers struc­ intellectual property (see facing page). ture new transactions as quickly as new ways of communicating are created. Intellectual property law courses at

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 17 PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

ments, making motions, and more. In addition, after completing the basic litiga­ tion courses, many students put their skills to work in the Law School's on-site clinics or in field clinical placements under the supervision of practicing attorneys. A student who is serious about a career as a litigator can earn a Certificate of Specialization-the equivalent of a major in litigation. To earn the Certificate a student must take 13 units of elective subjects, including Trial Advocacy, Mock Trial, Civil or Criminal Litigation, plus five more units from the large selection of litigation courses.

Competitions Students can hone their skills in trial advocacy and appellate competitions. The law is a broad and demanding Litigation Golden Gate participates in more than i profession. In addition to mastering In the past, lawyers learned trial skills ten major competitions each year, I , the rules of statutory, judicial, and through on-the-job training after com­ including the National Mock Trial constitutional law, a good practitioner pleting law school. Many of those oppor­ Competition, the Association of Trial must be skilled in writing, interviewing, tunities to learn are no longer available. Lawyers of America Competition, the counseling, negotiating, and oral advo­ Today's graduates who want careers as Jessup International Law Moot Court cacy. Most importantly, if the attorney trial lawyers must graduate law school Competition, the ABA National Appellate is to shape future development of the equipped to go to trial. They need to be Advocacy Competition, the Frederick law, he or she must understand the ready for the challenges of the courtroom Douglass Moot Court Competition, and ethical, political. social, and economic before they step into it. To prepare stu­ the National Environmental Law Moot policies that underlie the law. Golden dents for these challenges, Golden Gate Court Competition. Gate University School of Law bases offers more than 35 litigation courses. The Law School's outstanding its J.D. curriculum on this multifaceted Litigation classes are small, and record of success includes winning the view of the lawyer. many sections are offered. Each section ATLA Western Regional Competitions has only 25 students, so every student is and reaching the final four in the able to practice skills such as cross-exam­ Nationals in 1994, 1996, and 1998. In ining, taking pre-trial witness depositions, the 1996-97 ABA-LSD Negotiation client interviewing, negotiating, objecting competition, the Golden Gate team at trial, making opening and closing argu- placed among the top ten in the nation.

"I could not have been more impressed with the thorough preparation and professional skill of your trial team that I saw here in Chicago. Their legal analysis of the case and trial skills were superior. The best I have seen in years." Tim Tomasik Assistant State's Attorney, Gang Prosecutions Unit Office of the State's Attorney, Cook County, IL

18 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

"The Golden Gate students I've hired have been well prepared for the chal­ lenges of the courtroom." Peter Keane, Chief Attorney Office of the Public Defender San Francisco

Writing and Research Words are the tools of the lawyer. When spoken to advise a client, they can put fears to rest; when written into a contract, they can ensure mutual understanding. In litiga­ tion, they can be weapons. Because good lawyering demands good writing, the Law School requires that all students take three writing courses. First­ "The trial teams at Golden Gate year students take Writing and Research, work extremely hard, often toiling second-year students take Appellate in utter anonymity. The trial advo­ Advocacy, and students in their final year cacy and litigation programs are take Solving Legal Problems. Any student second to none and deserve to be requiring extra support in developing legal recognized as such." writing skills may take part in the Academic Heidi Larsen, class of '98, Assistance Program (see page 27). part of the Golden Gate team that In Advanced Writing, Advanced Legal won the 1998 Western Regional Research, and Selected Legal Problems sem­ Student Trial Competition of the inars and workshops, students may prepare Association of Trial Lawyers independent research papers under close of America (ATLA) faculty supervision.

Publications The Golden Gate University Law Review is written and edited by student members who are selected by academic standing or on the basis of a writing competition. Three issues of the Law Review are pub­ lished annually: a survey of cases from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; a In February 1998, the three-person team Women's Law Forum; and a Notes and of Golden Gate students Vladie Viltman, Jules Binder, and Sharad Milanfar went Comments issue, which focuses on undefeated in four trials to win the current environmental issues. regional championship of the National Mock Trial Competition. Students interested in International Legal Studies may work on the Annual Survey ofInternational and Comparative Law.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 19 ,

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW

At Golden Gate, public interest law is Public Interest Law Program Clinic. In addition, students who enroll not just a series of classes; it's an Students may earn a Public Interest Law in the Law School's field placement clin­ attitude. The Law School's curriculum Certificate through the Public Interest ics can choose to be placed in govern­ and programs integrate public interest Law Program, which is offered in con­ ment agencies, public interest organiza­ law and service to the community. junction with the Public Interest tions, or law firms that specialize in pub­ In addition to the public interest law Clearinghouse. Students complete 14 lic interest. See pages 22-23 for informa­ courses listed on page 47 and the credits of approved elective courses, a tion about the clinics. activities of a variety of student orga­ 150-hour public interest practicum, and nizations that focus on public interest 25 hours of work for a campus or com­ Public Interest Loan Assistance Program (PILAP) issues (see page 25), Golden Gate munity organization. Elective courses School of Law offers several special may be taken at Golden Gate or any law PILAP provides grants to graduates who public interest law programs. school participating in the Public choose careers in public interest law. Interest Law Program, including These grants are awarded annually on Hastings College of the Law, Santa Clara the basis of financial need to help gradu­ University School of Law, University of ates repay educational loans. California at Davis, and University of San Francisco School of Law. Pro Bono Students America (PBSA) Participants in the Public Interest Law Program receive the Public Interest Golden Gate University SChool of Law Advocate, a monthly publication high­ was one of the first schools in northern lighting public interest issues and oppor­ California to join Pro Bono Students tunities; have access to specialized coun­ America (PBSA). PBSA maintains a seling and programming; and are invited national database on the Internet to assist to the Public Interest Graduation upon students who are trying to find paid and completion of the requirements. volunteer public interest employment opportunities. Public Interest Work-Study Program Public Interest Law Students who qualify for Federal Work­ Scholars Program Study may apply to this unique program, All students at Golden Gate University which permits students to gain valuable School of Law can participate in public BEST IN THE WEST paid work experience with government interest law courses and clinics, but a IN PUBLIC INTEREST agencies and public interest organiza­ selected few are accepted each year to the tions that cannot afford to pay students. Public Interest Law Scholars Program. In a nationwide survey of law Golden Gate pays the qualifying The components of this program are: schools published in October employer's portion of the student's work­ • Scholarships 1997, Golden Gate University study award for employment during the Each year, the Law School awards School of Law ranked the summer. $5,000 scholarships to a number of highest among schools in the entering students. The scholarships are western United States in its Field Placement and renewable and may be combined with commitment to public On-Site Clinics other forms of financial assistance. interest law. Out of 167 law Public interest law is the main focus of • Summer Employment Stipend schools surveyed, Golden the three on-site clinics at Golden Gate: The Law School gives each Public Interest Law Scholar a stipend for one Gate ranked 13th overall. the Constitutional Law Clinic, the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, summer employment placement with and the Women's Employment Rights a public interest or government

20 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law PUBLIC INTEREST LAW

"While I was an associate director at the ACLU, I often "The professors at Golden Gate show a keen interest in hired law students and attor­ developing lawyers with a social conscience . ... They neys from a national pool, and really understood that helping people was what drove I typically hired students from me, and they guided me toward organizations that serve Golden Gate. The Law School's the community." tradition of turning out public Working through Golden Gate's clinics and Public interest lawyers is one of the Interest Work-Study Program, Joseph Gonzalez, '97, main reasons I'm here." completed several externships with Communities for a Better Environment. He Professor Joan Howarth helped CBE win a case to stop a concrete-crushing facility that had created a 60 foot-high pile of rubble in a predominantly Latino, low-income community in Los Angeles. He is now an attorney with Masry & Vititoe, a southern California firm specializing in toxic exposure claims.

"My job allows me to combine my legal education with my interest and expertise in psychiatric nursing:' Leslie Morrison, '95, a nurse with a master's degree in psychiatric nursing, returned to Golden Gate to become a litigation lawyer. During her second and third years she clerked for Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PAl), a public interest firm that advocates for people with developmental and psychiatric disabilities. She also spent a semester clerking for the California Syupreme Court. Through these experiences and her law school classes, she learned that she wanted to go into public interest law instead of litigation. When she graduated, she was hired as a staff attorney at PAl. She credits her experiences at Golden Gate with helping her find her legal niche.

agency. The Law School helps Public Public Interest Law Scholars are How to Apply Interest Law Scholars find placements. expected to participate in public interest To apply for the Public Interest Law • Mentoring activities at the Law School, such as the Scholars Program, submit the regular Every Public Interest Law Scholar has a Public Interest Law Foundation, the law J.D. Application along with a list of faculty mentor and an alumni mentor. student group that raises funds for sum­ public interest activities in which you These mentors provide guidance and mer public interest employment and have participated and a two-page insights into public interest issues and organizes programs on public interest (double-spaced) essay describing your careers . Issues. interest in and commitment to public • Public Interest Loan Assistance Program interest law. The essay should include (PILAP) a statement about how you plan to PILAP provides grants to graduates pursue public interest law during and who choose careers in public interest after law school. law. These grants are awarded on the basis of financial need to help gradu­ ates repay educational loans.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 21 CLINICAL PROGRAMS

Golden Gate has one of the most exten­ Women's Employment Rights Clinic sive clinical legal education programs in (WERC) the country, and more than half our stu­ Supervising Attorneys: Professors Marci dents participate in at least one clinic or Seville and Donna Ryu externship before graduating. Students Students represent clients in employment earn academic credit while working disputes, including unemployment insut­ either under the supervision of a full-time ance appeals, race and sex discrimination, faculty member in one of our three sexual harassment, family and medical on-site clinics or under the supervision leave, and wage and hour claims. Professor Bernard Segal (right) of a judge or practicing attorney in one has directed the respected Criminal Litigation Clinic since of our eight field-placement clinics. Constitutional Law Clinic: Bio-ethical Issues 1982. Co-director and Golden Supervising Attorney: Professor Mort Cohen Gate School of Law alumna On-site Clinical Programs Students work on cases involving the Susan Rutberg ('75) has been teaching in the clinic since 1991. The on-site clinics operate as law offices constitutional and health rights of institu­ within the Law School, providing legal tionalized persons. Part of the Western representation to low-income individuals Center for Constitutional Rights, the and community groups who would not Constitutional Law Clinic does innovative otherwise be able to afford legal counsel. and successful work on cases involving civil rights and civil liberties. Environmental Law and Justice Clinic Supervising Attorneys: Professors Alan Ramo, Anne Eng, and Clifford Rechtschaffen Field Placement Clinics Students provide direct representation to In field placement clinics, students work community groups and environmental under faculty supervision and the super­ organizations in low-income and minority vision of judges and attorneys in govern­ communities disproportionally impacted ment agencies, law offices, and judges' by environmental degradation. chambers.

Criminal Litigation Clinic Faculty supervisors: Professors Bernard Segal and Susan Rutberg

"Golden Gate allowed me to Students work as law clerks in prosecutor transcend the 'traditional' law and public defender offices supervised school experience. I worked by an experienced criminal lawyer and with practicing attorneys who faculty. Students certified by the California gave me the opportunity to State Bar may appear in court and argue ill represent real clients and to a case. I participate in the actual prac­ tice of law. This improved my Civil Practice Clinic Faculty supervisors: Professors W'ttyne Woody confidence and made the tran­ and Allan Brotsky, and Adjunct Professor sition from law school to law Christine Tour-Sarkissian practice less threatening." Students work as law clerks in firms prac­ Shane Ford, '94 Associate, Staley Jobson & ticing corporate, commercial, entertain­ Wetherell, a family law firm ment, intellectual property, or international in Pleasanton, CA law doing civil litigation or transactional work.

22 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law CLINICAL PROGRAMS

assist in representing people and groups with Environmental Law Clinic legal problems affecting the public interest. Faculty supervisor: Professor Cliff Government students work as legal externs Rechtschaffen in California and federal Students are placed in agencies or private government offices. environmental organizations such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Real Estate Clinic the U.S. Forest Service, the Sierra Club, Faculty supervisors: Professor Roger Bernhardt or the Natural Resources Defense Fund. and Adjunct Professor Christine Tour­ Students may also be placed with law Sarkissian firms engaged in environmental practice. Students are placed in law firms that special­ ize or do considerable work in real estate. Family Law Clinic Working under the direct supervision of Faculty supervisors: Assistant Dean Susan attorneys, students interview clients, draft Schechter and Adjunct Professor Carol pleadings and motions, and participate in Levine trial preparation and trials. On the transac­ This clinic provides students with expo­ tional side, they draft provisions for leases, sure to many aspects of family law prac­ sales contracts, closing papers, loan docu­ tice, including marital dissolution, cus­ ments, and other real estate instruments. tody, visitation, support, and adoption through field placement with family law practitioners.

Judicial Externships Faculty supervisors: Associate Dean Catherine Glaze and Adjunct Professor Song Hill Students selected for the Judicial Externship Program work in judges' chambers at all levels of state and federal courts with a full range of judicial assign­ ments, including courts handling civil trials, family and juvenile law, bankruptcy, law and motion, criminal law, and appel­ late matters. Susanna Pilate and Lilly Ko worked in the Women's Employment Rights Clinic in summer 1998. Landlord-Tenant Law Clinic "I chose to go to law school because I wanted to educate people. This clin­ Faculty supervisor: Professor Myron ic has provided opportunities for me to educate people about their rights Moskovitz and about an employer's obligations. Everyone I speak to learns a little Students work as law clerks for attorneys more than he or she knew before and becomes a little more empowered." specializing in landlord-tenant issues. Susana Pilate, class of 1999

Public Interest/Government Counsel Clinic "My hands-on experience through the Women's Employment Rights Clinic Faculty supervisors: Professor Marc Stickgold has prepared me to effectively manage legal issues that I've come across and Assistant Dean Susan Schechter in a variety of legal settings. The skills I learned at the clinic are invaluable." Public interest students are placed with Lilly Ko, class of 1999 public and private agencies where they

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 23 LAW SCHOOL SERVICES

Housing and Transportation I Bookstore I Since it is in the downtown business area The Golden Gate University Bookstore of San Francisco, Golden Gate University stocks all required textbooks and some has no residence hall. However, the Law 20,000 reference titles for scholars and I School Admissions Office publishes an professionals in its Professional Reference annual Housing Resource Guide, which section. It has extensive law, taxation, and r lists information about housing, trans­ real estate collections and is the primary I portation, and roommate assistance ser­ outlet for Continuing Education of the vices (including on-line services). All Bar (CEB) materials. The bookstore also admitted students have access to the Law sells computers at special prices to stu­ School's roommate locator service. In dents, staff, and faculty, and hundreds of addition, the Golden Gate University software packages with educational dis­ Student Affairs Office maintains a list of counts. MasterCard, American Express, available apartments and houses in many and VISA are accepted. Bay Area communities. Public transportation in and around Athletics/Recreation San Francisco is excellent. The school is Private health clubs and a modern YMCA one block from MUNI (city buses and facility are located within easy walking dis­ trolley cars); BART (underground); and tance of the Law School. Through the the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, Student Bar Association, subsidized mem­ which serves Berkeley, Oakland, Marin berships are available for 24-Hour Fitness, County, and San Mateo County. Nearby which has facilities located throughout the ferries and train service also help make San Francisco Bay Area, and City Gym, the commute to Golden Gate one of the which is located within one block of the easiest in the Bay Area. university.

Student Services The Law School Admissions Office pro­ vides information about health and acci­ dent insurance for admitted students. The Law School's associate dean for student services is available for short-term personal and academic counseling and provides referrals for long-term counseling and other support services. To comply with federal laws, Golden Gate University maintains a Drug Abuse Awareness and Prevention program. Information regarding these laws may be obtained from Golden Gate University's Office of Faculty and Staff Human Resources/EEO. In addition, the Law School presents regular programs on sub­ stance abuse and its impact on the legal profession. All university facilities are readily available to disabled students.

24 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Student Bar Association The Black Law Students Association Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Law Students (SBA) (BLSA) is a national organization dedicated (LEGALS) is concerned with individual to the rectuitment, support (including acade­ rights and legal issues affecting lesbian, gay, The SBA, an umbrella organization mic support), and development of black law and bisexual people in the judicial system funded by student fees, coordinates students. and society. Members are committed to student activities and events. Its officers playing an active part in legal and social and representatives are elected by students The Environmental Law Society (ELS) reform. LEGALS also engages in a mentor in accordance with SBA procedures each discusses current developments in environ­ program with Bay Area attorneys through spring. mental law and works to further the goals of BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom). Other Student Organizations protecting the environment and securing placement in the field. ELS also participates Student organizations at the Law School in the annual Earth Day clean-up and The National Association of Criminal serve the interests of a diverse student body. sponsors a symposium evety year dealing Defense Lawyers (NACDL) student chapter Student organizations are assigned space on with emerging issues in environmental law. organizes education programs abour current bulletin boards for posting announcements. criminal law issues, and sponsors speakers Meetings are also publicized in the weekly The Federalist Society is a nationwide orga­ who are prominent criminal defense lawyers campus newsletter, Law School News. nization of conservative and libertarian law who are members ofNACDL. Applicants who would like to speak with students, lawyers, and members of the judi­ a member of one of the student organiza­ ciary. The society is founded on principles of The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is an tions should call the Admissions Office at individual liberty, limited government, and organization of lawyers, law students, and (415) 442-6630. The Admissions Office the rule of the law. legal workers who identifY with the will take your name, telephone number, American left. It provides legal support for and the name of the organization you The Golden Gate Association of workers and for persons who are racially, would like to know more about. A student International Lawyers (GGAIL) provides sexually, or politically oppressed. representative will call you back to answer activities for students earning LL.M. and your questions. S.J.D. degrees in International Legal Studies The purpose of Phi Delta Phi, which is open and in U.S. Legal Studies, as well as for J.D. to all students, is to form a strong bond The American Bar Association Law Student students working towards a specialization in uniting law students and professors with Division (ABA/LSD) seeks to further academ­ international law. GGAIL is independent of members of the bench and bar in a fraternal ic excellence by encouraging law students to the International Law Society, bur the organi­ fellowship designed to advance the ideals of participate in the effortS of the organized bar zations are not mutually exclusive. justice and community service. in the formation and revision of standards of legal education. The Intellectual Property Law Association The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) (IPLA) seeks to forge and maintain relation­ is dedicated to advancing the public interest The American Trial Lawyers Association ships between students and the Law School through law. PILF helps students find public (ATLA), Golden Gate University Chapter, and firms, corporations, businesses, and interest legal employment and involvement promotes interest in litigation, trial advocacy other organizations involved in intellectual opportunities. It also provides forums for education, and interaction with other Bay property law. discussion of public interest issues. PILF is Area law school ATLA chapters. Each year, involved in administering the Public Interest Golden Gate Chapter members compete in The International Law Society (ILS) Loan Assistance Program, which provides the ATLA National Student Trial Advocacy promotes the understanding of substantive grants to help public interest graduates repay Competition. and procedural areas of the law via an inter­ a portion of educational loans. Additionally, national perspective. each spring PILF awards summer grants to The Asian Pacific American Law Students current students. Association (APALSA) is dedicated to pro­ The Jewish Law Students Association viding support (including academic support) (JLSA), in cooperation with B'nai B'rith The Women's Law Association (WLA) is to students of Asian descent. Its other goals Hillel, plans social and enriching events for dedicated to educating and fostering dia­ are to encourage and foster greater minority Jewish students and faculty. logue on issues that impact women's rights, enrollment at the School of Law and to teach especially in the legal field. awareness of issues surrounding the Asian The Latino Law Students Association community. (LALSA) seeks to represent and advocate issues that affect Latino students and to pro­ The Association for Communication, vide mutual support (including academic Sports and Entertainment Law (ACSEL) support) for its members. Members hope to promotes interest in the legal aspects of these increase LALSA representation in legal educa­ areas of law. tion and the legal profession.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 25 1 LEARNING RESOURCES

Law Library vices. A computer lab in the law library A law student must acquire effective provides students access to the Internet, research skills to be an effective lawyer. various CD-ROM data-bases, GGU At Golden Gate, the law library is both Online! (see below), Computer-Assisted a study place and a learning laboratory. Legal Instruction, and word processing The Golden Gate Universiry Law and spreadsheet applications. There is Library houses the largest law collection also a group study room and an inter­ in the San Francisco financial district­ active video viewing area. The library more than 200,000 volumes. Its holdings maintains online links to Consortium include comprehensive series of case law, law library catalogs. Students may take statutes, digests, encyclope­ a course in Advanced Legal Research dias, periodicals, and trea­ covering database research techniques. tises dealing with American law; a strong tax collection; E-mail and the Internet a microforms collection; and GGU Online! is the Golden Gate a growing body of work in Universiry e-mail system. Every law stu­ environmental law, law and dent receives a free account and e-mail literature, and international address at registration. GGU Online! is law. International law hold­ an excellent way to communicate with ings target selected Pacific faculty and fellow students and also to Rim countries and English, access the Internet. Students can use Canadian, and Common­ GGU Online! at computer terminals in wealth materials. the Law Library, the second floor hall­ The law library is a selec­ way, and the university computer center, tive depository for both fed­ as well as on their own computers with a eral and California state personal modem. documents. It is a member Some professors have set up elec­ of the Research Libraries tronic bulletin boards for their classes Information Network, a using GGU Online! Announcements, national consortium for the class syllabi, past examination questions, on-line exchange of biblio­ model answers, and reserve materials are graphic information and some of the items posted. Students may interlibrary loan. It is a post questions for the professor and charter member of the receive a prompt response. These "elec­ Consortium of Academic tronic office hours" are a popular and Law Libraries of San efficient way to work through compli­ Francisco, an interlibrary cated material. loan and cooperation program. Skills Training, Simulations, and Problem Solving

Electronic Research One effective way to learn how to do All first-year students com­ what a lawyer does is to practice in plete training in the use of hypothetical situations. These experi­ the LEXIS and Wesdaw ences may be as straightforward as two online databases, computer­ students being called upon to argue assisted legal research ser- opposing sides of a case during class.

26 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law LEARNING RESOURCES

"I really liked the friendly and supportive atmosphere of the summer Academic Assistance Program. I especially enjoyed the class sessions and exams. They gave me the best examples of what was to come." Student from the Academic Assistance Program

They may involve writing assignments: skills by writing practice exams and by a memorandum of law discussing the attending exam review sessions. Each issues raised by a case; a demand letter first-year course professor writes practice asking for what a client seeks; a com­ exam questions. Teaching assistants plaint, following the form preferred in review student answers and are available a local court; a simple contract; a will. to meet individually with students. Simulation exercises involve For second- and third-year students, role-playing in mock mediation, programs focus on maintaining and arbitration, negotiation, settlement strengthening skills. Workshops also con­ conference, and trial situations. Some centrate on the techniques and skills professors use the problem method, required for success on bar examinations. whereby whole areas of the law are approached through consideration of a hypothetical case. The traditional Socratic method demands analytic and reasoning skills. Professors at the Law School use and combine many of these E-MAIL ENHANCES COMMUNICATION methods in their teaching.

Academic Assistance Program The Academic Assistance Program is open to all students and is designed to enhance students' performance in law school. The program is structured to allow students to tailor their participa­ ~!!c!t& tion to their individual requirements. Basic to the program are the Law ~ School ABC's workshops, where stu­ dents master the methodology of law school learning. Topics covered include reading cases, understanding the dynamics of a class, organizing the course materials, managing time, studying for exams, analyzing a prob­ lem, writing essay exams, taking multi­ "I use GGU On-line! to hold electronic office hours. Students can ple choice exams, and diagnosing one's post questions at any time and expect answers (and comments own performance. from other students) within 24 hours." Another component of the Professor David Oppenheimer Academic Assistance Program allows first-year students to improve their

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 27 L GRADUATE LEGAL PROGRAMS

Golden Gate University School of Law The LL.M. in Taxation Program FOR MORE INFORMATION is a center for graduate legal education, is offered on a IS-week trimester basis offering four master of laws ILL.M.) in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Request a bulletin describing one of degrees and one doctor of laws IS.J.D.) Fall trimester classes are scheduled Golden Gate's graduate programs: degree. All of these programs are open September-December, spring trimester to full-time and part-time students, and classes January-April, and summer Taxation trimester classes May-August. phone: (415) 442-6605 all have been approved by the American To earn the LL.M. in Taxation, a fax: (415) 495-6756 Bar Association. student must complete 26 units with a e-mail: [email protected] Graduate students have the option minimum 2.5 cumulative grade point Environmental Law of earning two LL.M. degrees simul­ phone: (415) 442-6654 taneously through the Law School's average. Students who have taken fax; (415) 896-2450 combined degree program. Six to nine LL.M. tax courses while attending the e-mail: [email protected] related units from one LL.M. program Golden Gate J.D. program may trans­ International Legal Studies may be credited toward another pro­ fer up to 9 units to the LL.M. pro­ phone: (415) 442-6607 gram, enabling students to earn both gram. fax: (415) 495-6756 degrees by taking fewer units than if email: [email protected] they pursued the degrees separately. Environmental Law U.S. Legal Studies The LL.M. in Environmental Law phone: (415) 442-6607 Taxation Program features a blend of academic fax: (415) 495-6756 The Golden Gate University LL.M. in study, writing, and practical skills e-mail: [email protected] Taxation Program is among the oldest, training. LL.M. students: largest, and most respected in the • Choose from a broad range of Or write to the individual program nation. Since its inception in 1978, this environmental law courses; c/o Golden Gate University School • Work closely with Golden Gate of Law, 536 Mission Street, program has attracted both recent law faculty and practicing attorneys to San Francisco, CA 94105-2968. graduates and practicing attorneys from throughout the country and, more research, investigate, and prepare recently, from throughout the world. publishable papers on leading Drawing on the thriving legal commu­ environmental issues; nities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, • Have the option of working in one Golden Gate is able to attract experi­ of the Law School's two prestigious enced practitioners who are experts in environmental law clinics on cases their respective specialties and masters chosen specifically for them. in their classrooms. Additional courses are offered during the Golden Gate University Environmental Law Summer Program. To earn this LL.M., a student "Even though I have completed must complete 24 semester units with my J.D. degree and passed my a grade point average of at least 2.5. CPA exam, I believe that earning Students who have taken environmen­ my LL.M. in Taxation is an essen­ tal law courses while attending the tial credential as I begin my career Golden Gate J.D. program may trans­ as a tax attorney." fer up to 6 units to the LL.M. pro­ Leon Ainer, LL.M. Student gram. Students who attended another law school may also transfer up to 6 units of environmental law to the LL.M. program, if the director deter-

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mines that the courses are substantially average of at least 2.5. Students entering the similar to course offerings in the S.].D. program must already have an LL.M. Golden Gate LL.M. program. degree. To earn the S.].D., a student must complete a minimum of 8 units, spend at International Legal Studies least two semesters in residency, complete a In 1994, Golden Gate University dissertation, and defend the dissertation School of Law created the LL.M. in through an oral presentation. International Legal Studies Program. In its first four years, this program has United States Legal Studies attracted nearly 200 students from The U.S. Legal Studies program is designed "I enjoyed taking the LL.M. more than 35 foreign nations. The pro­ to help law graduates and attorneys from at Golden Gate, with its gram is designed to provide in-depth outside the United States gain a fundamen­ variety of international and coverage of specialized areas of inter­ tal understanding of US. law or specialize American law courses. I was national and comparative legal studies in an area where U.S. law is highly devel­ able to put together a com­ with an emphasis on the legal, cultural, oped or plays a significant role in world bination of classes tailored sociological, and business activities of affairs, including: to my own special needs. In the Pacific Rim, the European • Corporate and Commercial law addition, meeting students Community, and of other regions of • Intellectual Property, Media, and from different countries the world as they interact with Europe Entertainment Law such as Brazil, China, and Asia. • FamilyLaw France, Germany, India, Building on the success of the • Labor and Employment Law Israel, Japan, Russia, South LL.M. program, the Law School also • Public Interest, Human Rights, and Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, offers an S.].D. in International Legal Constitutional Law Turkey, and Venezuela pro­ Studies. Golden Gate is one of only 27 Students in this program attend ].D. vided me with new perspec­ ABA-accredited law schools offering a and LL.M. classes with U.S. law students tives to my legal education." doctorate in law. This new program and have opportunities to gain practical Astrid Boos (Switzerland) allows LL.M. graduates to expand their experience in the Law School's clinical pro­ LL.M. in International knowledge of the critically important grams, prepare for U.S. bar examinations, Legal Studies, '97 and constantly widening field of inter­ and pursue graduate business offerings at national legal studies. Golden Gate. To earn the LL.M. in International To earn this LL.M., a student must Legal Studies, a student must complete complete 24 semester units with a grade 24 semester units with a grade point point average of at least 2.5.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 29 LAW CAREER & ALUMNI SERVICES

The Law Career and Alumni Services Benefits to Students interviewing techniques, and using Office (LCAS) provides a wide variety Law Career and Alumni Services main­ other career planning resources of services, resources, and programs to tains a strong presence on campus and • A one-on-one orientation session guide students and graduates through collaborates with student groups, pre­ • A special workshop on resumes and the career planning process. By combin­ senting programs and providing oppor­ cover letters ing knowledge of the legal employment tunities for students to interact with market and strong connections to the legal professionals. For example, in coop­ Services to all J.D. and graduate students: legal community, the LCAS staff offers eration with the Golden Gate Women's • Print, online, and telephone job list­ comprehensive services and support Law Association and the Employment ings for current employment posi­ from the time you enter law school Committee of Queen's Bench, a local tions, summer associate and school through graduation and beyond. bar association, LCAS sponsors Legal year clerkships, judicial externships, Career Options Day, an annual informa­ and clinical and work-study positions tion program and reception for students • Talks by graduates on their career to meet with several dozen attorneys expenences working in diverse fields. Another annu­ • Individual and small-group career al event, the Career Focus Forum, is co­ counseling sponsored by the Law School's minority • Job search skills workshops law student associations and LCAS. This • Resume and cover letter review event highlights the achievements of • Mock interviews with alumni work­ minority attorneys and includes a recep­ ing in various fields of the legal tion with representatives from local profession minority bar associations. • Alumni mentors who meet one-on­ one with students to share the benefit

Services to all first-year students: of their experience and provide advice • A free "Job Search Guide" binder, and support with comprehensive information on • Panels and events highlighting the planning a legal job search, creating career paths of Golden Gate alumni resumes and cover letters, developing and other attorneys • Fall and spring recruitment programs • Specialty area and regional job fairs • Access to Pro Bono Students America (PBSA), a national database of public interest and government opportunities for law students

Services to IPAC Students: The LCAS director works with each IPAC student to help define his or her interests and strengths and find the right placements for the two semester-long Professional Apprenticeships. These apprenticeships may help students devel­ op employment contacts after gradua­ tion. (For more information on IPAC, see page 10.) Law Career and Alumni Services

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Resource Library "Cheresh Finer ('95) from Cooper & Lybrand was very helpful during the The ever-expanding resource library con­ mock interview. She seemed interested in me and my interviewing skills. tains legal newspapers, law career books, She gave me several ideas about how I might improve my resume, cover general career guides, newsletters, direc­ letter, and responses to questions. She was great!" tories, employer information files, pro­ Jakob Lipman, '98 fessional development materials, and videotapes of previous LeAS programs. Students also have access to LEXIS, Faculty and Alumni Westlaw, and the Internet to aid them Involvement in their job searches. Law School faculty and graduates active­ ly participate in the career planning Career Search Publications process by serving on panels, talking and Affiliations with students about their legal special­ The LeAS office contributes a column ties, and conducting mock interviews to Law School News, the weekly Law that provide practical experience. Many School newsletter, and posts announce­ faculty and alumni are also available for ments online. informational interviews to provide stu­ The LeAS participates in the dents with guidance regarding career National Association for Law Placement, options. Law Career and Alumni Services staff Sue Schecter, assistant dean National Association for Public Interest Debra Holcomb, alumni relations coordinator Law, Bay Area Legal Recruitment Benefits to Graduates Susanne Aronowitz, assistant director Association, Bar Association of San The next two pages describe the services Gina Palanzo, assistant Francisco, and minority and specialty that are available to students after they bar associations. graduate from Golden Gate University School of Law.

JOBS AFTER GRADUATION

Below is a list of some of the employers Environmental Defense Foundation San Francisco District Attorney that have hired recent graduates of Family Violence Law Project San Francisco Superior Court Golden Gate University School of Law: Gagen, McCoy, McMahon & Armstrong Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges LLP Genentech Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen, Nelson & Graham & James LLP Tulare County Public Defender Sanders Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich Tuolumne County Public Defender Arthur Andersen LLP Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe U.S. Attorney Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel, Livingston & Kinder, Wuerfel & Cholakian U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Pedersen LLP Legal Services for Prisoners with Children U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit California Indian Legal Services Lionel, Sawyer & Collins U.S. Department of Justice California Supreme Court Nevada Supreme Court U.S. Department of Labor Communities for a Better Environment North Carolina Supreme Court U.S. Department of Transportation Cooley Godward LLP Riverside County District Attorney U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Coopers & Lybrand LLP Salinas County District Attorney U.S. National Labor Relations Board Deloitte & Touche LLP San Diego City Attorney Environmental Defense Center San Francisco City Attorney

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The connection between Golden Gate Staying in Touch activities, students, and alumni. It University School of Law and its Law Career and Alumni Services (LCAS) also features a "Class Notes" section students does not end with graduation. helps graduates stay in touch by plan­ that describes the news and accom­ The Law School sponsors and sup­ ning alumni reunions and other gather­ plishments of individual Law ports a variety of programs designed ings. The Law School holds a reception School graduates. especially for alumni. for alumni at the annual State Bar con­ • The newsletter Gate WIlys, mailed to vention and occasionally hosts gather­ Law School graduates twice a year, ings around the country in conjunction offers news on upcoming alumni with faculty trips. and Law School events. LCAS periodically publishes the • Connections, the alumni magazine Golden Gate University School ofLaw produced several times a year by Alumni Directory, enabling alumni to Golden Gate University, provides find out where their fellow graduates are. an overview of university alumni LCAS also maintains a database of Law and activities. School graduates thtough which office Career Planning staff can help alumni find former class­ mates around the country. LCAS continues to help alumni at dif­ Each year, the Law School selects ferent stages of their careers. All gradu­ one graduate to receive the Judith G. ates are eligible for free career counsel­ McKelvey Outstanding Alumnus/a of ing services, which are conducted in the Year Award. The award recognizes a person or over the telephone. Career graduate, nominated by alumni in the counselors can help attorneys revitalize fall, for his or her achievements and their job search plan, learn more about commitment to the legal profession and the employment market, and present to the Law School. their credentials in the strongest possi­ ble light. LCAS also conducts periodic Alumni Publications workshops specifically for Golden Gate • Class Action, a magazine published law graduates to demystifY the job twice a year by the Law School, offers search process. "You can do anything you want with articles highlighting Law School a law degree, and the one I received from Golden Gate has enabled me to participate in and accomplish things I never dreamed existed in the fall of 1969. Somehow I wish the message could be passed on to all incoming students that, with the analytical skills mastered during their legal edu­ cation, there will be no limits to their potential contribution to society." David W Brennan, 73 Chair, Central Balboa Park Association of Museums and Institutions, and Of Counsel to two California law firms: Popov, McCuIJogh & Cohan and Edwards & Hayden

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Some of the graduates, faculty, and guests who attended the 20-year reunion of the class of 1977.

I~' ill To inform alumni of job vacancies, • Student/Alumni Mentor Program changing to meet the needs of the ill' LCAS publishes a semi-monthly Graduate A graduate meets one-on-one with a diverse alumni base. Benefits currently III job Bulletin. Over the past year, employers student to share professional experi­ available include free access to the have listed approximately 150 positions ences and provide advice and support. University Career Center and free access '11.f per month in the Graduate Job Bulletin. • Volunteer Judges and Advisors for two years to the University Library. Graduates may check out many of Golden Gate alumni serve as judges For a small fee, graduates can use the the books and videotapes in LCAS's and advisors for appellate and trial GGU computer labs. Alumni can also extensive resource library. Graduates may competitions. take advantage of discounts and savings also use resource library computers, which programs at the University Bookstore, provide access to a host of online career Law Library on tuition for non-degree programs, resources. Use of the Law Library is free to law on fitness memberships, and on a Other job search services include: school graduates for the first two years dining-savings program. • Career counseling after graduation. (Alumni may continue • Resume/cover letter review their library membership for a small fee • Workshops after the initial two-year period.) • Printed and online job listings Membership includes borrowing privi­ I'''' leges, plus access to the print and micro­ ,I Volunteer Opportunities form collections, CD-ROM databases, Graduates often return to Golden Gate to reference services, and online public share their experiences and help students access catalog. Graduates will find a rich understand how classroom lessons relate collection of practice materials, form­ to career goals. Volunteer opportunities books and loose-leaf services in the more include: than 200,000-volume legal collection. • Mock Interviews Codes and statutes from every state are Graduates sharpen their own inter­ kept current. viewing skills as they help current students practice their presentation Additional Benefits techniques. In addition to the benefits offered • Career Panels and Brown Bag Lunches through LCAS, the University offers ben­ Graduates describe and discuss their efits to all of its graduates. University career experiences with students. benefits are continually increasing and

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BARBARA M. ROGER BERNHARDT ANSCHER Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law A.B., A.M., J.D. (Order of the and Director, Advanced Writing Coif), University of Chicago Programs Professor Bernhardt is the B.A., Stanford University; leading authority on real M.A., University of California, property law in California. Los Angeles; J.D. (Order of the He is the editor of the Coif), Stanford Law School California Real Property Law Reporter. His casebook, Professor Anscher served for three years as associate California Real Estate Finance, functions as a com­ dean for academic affairs at Golden Gate and currently panion volume ro his California Mortgage and Deed directs the Advanced Writing Program. She joined of Trust Practice, regarded as the Bible of California I Golden Gate after spending two years as a teaching fel­ mortgage law. Professor Bernhardt's Real Property in low at Stanford Law School. Before entering teaching, a Nutshell and The Black Letter Law ofReal Property )' she practiced law with the firm of Cooley, Godward, are among the most widely used law student texts in Castro, Huddleson & Tatum in San Francisco, special­ the United States. His most recent publications are izing in real estate and commercial transactions, and Bernhardt's California Real Estate Laws and Deskbook worked as an extern for Federal District Court Judge ofFederal Real Estate Laws. A founding member and Marilyn Hall Patel. Professor Anscher co-authored director of the Real Property Section of the State ''Avoiding the Equitable Mortgage Trap," which Bar of California, Professor Bernhardt is also a appeared in the Real Property Law Reporter, and several member of American College of Real Estate Lawyers supplements ro The Law ofProperty Owners and the American Law Institute. He is a member of Associations. She is a member of the California Bar. the California and New York Bars.

Courses: Appellate Advocacy; Solving Legal Problems. Courses: Commercial Finance; Property; Real Estate Clinic; Real Estate Finance; Sales. I ! I J. LANI BADER Professor of Law, Director of ALLAN BROTSKY the LL.M. in United States Professor of Law, Emeritus Legal Studies Program, B.A., University of California, and Dean Emeritus Los Angeles; LL.B., Columbia A.B., University of Hawaii; University J.D., University of Chicago The recipient of the 1991 A recipient of the American National Lawyers Guild Arbitration Association's award for excellence in train­ Achievement Award, ing, Professor Bader has spoken extensively at arbitra­ Professor Brotsky is an arbitrator for the San tion conferences and participates in the design and Francisco Judicial Arbitration Program, the American implementation of commercial arbitration training Arbitration Association, and the NASD Regulation, programs. He lectures and writes on arbitration and Inc. He has served as a judge pro tempore for the San mediation, and is active in matters involving securities Francisco Superior and Municipal Courts. Professor regulation and the law of corporations. He has been a Brotsky practiced law in San Francisco for 32 years member of the Golden Gate law faculty since 1968 with the firm of Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan & and served as dean for five years. Previously, he prac­ Brotsky. He is a member of the American Board of ticed with the New York law firm of Sherman & Trial Advocates, the American Inns of Court, and the Sterling and the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury, California and New York Bars. Madison & Surro. He is a member of the Large Complex Case Panel of Arbitrators of the American Courses: Civil Practice Clinic; Trial Advocacy. Arbitration Association and a member of the California and New York Bars.

Courses: Alternative Dispute Resolurion; Commercial Finance; Corporations; Sales.

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LESLIE A. BURTON ROBERT CALHOUN Lecturer Professor of Law B.A. (magna cum laude), University A.B., University ofRochester; ofPortland; J.D. (cum laude), LL.B., Yale University Santa Clara University Professor Calhoun, a criminal law Before coming to Golden Gate, expert, created and directed the Professor Burton was a bank­ First District Appellate Project, a ruptcy litigator for 14 years. She was law clerk to Chief non-profit corporation that administers the appointed Judge Robert Woodward of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court criminal counsel for the California Court of Appeals. He for the Eastern District of California and later worked is co-author of California Speedy Trial Law and "Waiver with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & of the Right to Appeal." He served in the Peace Corps in Rabkin in San Francisco. She has testified before the Turkey from 1965 to 1967 and returned to Tutkey in California State Assembly Judiciary Committee on 1997 to direct the Law School's Summer Study Program homestead exemption policy. Before embarking on her in Istanbul. Upon graduation from law school, he career in bankruptcy law, Professor Burton was a clerked for the U.S. District Court. Before joining the deputy district attorney for Sacramento County. She Golden Gate law faculty, he worked in the Alameda co-wrote "Limitations on Use of the California County Public Defender's Office and taught at Hastings Homestead Exemption in Bankruptcy Cases," pub­ College of the Law. He has served as an ad hoc small lished in the California Bankruptcy Journal. She is a claims court judge for the San Francisco Municipal member of the California Bar. Court and is a member of the Delay Reduction Design Team of the First District Court of Appeals. He is a Courses: Bankruptcy Law; Solving Legal Problems; member of the California Bar. Writing and Research. Courses: Comparative Criminal Procedure Seminar; Criminal Procedure I & II; Evidence; Trial Advocacy. ALLAN H. CADGENE Professor of Law B.A., Stanford University; TERRENCE R. CHORVAT J.D., Yale University Visiting Professor of Law A specialist in tax law, Professor B.A., Nortwestern University; Cadgene also has an avid interest J.D., University of Chicago; in real estate development and LL.M. (Tax), New Yark University the arts. He has lectured on tax incentives for rehabili­ Professor Chorvat joins Golden tation to the National Society for Historic Preservation, Gate this year from New York on how to negotiate UDAG grants for the San University School of Law, where he was an acting assis­ Francisco Mayor's Office of Economic Development, tant professor for two years. Previously, he was a manag­ and on the tax consequences of real estate workouts. er in Ernst & Young's International Tax Services Group He serves as advisor to several nonprofit arts organiza­ and an associate at Hopkins & Sutter in Chicago. In tions. He is a member of the California Bar. summer 1997, he served as a legislative tax advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He is the author of two Courses: Corporate Income Taxation; Federal Income law review articles, including "Taxing International Taxation; Partnership and Partnership Taxation; Real Corporate Income Efficiently," which will be Estate Development; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate published in the Tax Law Review. Professor Chorvat is Taxation; Property II. a member of the Illinois Bar.

Courses: International Taxation; Timing of Recognition of Items of Income and Expenditure.

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MORT P. COHEN American Law Schools. She has served as a member of Professor of Law and Director, the board of trustees of the National Urban League. Constitutional Law Clinic For the State Bar of California, she has been chair and B.S., New York University; vice chair of the Committee on Ethnic Minority LL.B., Brooklyn Law School; Relations and a member of the Committee on Women LL.M., Harvard University in the Law. She is a member of the California Bar. Professor Cohen heads the Law School's Constitutional Law Clinic, specializing in the Courses: Employment Law; Privacy, Defamation, and medical rights of institutionalized persons. He serves Other Relational Torts; Remedies; Torts. as a consultant to the California Mental Health Association, administrative law judge for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, member of the ANNE LEE ENG board of directors for the California Advocates for Staff Attorney, Environmental I' I Nursing Home Reform, and member of the ACLU Law and Justice Clinic Legal Committee. He is the author of numerous B. S. W, Rutgers University; books, manuals, and articles, most recently a book on J.D., Columbia University the ethical and legal problems for mental health pro­ Anne Lee Eng has been a staff fessionals treating AIDS. He co-chaired a Federal attorney with the Golden Gate District Court committee that recommended methods University Environmental Law and Justice Clinic since of reducing costs and delays in federal litigation. Prior 1994. She is a member of San Francisco's Commission to joining Golden Gate, Professor Cohen was a trial on the Environment, which oversees the development attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, the of a new local environmental agency and advises local director of the Student Clinic for the New York Legal government on environmental policies and programs. Aid Society, and the director of South Brooklyn Legal She previously worked for the Earth Island Institute Services. Professor Cohen is a member of the and the Natural Heritage Institute, and she has prac­ California, New York, and Michigan Bars. ticed environmental and energy law with two Bay Area law firms. She is a member of the California Bar. Courses: Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law Clinic; Criminal Law; Health Law. Course: Environmental Law and Justice Clinic.

MARKITA D. COOPER RODNEY O. FONG Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law and A.B., Stanford University; J.D., Director, Academic Assistance University o/Virginia Law School Program Before joining the Golden Gate B.A., J.D., University 0/ San Francisco faculty, Professor Cooper prac­ Professor Fong has lectured ticed corporate and securities law extensively on academic assis­ with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and with Wilson, tance programs, exam writing skills, and essay writing Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, then moved to the San for the Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah Bar Francisco firm of Alexander, Millner & McGee, where exams. He was a member of the LSAC's Subcommittee her practice included commercial litigation and on Academic Assistance Programs and is currently employment law. From 1994 to 1997, she was a secretary of the AALS Academic Support Section. He Kellogg Star Leadership fellow, and she pursued the has served on numerous community boards, including Kellogg fellowship in addition to her teaching and the Battered Women's Alternatives Legal Advisory research. Her recent publications include "Beyond Council and the advisory committee for the Street Name Rank and Serial Number: No Comment Job Law Program. He is a co-author of Law School ABCs, Reference Policies, Violent Employees and the Need a book designed to teach students legal analysis and for Disclosure-Shield Legislation," published in the writing skills. Before joining Golden Gate, Professor Virginia Journal ofSocial Policy and the Law, and Fong practiced family law for ten years and taught for "Between a Rock and a Hard Case: Time for a New four years at John F. Kennedy University School of Doctrine of Compelled Self-Publication," published in Law. He is a member of the California Bar. the Notre Dame Law Review. Professor Cooper was recently appointed to the executive committee for the Courses: Examination Writing Workshop; Legal Teaching Methods Section of the Association of Methods.

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CATHERINE GLAZE HELEN HARTNELL Associate Dean for Student Visiting Associate Professor Services B.S. (cum laude), University of Illinois; A.B., Stanford University; J.D. (magna cum laude), University of J.D., Stanford Law School Illinois College ofLaw After ten years as a commercial lit­ Professor Hartnell, who specializes igator, including five with the firm in international business transac­ of Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum in tions, EC law, and trade, practiced law for five years San Francisco and two as a solo practitioner, Dean in Germany and in Wisconsin. She has taught at the Glaze joined the full-time law faculty in 1995 and Free University of Berlin, Tulane Law School, ELTE joined the Law School staff in 1996. She is a member Law School and Central European University (both of the California and Connecticut Bars. in Budapest, Hungary), SMU School of Law, and Harvard Law School (where she was a visiting schol­ Courses: Judicial Externships; Lawyering Skills; Moot ar). Professor Hartnell is actively involved with the Court Competitions. American Society of International Law (International Economic Law Interest Group) and the International Law Association. She has published articles on inter­ THOMAS M. GOETZL national commercial law, European integration, and Professor of Law comparative constitutional law. She is a member of A.B., University of California, Berkeley; the Illinois Bar. J.D. (Order of the Coif), Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Courses: International Business Transactions; Berkeley International Trade Regulation; Private International Professor Goetzl drafted the Law (Conflict of Laws); Sales. California Art Preservation Act, which grants significant rights to visual artists and was the model for the Federal Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990. A frequent speaker CONSTANCE KLEINER around the country on artists' rights, he serves on the HOOD board of directors for the California Lawyers for the Lecturer Arts. He has written many articles on law and the arts, B.A., Lewis & Clark College; J.D. (cum including "California Art Legislation Goes Federal: laude), Pepperdine University School of Progress in the Protection of Artists' Rights" and Law; LL.M. (with distinction), "Copyright and the Visual Artist's Display Right: A Georgetown University Law Center New Doctrinal Analysis." He has served as an arbitrator Professor Hood joined Golden Gate in 1997. From for the American Arbitration Association and as a judge 1995 to 1997, she was a research assistant professor pro tempore for the Berkeley-Albany Municipal Court at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where and the Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal she taught legal research and writing and judged Court. He is a member of the California Bar. school-sponsored moot court competitions. From 1989 to 1994, she worked as an associate attorney Courses: Art and the Law; Property; Remedies. at Goldberg, Stinnett, Meyers & Davis in San Francisco. Professor Hood's law review article, "Age Discrimination in Employment and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Second Bite at the Apple," was published in the June 1998 Universiry of Illinois Elder Law Journal. She is a member of the California Bar.

Courses: Writing and Research; Appellate Advocacy.

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JOAN W. HOWARTH Law School, and University of Notre Dame School of Law. Professor of Law She is the author of several articles and book chapters and A.B., Smith College; J.D. (Order of the a frequent lecturer. She has served as chair of the Coif), University ofSouthern California Education Committee of the California State Bar. Professor Howarth joined the law faculty in 1990, after working as a Courses: Estate and Gift Taxation; Federal Income deputy state public defender and Taxation; Wills and Trusts. as a civil liberties litigator for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. She has won landmark appeals in both the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the JANICE E. KOSEL California Supreme Court, and has written amicus Professor of Law curiae briefs for the United States Supreme Court on A.B., University of California, Berkeley; behalf of the national ACLU and Amnesty J.D. (Order ofthe Coif), Boalt Hall School International. Her scholarly publications include of Law, University of California, Berkeley "Teaching in the Shadow of the Bar"; "Representing Professor Kosel is the author of Black Male Innocence"; "First and Last Chance: Bankruptcy: Do It Yourself and Looking for Lesbians in Fifties Bar Cases"; "Deciding Chapter 13: The Federal Plan to Repay Your Debts, two self­ to Kill: Revealing the Gender in the Task Handed to help manuals for consumers. She has contributed a chapter Capital Jurors"; "Feminism, Lawyering, and Death entitled, "Property Disposition in Antenuptial, Postnuptial Row," an essay about her experience representing men and Property Settlement Agreements" for a treatise on the on death row; and "Prisons Within Prisons," a chapter distribution of marital property. Her book Just in Case on the rights of gay prisoners, published in Prisoners deals with the legal problems surrounding aging and inca­ and the Law. pacity. She practiced with the San Francisco law firm of Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliffe, where she special­ Courses: Constitutional Law; Federal Courts; Sexual ized in corporate and municipal finance. She has served on Orientation and the Law; Torts; Women and the Law. the Uniform Commercial Code Committee and the Family Law Specialization Exam Writing Committee of the California State Bar, as a member of the board of directors LAWRENCE H. JONES of Legal Assistance for Seniors and board member and Professor of Law chair of the Relocation Committee of the San Francisco B.A., Washington State University (Phi Senior Center. She is a member of the California Bar. Beta Kappa); J.D .• Stanford University Professor Jones taught for two Courses: Commercial Finance; Community Property; years in Greece at the Thessaloniki Contracts; Sales. International School. He is the author of Cases and Materials on Conflict ofLaws. He is a member of the California Bar. SARAH HOOKE LEE Director, Law Library Courses: Conflict of Laws; Contracts; Torts. B.A., M.L.S., J.D., University ofMaine Sarah Hooke Lee joined Golden Gate University in March 1998 MARC I L. KELLY after more than seven years' experi­ Associate Dean and ence directing academic law Director, Ll.M. in Taxation Program libraries. Duting her six-year tenure as library director at B.A. (cum laude), Vtzssar College; Massachusetts School of Law, she planned and oversaw the J.D., University of Virginia; building of a new 19,000-square-foot law school library. LL.M. (Tax), New York University Most recently, Lee was associate director and head of pub­ Professor and Associate Dean Kelly directs the LL.M. lic services at the William Mitchell College of Law. Before in Taxation Program. Before joining the Golden Gate turning her expertise to libraries, she worked as legislative faculty, she practiced tax law in New York City and counsel to the Maine Legislature, legal counsel to the clerked for a judge of the U.S. Tax Court. She was for­ Massachusetts Cable TV Commission, and assistant legisla­ merly a faculty member at the University of Puget tive counsel to the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Sound and has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Company. University of Washington School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, University of San Francisco Course: Writing and Research.

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NEIL M. LEVY MYRON MOSKOVITZ Professor of Law Professor of Law A.B., Cornell University; B.S., LL.E. (Order of the Coif), Boalt Hall ].D., University of Chicago School of Law, University of California, Professor Levy served as acting dean Berkeley of the Law School in 1981-82. Prior Professor Moskovitz is a leading ro joining Golden Gate, he worked authority on landlord-tenant law, at California Indian Legal Services and California Rural appellate practice, and criminal law. Judges, lawyers, and Legal Assistance. An expert in the area of tort law, law students throughout the nation use his books, which Professor Levy founded and co-edited the California Tort include Winning An Appeal; California Eviction Defense Reporter, a monthly review of cases geared to the practic­ Manual; Cases and Problems in Criminal Procedure: The ing bar, and the periodical Federal Litigator. He also Police; Cases and Problems in Criminal Law; and Cases and co-edited a six-volume treatise, California Torts, and Problems in Criminal Procedure: The Courtroom. He authored The Micronesia Handbook. He has been a con­ clerked for the California Supreme Court, served as direct­ sultant to the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, the ing attorney of California Rutal Legal Assistance, chief Hawaiian Coalition of Native Claims, and the Legal Aid attorney of the National Housing Law Project, director of Society of Hawaii. He is a member of the California and litigation of the San Mateo County Legal Aid Society, and New York Bars. chairman of the California Commission of Housing and Community Development. He has served on the State Bar Course: Torts. Committee on Appellate Courts, and as a consultant to the California Judicial Council. He is a member of the California Bar. LESLIE A. MINKUS Professor of Law Courses: Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Criminal A.B., University of California, Berkeley; Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Landlord-Tenant Law LL. B., Stanford University Clinic. Professor Minkus has served as chair of the Ethics Committee of the Bar Association of San MARIA L. ONTIVEROS Francisco and as a member of the California State Bar Associate Professor of Law Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. A.B., University of California, Berkeley; He published the article "The Sale of a Law Practice: ].D. (cum laude), Harvard Law School,' Toward a Professionally Responsible Approach" and is a M.I.L.R., Cornell University; participating author in a treatise on California tort law ].S.D., Stanford Law School and a treatise on California attorney practice. Prior to Professor Ontiveros has been active joining Golden Gate, he practiced entertainment law with the national and Northern California boards of the with the Beverly Hills firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & ACLU, and is a member of the National Advisory Susman, served as Mid-Atlantic regional counsel to the Committee for the North American Agreement on Labor Office of Economic Opportunity, directed the California Cooperation, the NAFTA labor side agreement. She has Rural Legal Assistance Senior Citizens' Project, and published five articles that deal primarily with workplace clerked for the California Supreme Court. Professor issues affecting women of color. In 1997, she was elected Minkus is an arbitrator for the New York Stock secretary of the Labor and Employment Law section of Exchange and a member of the California Bar. the American Association of Law Schools. Prior to joining Golden Gate, Professor Ontiverso worked for the United Courses: Community Property; Corporations; Auto Workers and taught arbitration at the New York Negotiable Instruments; Professional Responsibility. State School of Industrial & Labor Relations Extension. She entered private practice in the labor and employment department of the San Francisco firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe and subsequently worked for Raychem, a Fortune 500 high-tech company. As a Spaeth Fellow at Stanford, she taught Employment Discrimination. She is a member of the California Bar.

Courses: Employment Discrimination; Evidence; International Labor Law Seminar; Labor Law.

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DAVID B. OPPENHEIMER ALAN RAMO Associate Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law; B.A., University Without Walls, Berkeley; Director, LL.M. in Environmental J.D., Harvard Law School Law Program; and Co-Director, Professor Oppenheimer specializes in Environmental Law & Justice Clinic discrimination law, civil trial law, and B.A., Stanford University; J.D., Boalt civil rights history. He was a principal Hall School ofLaw, University of spokesperson for the Campaign to Defeat Proposition 209 California, Berkeley; M.j., University of California, Berkeley and regularly files amicus curiae briefs in important civil Professor Ramo began Golden Gate's Environmental rights cases. He has published teaching materials and sixteen Law and Justice Clinic in 1994, after nine years as legal law review articles in the field of discrimination law. director of Citizens for a Better Environment. He spe­ Professor Oppenheimer serves on the Board of Governors of cializes in toxins in the utban environment and won a the Society of American Law Teachers. He also serves on the landmark federal case enforcing the San Francisco Bay boards of directors and litigation committees of the ACLU Area air pollution plans. He served as an advisory mem­ of Northern California, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil ber of two Cal-EPA committees and is a member of the Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Equal Rights advisory board of the Impact Fund, which funds pro­ Advocates, and the American Jewish Congress, Pacific gressive litigation. He is also a founder of the Western Northwest Region. Before coming to Golden Gate, he States Legal Foundation, specializing in nuclear issues. clerked for Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California He is a member of the California Bar. Supreme Court, worked as a civil rights prosecutor for the State of California, and founded and directed employment Course: Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. discrimination clinics at the University of California (Boalt Hall School of Law) and University of San Francisco School of Law. He is a member of the California Bar. CLIFFORD RECHTSCHAFFEN Courses: Civil Procedute; Employment Discrimination; Associate Professor of Law and Torts. Co-Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic A.B., Princeton University; ANTHONY J. PAGANO J.D., Yale Law School Dean and Professor of Law Professor Rechtschaffen directs the Golden Gate J.D. B.S., Fordham University; J.D. (with Environmental Law Program. He has written a number distinction), University ofMichigan of articles, most recently "Deterrence v. Cooperation Dean Pagano joined the Golden and the Evolving Theory of Environmental Gate law faculty in 1970 and Enforcement" and "The Lead Poisoning Challenge: An has served as Dean since 1988. Approach for California and Other States." He is a Previously, he practiced law in San Francisco with member of the executive committee of the State Bar the firm of Morrison & Foerster and then as assistant Environmental Law Section. He served on the advisory house counsel with Crown Zellerbach Corporation. committee of Lead Safe California, where he helped He wrote the chapter "Characterization and Division draft legislation to deal with lead-contaminated hous­ of Community Property" for the treatise Valuation and ing. Before joining Golden Gate, he practiced environ­ Distribution ofMarital Property. He is a member of the mental law with the California attorney general for boards of directors of the Public Interest Clearinghouse seven years, and taught undergraduate seminars on envi­ and the Blum Foundation. He is also a member of the ronmental policy at Stanford University. He clerked for California Bar and the State Bar of California Law Federal District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson. He School Council, which represents the interests of law is a member of the California Bar. schools in California before the Committee of Bar Examiners. Courses: California Environmental and Natural Resources Law; Civil Procedure; Environmental Law Course: Wills and Trusts. Clinic; Environmental Law and Justice Clinic; Environmental Practice; Introduction to Environmental Law: Pollution Control; Public Natural Resources and Land Law.

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SUSAN RUTBERG SUSAN SCHECHTER Associate Professor of Law Assistant Dean for Law Career and B.S., Cornell University; J.D., Golden Alumni Services and Associate Gate University Professor of Law Professor Rutberg joined the B.A., Washington University; J.D., Golden Gate faculty in 1991 after University of Pittsburgh working as a criminal lawyer with Dean Schechter has directed the the Bayview-Hunters Point Community Defender, the San Law School Career and Alumni Services Office since Francisco Public Defender, and the First District Appellate 1993. She chairs the State Bar of California Legal Services Project. Her prior teaching experience includes supervising Section Moderate Income Delivety Committee and serves law school clinical programs at the University of San on the boards for La Raza Centro Legal, a legal services Francisco, City University of New York, and the University agency, and NEFIR, an agency that provides students of Santa Clara. Golden Gate was awarded the 1996 Bar with summer grants for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and Association of San Francisco "Outstanding Law School in HIV/AIDS work. Dean Schechter has been active with Public Service Award" for Professor Rutberg's Homeless several committees of the National Association for Law Advocacy Clinic. A certified criminal law specialist from Placement, including the Public Service Committee and 1984-1994, Professor Rutberg recently spent a semester the Gay, Lesbian and Bi Committee, and was elected the working as a felony trial lawyer with the San Francisco 1998-99 regional coordinator of NALP's West/Rocky Public Defender. She is on the Board of Direcrors of Mountain Region. Before coming to Golden Gate, she Women Defenders and is a member of the California Bar. worked as staff attorney and campus organizer for the National Association for Public Interest Law (NAPIL), Courses: Criminal Litigation; Criminal Litigation Clinic; represented clients in the Santa Clara County Bar Lawyering Skills: Homeless Advocacy Project; Trial Association Law Foundation's Mental Health Advocacy Advocacy Project, and ran the law school public interest program at the Public Interest Clearing-house. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. DONNA RYU Associate Professor of Law and Courses: Civil Practice Clinic; Family Law Clinic; Associate Director, Women's Public Interest/Government Counsel Clinic. Employment Rights Clinic B.A., Yale University; J.D., Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley BERNARD l. SEGAL Professor Ryu practiced appellate Professor of Law law with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen before B.S., Temple University; M.A., J.D., joining the Oakland firm of Farnsworth, Saperstein & University ofPennsylvania Seligman, where she litigated ground-breaking employ­ Professor Segal is a distinguished ment discrimination class actions. In 1994, she became a trial lawyer who enjoys national founding partner of Ryu, Dickey & Larkin, an all-woman renown as a master teacher in trial advocacy programs civil rights firm. She is coauthor of the chapter "Discovery" for lawyers. In addition to teaching trial advocacy at in the book Employment Discrimination Law. She has also Golden Gate and directing the Law School's mock trial written articles on employment discrimination and was a competition programs, he has taught at the National founding member of the Berkeley Womens Law Journal. Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) programs, and state Professor Ryu is a member of the California Bar. bar continuing legal education programs throughout the country, at Tel Aviv University, and at Holborn College Course: Women's Employment Rights Clinic. of Law in London. He served as counsel for Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald in the famous Green Beret murder case that was the subject of the book and movie Fatal Vision. He recently lectured to the International Bar Association on crime on the Internet. He co-authored The Defense Manual for Consensual Crimes and The National Defense Manual in Criminal Cases. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.

Courses: Civil Litigation: Pre-Trial Phase; Criminal Litigation; Mock Trial; Trial Advocacy.

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MARC I SEVILLE SOMPONG Associate Professor of Law and SUCHARITKUL Director, Women's Employment Associate Dean; Distinguished Rights Clinic Professor of International and B.A., New York University; Comparative Law; Director, LL.M. JD., Rutgers Law School and S.J. D. in International Legal Professor Seville practiced labor Studies Programs; and Director of law for ten years as house counsel for the California the Center for Advanced International Legal Studies School Employees Association. She also worked for the B.A. (Honours), B.C.L., M.A., D.Phil., and D.C.r., Oxford California Department of Industrial Relations and University, England; Docteur en Droit, University of Paris, served as counsel to the California Industrial Welfare France; LL.M., Harvard; Diploma, Hague Academy of Commission. She spent several years in private prac­ International Law tice with an emphasis on employment discrimination Professor Sucharitkul has served as Thailand's ambas­ litigation. Professor Seville helped establish the San sador to Japan, several European countries, and Francisco General Hospital Occupational Health UNESCO. He represented Thailand in the U.N. Clinic in the early 1980s. She is a member of the General Assembly for almost 30 years. He is currently California and New York Bars. a member of the Commercial Arbitration Centre at Cairo; the Regional Centre for Arbitration at Kuala Course: Women's Employment Rights Clinic. Lumpur, Malaysia; and the Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, World Bank, MARC STICKGOLD Washington, D.C. He serves on the United Nations Professor of Law Compensation Commission, formed to process claims B.S., University of Illinois; against Iraq for damage resulting from the 1990 inva­ JD., Northwestern University sion and occupation of Kuwait. He is an elected Professor Stickgold has written a member of the Institute of International Law number of articles on law school (Geneva), a corresponding collaborator of clinical education, police surveil­ UNIDROIT (Rome), and vice president of the lance of political activity, and Justice William O. International Academy of Human Rights (Paris). Douglas. He recently made a series of video classes in Professor Sucharitkul has taught international law at Constitutional Law for the University of California for universities throughout the world. He directs Golden use in Chinese universities, and he has spoken on U.S. Gate's Center for Advanced International Legal law in Holland and Hungary. Prior to teaching, he was Studies, the LL.M. and S.J.D. in International Legal an assistant U.S. attorney for the Department of Studies Programs, and the summer program in Justice in Wisconsin, co-founder and partner of a Bangkok. community law firm in Detroit, and director of the Law Reform Project for Detroit Neighborhood Legal Courses: Air, Space, and Telecommunications Law; Services. For four years, he directed the Clinical Asian/Pacific Trade Seminar; Comparative Legal Program at Wayne State Law School. He has also been Systems; Current International Legal Problems; a consultant and trainer for the Legal Services International Criminal Law; International Corporation. Professor Stickgold is a member of the Environmental Law Seminar; International Human California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan Bars. Rights Seminar; International Law; International Organizations. Courses: Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Public Interest/Government Counsel Clinic; Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar.

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JON H. SYLVESTER WAYNE S. WOODY Associate Dean for Academic Professor of Law Affairs and Professor of Law B.A., JD., Tulane University B.A., Stanford University; Professor Woody has served as a M.j., University of California, tenured professor at Tulane, Berkeley; JD., Harvard University. University of California, Hastings After earning a master of jour­ College of the Law, and Golden nalism degree from U.c. Berkeley, where he was a Gate University. In addition, he has held various New York Times Fellow, Dean Sylvester worked as a administrative positions, including associate dean, television news writer, reporter, and producer from academic dean, dean, and vice president of academic 1975 to 1978, then attended Harvard Law School. He affairs. He served one year as an American Council practiced with the Washington, D.C., offices of two of Education fellow at Stanford. He practiced admi­ major New York-based law firms. Dean Sylvester was a ralty and maritime law before joining the Tulane law tenured member of the law faculty at Texas Southern faculty in 1965. Professor Woody is a member of the University and at Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) Louisiana State Bar and admitted to the Federal before joining Golden Gate's law faculty. He has taught District Court in Louisiana. at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and spent the 1992-93 year Courses: Civil Practice Clinic; Criminal Procedure II. teaching and traveling in Africa as a Fulbright scholar. His latest publication is entitled "Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Stagnation, Political Disintegration, and the MICHAEL A. ZAMPERINI Specter of Recolonization," which appeared in the Associate Professor of Law and Loyola (Los Angeles) Law Review. Dean Sylvester Director, Writing and Research directed the 1998 Summer Abroad Program in Program Istanbul. A.B., JD. (Honors), George Washington University Courses: Contracts; International Business Professor Zamperini joined the Transactions; International Organizations. full-time law faculty of Golden Gate in 1989 after having taught part-time in the Writing and Research Program. He has been a practicing attorney since JOHN PASLEY WILSON 1973. He is a member of the California and Virginia Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus Bars. A.B., Princeton University; LL.B., Harvard Law School Courses: Remedies; Sexual Orientation and the Law; Professor Wilson served as dean of Wills and Trusts; Writing and Research. the Law School from 1982 to 1988. Prior to that, he served as assistant dean at Harvard Law School and associate dean at Boston University School of Law, where he was also the director of the Legal Studies Institute and act­ ing director of the Center for Law and Health Sciences. He also taught law at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. He wrote The Rights ofAdolescents in the Mental Health System as well as articles on the legal protections available to fetal research subjects and on product liability issues associated with the manufacture and distribution of an AIDS vaccine. He is a former member and chair of the advisory committee of the Street Law Project, an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, and a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

Courses: Criminal Law; Mental Health Law; Privacy, Defamation, and Other Relational Torts; Torts.

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Stephen Angelides Rebecca Conradi Barry Graynor B.A., J.D., M.P.P., University B.A., University of Illinois B.A., University of California, of California, Berkeley J.D., Golden Gate University Los Angeles M.B.A., Golden Gate University J.D., Harvard Law School Homer Angelo AB., J.D., University of Martin L. Dean Marc H. Greenberg California, Berkeley B.S., J.D., University B.A., University of of Wisconsin California, Berkeley Harold Auerbach J.D., Hastings College J.D., University of Terry Kay Diggs of the Law San Francisco B.A, Texas Technological University Morgan P. Guenther Beverly Baker-Kelly J.D., Southern Methodist B.A., J.D., University of B.A., University of Michigan University Colorado M.A., University of Washington J.D., Boalt Hall, University of Steven B. Duke Juliet B. Haley California, Berkeley B.S., Arizona State University B.A., University of California, Berkeley Ed.D., Columbia University ].0., University of Arizona J.D., Golden Gate University Ph.D., Harvard University LL.M., Yale University Robert A. Hawley Edward Baskauskas June Beltran Dwyer B.A, California Western University AB., Harvard University B.S., University of Oregon J.D., Hastings College of the Law J.D., Golden Gate University ].0., Boalt Hall, University of LL.M., New York University California, Berkeley Rita Beckner-Holder George Hays B.A, University of Seymour Farber B.A., Amherst College California, Berkeley AB., New York University J.D., Cornell Law School J.D., LL.M., Golden Gate ].0., Harvard Law School University Elizabeth Hendrickson Michael Fitzsimons B.A, University of California, Berkeley Wendy Bleiman B.S., Michigan State University J.D., Golden Gate University AB., University of J.D., Southwestern University California, Berkeley School of Law Anne Hiaring J.D., Hastings College B.A., Reed College of the Law Cheryl A. Frank J.D., Hastings College of the Law B.S., Btooklyn College Carole Brill J.D., Golden Gate University Song Hill B.A., George Washington B.A., Beijing University University Hon. Gordon R. Gaines ].0., Golden Gate University J.D., Hastings College B.A., San Diego State University of the Law LL.B., University of California, Robert L. Hines Berkeley B.A., University of California, Berkeley Carla Caratto ].0., Golden Gate University B.A., University of San Francisco Garth Asher Gersten J.D., Golden Gate University B.A., University of Peter Keane California, Berkeley B.A., City College of New York Helen Chang J.D., Hastings College ].0., Southern Methodist B.A, University of Texas of the Law University J.D., Southern Methodist University Michael Glenn Paul Kibei B.S., University of Arizona B.A., Colgate University Lawrence A. Cogan J.D., San Mateo Law School J.D., Willamette University B.A., University of College of Law California, Berkeley Carmen Gonzales J.D., University of B.A., Yale University Victoria Lang California, Davis J.D., Harvard University B.A., University of California, Berkeley ].0., Hastings College of the Law Donna Cole Roy Gorman B.A., Barnard College Rosemary LaPuma B.S., University of Notre Dame J.D., University of Michigan B.A., University of California, J.D., Boalt Hall, University of Santa Barbara California, Berkeley Christopher J. Collins J.D., University of San Francisco B.A., Holy Ctoss College J.D., Albany Law School Cynthia Lee B.A., Mount Holyoke College ].0., Golden Gate University

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Carol Levine Catherine Amy Rivlin Eric Sinrod B.A., Columbia University B.A., Swarthmore College B.A., Oberlin College J.D., Golden Gate University M.B.A., University of J.D., University of Michigan California, Berkeley Thomas V. Loran III J.D., Hastings College Warren E. Small B.A., Brown University of the Law B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic M.A., J.D., University of Illinois Instirute Armin Rosencranz J.D., Golden Gate University Lewis C. Maldonado AB., Princeton University B.A., Oberlin College M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Stanford Michael J. Smith J.D., University of Wisconsin University B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Maria Mandolini John D. Rothman J.D., Santa Clara University B.A., Sonoma State University B.A, Pomona College J.D., Golden Gate University M.A., University of Katherine C. Spelman California, Los Angeles B.A., University of Michigan Joel E. Marsh J.D., Boalt Hall, University of J.D., University of Wisconsin B.A., Cornell University California, Berkeley M.A., University of California, Arnold Sternberg Berkeley Earl Crawford Salo B.A, University of Wisconsin J.D., Hastings College of the Law A.B., University of LL.B., George Washington University California, Berkeley Bruce Maximov J.D., Harvard Law School Daron D. Tong B.A., Stanford University AB., Stanford University J.D., Boalt Hall, University of David A. Sandino J.D., Georgetown University California, Berkeley A.B., University of California, Davis Christine Tour-Sarkissian Robert E. Merritt J.D., University of Santa Clara B.A., University of San Francisco B.A., California State University, LL.M., University of London, J.D., Golden Gate University Sacramento King's College J.D., Boalt Hall, University of Rebecca Walden California, Berkeley David R. Schellhase B.A, University of Arkansas B.A., Columbia University J.D., M.S., Golden Gate Joseph Moless J.D., Cornell Law School University B.A., San Jose State University J.D., Hastings College of the Law Richard Sears Joanna Weinberg B.A., University of A.B., Brandeis University John J. Moss California, Los Angeles J.D., Harvard University B.A., Sarah Lawrence College J.D., University of LL.M., Columbia University M.A., Johns Hopkins University Southern California J.D., Stanford Law School Hon. Rebecca Westerfield Mark D. Segel man B.A., J.D., University of Kentucky Christian Nwachukwu Okeke B.A., Brandeis University LL.M., Kiev State University, J.D., Hastings College William David Wick Ukraine of the Law B.A., Northwestern University Ph.D., Free University of J.D., Georgetown University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barton S. Selden B.A, University of California, Irvine Mary Ann Wolcott Christine C. Pagano J.D., Boalt Hall, University of B.A., Matygrove College B.S. Ed., Fordham University California, Berkeley J.D., University of Toledo M.A, San Francisco State LL.M., Vrije Universiteit Brussels University Bernard N. Wolf J.D., LL.M., Golden Gate University David Shilton AB., Stanford University B.A, Swarthmore College M.A., Fletcher School of William Pease J.D., University of California, Law & Diplomacy B.A., Yale University Los Angeles J.D., Hastings College Ph.D., University of California, of the Law Berkeley Mark Silverman LL.M., Golden Gate University B.A, Stanford University Chris Redburn J.D., New College of California Edgar R. Worth B.A., Stanford University B.A., University of California, J.D., Hastings College of the Law Roberta Simon Los Angeles B.A., Barnard College J.D., University of San Diego J.D., George Washington University

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 45 ....i Criminal Law Environmental Law Family Law Specialization Certificate offered Specialization Certificate offered LL.M. in Environmental Law offered Children & the Law Mediation Skills Comparative Criminal Mock Trial Community Property Training Procedure Seminar Special Problems in Administrative Law International Trade & Domestic Violence Mental Health Law Criminal Law Criminal Law California Environ- Environmental Seminar Sexual Orientation & Criminal Litigation Special Problems in mental & Natural Protection Estate & Gift Taxation the Law Criminal Procedure I, II Evidence Resources Law Land Use Regulation Estate Planning Wills & Trusts Domestic Violence Trial Advocacy Environmental & Pollution Control Family Law Women & the Law Seminar Criminal Litigation Land Use Impli- Public Natural Family Law Practice Family Law Clinic Evidence Clinic cations of Real Resources & Land Health Law Civil Practice Clinic Estate Transactions Law Marital Taxation Environmental Justice Superfund Seminar Survey of ~EdV:ifOllll!entai Environmental Law Practic; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Water Law ~~~ Federal Wildlife & ~ ~ Ei'l.vi~Wl.mental Law Endangered Species & Justic~ (:lini.. ~ ~~ Law Environmental Law Hazardous Waste & Clinic Toxic Substances Competition: Taxation Regulation Environmental Law LL.M. in Taxation offered International Moot Court Advanced Corporate Federal Income Environmental Law Taxation Taxation of Partners Seminar Advanced International & Partnerships Taxation Federal Tax Procedure Bankruptcy Taxation Income Taxation of Characterization of Trusts & Estates Items of Income & Independent Expenditure Contractors Consolidated Returns International Taxation ;,,,' Corporate Income Litigation of Tax -- -- Taxation Controversies -- -- Deferred Marital Taxation " ...... -- Compensation I, II Multinational Estate Estate & Gift Taxation Planning ~------Estate Planning Passive Activity Loss Seminar Rules Corporate/Commercial Law Property Development/ Executive Policy of Taxation Specialization Certificate offered in Business Law Real Estate Compensation Professional Specialization Certificate offered in Real Estate LaV\ Exempt Organizations Responsibility for Tax Alternative Dispute Corporations Federal Income Practitioners Resolution Debtors' Rights & Construction Law Real Estate Finance Taxation Real Estate Taxation Anti-Trust Creditors' Remedies Federal Income Real Estate Litigation Federal Income Research Bankruptcy Law Federal Income Taxation Seminar Taxation of State & Local Taxation Bankruptcy Litigation Taxation Housing Law Seminar Real Estate Practice Corporations & Tax Fieldwork Workshop Insurance Law Land Use Regulation Seminar Shareholders Timing of Recognition Bankruptcy Taxation Negotiable Instruments Local Government Remedies Federal Income of Items of Income Business Planning Partnership & Property I, II Survey of Taxation of & Expenditure Commercial Finance Partnership Taxation Public Natural Environmental Law Individuals Contracts Sales Resources & Landlord-Tenant La, Federal Income Corporate Finance & Securities Regulation Land Law Clinic Taxation of Limited Acquisitions Civil Practice Clinic Real Estate Real Estate Clinic Liability Companies Corporate Income Development & S Corporations Taxation

46 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law COURSE CONCENTRATIONS

Litigation International Legal Studies Public Interest/Human Issues Specialization Certificate offered Specialization Certificate offered Specialization Certificate offered LL.M. in International Legal Studies offered in Public Interest Law Advanced Mock Trial Trial Advocacy Appellate Advocacy Civil Practice Clinic Admiralty & Maritime International Labor Administrative Law Products Liability Civil Litigation: Criminal Litigation Law Law Seminar Art & the Law Race & Civil Rights Pre-Trial Phase Clinic Air, Space & International Law Constitutional Law I, II Seminar Civil Procedure I, II Landlord-Tenant Law Telecommunications International Law of Debtors' Rights & Remedies Conflict of Laws Clinic Law Armed Conflicts Creditors' Remedies Sexual Orientation Criminal Litigation Competitions: Asian/Pacific Trade International Federal Courts & the Law Evidence Frederick Douglas Seminar Organizations Federal Indian Law Street Law Federal Courts Moot Court Comparative International Tax Health Law Women & the Law Managing Litigation Mock Trial Constitutional Law Planning Housing Law Seminar Constitutional Law with Computers Moot Court Seminar International Trade & Immigration Law Clinic Mock Trial Comparative Legal Environmental International Human Criminal Law Clinic Systems Protection Rights Seminar Judidal Externships European Community International Trade Jurisprudence Landlord-Tenant Law Law Regulation Lawyering Skills: Clinic Immigration Law Introduction ro Public Homeless Advocacy Public Interest! Immigration & Refugee International Law Project Government Policy Seminar Law of the Sea Seminar Literature & the Law Counsel Clinic International Business Private International Mental Health Law Women's Employment Transactions Law Privacy, Defamation & Rights Clinic International Regional Organizations Other Relational Development Law Competition: Torts International Dispute Jessup International Resolution Law Moot Court International plus courses offired Environmental Law in summer overseas Seminar programs International Human Rights Seminar

lawyering Skills Entertainment Law/ Labor/Employment Law Intellectual Property SpeCialization Certificate offered Advanced Legal Lawyering Skills: Research Interviewing, Concentration offered under Administrative Law Mediation Skills Specialization Certificate in Business Law Advanced Writing Counseling, & Alternative Dispute Training Workshop Negotiating Resolution Sports Law Art & the Law Mass Media Law Alternative Dispute Mediation Skills Employment Workers' Compensation Business Aspects of Multi-Media Law Resolution Training Discrimination Civil Practice Clinic Intellectual Property Patent Law International Dispute Professional Employment Law Public Interest/ Copyright Law Sports Law Resolution Responsibility Immigration Law Government Entertainment Law Trademark Law Lawyering Skills: Small Law Firm International Labor Counsel Clinic Film & the Law Civil Practice Clinic Homeless Advocacy Practice: Economics Law Seminar Women's Employment Intellectual Property Project & Management Labor Law Rights Clinic Solving Legal Problems Competition: Negotiation

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To earn the J.D. degree, students must Part-time (August Admission) Full-time (January Admission) complete 55 units of required courses Part-time students usually take between 8 Full-time students admitted in Januaty begin their studies with 13 units and then and 33 units of elective courses for a and 11 units of coursework per semester (with a maximum of21 units for a take between 10 and 16 units of course­ total of 88 units. Full-time students fall/spring sequence). Part-time students work per semester. usually complete the degree require­ must plan to attend at least one summer ments in three years, part-time stu­ session. Nearly all classes are taken in the First Year Spring Semester (13 units) dents in four. evening. Contracts (6) First Year Torts (4) Full-time (August Admission) Fall Semester (10 units) Writing and Research (3) Full-time students usually take between 10 Contracts (3) and 16 units of coursework per semester. Civil Procedure I (3) Summer Session (optional) Torts (2) (students may take one or two classes) First Year Writing and Research (2) Criminal Law (3) Fall Semester (15 units) Criminal Procedure I (3) Writing and Research (2) Spring Semester (9 units) Contracts (3) Contracts (3) Second Year Torts (4) Civil Procedute II (3) Fall Semester (10 to 16 units) Civil Procedure I (3) Torts (2) Civil Procedure I (3) Criminal Law (3) Writing and Research (1) Property I (3) (night) Criminal Law (3) [or an elective if complet­ Spring Semester (14 units) Subsequent Years ed in summer] Writing and Research (1) Students may follow programs of their Criminal Procedure I (3) [or an elective if Contracts (3) own choosing, provided they complete completed in summer] Property I (4) the following: Required courses (up to 10) [choose from a Civil Procedure II (3) list designated in the pre-enrollment Constitutional Law I (3) Second Year materials for fall, including Fall Semester Constitutional Law I (night) (3)] Subsequent Years Criminal Law (3) Students may follow programs of their Constitutional Law I (3) Spring Semester (10 to 16 units) own choosing, provided they complete Property I (3) Appellate Advocacy (2) the following: Civil Procedure II (3) Fall or Spring Semester, as assigned Property II (3) (night) Second Year Appellate Advocacy (2) Constitutional Law I (3) (day) or Fall Semester Constitutional Law II (3) (night) Constitutional Law II (3) Spring Semester Electives (up to 5) Property II (2) Constitutional Law II (3) Criminal Procedure I (3) Subsequent Years Failor Spring Semester, as assigned Property II (3) Students may follow programs of their Appellate Advocacy (2) own choosing, provided they complete Second or Third Year the following: Second or Third Year Corporations (4) Corporations (4) Evidence (4) After Two Semesters Criminal Procedure I (3) Professional Responsibility (2) Evidence (4) Evidence (4) Professional Responsibility (2) Third or Fourth Year After Three Semesters Wills and Trusts (4) [recommend taking Wills and Trusts (4) Fall Semester after completing Property II] Solving Legal Problems (2) Constitutional Law II (3) (day)

Third Year Failor Spring Semester Solving Legal Problems (2) Corporations (4) Professional Responsibility (2) Wills and Trusts (4) [recommended after completion of Property II]

After Four Semesters Solving Legal Problems (2)

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Not every course, seminar, or clinic is Corporations (4) Property II (2) (day students only) offered every year. Required courses This course covers the formation, financing, This survey of modern real estate transac­ tions examines aspects of purchasing real are usually offered each academic year sttucture, control, and management of the corporation. It also examines the distinction estate. Prerequisite: Property I. in the day division and on a rotating between closely held and publicly held basis in alternate years in the night corporations and selected provisions of Property I and II (3-3) division. Elective courses are offered the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. (night students only) based on past enrollment, faculty These courses are the equivalent of Property !:I~·II availability, and scheduling restric­ Criminal Law (3) I (day) and Property II (day). See course This course focuses on the study of substan­ descriptions above. tions. The School of Law reserves the tive criminal law. It examines the rules of right to restructure, eliminate, or add conduct for major crimes against persons Solving Legal Problems (2) to any course as it deems appropriate. and property and the defenses to such This course focuses on the attorney's role as crimes. The course also considers the devel­ planner, policymaker, troubleshooter, litiga­ opment of and the philosophical rationales tor, and dispute resolver. Students engage in ~1EQUIRED COURSES for criminal law. a series of written problems and exercises, Appellate Advocacy (2) some of which are modeled on those used in This course builds on the writing skills Criminal Procedure I (3) the performance sections of the California developed in the first year of law school. This survey of the basic constitutional issues Bar Examination. Students prepare appellate briefs and present underlying the criminal justice system oral arguments in a moot court program. focuses on the role of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Torts (4 for day students; 2-2 for Prerequisite: Writing and Research. Amendments in regulating police practices night students) such as search and seizure, confessions, line­ This introductory course considers inten­ Civil Procedure I and II (3-3) ups, and right to counsel. tional torts and defenses to them, negligence A survey of personal jurisdiction, subject doctrine, and vicarious liability and strict matter jurisdiction of both state and federal Evidence (4) liability, including liability for defective courts, venue, judgments, enforcement of This course is a survey of the principles of products. The legal principles in each subject judgments, elements of pleading, functions law and rules governing the admissibility of area and the policies underlying them are of court and jury, verdicts, post-judgment proof at criminal or civil trials, including extensively analyzed and explored. (Note: motions, joinder of parties and claims, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, Torts involving relational interests, such as discovery and appeal. The major focus is impeachment of credibility, expert testimo­ interference with contract, and privacy and on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. ny, hearsay, privileged communication, and defamation are covered in the elective course documentary proof. Privacy, Defamation, and Other Relational Constitutional Law I and II (3-3) Torts.) Constitutional Law I examines the American Professional Responsibility (2) constitutional system with an emphasis on This course examines the attorney's responsi­ Wills and Trusts (4) judicial review, the powers and responsibili­ bility ro the client, the profession, and soci­ A study of non-tax estate planning devices, ties of the three branches of the federal gov­ ety, as well as the structure and operation of this course explores intestate succession; ernment, the distribution of power between the U.S. legal profession. Both ABA and restrictions on the power to dispose of prop­ federal and state governments, and substan­ California rules are discussed. erty; the execution and revocation of wills; tive due process. Constitutional Law II deals and the nature, creation, modification, and with individual rights, specifically equal pro­ Property I (4) (day students only) termination of trusts. Future interests and tection of the law, freedom of speech, and This survey of interests in land covers perpetuities problems are also discussed. religious freedom. Constitutional Law I is a possession versus ownership, forms of Prerequisite: Property I. Recommended: prerequisite to Constitutional Law II. ownership, modern landlord-tenant law, Property II. restrictions on the use of land through Contracts (6) easements and restrictive covenants, and Writing and Research (2-1) This year-long course covers basic contract regulation of land use. The course also The first semester of this course surveys legal law, including contract formation and legal considers constitutional issues such as methods and systems, develops students' devices designed to police the bargaining taking property without just compensation, skills in analyzing statutory and decisional process. It also covers problems of perfor­ infringements on freedom of association, law, and introduces students to prescriptive mance, excuses from performance, breach of and exclusion of minorities and the poor. legal writing. The second semester focuses contract, remedies, third-party beneficiary on persuasive writing. contracts, assignments, and delegation of contract rights and duties.

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ELECTIVE COURSES Advanced Mock Trial (2) Anti-Trust (3) This course is open only to students who This study of the federal antitrust laws (and The California Bar Examination tests have been selected to represent the Law corresponding California provisions) has a materials covered in the following elec­ School in an inter-school trial competition. particular emphasis on price fixing, boycotts, tive courses: Community Property; Students may enroll in this course twice if discriminatory dealing, and other marketing Privacy, Defamation, and Other they are selected twice for competitions. restraints. The course focuses on counseling Relational Torts; Products Liability; Prerequisites: Trial Advocacy; Mock Trial. for small business and on understanding Consenr of instructor required. anti-trust pitfalls. Current issues, particularly Remedies; and Sales. The Law School those relating to health care and intellectual recommends that students planning to Advanced Writing Workshop (1) ptoperty, are highlighted. practice in California take all of these This course hones students' communication courses during their academic careers. skills through out-of-class assignments and Art and the Law (2) in-class editing workshops. It emphasizes This seminar focuses on the legal problems Administrative Law (3) clarity, precision, and organization in writ­ confronted by artists, art collectors, dealers, This course surveys the organization, authori­ ing. The course is offered on a credit/no galleries, and museums. The course consid­ ty, and procedures of administrative agencies credit basis. ers customs and international problems; in relation to rule-making, adjudication, and political and sexual censorship; property judicial review of administrative rulings and Air, Space, and Telecommunications rights, including copyright; relationships decisions. The course examines both federal Law (2 or 3) between artists and dealers; taxes and tax and state agencies. This course acquaints students with public, planning; and questions involving authen­ private, and commercial aspects of interna­ ticity, insurance, and government assistance Admiralty and Maritime Law (2) tional air and space law. It covers air services to the arts. Students examine basic rules and principles of agreements between countries in the context modern maritime law, including admiralty of national sovereignty over territorial air Asian/Pacific Trade Seminar (3) jurisdiction and procedure, maritime rorts to space and the commercial uses of space and This seminar examines the legal aspects of persons and property, maritime liens, salvage, outer space for satellite communications; doing business with countries in the contracts and financing, vessel limitation of direct broadcasting; remote sensing; and Asian/Pacific Basin, including China and liability, and general average. Liability of car­ weather forecasting and other uses of space Japan, the ASEAN nations, and socialist riers for the carriage of goods and passengers for peaceful purposes within the existing nations. It considers a wide range of interna­ by sea is examined in the context of national framework of multilateral treaties relating ro tional regulations, national controls, private legislation and international conventions. outer space, the moon, and other celestial arrangements and sanctions, investment in bodies. There may be an added component Asia issues, tariff and non-tariff barriers, and Advanced Legal Research (2) of national and international telecommuni­ special problems of bilateral agreements and This course explains the structure and use of cations law. (Offered through the LL.M. in of regional, sub-regional, and inter-regional legal materials while covering their history International Legal Srudies Program. J.D. economic cooperation. Prerequisites: and development. Each student is responsible students seeking to enroll must obtain the International Law, plus either Comparative for using the various research tools, theories, approval of the program director and the Legal Systems or International Business and strategies presented by the instructors to associate dean for student services.) Transactions. (Offered through the LL.M. in complete weekly exercises and compile a International Legal Studies Program. J.D. comprehensive research memorandum/guide Alternative Dispute Resolution (3) students seeking to enroll must obtain the for a Justice of the Supreme Court of the The purpose of this course is to help stu­ approval of the program director and the United States. Each srudent is required to dents understand various dispute resolution associate dean for student services.) describe his or her case memorandum in processes described under the umbrella term detail by using and referring to: relevant "alternative dispute resolution." Primary Bankruptcy Law (3) statutes, legislative materials and history, emphasis is on arbitration and mediation This course covers all the major aspects of administrative and regulatory materials, exec­ techniques in the context of those fields bankruptcy law including, but not limited utive publications, government documents, most familiar to practicing lawyers. to, types of bankruptcy cases, bankruptcy prior case law and precedent in the United Comparisons are made to standard civil procedures, bankruptcy stay relief, powers of States and abroad, secondary materials, extra­ litigation methods. Prerequisites: Civil the trustees, rights of debtors and creditors legal resources, computer-assisted legal Procedure I and II. in bankruptcy cases, and chapter 11 reorga­ research systems, CD-ROMs, specialized nizations. Knowledge of the Uniform databases, and Internet resources. Commercial Code and creditors' remedies Prerequisite: completion of all full-time first­ under state law is helpful but not required year courses, including Writing and Research. to take this course. The purpose of the course is to inttoduce the student to the

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substantive bankruptcy law and bankruptcy state's landmark right-to-know toxic chemi­ Commercial Finance (2) court procedures that should be helpful in cal initiative (Proposition 65), regulation of This introduction to the law of basic busi­ the general practice oflaw, whether or not the state's old-growth forests, the public trust ness financing covers the rules regulating the student intends to specialize in bank­ doctrine, the California Endangered Species lenders and the manufacturers, dealers, and ruptcy law. Act, and lead poisoning prevention mea­ consumers who borrow from them (and sures. from one another) in our modern credit Bankruptcy Litigation Workshop (2) economy. This course also serves as an Using a series of problems drawn from actu­ Children and the Law (3) introduction to the commercial world for al bankruptcy cases, students discuss prob­ This course examines various areas of law students unfamiliar with elementary business lems that arise in those cases, draft pleadings that impact children most. Examples include practices. It is strongly recommended for and legal memoranda, and prepare a Plan of juvenile court jurisdiction (child abuse and anyone planning to represent business Reorganization in a Chapter 11 case. neglect, status offenses, and delinquency), clients in either the litigation or commercial Prerequisite: Bankruptcy Law. family and custody matters, mental health, context. disabilities, and special education. The Business Aspects of Intellectual Coutse is taught in a seminar style with Community Property (2) Property (2) emphasis on practical and ethical considera­ This course covers the law of California Students review the major types of business tions of representing children as clients. marital property. Topics include general transactions in intellectual property, identi­ principles of classifying marital property, fying the basic client objectives in each Civil Litigation: Pre-Trial Phase (3) management and control of community transaction type, analyzing the legal issues In this course, students handle every aspect property, division of community ptoperty that arise, and exploring different contrac­ of the pretrial preparation of a civil lawsuit. on dissolution or death, and the property tual approaches. The course focuses on They proceed from the initial client contact, right of putative or meretricious spouses. technology licensing but also touches on through formulating client representational Prerequisites: Property I and II. entertainment contracts, trademark mer­ strategy, to developing a case theory. They chandising, trade secrets in the employment draft all the case pleadings as well as motions Comparative Constitutional Law context, and software consulting and devel­ challenging the sufficiency of the pleadings. Seminar (2) opment agreements. The emphasis is on the Students also engage in all aspects of fact This seminar explores constitutionalism and business goals that drive transactions, with investigation, from interviewing eyewitness­ constitutions, and how they differ, as ample time devoted to in-class negotiation es, drafting interrogatories, participating in between the United States system and select­ and drafting exercises. depositions, and developing discovery plans. ed civil law systems. Students usually focus The course ends with a pretrial settlement on specific issues of current concern, such as Business Planning (2 or 3) conference. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I judicial review, equality, speech and press This course follows a small business through and II. freedom, and procedutal regularity, but the the formation and early development stages, coutse is flexible depending upon the inter­ including the corporate, partnership, and Civil Practice Clinic (2-4) ests of the students enrolled. Prerequisites: tax issues raised in formation; relationships In this practice-oriented course, students Civil Procedure I and II and Constitutional among the founders; employee stock and work in a variety oflegal settings. Law I and II. Grade restrictions apply. option structures; and venture capital and Depending on their interests, students are Consent of instructor required. other capital raising efforts. The course placed in law firms specializing in one of the emphasizes practical aspects of representing following areas: bankruptcy, corporate coun­ Comparative Criminal Procedure small businesses and includes drafting and sel, disability rights, entertainment, immigra­ Seminar (2) negotiation practice. Prerequisites: tion, intellectual property, tax, and general This seminar compares the Anglo-American Corporations; Federal Income Taxation. civil practice. Students work directly under a adversarial model of criminal procedure with supervising attorney and attend seminar the European continental inquisitorial sys­ California Environmental and Natural meetings covering the above topics and tem. In particular, students look at how Resources Law (2) more. The seminar meets at least seven times these different systems deal with issues of California boasts some of the nation's most per semester, and attendance is mandatory. pre-trial detention, right to counsel, judges spectacular environmental resources and Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II. versus juries, confessions and trial testimony, some of its worst environmental problems. Recommended: Evidence. Sometimes sub­ prosecutors and plea bargaining, and search It also frequently sets national trends with stantive courses are also prerequisites (e.g., and seizure. Prerequisites: Criminal its cutting-edge pollution control and Corporations, for a corporate law place­ Procedure I; Evidence. Consent of instructor resource protection laws. This seminar ment). Consent of instructor required; con­ required. examines some of the state's unique environ­ tact the instructor at least three weeks before mental problems and regulatory approaches. the semester begins. Topics that may be covered include: the

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Comparative Legal Systems (3) tract breach; mechanics' liens; and architect, Prerequisites: Criminal Law; Criminal This global approach to the study of legal engineer, contractor, and subcontractor lia­ Procedure I; Evidence. Consent of instructor systems in various parts of the world is bilities. Prerequisites: Property I and II. required. designed to enable students to recognize and analyze legal problems that might confront Copyright Law (2) Criminal Procedure II (3) lawyers in dealing with matters involving This course surveys the nature and degree of Topics include bail and other forms of pre­ application of foreign law. The course focuses special protection provided to authors by trial release; prosecutorial discretion; the on the fundamental historical, institutional, the Copyright Act and provides a compara­ preliminary hearing; grand jury; joinder and and procedural differences between the com­ tive analysis of both the old and the new severance; speedy trial; discovery; guilty mon law and the civil law systems, with an acts. Further analysis is given to the existing pleas and plea bargaining; double jeopardy; emphasis on the code systems of continental problems of the two acts, including inter­ pre-trial publicity; change of venue; sentenc­ Europe, and on their use as models for law pretation of the new law with respect to ing; appellate review and harmless error; and reform in developing countries. References those portions of the old law that are still in habeas corpus. Prerequisite: Criminal are also made to legal systems based on reli­ effect. Prerequisites: Property I and II. Procedure I. gious principles. Corporate Finance and Acquisitions (3) *Current International Legal Problems Comparative Legal Systems: Students explore the financial skills neces­ (2 or 3) Non-Western Legal Systems (2) sary to analyze corporate acquisitions and Students examine legal problems originating This course examines the legal systems of the issues commonly associated with man­ in the Pacific Region, along with those gen­ countries outside the Anglo-American and agement, synergy, and taxes. The course also erated elsewhere but affecting the Asian Continental mainstream. It may be conducted covers corporate law issues bearing on the Pacific. The course covers public and private as a survey course or may focus specifically choice of transactional form. Prerequisite: international law and international trade law on the law of certain regions (such as Africa Corporations. Recommended: Federal problems as well as alternative dispute reso­ j or Asia) or of a particular country. Included Income Taxation. lution. It also examines intra-ASEAN and :1 is an examination of the traditional legal inter-regional relations. systems, as well as the process of legal reform Corporate Income Taxation (3) in the light of economic and political This advanced income tax course is limited *Current Issues in International modernization. to the study of federal income taxation of Environmental Law/Law of the corporations and shareholders, including the Sea (2) Conflict of Laws (3) tax treatment of incorporation of a business, This course examines basic concepts, This course explores the problems that arise the distribution of dividends, and corporate sources, and principles of international when a lawsuit is filed in one state and con­ reorganizations and liquidations. environmental law and also serves as an cerns people or events in other states or nations. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation. introduction to the law of the sea. It stresses Issues include whether the court has jurisdic­ emerging issues such as environmental tion; whether the law of one state or another, Criminal Litigation (3) security, international environmental con­ or federal law, applies; and whether the result­ This course affords students the opportunity flict resolution, trans boundary resource ing decision will be recognized in other states. to apply the skills learned in Trial Advocacy management and disputes, globalization, Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II. in the context of a criminal case. The class is and catastrophic accidents. Marine pollu­ divided into two-person teams. Each team is tion, maritime boundary disputes, ocean Constitutional Law Clinic: Bio-Ethical assigned either the role of prosecution or governance, fishing rights and resource Issues (3) defense counsel. The class usually begins conflicts, protection and use of global Through the Western Center for Consti­ with the staging of a mock crime. The crime commons, contested military activities, and tutional Rights, students work on trials and is reported, a suspect is arrested, charges are the environmental concerns of indigenous appeals of civil rights/civilliberties cases in filed, and the prosecution commences. The peoples are also addressed. this on-site clinic. Students also attend semi­ class proceeds, week by week, through major nar meetings on a regular basis. Current area phases of a criminal case. The course con­ Debtors' Rights and Creditors' of focus is patient rights. Consent of insttuc­ cludes with the trial of the case, which is Remedies (2) tor required. Students may enroll in this conducted in a local courthouse. This course examines remedies available to clinic twice. Prerequisites: Evidence; Trial Advocacy. secured and unsecured creditors, debtor pro­ tection statutes, and enforcement of money Construction Law (2) Criminal Litigation Clinic (2-4) judgments. Topics include locating assets, This study of the legal aspects of architecture, Students work with prosecuting attorneys applying assets to satisfaction of debts, fair engineering, and construction processes and public defenders on criminal cases in debt collection practice laws, and other focuses on legal problems arising out of con­ both trial and appellate courts. Students also debtor protection statutes. Prerequisites: struction agreements and remedies for con- attend a seminar on a regular basis. Property I and II. Recommended: Commercial Finance.

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Domestic Violence Seminar (2) and permit questions, due diligence, liability Environmental Law Moot Court This seminar studies the historical, cultural, for contaminated sites, disclosure require­ Competition (1 or 2) and psychological aspects of domestic vio­ ments, and more. Students participate in the annual National lence in addition to the civil and criminal Environmental Law Moot Court changes in the law-both nationally and Environmental Justice Seminar (3) Competition, which is held in New York internationally. Students are assigned a Students who choose not to enroll in the City at Pace University School of Law and reader composed of relevant articles, cases, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic may involves close to 70 schools. The competi­ and legislation. take this course, which provides the seminar tion offers students the chance to gain expe­ portion of the clinic. Note: Students taking rience appearing before environmental attor­ Employment Discrimination (3) this course may not enroll in the neys and judges, and argue current issues in This course examines the major federal Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. environmental law. Students who participate statutes prohibiting employment discrimina­ in the mandatory qualifying round in the tion based on race, colof, sex, sexual orienta­ Environmental Law and Justice Clinic fall (in which the students who represent the tion, religion, disability, citizenship status, (1-3) Law School are selected) receive one unit of national origin, and age. California law reg­ Students in this innovative on-site clinic credit; students chosen for the actual com­ ulating employment is also briefly exam­ directly represent people in low-income petition receive two units. Prerequisites: ined. In addition to covering the substantive communities and communities of color on Appellate Advocacy and one introductory law, the course critically examines the law's environmental matters. Under faculty super­ environmental law course; or permission of assumptions about the nature of the vision, students interview and counsel the instructor. employment relationship, the definition of clients, develop legal strategies, draft legal discrimination, and the role of the govern­ documents, and appear at hearings. Environmental Practice (2) ment in regulating employment. Illustrative cases include: representing com­ This class is designed to teach students the munity groups challenging a power plant in skills of environmental practice and advocacy, Employment Law (3) San Francisco's low-income Bayview­ including the preparation of enforcement This examination of the law relating to Hunters Point neighborhood, litigating actions and defenses, environmental compli­ employment in the non-unionized work Clean Water Act cases in federal court ance, discovery, and environmental ethics. place explores evolving common law and against the U.S. Navy, and assisting commu­ The emphasis is on hands-on practice statutory approaches to regulating the nity groups fighting a hazardous waste exercises, such as drafting complaints, employer-employee relationship from hiring incinerator. The clinic has received awards conducting discovery, and participating in ro termination. Issues include employee for its work from the American Bar environmental negotiations and mediation. privacy and dignity, protections against Association and the Environmental Law workplace discrimination, regulation of Foundation. Students receive three to six Estate and Gift Taxation (2) wages and hours, and remedies for wrongful units, based on the number of hours they This course examines federal estate and gift termination. work. Prerequisite: Evidence (may be taken tax as it relates ro inter vivos and testamen­ concurrently). Recommended: one introduc­ tary transfers within the family unit. Topics Entertainment Law (2) tory environmental law class. Consent of include gifts, both in trust and outright; This course explores the various contractual instructor required. powers of appointment; concurrent owner­ relationships encountered by recording and ship; life insurance; annuities; and the mari­ performing artists, such as artist-recording Environmental Law Clinic (2-4) tal deduction. Prerequisites: Property I and company agreements and composer-publisher Students work as externs with governmental II. Recommended: Federal Income Taxation; agreements. The course covers the California agencies, environmental organizations, pub­ Wills and Trusts. Artists' Managers Act, negotiating strategies lic interest groups, or private attorneys and techniques, music publishing and active in the field of environmental law. Estate Planning Seminar (2) licensing arrangements, merchandising Students also participate in a weekly seminar This seminar emphasizes planning principles rights, and domestic and foreign royalty designed to provide them with practical designed ro maximize the conservation of protection. skills and enable them to reflect on their family wealth by minimizing gift, estate, and cases and work experiences. Prerequisite: income tax liabilities. Students must prepare Environmental and Land Use one introductory environmental law course; estate plans and draft trust provisions. Implications of Real Estate or Public Natural Resources and Land Law; Prerequisite: Wills and Trusts, plus either Transactions (2) or permission of the instructor. Consent of Federal Income Taxation or Estate and Gift In today's climate, no real estate transaction instructor required. Taxation. can occur without considering the possible land use and environmental implications. 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~ European Community Law (2 or 3) detailed provisions of the Family Code. Film and the Law (2) This course surveys the development of Students also develop parenting and child Using films as tools of analysis, this seminar regional law in Europe, culminating in the visitation plans, calculate spousal support, calls upon students to answer questions formation of the European Community, and learn various methods of dividing com­ about the manner in which law addresses, or European Union, and European Economic munity property. Priority will be given to fails to address, society's expectations: to Area. Topics include the EC's legislative and graduating students. Prerequisite: Family what extent is the prevailing law at odds judicial processes; legal provisions governing Law. with what society feels is the "moral law" free movement of goods, persons, services, (e.g., Prohibition examined through State's and capital; relations with third countries; Federal Courts (3) Attorney); to what extent does prevailing law laws relating to competition, the environ­ Students examine issues involved in federal merely "paper over the cracks" of a continu­ ment, and intellectual property; and harmo­ court litigation, including habeas corpus, ing social controversy (e.g., Brown v. The nization of national laws. When taught in three judge courts, suits brought by and Board examined through The Searchers); seminar format, students may choose any against the federal government, governmen­ how does the prevailing law address the European law topic for their paper, includ­ tal immunity, procedural barriers to obtain­ needs of minorities (e.g., Webster v. ing trade and investment in Central Europe ing federal court jurisdiction, and proposals Reproductive Services examined through or activities of other European institutions for change in the jurisdiction of the U.S. Thelma and Louise or Meinhold v. DOD such as the Council of Europe. Prerequisite: Supreme Court. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure examined through A Few Good Men)? The International Law, Comparative Legal I and II; Constitutional Law I and II. seminar entails a weekly "lab," during which Systems, or International Business students view the film to be considered, and Transactions. (Offered through the LL.M. in Federal Income Taxation (3) a weekly two-hour discussion session, dur­ International Legal Studies Program. J.D. This study of the law of federal income taxa­ ing which students discuss the film and the students seeking to entoll must obtain the tion of the individual tax payer covers the assigned reading materials. approval of the program director and the nature of income, statutory and regulatory associate dean for student services.) exclusions from gross income, income Frederick Douglas Moot Court splitting, personal and business deductions, Competition (2) Family Law (3) at-risk and passive-loss rules, capital gains Students who are members of the Black Law This analysis of public and private regula­ and losses, and elementary tax accounting. Students Association (BLSA) may enter this tion of the formation, maintenance, and dis­ annual competition, which involves arguing solution of the de facro and de jure family Federal Indian Law (2) appellate cases. unit includes the respective cusrody, sup­ This course offers an overview of federal port, and property rights and obligations Indian law through a study of cases and his­ Hazardous Waste & Toxic Substances between mates and between parents and torical and contemporary materials. Topics Regulation children. Prerequisite: Property l. include basic jurisdictional conflicts, includ­ (See Introduction to Environmental Law.) ing land rights, hunting and fishing rights, Family Law Clinic (2-4) water rights, domestic relations law, and Health Law (2) Students work part-time with family law environmental protection. Other areas, such This survey of legal aspects of the provision firms on cases involving marital dissolution, as religious freedom and repatriation, will of health care considers issues related to custody, visitation, support, and related also be covered. medical malpractice, privacy, and informed matters. The clinic provides broad exposure consent, with particular emphasis on recent ro various aspects of family law practice and Federal Wildlife and Endangered developments in bioethics. direct supervision by practicing specialists. Species Law (2) Students attend seminars where attorneys, Drawing on selected scientific and policy Housing Law Seminar (2) mediarors, judges, and other experts discuss papers, statutes, regulations, and case law, The focus of this course is on government key topics. Prerequisite: Family Law. this course examines how the current legal housing programs (federal, state, and local) Recommended: Community Property. framework attempts to address threats to and the policy and current issues involving Consent of instructor required. wildlife and the habitats on which these them. The objectives are to have each stu­ species depend. It considers federal laws that dent: (1) understand domestic low-income Family Law Practice (2) affect conservation of fish and wildlife on housing principles and programs; (2) ana­ This course focuses on the skills necessary to public lands, private lands, and in the marine lyze case law, statutes, and regulatory mate­ carryon a basic family law practice in environment. rials implementing and impacting these pro­ California. Students prepare and argue grams; (3) comprehend the relationships motions, learn trial skills, and practice using among federal and state courts, legislatures, the most popular computer programs for and executive and administrative agencies in setting child support according to the the development of housing law and policy.

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Attendant problems of discrimination, segre­ *International Contracts (2 or 3) International Dispute Resolution gation, homelessness, as well as planning and This course explores the practical aspects of (2 or 3) environmental impediments to housing pro­ drafting international contracts, including This introduction to different methods of duction, are also considered. crucial clauses allowing contracting parties dispute resolution includes negotiation, to select in advance the applicable law, the mediation, conciliation, arbitration, and liti­ Immigration Law (3) preferred method of dispute resolution, and gation. Students examine the stages of these This introduction to immigration and natu­ the desired forum in the event of a dispute. processes through a blend of theory and ralization law and procedure examines major practice. Simulations will be drawn from a immigration policies and covers immigration *International Criminal Law (2) range of international settings, including and naturalization statutes, regulations, major This course is an in-depth exploration of commercial, administrative, and public poli­ administrative and court decisions, and consti­ the nature of international criminal law as cy situations. The course also examines the tutional rights as affected by alienage. contained in the draft Code of Offences ethical responsibility of the mediator, concil­ Against the Peace and Security of Mankind iator, or arbitrator; the role of law and Immigration and Refugee Policy and other trans boundary offenses including lawyers in the dispute resolution process; the Seminar (3) terrorism, piracy, drug trafficking, and significance of confidentiality; and measures Students examine critical policy issues in counterfeiting, as well as transnational of constraint. Recommended: International U.S. immigration and refugee law, including economic crimes such as money laundering Law, Comparative Legal Systems, or questions concerning family unity, treatment and bank fraud. Students also examine International Business Transactions. of skilled labor, people fleeing persecution, possible defenses for people accused of (Offered through the LL.M. in International population growth, and allocation of violating international criminal law. Legal Studies Program. J.D. students seek­ resources. ing to enroll must obtain the approval of the *International Criminal Procedure (2) program director and the associate dean for Insurance Law (3) This course first examines pre-trial proce­ student services.) This course studies the interpretation and dure issues, such as international investiga­ enforcement of liability, property, and life tion efforts (including the role of INTER­ International Environmental Law insurance policies. Emphasis is on the effect POL and the implications of NAFTA) and Seminar (3) of liability insurance on personal injury liti­ securing the accused's presence for trial Students examine the law and institutions gation, including bad faith liability of insur­ (including issues of extradition, abduction, relevant to managing trans boundary, regional, ers, and on recent changes in California and use of force). The course then covers and global environmental problems. Specific insurance laws. Prerequisite: Contracts. international criminal tribunals and the topics include emerging international envi­ rights of the accused, including the right to ronmental norms, global climate change, Intellectual Property (3) be present, the right to counsel, due biodiversity, stratospheric ozone depletion, This course covers the basic principles of process, and exclusion of illegally obtained deforestation, international protection of patent law, copyright law, trademark, and evidence. Finally, students compare adver­ endangered species, marine pollution, tradenames. Prerequisites: Property I and II. sarial (American and British), inquisitorial Antarctica, hazardous waste trade, the (Western European), and religion-based Bhopal disaster, acid rain, bilateral water International Business Transactions (Saudi Arabian) systems. regimes, and the limits of international gov­ (2 or 3) ernance. Prerequisite: International Law or This introduction to the law and practice of International Development Law one introductory environmental law course. international trade and investment focuses (2 or 3) (Offered through the LL.M. in International on typical transactions such as sale of goods Development programs have had significant Legal Studies Program. J.D. students seek­ (including the documentary sales transaction, impacts (sometimes negative) on human ing to enroll must obtain the approval of the INCOTERMS, letters of credit, agency and rights, the environment, and the lives of program director and the associate dean for distribution); transfer of technology (includ­ people generally. This course is a critical student services.) ing franchising and licensing); and trans­ study of international law with respect to national investment. The course also exam­ development. Particular emphasis is on International Human Rights Seminar ines the regulation of imports and exports, third-world countries, including a review of (2 or 3) and the role of competition law in interna­ investment laws and the activities of inter­ This course begins with a brief historical tional business. Particular attention is paid to national financial institutions, such as the introduction to the concept of international drafting concerns and sources of law. World Bank and the IMF, in restructuring human rights and their antecedents. Recommended: Sales. (Offered through the the economic bases of these nations. The Selected international human rights instru­ LL.M. in International Legal Studies Program. course also covers the contributions that the ments, including United Nations documents, J.D. students seeking to enroll must obtain U.N. and its specialized agencies have made regional instruments, U.S. reservations, U.S. the approval of the program director and the to the development of international law. legislation, and war crimes documents, are then examined in detail with appropriate associate dean for student services.)

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classifications of human rights in accordance don, counter-measures, and measures of International Tax Planning (3) with their contents or substance and the constraint and sanctions are considered in This course uses a transactional approach to chronological and generational stages of conjunction with the various methods of explore the major tax issues that affect U.S. their development. The remaining topics pacific settlement of international disputes citizens and residents investing or doing are: ratification and implementation of and regulation of the use of force by states. business overseas, as well as foreigners major treaties, gross violarors, uses of investing or doing business in the U.S. adjudicative remedies, and causes of International Law of Armed Conflicts (Offered through the LL.M. in International human rights violations. (Offered through (3) Legal Studies Program. ].D. students seek­ the LL.M. in International Legal Studies Students explore the body of law governing ing to enroll must obtain the approval of the Program. J.D. students seeking ro enroll the actions of nations and individuals during program director and the associate dean for must obtain the approval of the program a state of armed conflict. Topics covered student services.) director and the associate dean for student include the use of force between states, the services.) tules of international armed conflict, war International Trade and Environmental crimes and war crimes tribunals (including Protection (2) *International Intellectual Property their modern day application to ongoing This course examines the legal relationship Law and Transfer of Technology (2) conflicts), international humanitarian law, between international trade rules and policies This course examines the intellectual prop­ the Geneva Convention, arms control and to protect the natural environment. Students erty laws and technology transfer policies of disarmament, weapons of mass destruction, explore inconsistencies between the principles Southeast Asian countries from both west­ collective security, the United Nations and expressed in General Agreement on Tariffs ern and Asian perspectives. It compares the U.N. peacekeeping efforts, and the applica­ and Trade (GATT), NAFTA, Asia-Pacific Southeast Asian policies to those of the bility of the laws to national and inter­ Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the United States and studies national legislation national terrorism. Recommended: European Union, as well as the substantive in light of international obligations as well as International Law. (Offered through the provisions of national environmentallegisla­ cultural and economic facrors that influence LL.M. in International Legal Studies tion and international environmental treaties. the development of law and policy. Program. J.D. students seeking ro enroll Course content is related to material covered must obtain the approval of the program in courses on international trade regulation International Labor Law Seminar (2) director and the associate dean for student and inter-national environmental law. An introduction to international labor law services.) Students should have completed International through a study of the North American Law or one introductory environmental Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) International Organizations (3) law course. (Offered through the LL.M. in and the European Community. The seminar This survey of international organizations International Legal Studies Program. ].D. also introduces comparative study of labor includes the United Nations and its special­ students seeking to entoll must obtain the and employment laws, focusing on NAFTA, ized agencies, as well as institutions for dis­ approval of the program director and the the Ee, and Asia. Students are required ro pure resolution. Topics include the establish­ associate dean for student services.) write a research paper, which can fulfill the ment, classification, status, and capacity of written work requirement for the international organizations; the membership International Trade Regulation (3) Labor/Employment Law Specialization and activities of international organizations; This survey of the international regulation Certificate. Prerequisite: Employment and special issues of regional organizations, of trade in goods and services emphasizes Discrimination, Employment Law, or such as the North Atlantic Treaty the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Labor Law. Organization (NATO), Organization of (GATT) and the World Trade Organization American States (OAS), and the North (WTO), but it also considers the role of International Law (3) American Free Trade Area (NAFTA). regional economic arrangements (such as This basic course introduces the progressive Prerequisites: International Law, NAFTA and the EC), the relationship of development of international law, which Comparative Legal Systems, or International U.S. trade law to the international trading primarily regulates the relations between Business Transactions. (Offered through the regime, and the role of specialized U.N. states bur also governs the rights and LL.M. in International Legal Srudies agencies (such as UNCTAD). Issues covered obligations of subjects other than states, Program. J. D. students seeking to enroll include tariff and non-tariff barriers, prefer­ namely, international organizations and must obtain the approval of the program ences, subsidies and countervailing duties, individuals. Sources of international law are director and the associate dean for student dumping, safeguard (escape clause) proceed­ examined. A selection of substantive ropics services.) ings, TRIPs, TRIMs, and dispute settlement for study include jurisdiction, territories and under WTO and NAFTA rules. (Offered responsibility of states, the law of treaties, through the LL.M. in International Legal and international liability of states for inju­ Studies Program. ].D. students seeking to rious consequences of acts not prohibited by enroll must obtain the approval of the international law. Questions of implementa- program director and the associate dean for student services.)

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Introduction to Environmental Law: Jessup International Law Moot Court Landlord-Tenant Law Clinic (3) Hazardous Waste and Toxic Competition (2) Students work in law clerk positions with Substances Regulation (2 or 3) The American Society of International Law various lawyers and judges who specialize in This course is part of the Law School's sponsors this moot court competition, which landlord-tenant law. Students also attend a introductory series in environmental law. enables students to argue timely questions of seminar with the instructor for lectures on (The other course in the series is international law in regional and final com­ landlord-tenant law and discussions of cases Introduction to Environmental Law: petitions against teams from 150 law schools being handled by the students. Prerequisites: pollution Control.) In this course, students in 20 different countries. Property I and II. Consent of instructor examine hazardous waste site liability and required. regulation laws that have emerged as Judicial Externships (1 to 13 per critical issues facing society and our legal semester; 6 per summer session) Land Use Regulation (3) system, including Superfund and the In this field placement program, students This review of the devices available to a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act work in selected courts under the supervi­ community for regulating the development (RCRA). Also covered are toxic tort litiga­ sion of a judge. Students must complete 45 of land includes zoning, subdivision regula­ tion and federal statutes regulating toxic hours of work for each unit. A full-time tion, historic preservation, growth manage­ substances. This course can be taken for two externship can require up to 13 units; most ment, open space, and urban renewal. Also or three units, except that students who students take 1 to 3 units at a time. considered are the rights of owners, neigh­ have taken Survey of Environmental Law Arrangements are made on an individual bors, environmentalists, and reformers to can earn only two units. basis with the externship director. resist regulation on grounds such as just Concurrent enrollmenr in the Judicial compensation, free speech, and housing Introduction to Environmental Law: Externship Seminar is also required. welfare interests. Prerequisites: Property I Pollution Control (3) Prerequisites: Prior faculty approval and and II. This course is part of the Law School's completion of at least 40 units. introductory series in environmental law. Law of the Sea Seminar (2) (The other course in the series is Judicial Externship Seminar This course reviews the legal problems Introduction to Environmental Law: All students enrolling for a part-time or full­ encountered in government and private prac­ Hazardous Waste and Toxic Substances time judicial externship must enroll in this tice regarding the rights of coastal states over Regulation.) This course focuses on the fed­ non-credit seminar during the same semester territorial waters and strategic straits; estab­ eral Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, they enroll in the externship. It focuses on lishment of exclusive national economic and the National Environmental Policy Act advanced training in computerized legal zones and fisheries; activities on the high (NEPA). Students explore federal regulatory research as well as current issues in judicial seas; efforts to control marine pollution; and strategies, including technology-based ethics, judicial administration, and the trial exploitation of the mineral resources of the requirements, environmental assessment, and and appellate process. Prerequisites: Prior international seabed. Particular attention is enforcement methods, as well as alternatives faculty approval and completion of at least given to United Nations' efforts toward a to traditional regulation such as market­ 40 units. Grade restrictions apply. comprehensive treaty for international regu­ based incentives and information disclosure lation of ocean use. Recommended: prior or laws. Students also learn tools of staturory Jurisprudence (2) concurrent class in International Law. interpretation. Not open to students who This course considers jurisprudence, or the (Offered through the LL.M. in International have taken Survey of Environmental Law. philosophy of law, in three of its branches: Legal Studies Program. ].0. students seeking (I) analytical jurisprudence, which studies to enroll must obtain the approval of the *Introduction to Public International the law as an internally consistent system program director and the associate dean for Law (2) based on axioms; (2) sociological jurispru­ student services.) This course covers the sources and operation dence, which describes the law as it func­ of international law in the public sphere, tions within and between communities; and *Law/Politics/Economics/Development: with a particular emphasis on the law's func­ (3) critical jurisprudence, which evaluates An Introduction to the Thai Legal tional, political, and normative components. the law against political and ethical norms. System (2 or 3) The course focuses on a series of substantive Designed as an introduction to the Thai issues identified as "world order problems": Labor Law (3) legal system and culture, this coutse human rights, intervention, and environment. A study of the law relating to union organi­ acquaints students with the elements that It also considers basic conceptual questions zation. This course covers collective bargain­ comprise the Thai legal system and the com­ such as the formation oflegal obligations, ing, administration of the collective bargain­ ponents of its cultural heritage. Students the duty to obey international law, the ing agreement, and union obligations to meet with Thai students and make organized authority of international law in domestic individual union members. visits to the Law Courts, Attorney General's courts, and the interplay of sovereignty and Office, Ministry of Justice, and other places constitutionalism in international affairs. of interest in Thailand.

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Law Review (0 to 2) government borrowing authority, state and Mental Health Law (2) This program is available ro a limited number federal fiscal transfers through revenue This course deals with the intersection of of students selected by the Board of Editors. sharing, and special purpose financing. legal practice and mental health theories in Students intensively study particular legal Prerequisites: Property I and II. areas such as civil commitment, competency, problems and write notes and comments sexual dangerousness, rights to treatment and for publication in the Golden Gate University Managing Litigation with to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. Law Review. Computers (2) This course teaches the practical aspects of Mock Trial (2) Lawyering Skills: Homeless Advocacy litigation strategy. Emphasis is on the use of This course is taught only in the fall semester. Project (3) the computer to organize, manage, and Students normally try a case three times dur­ Students learn counseling, interviewing, and track litigation tasks. Students learn to apply ing the semester, as well as participate several negotiating skills in class simulations, then skills in civil procedure, legal research, evi­ times as witnesses. In the fall semester of work with real clients through the Homeless dence, and advocacy in a course that focuses even-numbered years, the case that is tried is Advocacy Project (HAP), a program spon­ on the effective management of litigation. criminal; in odd-numbered years the case is sored by the Bar Association of San Francisco Topics include getting organized, taking civil. The most outstanding students enrolled Volunteer Legal Services Program. Training is control of the client interview, preparing a in this class are selected at the end of the fall provided in both lawyering skills and substan­ strategy for the case, formal and informal semester to represent the Law School in vari­ tive law. Under the professor's supervision, discovery, preparing to take and defend ous trial competitions. These inter-school students act as advocates for HAP clients in a depositions of witnesses and experts, and competitions normally take place during the variety of settings. Students may take this organizing for trial. Successful completion spring semester. Students who participate in course or the two-unit Lawyering Skills: of this class gives students immediately mar­ competitions enroll in Advanced Mock Trial Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating, ketable litigation skills. Eight of the class during the spring semester. Students may but not both. Consent of instructor required. meetings will be in the university computer enroll in Mock Trial twice. The second laboratory. Students are required to have enrollment requires the written permission of Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, intermediate computer experience. Provision the instructor. Prerequisites: Evidence; Trial Counseling, and Negotiating (2) has been made for the use of the Law Advocacy. (Trial Advocacy may be taken con­ In this simulation course, students engage in Library computers to manage ongoing currently with the consent of the instructor.) legal interviewing, counseling, negotiating, projects. and mediation exercises. Videotape and writ­ Moot Court Competitions (2) ten work is also included. Students entolling Mass Media Law (3) Students may compete in regional and in this course may not take Lawyering Skills: This introduction to the business aspects of national competitions, including the ABA Homeless Advocacy Project. mass media and the mechanisms of govern­ National Appellate Advocacy Competition, mental regulation includes licensing and ABA Negotiation Competition, ABA Client Literature and the Law (2) content control. The course examines how Counseling Competition, the National Moot Students read literature about the law, includ­ the constitutional guarantees of freedom Court Competition, and the Roger Traynor ing non-fiction and fictional accounts of of expression and privacy are affected by Moot Court Competition. For Moot Court major cases, trials, and legal movements; governmental regulation. Prerequisites: and Appellate Advocacy competitions, the biographies of leading jurists and lawyers; and Constitutional Law I and II. prerequisite is Appellate Advocacy. For seminal articles in various areas of legal criti­ Negotiation and Client Counseling cism. The class also examines legal writing as Mediation Skills Training for the Competitions, Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, literature, considering the rhetorical style, Community and the Courts (2) Counseling, and Negotiating is recommend­ theme, and content of selected opinions and This course combines an overview of various ed. Consent of instructor required. writings of judges and legal scholars. Each mediation theories, settings, and methods student reads one or two book-length selec­ with skills training simulations in problem Multi-Media Law (2) tions and several shorter pieces. The course is solving and community mediation. In addi­ The creation and marketing of multi-media presented in seminar and discussion format, tion, attorney mediators experienced in intellectual property requires consideration of with one presentation or paper required. employment, commercial, and family a wide array of legal issues, many of which mediation conduct lecture/demonstration may have to be redefined as new technologies Local Government (2) sessions. Students interested in participating stretch the boundaries of established law. This A study of the powers and decision-making in the ABA-LSD Negotiation Competition survey course introduces students to basic processes of various local entities and the will find this course useful. and advanced copyright and trademark law as interrelationship of such governmental units. it relates to multi-media and explores the Also covered are the revenue-raising problems issues that arise in the licensing of source oflocal government, the increasing use of materials used to create multi-media prod­ special assessments and user charges, local ucts. The merger of computer law and enter-

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tainment law, ethical and constitutional Private International Law (3) resource damage actions to recover for large­ issues inherent in the information super­ As students learn about the international scale damages to public resources, such highway, and technologies such as digital conflict of laws, they examine fundamental as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, as well as the imaging and the creation of video "clones" legal problems that arise in a transnational ongoing debate about laws ptotecting are also explored. context, where relations are between nation­ endangered species. als and companies of different countries and Negotiable Instruments (2) where transactions frequently affect people Race and Civil Rights Seminar (2) This survey of the law of negotiable instru­ in more than one jurisdiction. Issues covered Topics covered include theories of race, ments examines checks, promissory notes, include jurisdiction and choice of forum, racial identity, and racism; critical race theo­ and letters of credit. Topics covered are the choice of law of one legal system or ry; histories of racism in the United States; a holder in due course; liability and defenses another, extraterritorial application of law, critique of the goals and strategies of the of parties to negotiable instruments; rights, and the recognition and enforcement of civil rights movement; racial discrimination duties, and liabilities of banks; and electron­ judgments in other jurisdictions. The course in housing, employment, and education; ic fund transfers. The primary focus is on also examines the intetnational efforts and affirmative action. Students are required Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform towards unification of law (e.g., through to participate in group presentations on Commercial Code. UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT) and the role course topics of their choice. Prerequisite: of private international law treaties. (Offered Constitutional Law or consent of instructor. Partnership and Partnership through the LL.M. in International Legal Taxation (3) Studies Program. J.D. students seeking to Real Estate Clinic (2-4) This course considers the tax and substan­ enroll must obtain the approval of the Students are placed in law firms that special­ tive aspects of general and limited partner­ program director and the associate dean ize or do considerable work in real estate. ships, with special attention paid to the for student services.) Working under the direct supervision of California Revised Limited Partnership Act attorneys, studenrs interview clients, draft and its relationship to the Revised Uniform Products Liability (3) pleadings and motions, and participate in Limited Partnership Act. Prerequisite: Students engage in an advanced study of trial preparations and trials. On the transac­ Federal Income Taxation. Consent of procedural tort and contract principles tional side, they draft provisions for leases, instructor required. pertaining to the liability of those who are sales conrracts, closing papers, loan docu­ part of the integral marketing enterprise for menrs, and other real estate instrumenrs. Patent Law (3) goods. Prerequisite: Torts. Studenrs are required to attend classes in the This course examines intellectual property Real Estate Practice Seminar or the Real rights, with an emphasis on patents. It Public Interest/Government Estate Litigation Seminar. Prerequisites: includes a study of the rights and liabilities Counsel Clinic (2-4) Property I and II. Consenr of instructor associated with patents, assignments, licens­ Students work as legal interns in public required. es, and royalty agreements; an analysis of interest offices and government agencies common and statutory laws that protect the work under faculty supervision. The accom­ Real Estate Development (3) identification of the source of goods and panying seminar provides students with This advanced course covers legal problems services; and a comparison of the protection opportunities to hear from public interest that arise out of the development of real afforded by patents, trademarks, copyrights, and government attorneys, learn about property. Topics include an overview of real and trade secrets. Prerequisites: Ptoperty I common themes in government practice estate investmenr analysis, selection of the and II. and different types of public interest prac­ acquiring enrity, issues in the acquisition of tice, and discuss their legal experiences. real estate, land use problems, environmen­ Pollution Control (See Introduction to Students are counseled if they desire to tal issues, financing, and leasing. The orien­ Environmental Law.) find their own placements with faculty tation of the course is from the developer's approval. Students may not work at place­ poinr of view. Prerequisites: Property I and Privacy, Defamation, and Other ments included in other clinical offerings. II. Recommended: completion of Real Relational Torts (3) Consent of instructor required. Estate Finance; and Federal Income This course is an intensive examination of Taxation. privacy and defamation issues in rorts. Public Natural Resources and Real Estate Finance (3) Other topics may include interference with Land Law (3) The course covers legal problems that arise economic interests, disruption of family This course examines the laws governing the out of financing and purchasing property, relationships, trademark and tradename natural resources of the one-third of the including foreclosure and redemption, misappropriation, and unfair competition. United States that comprises our public lands, including forests, minerals, range, anri-deficiency laws, and other debtor Prerequisite: Torts. wildlife, recreation, and wilderness. Students protections. Prerequisites: Property I and II. also explore the emerging use of natural

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Real Estate Litigation Seminar (2) and inter-regional organizations such as issues of communication about controversies This course examines common areas of real ASEAN, APEC, and ASEM. related to sexual orientation; definitions of estate litigation such as commercial unlawful discrimination in law applied to sexual detainers; breach of sales contracts; broker Remedies (3) orientation controversies; and decriminaliza­ commissions; malpractice claims against This survey of the legal and equitable reme­ tion oflesbian/gay sexual activity. brokers, title insurers, escrow agents, attor­ dies available to litigants based on their sub­ Recommended: Constitutional Law I and II. neys, and brokers; foreclosures, receiver­ stantive rights emphasizes the type and ships, and injunctions against foreclosure; extent of damages awarded in different legal Small Law Firm Practice: Economics toxic wastes; construction defects and settings. Also covered are specific perfor­ and Management (2) mechanic's liens; condemnation and inverse mance, injunctive relief, and restitutio nary Students study the development and imple­ condemnation, quiet title and partition, remedies. mentation of plans and strategies for achiev­ encroachment and trespass, bankruptcy, and ing overall law practice objectives. This the use of writs and lis pendens. Class Sales (2) course emphasizes management for coordi­ discussion and assignments include client Students examine Article 2 of the Uniform nating marketing, personnel, administrative, interviewing, conflicts of interest, retainer Commercial Code but also learn about the accounting and finance, and legal service agreements, pleading, discovery, motions, U.N. Convention on Contracts for the delivery functions of the law practice. The trials and trial preparation (including that International Sale of Goods. The course course examines general principles of plan­ use of "special" real estate evidence, such as focuses on formation, express and implied ning, including specific strategies appropri­ expert witnesses, appraisals, and title contractual terms, warranties, performance, ate to solo practitioners and small law firms, reports). Fall clinic students must attend the and remedies for breach of contract. as well as ethical and malpractice risks and seminar classes as part of their clinical expe­ Prerequisite: Contracts. issues. rience. Non-clinic students may take this course for non-clinic credit and will com­ Securities Regulation (3) Special Problems (2) plete special drafting exercises each week. Students investigate the Securities Act of The Law School offers advanced special ! Prerequisites: Property I and II. 1933 and selected portions of the Securities problems courses in Property, Civil Exchange Act of 1934, together with analo­ Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Real Estate Practice Seminar (2) gous provisions in the Uniform Securities Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, This course explores common areas of real Act and California Corporate Securities Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze prob­ estate practice such as residential and com­ Law. Topics include the role of the under­ lems in the subject matter covered by the mercialleases, purchase and sale contracts, writer, the nature of a security, the registra­ course. The focus is on written and analyti­ loan documents, CC&Rs and easements, tion process, exemptions from registration, cal skills. Prerequisites: completion of the zoning applications, construction contracts, and civil liability provisions. Prerequisite: courses covered in a particular semester's title insurance endorsements, and shared Corporations. Special Problems course offering: e.g., ownership agreements. Spring clinic stu­ Contracts and Torts are prerequisites when dents must attend the seminar classes as part Selected Legal Problems (1 or 2) Special Problems in Contracts and Torts is of their clinical experience. Non-clinic stu­ Students have the opportunity to do inde­ offered. dents may take this course for non-clinic pendent research under direct faculty super­ credit and will complete special drafting vision in areas of special interest. They may Sports Law (2) exercises each week. Prerequisites: Property I entoll the project on a letter-grade or cred­ This survey of the complex legal relation­ and II. it/no-credit basis after making arrangements ships found in major professional teams and to work with a faculty member and receiv­ leagues includes contracts, anti-trust, labor *Regional Organizations (2 or 3) ing the approval of the associate dean for law, torts, workers' compensation, and gen­ Bangkok hosts a number of specialized student services. Students must complete 60 der discrimination law are all brought to agencies of the United Nations, such as the total hours of research and writing for each bear on current issues in the sports industry. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), unit. Unit value for the work is determined Practical guidance in representing athletes is the International Labor Organization (ILO), in conference with the supervising faculty stressed. and the World Health Organization member. Appropriate registration forms are (WHO). It also serves as regional headquar­ available from the registrar. Street Law (3) ters for the Economic and Social Each student teaches a 12-week course in Commission for Asia and the Pacific Sexual Orientation and the Law (3) basic legal education in housing law, family (ESCAP), the U.N.D.P., the U.N. High This survey of the ways in which the law law, consumer law, constitutional law, and Commission for Refugees, and UNICEF. As treats matters of sexual orientation empha­ criminal law and procedure to local high part of this course, students visit some of sizes civil and constitutional law. The issues school students. Students prepare in teacher­ these regional organizations and also exam­ to be addressed include the right to privacy training sessions held prior to the teaching ine the roles and responsibilities of regional as applied to sexual orientation and conduct;

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assignments and follow up with weekly sem­ Water Law (3) LL.M. in Taxation Courses inars in substantive areas of the law. This class provides an overview of the legal The following courses are offered Prerequisite: Completion of first-year cours­ framework and principles govetning the own­ through the LL.M. in Taxation Program. es. This course is counted against clinical ership, use, and distribution of water. It cov­ J.D. students seeking to enroll must units. Street Law is taught by the University ers topics that are national in scope, bur it obtain the approval of both the of San Francisco School of Law, with classes also emphasizes laws and issues unique to program director and the associate meeting at their campus. Students must Califotnia. The class covers surface water and dean for student services. have approval from the associate dean for ground water rights, California and federal student services ro enroll in this course. water institutions, federal-state and interstate Advanced Corporate Taxation (3) disputes, reclamation law, and water trans­ Advanced International Taxation (3) Superfund (2) fers. It also covers the environmental statutes Bankruptcy Taxation (2) This in-depth examination of the federal and doctrines that are playing a central role Characterization of Items of Income and Superfund law explores liability issues, in water allocation: the Endangered Species Expenditure (3) cleanup standards, contriburion and settle­ Act, the Clean Water Act, and the public Consolidated Returns (3) ment, natural resource damages claims, the trust doctrine. Deferred Compensation I, II (2-2) EPA's brownfields initiative, and proposed Estate and Gift Taxation (3) Congressional reforms of the statute. Women and the Law (2) Estate Planning (3) This course addresses a variety of private and Executive Compensation (2) Survey of Environmental Law (3) public law controversies that impact women. Exempt Organizations (3) This basic survey course provides a broad Topics may include rape law reforms, repro­ Federal Income Taxation of Corporations overview of pollution control law and haz­ ductive rights, intersections between gender and Shareholders (3) ardous waste regulation. The focus is on the and race discrimination, the feminization of Federal Income Taxation of Limited major federal environmental statutes, poverty, gender discrimination in athletics, Liability Companies and including the Clean Air Act, the Clean and the rights of pregnant employees. Issues S Corporations (2) Water Act, the federal Superfund statute, are addressed using a variety of practical and Federal Income Taxation of Partners and the Resource Conservation and Recovery theoretical sources, including judicial opin­ Partnerships (3) Act, and the National Environmental Policy ions, feminist commentary, social science Federal Tax Procedure (3) Act. Prerequisites: Property I and II. Not data, litigation documents, and literature. Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates (3) open ro students who have taken Independent Contracrors (I) Introduction to Environmental Law: Women's Employment Rights Clinic (6) International Taxation (3) Pollution Control, or students who have In this clinic, students represent low income Litigation of Tax Controversies (3) taken Introduction to Envitonmental Law: women with employment-related problems in Marital Taxation (2) Hazardous Waste and Toxic Substances administrative or court proceedings. Students Multinational Estate Planning (3) Regulation for 3 units. are also involved in community outreach pro­ Passive Activity Loss Rules (I) jects on issues affecting women in the work­ Policy of Taxation (3) Trademark Law (2) force. The clinic operates as a law office, with Professional Responsibility for Tax This course is a survey of all relevant sub­ students practicing under direct faculty Practitioners (I) stantive and procedural aspects of trademark supervision. The clinic is graded with 3 units Real Estate Taxation (3) law. Prerequisites: Property I and II. credit/no credit and 3 units for a letter grade Research (I) (no exceptions). Students enrolled in the State and Local Taxation (3) Trial Advocacy (3) clinic are required to devote at least 20 hours Timing of Recognition of Items of Income This is the entry course for the litigation per week to clinic classes and projects. and Expenditure (3) program, and it teaches the basic skills need­ Prerequisites: Completion of all first-year ed by every lawyer going to court: conduct­ classes and Evidence. Consent of insttucror ing a direct examination of a witness, intro­ required. ducing documents and physical evidence, cross-examining witnesses, making and Workers' Compensation (2) answering objections, and preparing open­ This course surveys the compensation system ing statements and closing arguments. for handling claims of workers injured in the Emphasis is on the actual "doing" of various course of their employment. aspects of trials by classroom simulations. Much of the students' work is videotaped. The final examination for this course is a full trial conducted in a local courthouse. Prerequisite: Evidence.

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economic status, or any other factors that 1999; and June 1999. Applicants must FOR MORE INFORMATION would broaden the diversity of our student have taken the LSAT within three years body. of the date of application. Detailed To Contact the Admissions Office information about the test is in the Phone: (415) 442-6630 Pre-Law Requirements Law Services Registration and Fax: (415) 442-6631 You must hold a baccalaureate degree or Information Book. Golden Gate E-mail: [email protected] its equivalent from an accredited college or University does not mail this informa­ university when you register for law school tion, bur you can obtain it at any local classes. No specific major or undergradu­ college, university, or law school. You ate course of study is required, bur we can also contact LSAC directly: Law encourage you to take a well-rounded pro­ School Admission Council, Box 2000, Applying to the Law School gram, including courses from the humani­ Newtown, PA 18940; (215) 968-1001; Note: Ifyou are a transfer or visiting stu­ ties and the sciences. Because the study http://www.lsac.org. dent, please request Program Application and practice of law require clear thinking The Law School also requires that Materials for Transfer and Visiting Students and communicating, you should take U.S. and Canadian applicants partici­ by contacting the Admissions Office. undergraduate courses in which your writ­ pate in the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS), which collects and Golden Gate University School of ing is edited vigorously and your analytical analyzes the academic and test records Law seeks students from diverse back­ reasoning skills are challenged. of law school applicants. Be sure to grounds with the potential to succeed in For additional information on law school and become active members of preparing for a legal education, we suggest submit transcripts of all college work to LSDAS as early as possible. If you are a the legal community. The Admissions that you read The Official Guide to U.S. college senior, do not wait for final Committee considers each candidate's Law Schools, prepared by the Law School grades before submitting transcripts to academic achievement, performance on Admission Council, Box 2000, Newtown, LSDAS. For information regarding the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), PA 18940; (215) 968-1001; LSDAS, refer to the personal essay, letters of recommendation, http://www.lsac.org. You may also want to Law Services work experience during and after college, consult The ABA Approved Law Schools, Registration and Information Book. community activities, and other life expe­ published by MacMillan, 1633 Broadway, Application Fee nence. New York, NY 10019-6785. The Golden Gate faculty holds a Your application must be accompanied well-earned reputation for high-quality Law School Admission by a non-refundable $40 processing fee. classroom teaching. For that reason, the Test/Law School Data Checks or money orders should be Law School encourages applicants to visit Assembly Service made payable to Golden Gate classes. If you would like to tour the cam­ All applicants for admission as degree University. Be sure to write your name pus or attend a first-year class, contact the candidates must take the LSAT, which and social security number on the front Admissions Office. is administered by the Law School of your check. Golden Gate University is a private Admission Council (LSAC). The test is Applicants with financial hardship institution strongly committed to promot­ given four times each year at test sites may request a waiver of the application ing diversity through affirmative action. In throughour the United States and abroad. fee. To request a waiver, include with order to ensure a diverse student body, we LSAT dates for 1998-99 are September your application a letter asking for a consider race, ethnicity, disability, socio- 26, 1998; December 5, 1998; February 6, waiver of the application fee and

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Program Application Deadline LSAT Deadline Priority Financial Aid Spring 1999 Day Program November 13, 1998 September 6, 1998 November 13, 1998 Fall 1999 Day Program April 15, 1999 February 6, 1999 March 1, 1999 Fall 1999 Evening Program (part-time) June 1, 1999 February 6, 1999 March 1, 1999 Spring 2000 Day Program November 12, 1999 October 1999 November 12, 1999

All deadlines are postmark deadlines.

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describing your financial hardship. Also Letters of Recommendation application. Please note that all admission enclose documents that verifY current finan­ You must submit at least one letter of rec­ decisions are final. cial hardship, including a current undergrad­ ommendation. Each letter that you submit If you have questions about Golden uate financial aid award or income tax should be written by someone who knows Gate University School of Law, you may return. your academic ability or is in a position to call for an appointment with a member of assess your porential for success in law the Admissions staf£ We will be happy to Pe~sonal Essay school. We strongly discourage your obtain­ meet with you, but this meeting will not The Personal Essay is your opportunity to ing letters of recommendation from friends, be considered part of your application address the Admissions Committee. Your acquaintances, and/or family members who process. The volume of applications Personal Essay is a writing sample and can attest only to issues of personal charac­ received by the Admissions Office pre­ should be polished, well organized, and no ter. Feel free to photocopy the recommen­ cludes granting personal interviews for longer than four pages, typed (double­ dation form in this bulletin for additional admission purposes. spaced). Do not submit books, tape record­ letters of recommendation. ings, plays, theses, dissertations, or other We prefer that you submit letters Acceptance Deposits such materials in lieu of or in addition to directly to us, but we will also accept them Upon notification of admission to the Law the Personal Essay. The Admissions Com­ through the LSAC letter of recommenda­ School, you will be required to make a mittee will not evaluate these materials. tion service that is a part of the LSDAS deposit to secure your seat in the entering You may choose one of two forms for registration subscription. Your letters will class. Later, you may be asked to reconfirm your Personal Essay: be copied and sent to us along with your your intent to matriculate and pay a sec­ LSDAS Report. To use this service, follow ond deposit. All deposits will be credited 1) A personal statement that answers the directions outlined in the 1998-99 toward your initial tuition payment. these questions: Why do you want to LSATILSDAS Registration and Information study law? What special skills, attributes, Book, page I -9. Be sure to fill out and give Re-application to the Law and experiences will you bring to the law each letter writer a letter of recommenda­ School school community? What strengths and tion form from the LSATILSDAS The Law School retains application files, experiences illustrate your development of Registration and Information Book. including all supporting documents, for the writing, research, and analytical think­ two years, but you need to submit a new ing skills necessary for success in law The Application Process application form and fee to reapply. We school? Your personal statement should A complete application file consists of: recommend that you submit a new highlight your strengths and describe expe­ • Application for admission Personal Essay, an improved LSAT score (if riences that have helped you develop the • Personal Essay appropriate), graduate transcripts (if new skills necessary for success in law school. • LSDAS report information exists), a new letter of recom­ The statement should also distinguish you • Letter(s) of recommendation mendation, and other evidence of potential from everyone else applying to law school • Application fee or fee waiver request for success in law school. by including backgtound information that No admission decision can be made makes you unique, including personal until the Law School Admissions Office has International Students accomplishments, extra-curricular activities, received the application and all supporting International students applying for the career experience, or socio-economic back­ documents. If you indicate on your applica­ J.D. program follow the same basic appli­ ground. Returning students who have been tion form that you plan to retake the LSAT, cation procedures as U.S. and Canadian out of school for some time often discuss the Admissions Office will not consider students. However, international applicants their experiences raising families and/or your application complete until it receives whose native language is not English and working in diverse disciplines. the subsequent LSAT score. It is your who have not been at a higher education OR responsibility to ensure that we receive all institution where English is the primary 2) An essay that describes and answers documents in a timely manner. Admission language must take both the Law School the following: Describe a decision you decisions are made on an ongoing basis. As Admissions Test (LSAT) and the Test of made that had a significant impact on you seats are limited, it is advantageous for you English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). or someone else. Looking back, would you to apply early. To register for the LSAT, contact the Law have made the same decision? Why or why When your application file is com­ School Admission Council at Law School not? (We prefer that you not use your deci­ plete, we forward it to the Admissions Admission Service, Box 2000, Newtown, sion to apply to law school as your topic.) Committee, which thoroughly reviews each PA 18940, (215) 968-1001, or through its

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website at http://www.lsac.org. To register who anticipates receiving a degree from his transcripts of all work completed to date for TOEFL, write to TOEFLITSE Services, or her current law school. For more infor­ should be submitted to LSDAS as soon as P.O. Box 6161, Princeton, NJ 08541-6161, mation, contact the Admissions Office and possible to permit evaluation of your appli­ or call (609) 921-9000. request Program Application Materials for cation. If you are an international applicant Transfer and Visiting Students. 3. Your application must be typed or print­ and have completed your undergraduate If you are attending an ABA or any ed legibly in ink and mailed to the Law study outside the United States or Canada, state bar approved law school and wish to School Admissions Office. you need not register with the LSDAS. take only one or more elective courses or Alternatively, you can complete the However, you must register with a qualified Summer Session electives at Golden Gate application form via a personal computer. I agency for an independent evaluation of University, you need not apply for visiting you have Adobe Acrobat software, you can your undergraduate work. We require a status. Instead, contact the Law School download the application form from the complete and detailed report, including Registrar's Office at (415) 442-6620. Golden Gate University School of Law course breakdown, grade evaluation, and website: www.ggu.edullaw. If you have degree equivalency. A report of basic equiva­ Special Students Windows software, you can also complete lency is insufficient information. If you Members of the Bar, students or graduates the application form through Law Multi­ need assistence locating a credential evalua­ of ABA approved law schools, and others App Application Software, offered through tion service, please contact the Admissions satisfYing the requirements for admission Membership Collaborative Services (MCS) Office. may apply to audit courses. Apply by writ­ To order Law Multi-App, contact MCS at You must indicate your visa status on ing a letter to the registrar explaining why (800) 515-2927, or via e-mail at your application. The Admissions Office you want to audit a particular class. You [email protected]. will send the apptopriate immigration docu­ must document your professional andlor 4. You must answer all questions. If your ments to you to facilitate your matricula­ academic status, and permission of the answer is "no" or "none" or if the question , , tion. You should be familiar with immigra­ course instructor is required. Auditors pay is "not applicable," please so state. Failure tion laws regarding study in the United the same tuition as matriculated students. to complete the form fully or to furnish I States before applying. supporting documents will delay the pro­ I If you hold a law degree from outside Special Programs cessing of your application. the United States or Canada and want to 5. Your application and all supporting doc­ Integrated Professional Apprenticeship I earn an LL.M., please consult our LL.M. uments, with the exception of your LSDA~ Curriculum (lPAC) bulletins for admissions information. (See report, must be postmarked by the appro­ If you are interested in applying to IPAC page 3.) priate deadline. (See chart on page 62.) (see page 10 for more information), please 6. Send the following items with your check the appropriate box on the applica­ Transfer With Advanced application: tion. Standing • Non-refundable application fee of $40 (check or money order payable to If you have successfully completed at least Public Interest Law Scholars Program Golden Gate University, with your one full year at another ABA or any state If you are interested in applying to the name and social security number on bar approved law school, and are in the top Public Interest Law Scholars Program (see the front) or fee waiver request. half of your class, you may apply to transfer page 20 for more information), check the • Your personal essay as described on with advanced standing to the Law School. appropriate box on the J.D. application. page 63. For more information, contact the You must also write an essay describing • Letter(s) of recommendation as Admissions Office and request Program your interest in public interest law. Application Materials for Transfer and described on page 63 (or forward them under separate cover as soon as Visiting Students. J.D. Program Application possible). Instructions Visiting Students 7. NotifY the Admissions Office in writin~ Please read carefully. of any address changes immediately. Students who have successfully completed 1. Please note all requirements and proce­ Include your full name, social security at least one year of study at another ABA or dures set forth in this bulletin. number, current and former address, and any state bar approved law school may 2. You must take the Law School Admission current and former telephone numbers. apply to attend the Law School as a visiting Test. You must also ask all undergraduate 8. If you have any questions concerning student. A visiting student is defined as and graduate schools you have attended to your application for admission, call Golder anyone who wishes to attend Golden Gate send your academic transcripts to LSDAS­ Gate University School of Law's Admissior University for one or more semesters, but not to Golden Gate University School of Office at (415) 442-6630. Law. If you are currently attending college,

64 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law TUITION & SCHOLARSHIPS

Tuition & Fees for 1998-99 SCHOLARSHIPS Minority Scholarship Scholarships in the amount of $5,000 are Tuition (per unit) $689 awarded to entering minority students who (88 units required for the J.D.) Entering Students have demonstrated leadership and involve­ Merit Scholarships ment in a collegiate, professional, or com­ Fees (per semester) To attract a highly qualified student body, munity environment. If you are interested Registration $40 the Law School awards to entering students a in applying for a minority scholarship, Student Bar Association Fee number offoll-tuition and partial-tuition please check the appropriate box on the (Fall and Spring only) $20 scholarships based solely on academic merit. application and provide a list or descrip­ Materials Criteria include past academic achievement tion of your community involvement Fall and Spring Semesters $50 and LSAT results. Last year, a significant and/or professional experience. Summer Session $10 number ofentering students received merit Public Interest Program scholarships, ranging in amounts from Continuing Students (Fall and Spring only) $10 $6,000 to foIL tuition. There is no formal In addition to scholarships for entering stu­ application for merit scholarships. Fees (per occurrence) dents, Golden Gate o}firs continuing students Application for Admission $40 a variety ofmerit scholarships and other Endowed Scholarships Acceptance Deposit (applied to tuition) $300 grants and loans based on academic achieve­ Delinquent Registration Fee $100 All eligible first-year students are considered ment and/or financial need. The following Deferred Payment Fee $50 for the following scholarships: fonds provide scholarships to continuing law Late Payment Fee: 10% of outstanding students: balance; maximum of $100 The Anne Marie Bourgeois Memorial Returned Check Service Charge $25 Endowed Law Scholarship was estab­ The Leon A. and Esther F. Blum Student ID Replacement Fee $10 lished in memory of a 1989 graduate. It is Foundation Loan and Scholarship The Law School has found it helpful awarded to women students with prior Program provides financial aid to worthy experience in the legal field. to provide prospective students with esti­ students attending accredited law schools mates of tuition costs and living expenses in the City and County of San Francisco. for the regular nine-month academic period. The Louis Garcia Memorial Endowed The following figures show tuition costs for Scholarship Fund was established in The Lawrence A. Cowen Scholarship first-year students, as well as other expenses memory of a 1952 graduate and the first Fund, created by a bequest from one of that all students incur. These figures are Latino judge to serve in San Francisco. The the Law School's earliest graduates, pro­ based on projections of living expenses primary objective of this fund is to assist vides scholarships to students based on developed by the Law School Financial Aid minority students. financial need and other factors. Office and on the tuition rates in effect for the current academic year. The Diana Richmond Endowed Continuing students are also encouraged to Scholarship Fund for Mrican-Americans apply for the following scholarships: was funded with a major gift by Diana Full-Time Program Richmond, a 1973 graduate and an estab­ Tuition $19,981 The Frederick W. Bradley Endowed Fees 240 lished family practice lawyer in San Scholarship, named for a 1966 graduate Francisco. This award is given to Mrican­ Total $20,221 of the Law School, is awarded solely on the American law students. basis of financial need. Part-Time Evening Program Tuition $13,091 Public Interest Law Scholars Program The Phillip Burton Endowed Law Fees 240 Entering students who are interested in Scholarship, named in memory of the for­ Total $13,331 careers in public interest law will be con­ mer u.S. congressman and 1953 Law sidered for the Public Interest Scholars School graduate, is awarded on the basis of Living Expenses (estimated for nine Program. The program provides scholar­ academic achievement, commitment to months, full time) ship assistance, a guaranteed summer community service, and financial need. Room and Board $7,425 employment stipend with a public interest Transportation 900 agency, and faculty and alumni mentors. (Scholarships continued on next page.) Books 840 (For more information, see page 20.) Personal 2,025 Total $11,190

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The Richard W. Johnson Memorial The Louie Sbarbaro Endowed Endowed Scholarship was created and Scholarship Fund is named for a longtime funded by classmates and friends of a 1965 bon vivant and raconteur who resided in graduate of the Law School. This scholar­ Siskiyou County, California. This is a ship, given to a student who has shown need-based scholarship, with preference great academic improvement since starting given to students who resided in the north­ law school, is awarded at the start of a stu­ ern part of California before entering law dent's third year. school.

The Paul S. Jordan Endowed Law The Catherine Sherburne-Thompson Scholarship is named for a Law School Endowed Scholarship Fund is named in faculty member, dean, and university memory of a 1956 graduate of the Law trustee. Preference is given to students who School and its first female faculty member. demonstrate scholastic excellence and This fund provides assistance to part-time Helen Smolinski, winner of the 1997-98 financial need. women students in their third or foutth Michael A. Zamperini/W. Clay Burchell Scholarship, with Professor Michael year. Zamperini (left) and W. Clay Burchell (right). The Hugh Geoffrey Major Endowed Women's Law Scholarship was established The Professor James B. Smith Memorial by Patricia Carson ('52) and named for her Endowed Scholarship is given to part­ son. The scholarship is awarded to women time women students with significant The Linda Caputo Memorial law students with financial need and in financial need or to older students of either Scholarship was established by the friends, good academic standing. gender. family, law school faculty, and classmates of Linda Caputo, who graduated from the The Masud Mehran Endowed The Brad Swope Scholarship is offered Law School in 1987 and struggled all her Fellowship is named for a member of the by the San Francisco Rotary Club to full­ life with spina bifida. This scholarship is university Board of Trustees since 1986. time or part-time law students who awarded to students who have overcome The fellowship is awarded to students in demonstrate academic excellence, leader­ significant obstacles to obtain a legal good academic standing with demonstrat­ ship potential, contributions to the Law education. ed financial need. Preference is given to School and the legal community, and individuals displaying entrepreneutial spirit financial need. The Martin S. Cohen Endowed and initiative. Memorial Scholarship is awarded to The Michael A. Zamperinilw. Clay Jewish students with demonstrated finan­ The Joseph R. and June B. Rensch Burchell Endowed Scholarship is cial need and in good academic standing. Endowed Scholarship is awarded to upper awarded to gay or lesbian students who division students on the basis of need, are beginning their final fall semesters of The Kevin J. Connell J.D. Memorial academic achievement, and potential for law school. This scholarship is awarded Endowed Scholarship Fund was estab­ business leadership. based on overall academic achievement lished in memory of a third-year student and academic performance in the Writing who died in spring 1995. The scholarship The Kathryn E. Ringgold Endowed and Research courses. An essay is required is awarded to students in good academic Scholarship is awarded to students with with the application. standing with demonstrated financial need, demonstrated financial need and solid with preference given to veterans of the academic standing, with preference given The Joseph and Ruth Zukor Memorial U.S. Armed Forces. to women or Mrican-Arnericans. Scholarship was endowed by Ruth Zukor in memory of her husband, who graduated The Helen A. and John A. Gorfinkel The San Francisco Legal Auxiliary from the Law School in 1956. This schol­ Endowed Scholarship, was established in awards a scholarship based on academic arship is awarded to students who have memory of John Gorfinkel, a former pro­ achievement and financial need to students demonstrated financial need and are in fessor and dean, and is awarded on the who graduated from Bay Area high schools good academic standing. basis of need and academic achievement. and plan to practice in the Bay Area.

66 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law FINANCIAL AID

Golden Gate University School of Law First, complete the Golden Gate changes, retain the SAR for your records. administers a full range of programs to University School of Law Financial Aid The Law School will receive the informa­ help students who need financial assis­ Application (FAAP), enclosed in this bul­ tion directly from the FSAP processor. tance. The Financial Aid Office provides letin. To achieve priority processing, make In addition to the FAAP and SAR, sure that your Financial Aid application is you may be asked to submit additional budget and debt management counsel­ postmarked by the deadline listed on page documents. The Law School Financial Aid ing, evaluates students' financial needs, 62. We will still process your application if Office will notify you accordingly and pro­ and determines financial aid awards. The we receive it after the deadline, but your vide a limited amount of time for you to Financial Aid Office is also responsible for eligibility for certain funding sources may submit the necessary documents. Be sure maintaining standards and procedures be limited. to retain a copy of your most recent that comply with federal regulations, You must also complete the Free Federal Income Tax return in case it is donor restrictions, and University poli­ Application for Federal Student Aid requested later. cies, and that most equitably help meet (FAFSA) or, if you received financial aid students' financial needs. for the previous academic year, the Federal Financial Aid Awards Renewal Application. Send this application Once you have been accepted for admis­ i~ligibility in the self-addressed envelope included sion to the Law School and your applica­ with it to the Federal Student Aid To be eligible for assistance from federal tion file is complete, you will receive an Programs (FSAP) processor. The FAFSA or and campus-based financial aid programs at award letter stating the amount of financial Federal Renewal Application should be Golden Gate University School of Law, you aid you are eligible to apply for, the sources received by the Federal Student Aid must meet the following requirements: of financial aid funds, an estimate of Programs processor on or before the priori­ • Admission into the J.D. Program expenses for the academic year, and any ty deadline. Please be sure to indicate in • Enrollment in the Law School (at least a other available financial aid resources. Section H on the FAFSA form that half-time unit load is normally required) The financial aid awards letter may Golden Gate University is the college you • United States citizenship or proof of per­ list any remaining documentation, such as plan to attend. Golden Gate University manent residency or other eligible alien loan applications, that must be completed School of Law's Title IV Institutional Code status and returned to the Law School Financial is 001205. • Satisfactory academic progress Aid Office in order for you to actually Approximately four to six weeks after • Registration with the Selective Service, if receive the financial aid funds. the FSAP processor receives your applica­ required by federal law You may choose to apply for subsi­ tion, you will receive a Student Aid Report • No default on any Title IV loan and no dized and unsubsidized Stafford Loans and (SAR). The SAR summarizes the informa­ refund owed on any Title IV grant for state fellowships, if you are eligible. In tion you provided on your FAFSA (or • Demonstration of financial need, as addition, you may also apply for privately Federal Renewal Application). You should determined by an analysis performed by funded loans in order to meet your finan­ review the SAR carefully and make any the Federal Processor cial needs. necessary corrections. If you need to make • Completion of a Financial Aid file (You corrections, return your form to the FSAP should apply for Financial Aid even if processors. If your form requires no you have not been notified of your admission status.)

Financial Aid Application Forms FINANCIAL AID APPLICATION PROCEDURE - At a Glance You should apply for financial aid at the 1. Complete the Law School's Financial Aid Application (FAAP) in this bulletin and send same time that you apply for admission. it in by the deadline listed on page 62. Even though the Financial Aid Office can­ 2. Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Federal not award a financial aid package until a Renewal Application and send it to Federal Student Aid Programs. Golden Gate student has been admitted, prospective stu­ University School of Law's Title IV Institutional Code is 001205. dents are urged to complete all financial aid 3. When you receive your Student Aid Report (SAR), review it carefully and make cor­ applications as early as possible. Delay in rections. If your form requires no changes, retain the SAR for your records. The Law submitting your financial aid application School will receive the information directly from the FSAP processor. may result in a delay in your financial aid 4. Submit any additional requested documents. award and receipt of funds.

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Financial Aid Resources as possible. Students who miss the applica­ the Financial Aid Office regarding these Federal Stafford Loans tion deadlines will be considered for fund­ loans. Depending on your eligibility and on the ing that has been declined by priority financial need analysis, you may borrow up applicants. California Graduate Fellowships to $8,500 through the Subsidized Stafford California Graduate Fellowships are award­ Loan Program for each academic year of Federal Perkins Loan ed to California residents who intend to study (usually two semesters) from a bank The amount of a Perkins Loan varies bur become college or university faculty mem­ or financial institurion that participates in seldom exceeds $3,000 per year. Loans are bers. Recipients are selected on the basis of the Stafford Loan program. Repayment repayable at a 5 percent annual interest rate, academic excellence (including grades and begins six months after you graduate or beginning nine months (for new borrowers) test scores) and financial need. The maxi­ cease to be enrolled at least half-time. after a student ceases to be entolled at least mum award has been $6,490 per year. The If you do not have financial need, you half-time. As a new borrower, you may take application must be submitted by the pri­ may borrow through the Federal up to ten years to repay the loan at a mini­ ority deadline. Unsubsidized Stafford Loan Program, which mum of $40 per month, depending on the The selection process for California replaced the Federal Supplemental Loan for amount owed. The maximum amount that Graduate Fellowships is very competitive. Students (SLS). An unsubsidized Stafford you may borrow through the Perkins Loan You must be a full-time student to get a loan has the same terms and conditions as a program for graduate and professional study Graduate Fellowship. You can renew the Stafford loan, except that the borrower is at all institutions is $18,000. award up to three additional years if you responsible for interest that accrues during are making normal progress toward your in-school deferment periods. Students may Federal Work-Study (available only after graduate or professional degree. You are borrow up to $18,500, less the amount of completion of the first year) not eligible for a California Graduate the subsidized Stafford Loan. The Federal Work-Study program was Fellowship if you have already received a The maximum amount that you may designed by the federal government to graduate or professional degree or have borrow through the Federal Stafford Loan expand part-time employment opportuni­ completed graduate or professional work program is $138,500. This amount includes ties for students who demonstrate financial beyond the first year. any unpaid Stafford Loans previously bor­ need. Besides providing a means of financial rowed. assistance for the student, a FWS job is Veterans' Benefits Loans are disbursed in two equal intended to complement the student's edu­ If you qualifY for Veterans Administration checks: the first at the beginning of the loan cational program or career goal. Most jobs Educational Assistance programs, you period, and the second in the middle of the developed under this program are intended may use your benefits at Golden Gate loan period. As a new borrower at Golden to serve the public interest and meet the University. You should request advance Gate, you must attend a loan counseling needs of the community or the University; payment of your veterans' benefits by session before your Stafford Loan check will thus, most off-campus job providers are submitting a written request to the be released. nonprofit agencies. Financial Aid Office. Be sure to notifY If you receive a FWS award, you are the Financial Aid Office of any changes Campus-Based Financial Aid allowed to earn a specified amount in a FWS in your academic programs. The Campus-Based Financial Aid (CBFA) job. The employer and the federal govern­ program for law students consists of the ment each pay a portion of your earnings. Western Interstate Commission for Perkins Loan and Federal Work-Study pro­ Award amounts may range from $1,500 to Higher Education grams. It is funded annually by the federal $3,500 for the academic year, including fall, The Law School participates in the government, the University, loan repay­ spring, and summer semesters. Western Interstate Commission for Higher ments from alumni, and wages from agen­ Education (WICHE) program for student~ cies that provide jobs. To be considered for Private Loans from western states without an accredited CBFA for the following fall, spring, and You may be eligible for private loans to law school (Alaska and Nevada). The com· summer semesters, mail the Financial Aid meet the cost of your education. You must mission provides payments of up to $4,301 Application so that it is postmarked by the demonstrate credit worthiness to the lender per academic year for such students. For priority deadline. or financial institution. Interest, fees, grace information about the WICHE program, Funding is limited, and eligible stu­ periods, and other terms vary slightly contact Western Interstate Commission fo dents who have the greatest financial need between private loan programs. Repayment Higher Education, P.O. Drawer P, Boulder and apply by the deadline are given priority. begins after you have graduated or are no CO 80301-9752; (303) 541-0214. Entering law students should apply as early longer enrolled at least half-time. Contact

68 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law FINANCIAL AID

Financial Aid Application full name, Social Security number, current tion will be the date received by the Instructions address, and current telephone numbers. registrar. The university assumes no Please read carefully. 7. Your application for financial assis­ responsibility for non-delivery of mail. 1. Please note all requirements and proce­ tance will not be considered complete until Students are encouraged to deliver pro­ dures set forth in this booklet. the Law School Financial Aid Office has gram change requests in person. When 2. Your Financial Aid application must be received all required forms and documents. this procedure has been followed and typed or printed legibly in ink and 8. All Law School applicants will be the associate dean for student services mailed to the Law School Financial automatically considered for merit scholar­ has granted written consent, tuition Aid Office, Golden Gate University, ships administered by the Law School. will be adjusted as follows: 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 9. If you have any questions concern­ 94105-2968. You may deliver your ing your Financial Aid application, contact A. Standard Formats financial aid application in person. Golden Gate University School of Law's J.D. semester and Tuition Credit 3. You must answer all questions. If your Financial Aid Office at (415) 442-6635, or IO-I5-week term answer is "no" or "none" or if the ques­ via e-mail at [email protected]. Withdrawal before term start date 100% tion is "not applicable," please so state. Withdrawal during: Failure to complete the form fully or Refund Policy 1st week of term 100% to furnish supporting documents will Students are entolled with the understand­ 2nd week of term 85% delay the processing of your applica­ ing that they will remain for the entire 3rd week of term 70% tion. course of study unless suspended or dis­ 4th week of term 50% 4. The Golden Gate University School of missed. However, it is recognized that for Withdrawal after 4th week of term 0% Law Financial Aid application and personal or professional reasons students supporting documents should be post­ may be compelled to withdraw from 8-9-week terms Tuition Credit marked by the appropriate priority courses in which they have enrolled. The Withdrawal before 1st class meeting 100% deadline. (See chart on page 62.) withdrawal policy is designed to reconcile Withdrawal after: 5. The Free Application for Federal these possible situations with the universi­ 1st class meeting 100% Student Aid (FAFSA) must be typed ty's need to defray costs, and is predicated 2nd class meeting 85% or printed legibly in ink, signed, and on the principle that students who do not 3rd class meeting 70% mailed to the appropriate Federal complete the course of study should bear 4th class meeting 50% Student Aid Processor in the self­ a share of the loss occasioned by their 5th class meeting 0% addressed envelope enclosed in the withdrawal. Therefore, tuition adjustments FAFSA booklet. We encourage you to are made not on a pro rata basis, but as B. Special Weekend Formats and submit your FAFSA by the priority follows: One-Unit, Five-Week Class Formats deadline indicated in the FAFSA 1. No adjustments will be made for late Withdrawal before first class meeting 100% application packet. registration, absences from class, leaves Withdrawal after first class meeting 85% In Section H of the FAFSA, please be of absence for a portion of a term, or Withdrawal after second class meeting 0% sure to indicate Golden Gate University as suspension or dismissal by official the institution you plan to attend. The action of the university. C. Weekend Intensive Formats Withdrawal before first class meeting 100% Tide IV Institution Code for Golden Gate 2. Adjustments will be made for tuition Withdrawal after first class meeting 0% University School of Law is 001205. only. All other fees and charges (i.e., (Note: Applicants who have received books, classroom supplies, etc.) will D. Domestic U.S.A. Executive a Federal Renewal Application from the not be adjusted. M.B.A.lM.P.A. Program Federal Student Aid Processors should 3. Students must notify the registrar, in Withdrawal before first class meeting 100% complete that application instead of the writing, of any change in enrollment Withdrawal after 1st weekend of classes 85% FAFSA. Applicants should nevertheless status. It is not sufficient merely to Withdrawal after 2nd weekend observe all other deadlines and procedures notify the instructor, program director, of classes 50% in completing the Federal Renewal or dean concerning withdrawal from a Withdrawal after 3rd weekend of classes 0% I course: an Official Program Change I Application.) 6. Notify the Financial Aid Office Form must be completed at the I immediately in writing of any changes in Registrar's Office. The date of termina- I address or eligibility criteria. Include your

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E. Other Class Formats (including over­ cannot be processed during the first 30 minimum of 30 working days to hear from seas programs) working days following the opening of any us, as we are required to verifY all facts No other class formats are eligible to term. from university sources prior to review by receive tuition credit adjustments unless No refunds will be made by virtue of the Financial Petition Committee. If your specifically stated in a separate university curtailment of services brought about as a petition is approved and any adjustments contract. result of strikes, acts of God, civil insurrec­ to your tuition results in a credit balance Students receiving Veterans' Benefits tion, riots or the threats thereof, or other on your account, the university will apply should consult with the Veterans' Mfairs causes beyond the control of the university. this credit balance toward future tuition Coordinator in the Office of Student charges within the next twelve month peri­ Financial Services for the applicable refund Financial Petitions od. In no case will credit balances resulting policy. If you are confronted with an unexpected from a financial petition be refunded to and serious circumstance which requires the student. If you are a financial aid recip­ Financial Aid Recipients that you withdraw from your classes, you ient and you have a financial petition Who Withdraw Completely may petition the university to reverse a approved, credit balances typically are From All Courses portion of your tuition charges. To do so, refunded back to the appropriate financial Refunds are not given after 60% of the you must submit your petition in writing aid program or lender. term has elapsed. Students who enroll to the Law School's associate dean of stu­ under consortium agreements, visiting stu­ dents, explaining in detail the circum­ dents, and students who have previously stances, the correlation between these Disputes Concerning taken any class at Golden Gate University circumstances and the need for you to Student Accounts are included in this categoty. withdraw from the university, and what All disputes concerning student accounts Continuing Title IV recipients receive actions you have taken to resolve or should be submitted in writing to: Student the larger of the refunds resulting from prevent such an event from occurring in Financial Services, Golden Gate University, either the Federal Refund Policy or the subsequent terms. In addition, you must 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA established university Withdrawal Policy provide any relevant third-party documen­ 94105-2968. The university will respond (above). The Federal Refund Policy is as tation. The university will not approve any within 30 working days of receipt of the follows: petitions which are undocumented or are student's letter. based upon pre-existing conditions. ii' % of Institutional The university will respond to all " Charges Refunded petitions in writing. You should allow a Withdrawal up to and on the first day of classes 100% Withdrawal after the first day of classes through the first 10% of the term 90% Withdrawal after the first 10% through the first 25% of the term 50% Withdrawal after the first 25% through the first 50% of the term 25% Withdrawal after the first 50% of the term 0%

Refunds Refund of a credit balance resulting from tuition adjustment in accordance with the above-stated Withdrawal Policy will be made if requested in writing by the stu­ dent. Refunds will be made to the student's address as noted on the request for refund. Because of the administrative work­ load during the registration period, refunds

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UNIVERSITY POLICIES

Golden Gate University complies with federal inability or failure to do so shall not subject it to would result in a substantial modification of and state laws regarding the possession, sale, and liability. Golden Gate University requirements or pro­ consumption of alcohol and other drugs (Drug­ The university reserves the right to change grams. Free Schools and Communities Act Amend­ regulations, curricula, courses, tuition, fees, and Students with questions concerning the ments of 1989 [PL 101-226]; Hawkins-Stafford other aspects of its ptograms as described in this university's policy of nondiscrimination (includ­ Elementaty and Secondary School Improvement bulletin. ing questions concerning nondiscrimination on Amendments of 1988 [PL 100-297]; Anti-Drug It is the intent and policy of the university the basis of disability, academic adjustments and Abuse Act of 1988 [PL 100-690]). to promote actively the objectives and policies of accessibility) should contact the associate dean for Federal and state laws prohibit the sale and nondiscrimination set forth in Titles VI and VII student services of the Law School at (415) 442- use of drugs which are not prescribed by a physi­ of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the 6615. cian or available for regular retail sale. Any stu­ Education Amendments of 1972, Sections 503 Applicants or students who feel they may dent known to be possessing, using, or distribut­ and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the have been subject to unlawful discrimination in ing such drugs is subject to serious university Vietnam Era and Veterans Readjustment connection with any Law School program, disciplinary action (suspension or dismissal) and Assistance Act of 1974, the Age Discrimination including discrimination on the basis of disabili­ arrest under the state and federal laws. The uni­ Act of 1975, Executive Order 11246, the ty, may file a complaint with the associate dean versity will facilitate counseling and referral to Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the for student services of the Law School. Applicants treatment as appropriate. Civil Rights Act of 1991, and all other applicable or students are encouraged to follow the Under strict supervision, alcohol may be federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws. Grievance Procedure outlined in the served at approved events. Prior approval for stu­ Golden Gate University does not discriminate, "Procedure for Processing Unlawful Discrim­ dent events must be obtained from the dean of within the meaning of these laws, on the basis of ination Complaints." A copy of that document student services. The State of California pro­ race, sex, creed, color, handicap, sexual orienta­ may be obtained from the Associate Dean for hibits the possession, sale, or consumption of tion, age, or national/ethnic origin, disabled vet­ Student Services of the Law School. alcohol by anyone under 21 years of age. eran status, or Vietnam Era veteran status in The following is a description of the The university assumes no liability, and employment in its educational programs, or in Procedure for Processing Unlawful Discrim­ hereby expressly negates the same, for failute to the ptovision of benefits and services to its stu­ ination Complaints: provide or delay in providing, educational or dents. The complainant should first discuss the related services or facilities, or for any other fail­ Golden Gate University will provide acces­ complaint with the director of the Law School ure or delay in performance arising out of, or sible programs and facilities to a qualified appli­ program involved. If this discussion does not due to causes beyond the reasonable control of, cant or student with a disability unless such resolve the problem, the complainant may discuss the university, which causes include, without accommodation would cause undue hardship on the complaint with the Law School administrator limitation, power failure, fire, strikes by univer­ the operation of its business. Golden Gate responsible for the aforementioned program. sity employees or others, damage by the ele­ University will also make reasonable adjustments If the circumstances of the complaint pre­ ments, and acts of public authorities. The uni­ to the academic program of a qualified applicant vent discussions with the Law School program versity will, however, exert reasonable efforts, or student with a disability, unless the academic director or Law School administrator or if the when in its judgment it is appropriate to do so, requirements are essential to the program of complaint is not resolved within five (5) working to provide comparable or substantially equiva­ instruction or to a directly related licensing days, the complainant may then file a written lent services, facilities, or performance, but its requirement, or unless such accommodation complaint. The complainant must file a written com­ plaint within 120 days of the alleged unlawful dis­ LAW SCHOOL GRADING POLICIES criminatory action and submit it to the associate dean for student services of the Law School. Investigation of the complaint will begin within The J.D. requires the completion of 88 units of study. Grading is based on the following system: fourteen (14) working days of receipt of the writ­ A 4.0 points B 3.0 points C 2.0 points D 1.0 points ten complaint. A- 3.5 points B- 2.5 points C- 1.5 points F 0.0 points Upon receipt of the written complaint, the All required courses are graded by letter grade. To graduate, a student must have an overall associate dean for student services of the Law grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0, and a minimum GPA of 2.05 in required courses. A School will attempt to resolve the matter infor­ maximum of 9 units may be taken on a credit/no credit basis during a student's law school mally. If the complaint is not resolved informally, career. This limit does not include clinics, externships, or courses offered solely on a credit/no a Complaint Review Panel will hear the complaint credit basis. and receive testimony and information from wit­ Students must comply with all academic standards set forth in the Student Handbook. The nesses. Within five (5) working days of the close of standards are subject to change before the beginning of any academic year and are amended the hearing, the Panel will forward its findings and from time to time. The Law School reserves the right to suspend or dismiss students for viola­ recommendations to the president of the universi­ tions of Law School or University policies or regulations, or for conduct inimical to the best ty and to both parties to the complaint. The president will issue a decision within interests of the Law School of other students attending the university. The Law School maintains records relating to students for various academic purposes. The thirteen (13) days of receipt of the Panel's findings and recommendations. Both parties to the right to inspect these records is in accordance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Complaint will be notified of the resolution of the Act of 1974, Public Law 93-380, as amended. Information about specific procedures is available complaint within ninety (90) days of the begin­ upon request from the Law School registrar. ning of the investigation. The decision of the president will be final.

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law 71 MAPS AND LOCATION

The Law School's Directions to

downtown location Golden Gate University From the North: Golden Gate Bridge makes it easily acces- and Highway 101 to Van Ness Avenue. sible by public trans­ Left on Bush Street. Cross Market Street to First Street. One block on First Street portation from all to Mission Street. Right on Mission Street one-half block. over the Bay Area. From the South: Highway 101 to 80 (Bay Bridge/Downtown) to Fourth Street exit. One block on Bryant Street. Left on Third Street, right on Mission Street two blocks. "The importance of having a law school From the East Bay: Bay Bridge to close to one's place of Fremont Street exit. Left on Fremont, employment cannot then left on Mission one block. be overemphasized." Anne von Rogov, '91 Public Transit Associate • One block on Mission Street from Coopers & Lybrand Transbay Terminal at First and Mission Streets.

• BART and MUNI Metro, Montgomery Street exit: Walk on Second Street one block from Market Street to Mission Street. Left on Mission Street one-half block.

Aquatic Fisherman's Pier 39 • From Southern Pacific Depot at Park Wharf Fourth and Townsend Streets: Take #42 Downtown Loop bus to Fremont and Mission Streets. Walk left on Mission Street one and one-half blocks. OR Take the E streetcar line to Embarcadero Station, walk south (on Beale Street) from Market Street to Mission Street. Turn right on Mission and walk two and one-half blocks.

Top: The San Francisco Bay Area Bottom: The GGU campus location in San Francisco's Financial District

72 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY School of Law J.D. Application

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Personal Information: (Please type or print in ink.) Social Security Number (optional): ______Name: Last: ______First: ______Middle:

Mailing Address: Street: City: State: Zip Code: Home Phone: <-) Work Phone: (__ ) ______E-mail: Fax: <-) Date of Birth: Gender: o Male o Female Country of Citizenship: If you are not a U.S. Citizen, please indicate your visa status:

Ethnic Survey, Check all that apply (optional): o Alaskan Native or American Indian 0 Hispanic o Other (please specify) o Asian or Pacific Islander o Mrican-American o Decline to state o Caucasian o Middle-Eastern

Program: General:

Special: Check here if you would like to be considered for: o Integrated Professional Apprenticeship Curriculum (IPAq Admission to the IPAC program is competitive and will be based on information contained in your LSDAS report, personal essay(s), and letter(s) of recommendation. For further information on this program, please consult the Golden Gate University School ofLaw Bulletin or contact the Admissions Office. (Priority Application filing deadline: March 1.) o Public Interest Scholars Program (PISP) Please include a separate statement, not to exceed 2 pages, describing your interest in Public Interest Law. Also, attach a list of Public Interest activities in which you have participated. For more information on this program, please consult the Golden Gate University School ofLaw Bulletin or contact the Admissions Office. (Priority Application filing deadline: March 1.) o Minc.rity Scholarship Description Please include a list or description of your community involvement and professional experience. A resume may be used in lieu of a list. (Priority Application filing deadline: March 1.)

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Student Groups: Please indicate your interest in any of the following: o American Bar Association/Law Student Division (ABA/LSD) o International Law Association (ILA) o American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) o Jewish Law Students Association QLSA) o Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) o Latino Law Students Association (LALSA) o Association for Communication, Sports and Entertainment Law (ACSEL) o Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Law Students (LEGALS) o Black Law Students Association (BLSA) o National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) o Environmental Law Society (ELS) o National Lawyers Guild (NLG) o Federalist Society o Phi Delta Phi o Golden Gate Association of International Lawyers (GGAIL) o Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) o Intellectual Property Law Association (IPLA) o Student Bar Association (SBA) o Women's Law Association (WLA)

Academic Background: List all colleges, universities, and law schools attended and degrees conferred, If you do not have a degree, state total number of units completed at each college.

COLLEGE (list most recent first) DATES ATTENDED (or expected date ofconferral) MAJOR DEGREE

Has any college, university, or law school ever dismissed, disciplined, or disqualified you for academic or behavioral reasons? If the answer is "yes," attach a statement giving details.

o Yes o No

All applicants must take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and have an official score report sent to the Law School thtough LSDAS. o I have taken the LSAT on: o I will take the LSAT on:

If you believe that your LSAT score and/or cumulative grade point average does not accurately reflect your potential to succeed academically in law school, please explain on a separate sheet. Limit your response to one paragraph.

J.D. APPLICATION PAGE 2 Employment History: Did you work while in college? o Yes o No

If answer is "yes," please complete the following:

POSITION(S) HELD No. OF HOURS PER WEEK

Freshman year:

Sophomore year:

Junior year:

Senior year:

State positions of employment after college, indicating employer, dates of employment, and reasons for leaving, or attach a resume.

EMPLOYER (list most recent first) DATES POSITION REASON FOR LEAVING

Personal History: Have you ever been convicted of or is any charge now pending against you for any crime other than a non-alcohol related traffic violation? If any such charge or conviction occurs between your submission of this form and your registration at Golden Gate University School of Law, you are expected to inform us. If the answer is yes, give dates and explain the circumstances fully on a separate sheet.

o Yes o No

fu a member of or applicant to any profession or organization, or as a holder of any office, license, or credential, have you ever been disciplined or had a license or credential suspended, revoked, or denied? If the answer is yes, please attach a statement providing full details, identifYing the license or credential involved, and providing the dates, details of the matter, final disposition, and the name and address of the authority in possession of the records. If any such charge or conviction occurs between your submission of this form and your registration at Golden Gate University School of Law, you are expected to inform us.

o Yes o No

If you are related to any Golden Gate University School of Law alumni, please provide their name(s) and relationship(s) to you below:

NAME RELATIONSHIP

RELATIONSHIP NAME

Consult the rules and regulations of the Committee of Bar Examiners of the state in which you intend to practice to determine whether or not there is anything that might affect your eligibility for admission to the bar and whether you are required to register with the bar of that state when you com- mence the study oflaw.

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..l..c 1. Personal Essay Each new applicant is required to submit a personal essay, which should be no longer than four pages typed, double-spaced. Please choose one of the following for your essay:

(a) A personal statement that answers these questions: Why do you want to study law? What special skills, attributes, and experiences will you bring to the law school community? What strengths and experiences illustrate your development of the writing, research, and analytical thinking skills necessary for success in law school? OR (b) Describe a decision you made that had a significant impact on you or someone else. Looking back, would you have made the same decision? Why or why not? (We prefer that you not use your decision to apply to law school as your topic.)

2. Optional Essay The Admissions Committee takes into account an applicant's ethnic, racial, socio-economic, and cultural backgtound. If you want the Admissions Committee to consider your background and heritage, please submit an optional essay. This essay may include a description of your community involvement as well as any social, economic, or educational factors that influenced your desire to pursue a career in law.

A non-refundable $40 application fee or a fee waiver request must accompany this application.

I certify that the above application is correct in all aspects according to my best knowledge and belief, and I understand that if admitted to Golden Gate University School of Law, I must abide by the rules and regulations of the University and the School of Law. I understand that knowingly pro­ viding false or inaccurate information in admission and/or financial aid application material is grounds for denial of admission or, if discovered after admission, for revocation of any offer of admission or, if discovered after matriculation, for immediate dismissal from the Law School.

SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT: DATED: i •

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES APPLICANTS REGARDLESS OF RACE, SEX, CREED, COLOR, HANDICAP, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR NATIONAL/ETHNIC ORIGIN.

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536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-2968 Phone (415) 442-6630 E-mail: [email protected]

J.D. APPLICATION PAGE 4 Letter of Recommendation

Applicant: Social Security Number:

Name of Recommender: Position/Title:

Company or University:

Dear Recommender, Golden Gate University School of Law seeks to admit qualified students from diverse backgrounds with the potential to succeed in law school. In addition to an applicant's undergraduate transcripts, LSAT scores, and personal statement, the Admissions Committee also requires a detailed, independent evaluation from an individual who knows the applicant's academic ability and/or is in a position to assess his or her potential for success in law school.

Please respond fully to the interrogatories below. You may attach a letter instead of using the space provided. However, we encourage you to discuss the points cited below. Your comments will be added to this applicant's application materials and be duly considered by the Admissions Committee. Thank you for your time and attention.

1. Please describe your relationship with the applicant.

2. Please describe the applicant's written and oral communication skills.

3. Please describe the applicant's analytical and reasoning skills.

4. Please describe the applicant's interpersonal skills.

5. Please compare the applicant's academic and personal achievement to other students that you have known who have gone on to law school.

6. Please assess the applicant's overall potential for success in law school.

Signature: Date:

.1. Financial Aid Application

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The Tide N Code for Golden Gate University School of Law is 001205

To receive financial aid at Golden Gate University School ofLaw you must complete and submit this Financial Aid Application to the Golden Gate University School ofLaw Financial Aid Office. Be sure to include all appropriate signatures. Missing signatures and/or incomplete items require additional follow-up and cause delays in award notification. Please refer to pages 67-70 for detailed information regarding financial aid application requirements and deadlines.

Personal Data (Please type or print in ink.)

Last Name: First Name: MI:

Social Security Number: Sex: o Male 0 Female Marital Status: o Single o Married o Divorced o Separated

Current Address: Street: City: State: Zip Code: Daytime Phone: Evening Phone/Message: Have you attended Golden Gate University before? 0 Yes o No GGU ID#, if any: If yes, please indicate when you first enrolled: Trimester/Semester: Year: Have you previously applied for and/or received financial aid (including loans) through Golden Gate? 0 Yes o No Permanent Address: Street: City: State: Zip Code: State of Residency: Begin Date (month/year): Driver's License #: License State of Issuance: U.S. Citizen? 0 Yes ONo If no, please attach a copy of both sides of your alien registration card.

Academic Data

Program: o J.D. o Combined Degree Program (specify) Please indicate your expected enrollment status: o Full-time o Part-time I plan to begin in: o Spring, beginning January o Fall, beginning August Year: Please indicate your anticipated year in school: o 1st o 2nd o 3rd o 4th How many units do you anticipate taking? Fall Spring Anticipated Graduation Date (month/year) Resources/Expenses Other than financial assistance from Golden Gate University and the federal government, do you expect to receive any financial assistance, including assistance from your parents, during the academic year? DYes o No If yes, indicate source and amount: With whom do you expect to live during the academic year? o Self o Spouse/Partner o Roommate o Parents o Other Relative(s) o Other Will you have child care expenses while you are enrolled? If yes, how many children? Please indicate ages of these children: How much per month will you pay for child care? Do you anticipate any unusual medical expenses? DYes o No If yes, please explain and give amounts:

Colleges Attended List all colleges and universities attended (include summers). (Note: You need not list foreign institutions.) From (month/year) To (month/year) Name of School

Campus-Based Aid (Federal Work-Study and Federal Perkins Loans)

If funding is available and priority deadlines are met, what is your preference? (CHECK ONE) o Federal Perkins Loan 0 Federal Work-Study 0 Neither Note: Students are eligible to participate in the Federal Work-Study Program after their first year. Have you ever received a Perkins loan at another institution? DYes o No If yes, please answer the following questions: Do you owe a balance on a National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) made to you on or before July 1, 1987? DYes o No Do you owe an outstanding balance on a Perkins loan made to you on or after July 1, 1987? DYes o No If yes, please provide the month and year you first received the Perkins loan. Month: ______Year: Do you owe an outstanding balance on a Perkins loan made to you on or after October 1, 1992? DYes o No

Signature My signature below indicates that all the above certification statements are true and correct. I understand that knowingly providing false information, including information pertaining to financial aid, may be grounds for denial of admission, or, if discovered after admission, for dismissal from the Law School. I agree that I will provide documentation to the Law School Financial Aid Office if there are any changes to the information contained in this application, especially if I change my enrollment plans. I agree that I will notifY the Law School Financial Aid Office if I obtain additional resources to assist me in paying for my education, especially amounts from my employer, from outside organizations, or from family members. I understand that I must maintain satisfactoty academic progress as defined by Golden Gate University School of Law and that if I drop courses after receiving financial aid may jeopardize my eligibility for aid.

Signature: Date:

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536 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2968 (415) 442-6630