2021-2022 Law Catalog legal education is a professional education. You will use the substantive legal knowledge and practice skills you develop in law school every day of your life as a lawyer and community leader.A Your law school experience is the opportunity of your lifetime to build the foundation of your future successful legal career. Accordingly, you must choose the environment in which you personally will learn the most and grow the most.

At SJCL, your personal growth as a legal practitioner is our foremost objective. This is apparent from the small sections and individualized attention students receive in first-year writing courses to the myriad practice skills courses embodied in SJCL’s curriculum. Class sizes are small, averaging 25 people per section, providing you an unparalleled opportunity to interact with your professors and classmates. Faculty have an open-door policy, enabling you regularly to obtain assistance or

Dean Janice Pearson compare ideas. As grading is not on a curve, faculty and students are all motivated to work as a team for everyone’s success.

Opportunities for real-life experience abound in the San Joaquin Valley area. Internship and clinical placements in federal and state courts, district attorney’s offices, administrative agencies, legal aid, and private firms are readily available. Moreover, employment opportunities in the area have always been available even when scarce in other markets.

The San Joaquin Valley is the growth area for California’s future. Outstanding legal practitioners will be needed. San Joaquin College of Law offers you the opportunity to be a part of that future or any future you choose. Come grow with us! Accreditation Western Senior College Individual Attention ing body recognized by the Council for Higher and University Comission Education Accreditation and the U.S. Depart- At SJCL, the study of law is an intense 985 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100 endeavor, but the skills and doctrines learned ment of Education. SJCL is accredited by the will benefit you professionally on a daily basis. Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar Alameda, California 94501 Our small class sizes allow students to receive of California, giving SJCL its degree-granting (510) 748-9793 authority and qualifying SJCL graduates to take individual attention from faculty. At SJCL, www.wscuc.org the competition is against one’s self and high the California Bar Exam and obtain admission to the practice of law in California. professional standards – not other students. Committee of Bar Examiners A Unique Student Body The State Bar of California Learning Outcomes 180 Howard St. The Juris Doctor program at San Joaquin SJCL students don’t fit a particular mold. College of Law seeks to create a program of le- They are simply motivated and ready to learn. San Francisco, CA 94105 gal education which produces graduates who are Our students represent a variety of ages and (415) 538-2000 backgrounds. If you’re seeking a legal career, highly skilled individuals who can contribute to www.calbar.ca.gov the development of legal and social institutions looking for a change of pace, or wanting to and to the integrity of the legal system. To this enhance your professional skills – SJCL is for end, the Faculty has formally adopted a set of you. Our student body reflects SJCL’s progres- measurable Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) sive and diverse environment. which all courses, collectively, are designed • Ages range from 22 to 56, averaging 32 to meet. Each professor will articulate in the • Approximately 70 percent are change-of- course syllabus those specific SLOs taught and career students assessed in the particular course. • Approximately 57 percent are women Outcome 1. Comprehend the structures and • Approximately 66 percent identify as being Contents processes of the U.S. legal system and founda- part of an under-represented minority group Curriculum...... 2 tional substantive law. • Approximately 51 percent identify as a Typical Curriculum...... 3 first-generation college student Outcome 2. Demonstrate proficiency in legal Clinics & Externships...... 4 analysis and problem solving. Academic Standards...... 5 Outcome 3. Demonstrate competence in Abundant Careers written and oral communication. The SJCL course of study combines theoreti- Student Organizations...... 7 Outcome 4. Demonstrate mastery of ap- cal knowledge with practical skills. Our clinical Faculty...... 8 propriate strategies and technologies to legal opportunities place students in a variety of legal Law Library...... 10 research. settings, providing students with the stimulat- Adjunct Faculty...... 11 Outcome 5. Recognize and resolve ethical ing job experience and professional contacts to issues. facilitate a natural transition into the legal field. Required Courses...... 18 Student attainment of the SLOs will be Most SJCL graduates find employment locally, Elective Courses...... 20 reflected, not only in the grades students while some venture into California’s most Admissions...... 26 receive in their individual courses, but may competitive markets. As SJCL is the only law Financial Information...... 27 also be separately assessed from time to time by school in the Central Valley our students benefit mechanisms independent of individual course from the multitude of internships, clerkships Academic Calendar...... 30 assignments and examinations. and career options without the competition. Disclosures...... 32 Accreditation Ensuring Success San Joaquin College of Law is accredited by The staff at SJCL understands that many the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State students have responsibilities that extend Bar of California, permitting SJCL graduates to beyond law school. Every effort is made to sit for the California Bar Exam, as well as by the facilitate each student’s personal academic Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges success. Dedicated faculty members regularly and Universities of the Western Association of hold study and review sessions. Students are Schools and Colleges, an institutional accredit- encouraged to organize study groups – building camaraderie that translates into professional contacts after graduation.

1 requirements within 5 years of initial Curriculum enrollment, or 6 years from initial Required Courses for San Joaquin College of Law offers enrollment if the student was granted a flexible program leading to the Juris Graduation the right to repeat the first year, Doctor degree. The degree can be Course Units unless such limitation violates some attained in three, four, or five years. state or federal, statutory or regula- Advanced Research & Writing...... 3 Attainment of the degree requires: tory, provision. Appellate Advocacy...... 2 • Completion of 86 semester units: 68 Business Organizations I & II...... 4 units of required courses and 18 units Civil Procedure I & II ...... 5 of electives, not more than four (4) Four-Year Program Community Property ...... 3 of which may be clinical work. An SJCL’s Four-Year Program is designed Constitutional Law I & II ...... 6 additional four (4) units of clinical for a diverse community. The cur- Contracts I & II...... 6 CURRICULUM work may be completed in the New riculum is intended to accommodate Criminal Law and Procedure ...... 6 American Legal Clinic. the needs of working students, parents, Evidence I & II...... 6 • A cumulative grade point average commuters, and others who have Legal Methods I & II ...... 4 of 65 or better at the end of spring substantial commitments outside of Moot Court ...... 2 semester. (Although transfer units their studies. The program requires Professional Responsibility ...... 2 from an ABA or state accredited law an average of ten classroom hours Property I & II...... 5 school may be accepted, only work each week throughout the four years. Real Property Drafting ...... 1 completed at SJCL is credited toward A student should expect to spend Remedies I & II...... 4 a student’s cumulative GPA). approximately two to three hours Torts I & II...... 5 • A minimum grade of 55 in all in preparation time for each hour Wills & Trusts I & II...... 5 required courses. of classroom time. The program is Total Required Units 69 • Course attendance totaling a designed primarily as a night program, minimum of 16 semester units per but there are some daytime sections of Total Elective Units 17 academic year. classes offered depending on demand Total Units 86 • Completion of all graduation and availability.

Cooperative Degree Program SJCL seeks to add a new set of skills to the lawyer’s toolbox for resolving conflict by offering a cooperative degree with Fresno Pacific University. This program joins the discipline of law with the humanistic approach of peacemaking to create a new breed of professional that promises to transform Facilities & Location the way our society resolves conflict. Students SJCL occupies a Mediterranean Renaissance simultaneously enrolled in both degree programs building in a park-like setting in downtown (MA/JD) can complete both degrees in four years Clovis. The facility consists of seven classrooms, because of the mutual recognition of elective units. courtroom, library including group and individual Read more about this exciting program at www.sjcl. study spaces, the New American Legal Clinic, Law edu/coopdegree or at http://peace.fresno.edu. Journal/student organizations offices, student lounge, and faculty and staff offices.

2 Three-Year Option Sample Four Year Program Students in the Four-Year Program who complete the first Year 1 Year 3 year with a minimum cumulative Fall/Spring (20 Units) Summer (2 Units) GPA of 75 can accelerate their COURSE TITLE UNITS COURSE TITLE UNITS studies by transferring to the Civil Procedure I & II...... 5 Clinical and/or Electives...... 2 Three-Year Option. Students who Contracts I & II...... 6 wish to transfer to the Three-Year Legal Methods I & II...... 4 Fall/Spring (20 Units) Option are required to meet Torts I & II...... 5 COURSE TITLE UNITS with the Director of Student Constitutional Law I & II...... 6 Services, Academic Dean, Dean Year 2 Evidence I & II...... 6 of Students, or Dean for approval Summer (2 Units) Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning I & II...... 5 before transferring. If receiving COURSE TITLE UNITS Clinical and/or Electives...... 4 financial aid, the transferring Professional Responsibility...... 2 TYPICAL CURRICULUM student must also meet with Year 4 the Director of Financial Aid. Fall/Spring (20 Units) Summer (4 Units) The Three-Year Option requires COURSE TITLE UNITS COURSE TITLE UNITS students to take additional courses Business Organizations I & II...... 4 Clinical and/or Electives...... 4 during the second and third year Criminal Law/Criminal Procedure ...... 6 of the program and complete Appellate Advocacy (Fall) ...... 2 Fall/Spring (20 Units) a minimum of four (4) clinical Property I & II ...... 5 COURSE TITLE UNITS units. Any outside employment Real Property Drafting...... 1 Advanced Research & Writing...... 3 in excess of (20) hours per week is Moot Court (Spring)...... 2 Community Property ...... 3 prohibited. Remedies I & II ...... 4 Clinical and/or Electives...... 7 Five-Year Option Students who must extend their education because of family, work, or other commitments can Sample Three Year Option reduce the per semester course Year 1 load and complete the program in Fall/Spring (20 Units) You must have a cumulative five years. Students who wish to COURSE TITLE UNITS GPA of 75 or higher after select this program must first seek Civil Procedure I & II...... 5 authorization from the Director completing 20 units to transfer Contracts I & II...... 6 of Student Services, Academic into the Three Year Option. Legal Methods I & II...... 4 Dean, Dean of Students, or Dean. Torts I & II...... 5 The Juris Doctor degree must The Juris Doctor degree must be completed within a total of five be completed within a total Year 2 of five years from the time of years from the time of admission. Summer (4 Units) admission. COURSE TITLE UNITS Professional Responsibility...... 2 Clinical and/or Electives...... 2 Year 3 Fall/Spring (30 Units) Summer (4 Units) COURSE TITLE UNITS COURSE TITLE UNITS Business Organizations I & II...... 4 Clinical and/or Electives...... 4 Constitutional Law I & II...... 6 Criminal Law...... 3 Fall/Spring (28 Units) Criminal Procedure...... 3 COURSE TITLE UNITS Evidence I & II...... 6 Advanced Research & Writing...... 3 Appellate Advocacy (Fall) ...... 2 Community Property...... 3 Moot Court (Spring)...... 2 Remedies I & II...... 4 Property I & II...... 5 Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning I & II...... 5 Real Property Drafting...... 1 Clinical and/or Electives...... 11

*Programs subject to change

3 Students are eligible for externship Elective Courses study upon completion of the first year Academic Enrichment The elective units required for gradu- of law school. Appellate Advocacy ation are obtained through elective Established placement opportunities Moot Court courses offered primarily during the to obtain legal experience and clinical Appellate Advocacy has been added evening. Elective credit can also be units are available with numerous to supplement Moot Court and is a earned via other academic activities, governmental agencies and private law separate, 2-unit required course that such as external Moot Court competi- offices. Many of these are ongoing, but focuses on appellate-level legal writing. tions, externship work, or the New the number of students that a firm or Appellate Advocacy/Moot Court is American Legal Clinic. Study abroad agency can accommodate is limited. now a two-semester requirement for all classes offered by ABA accredited law A student alternatively may create an students. schools or otherwise approved by the individual clinical, where he or she The spring Moot Court course Faculty Committee also count for works under the supervision of an requires students to orally argue the elective credit. attorney, with the approval of the Dean topic assigned during their Appellate CLINICS & EXTERNSHIPS of Students. Information on clinical Advocacy course in the fall in an intra- In-House Clinics placements may be obtained from the mural competition. These arguments New American Legal Clinic Director of Student Services. are judged by local judges, attorneys, faculty, and alumni. Students enrolled in the clinic, under The placement process is like SJCL participates in statewide and clinical director supervision, take on all applying for a professional position. national Moot Court competitions major aspects of representing a client The student should submit a resume (Roger J. Traynor, National Securities before the United States Citizenship and along with a personalized cover letter to Law and National Tax Law), and has Immigration Service (USCIS), including the contact person. Typically a writing distinguished itself among teams from interviewing clients, preparing forms, sample is also needed, so the student top ABA institutions. Those who go on analyzing and arguing complex legal should have one ready. The student to these competitions receive additional issues, and attending USCIS applicant should register for the clinical units coaching from the Moot Court profes- interviews. The Clinic also has a class- through the admission/registrar’s office sors and experts in the community. room component in which students learn after he or she has been selected for the basics of immigration, citizenship, the position. For further information and laws protecting immigrant victims of regarding the placements see either Teaching and Research human trafficking and family violence. the Director of Student Services or the Dean of Students. Assistantships Students may be invited by faculty BREN Clinic Disclaimer: San Joaquin College of Law does not affirm or represent that to act as teaching or research assistants. Students enrolled in the BREN any particular posting or opportunity Teaching assistants may be asked to Clinic will take on all major aspects of for an off-campus, non-SJCL intern- help the professor prepare for class, representing a client’s special education ship, externship, job, or other place- help evaluate student work or conduct interests under externship director ment, whether paid or unpaid, complies supplemental class sessions, small sec- supervision including conducting with The Fair Labor Standards Act tions, etc. as directed by the professor. client interviews, analyzing complex and/or other applicable Federal and Research assistants typically will pursue legal issues and applicable evidence, State Labor and Employment Laws. research on a particular topic or subject and providing oral advocacy services at matter as directed by the professor and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) report, in writing, in a format requested meetings and/or due process hear- Practical Training of Law by the professor. Students can earn ings. The Clinic also has a classroom Students Program, or elective units for teaching or research component in which students will learn assistantships. Students who qualify for how to use the legal tools contained “Certified” Law Students federal financial aid may alternatively in the Individuals with Disabilities Pursuant to California Rules of receive hourly compensation for their Education Act (IDEA), the Americans Court, rule 9.42, the State Bar of work through federal work- study. with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 California’s Practical Training of Law Teaching or research assistant positions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to Students (PTLS) program certifies DO NOT qualify as clinical experience advocate for individual remedies. law students to provide limited legal and may not be used to satisfy any services under the supervision of an required clinical units. attorney. To be eligible to apply for Externships certification a student must have Legal work heightens a student’s completed one full year of law school Study Abroad understanding of class content, (270 hours). The student must also SJCL does not sponsor a study enhances practical skills and introduces be enrolled in and attending, or have abroad program, but students can the student to the “real world” of law successfully completed, Evidence and request approval for credit in a program practice. SJCL provides and encourages Civil Procedure courses. For complete offered through another institution. a variety of placement opportunities. rules see the California Bar website at 4 www.calbar.ca.gov. Contact the Dean of Students several to advance to the second semester. months in advance to submit a request First-year core courses are Torts, Civil Graduation with Honors The degree of Juris Doctor “With for approval to the SJCL Faculty Com- Procedure, and Contracts. Students Honors” will be awarded to any student mittee. Students can receive elective who do not meet both criteria will be who completes the degree requirements credit on a pass/fail basis for approved academically excluded. No probation with a cumulative GPA of 82 or better. study abroad programs. Students seek- will be granted to such students to ing financial aid to cover tuition costs advance to the second semester. must contact the Director of Financial For all students, a cumulative GPA Graduation with High Aid at least two months in advance of of 65 or better thereafter is required the start of any study abroad program. for advancement to each subsequent Honors The degree of Juris Doctor “With year in law school and for graduation. High Honors” will be awarded to any Each student’s cumulative GPA is Grading Standards student who satisfies the following calculated annually, at the end of San Joaquin College of Law employs requirements:

the Spring semester, for purposes of ACADEMIC STANDARDS a rigorous, objective grading policy. 1. Completion of the degree require- advancement to the next year in law Grading is NOT on a curve. Strict ments with a cumulative GPA of 85 school. Academic disqualifications academic standards assure students that or better, are determined at that time. Except they possess the training and discipline OR under extraordinary circumstances, a necessary for the legal profession. 2. Completion of the degree require- student must complete the program Course grades are based primarily ments with a cumulative GPA of 82 within five (5) years of initial enroll- upon final examinations. These are or better, and: ment. See the sections on “Academic administered under a system that A) Preparation, with no more than Disqualification- Probation Status” and ensures the student’s anonymity. two (2) other students, of at least “Juris Doctor Degree Requirements” Some professors also consider outside one moot court brief for any for additional information. assignments, class attendance, and class national or regional competition, preparation in grading. The standards provided that the Dean and used by each professor are announced Academic Disqualification Faculty Chairperson deem such at the beginning of the course. – Probation student’s contribution to the brief to be of high quality. First year students who are disquali- OR Numerical Grading fied for failure to attain a cumulative B) Preparation of a Law Review All courses are graded numerically, GPA of 65 at the end of Spring Semes- article which satisfies the require- with the exception of Law Review, ter may petition the Faculty Committee ments for candidacy on the SJALR clinical programs, independent study, to continue on Probation or to restart or a scholarly article accepted for and some skills courses for which a the program. Advanced students who publication by any other recog- grade of PASS or FAIL will be entered. are disqualified for failure to maintain nized law journal. a cumulative GPA of 65 may petition OR Grading Scale the Faculty Committee for Probation. C) Successful completion of the 85 – 100...... Excellent Students granted probation have until cooperative degree program with 75 – 84...... Good the end of the next Spring Semester Fresno Pacific University. 65 – 74...... Adequate to raise their cumulative GPA to 65. 55 – 64...... Inadequate, But Passing Except under extraordinary circum- Below 55...... Not Passing stances no student shall be granted Attendance and more than one probationary period. A grade of 55 is the minimum pass- Students receiving federal financial Preparedness Policy Class attendance and preparation are ing grade. No credit is given for courses aid and/or veteran’s benefits can only crucial for success in law school. The in which the student has earned a grade receive such aid and benefits during California Committee of Bar Examin- of FAIL (a grade lower than 55), or has one probationary period. ers requires that a student must attend failed to sit for any required examina- at least 80% of the scheduled sessions tion. A student who fails a required course Graduation with of a course to receive credit. is required to repeat the course. The Law Students are permitted the following School does not permit any course to be Distinction number of absences per course per challenged by examination. The degree of Juris Doctor “With semester or summer session, regardless Distinction” will be awarded to any of the reason for the absence: Satisfactory Progress student who completes the degree requirements with a cumulative GPA of All first year students must pass (a 78 or better. passing grade is 55 or better) at least two first-year core courses and attain a 60 cumulative GPA to be eligible

5 Number of Permitted Course for submission of required financial Federal Direct unsubsidized loans must Session Absences aid forms is April 30 of each year. New be applied for first. 1 - 3 sessions...... None students should complete the forms as Federal Work-Study jobs are 4 - 7 sessions ...... 1 early as possible, but no later than June available on a limited basis to students 8 - 11 sessions...... 2 30 (exceptions can be made for late with need. Most positions require the 12 - 16 sessions...... 3 admits). completion of the first year of law school 17 - 22 sessions...... 4 to qualify. Contact the Financial Aid 23 - 27 sessions ...... 5 Types of Financial Aid Available Department for further details or visit 28 - 32 sessions...... 6 Federal Direct Loans are the major SJCL’s on-line listing of employment Upon exceeding the permitted form of financial aid for law students. opportunities called Jobs at www.sjcl. number of absences, the student will be Any eligible, regular student enrolled edu/jobs. automatically dropped from the course. at least half-time may borrow Federal Scholarships, ranging from $500 The student will receive a refund of Direct Loans. The maximum annual to $2,500, are awarded each spring to about 35 recipients. Private groups ACADEMIC STANDARDS the unearned tuition consistent with loan limit is the lesser of $20,500 or SJCL’s dropping a class refund policy. the cost of attendance minus other outside San Joaquin College of Law also For more details, see the SJCL Student financial aid. Most students are eligible offer scholarships to SJCL students. All Handbook. for the $20,500 maximum. Loan limits scholarship information is emailed to may be less for students without a all students. Announcements provide Career Services BA/BS degree. Contact the Director specific information about provisions, qualifications, and deadlines. SJCL Career Services assists students and of Financial Aid for specific loan scholarships are listed on the website at alumni by informing them of career maximums. www.sjcl.edu/scholarships. For further options and job search strategies, Grad PLUS Loans, graduate information about scholarships, contact and connecting them with potential students are also eligible to borrow the Director of Student Services. For employers. Career Services provides under the Federal PLUS Program up outside scholarships and grants, go to career counseling, résumé reviews, to their total cost of attendance minus the SJCL website at www.sjcl.edu/finaid, and mock interviews along with an all other estimated financial assistance. click on “Search Outside Scholarships.” extensive resource library and programs throughout the year designed to help students narrow their areas of interest. Additionally, Career Services maintains an on-line listing of employment op- portunities called Job Board at sjcl.edu. Alumni Association Students are encouraged to participate SJCL’s Alumni Association endeavors to strengthen alumni in clinical study which heightens a connections and provide support to current students, student’s understanding of class content, enhances practical skills and introduces graduates, the law school, and the community. The Alumni the student to the “real world” of law. Board, along with the help of committees and volunteers, Career Services assists in the placement present several events each year. Among them are the SJCL of students in a wide variety of posi- Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Senior Citizens Law tions ranging from judicial clerkships to misdemeanor prosecutorial teams. Day, Got MCLE?, the Marjaree Mason Christmas Party, Students are also encouraged to partici- Bar Survival Talks, and the Judy Wiseman Memorial Golf pate in uncompensated work, beginning Tournament. Through these and other events, the Alumni their professional obligation to engage in Association provides scholarships for law students as well pro bono work. as community service programs and mentoring activities. Financial Aid In addition, SJCL Alumni maintain a strong professional Financial aid is available to qualify- network among their classmates. SJCL graduates have ing students seeking help in meeting distinguished themselves as judges and court commissioners the cost of their educational endeavors. (thirty-six), the California Health and Human Services A Financial Aid Administrator is on staff to provide detailed information Secretary, the former Deputy Undersecretary of the and assistance. California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Financial aid application instructions current District Attorneys for Fresno and Kings Counties, and forms are updated each January just to name a few. at the school website, www.sjcl.edu/ finaid, for the upcoming academic year. For continuing students, the deadline

6 Student Bar Association Delta Theta Phi LSCA The San Joaquin College of Law We encourage law students to Law Students for Community Student Bar Association, of which all consider being a member of the nation’s Advancement’s (LSCA) primary mis- students are members, provides an premier law fraternity. Delta Theta Phi, sion is to invigorate a culture of opportunity for public service and the which can trace its roots to 1900, has engagement at SJCL and empower the discussion of student issues. initiated more than 136,000 members student body by facilitating positive Each group of students in the same locally, across the country, and in and impactful relationships with our class year at the Law School selects two several other nations. Many of our community. We believe that as law class representatives, which form the members are distinguished persons in students and future legal professionals, governing group of the Student Bar government, in business, in interna- we have a duty to advocate for social Association. The representatives of the tional affairs, on the judiciary, and in justice in our community. We seek to first year class are selected each fall. the general practice of law. Membership prioritize knowledge over information The representatives of the upper classes is open to all students enrolled in the by restoring the value of language and and the officers are selected annually law program. promoting dialogue. LSCA opposes during the spring semester. Officers As members, students have an racism, sexism, homophobia, and other STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS include the President, Vice President, opportunity to become involved in the forms of oppression, and provides a Treasurer, and Secretary. legal community, while participating in place for like-minded students to access The Student Bar Association professional seminars, social events, and resources and organize their efforts. coordinates a number of annual events, community service. They may qualify Through community outreach and including portions of the first year for scholarships and award programs, education, we hope to create a com- orientation, the new student reception, student loans, and grants through the munity that embraces knowledge and and the annual spring awards banquet. local or national Senate. Delta Theta promotes tolerance. The Student Bar Association Phi is the only law fraternity with an coordinates the Outstanding Student authoritatively recognized law review. Award Program, in which candidates Each member also receives the “Paper are nominated by members of their Book,” a quarterly publication of Delta respective classes based on outstand- Theta Phi. ing scholarship, leadership, and contributions to the class. The Student LawSUIT Bar Association also coordinates Law Students United in Tolerance the Student Mentoring Program. In (LawSUIT) exists to build a sense addition, the Student Bar Association of unity between members and to sponsors scholarships. promote appreciation of diversity issues within the student body and the Christian Legal Society community through our pursuit of aca- The Christian Legal Society (CLS) demic excellence, service to the school, is a nationwide Christian fellowship and the coordination of activities: committed to acting justly, loving • To promote SJCL to the diverse mercy, and walking humbly with their population of the Central San God. Founded in 1961, CLS defends Joaquin Valley. religious liberties for all Americans • To provide support and encourage- in the legislatures and the courts and ment to new students adjusting to serves those most in need in our society life as a law student. through Christian Legal Aid. They • In furtherance of these objectives, are organized in more than 1100 cities LawSUIT extends its invitation of into attorney chapters and law student membership to all. chapters across the United States. Four students committed to creating a faith based fellowship on campus founded the CLS chapter at SJCL in September 2017.

7 Janice L. Pearson where she remains Of Counsel assisting with J.D., University of California, Berkeley complex immigration cases. She graduated B.A., University of California, Berkeley from San Joaquin College of Law where she Prior to her 1985 appointment as Dean of was honoured various Witkin Awards for San Joaquin College of Law, Dean Pearson Academic Excellence. Ms. Barreto is licensed served as Staff Attorney, Managing Attor- in California and is admitted to practice in ney and Interim Director of Fresno-Merced the Executive Office for Immigration Review Counties Legal Services, Inc. (1976-1984). (immigration court) in all locations across Dean Pearson teaches Torts. During her ten- the United States and is a member of the Janice L. Pearson American Immigration Lawyers Associa-

FACULTY ure as dean, she was a finalist in the YWCA/ Fresno Bee Outstanding Business/Profession- tion, The American Bar Association and the al Woman of the Year Competition (1990) Fresno County Bar Association. She is fluent and received the Fresno Women Lawyers’ in both English and Spanish. Justice Pauline Hanson Award (1992) and the Fresno County Bar Association Liberty Christine A. Goodrich Bell Award (1993). She also was awarded the J.D., University of California, Los Angeles B.A., University of California, Berkeley Soroptimist Women Helping Women Award Professor Goodrich, joining the Full-Time (2001). Faculty in 2010, is currently teaching Torts. Justin B. Atkinson Since 1989, she has taught courses as an Ad- J.D., University of Utah junct Faculty member in Legal Process, Ad- vanced Research and Writing and Research Justin B. Atkinson M.A., University of Utah B.A., University of Utah and Writing. Professor Goodrich has for over Professor Atkinson teaches Contracts and 20 years practiced law with Lozano Smith, serves as Academic Dean. Prior to joining and is currently Of Counsel in the Fresno the SJCL faculty in 2010, Professor Atkinson office assisting with public construction practiced general litigation with the Fresno law matters. Before practicing with Lozano firm of McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Smith, Professor Goodrich represented pri- Wayte and Carruth LLP. Later, Professor vate clients in business litigation and creditor Atkinson joined the Office of the Fresno bankruptcy proceedings at Jory, Peterson County Counsel. At County Counsel, his and Sagaser and during law school externed focus was civil litigation with an emphasis in with the Honorable Robert J. Kelleher at the public entity liability. His practice included Federal District Court, Central District of extensive motion and trial work, as well as California. Linda Barreto appellate work, at both the state and federal level. In law school he was an executive edi- Denise M. Kerner tor of the Utah Journal of International Law, J.D., San Joaquin College of Law and published work on topics related to in- M.A., California State University, Fresno B.A., California State University, Fresno ternational law and literature. Before attend- Professor Kerner served as a Deputy ing law school, Professor Atkinson taught Fresno City Attorney from 1985-89 draft- Spanish and Latin-American literature at the ing, negotiating, reviewing and interpreting University of Utah. contracts for all city departments. She served Linda Barreto as a Research Attorney for the Fifth District J.D., San Joaquin College of Law Court of Appeal (1983-85). Professor Kerner B.A., University of California, Merced has been a full-time faculty member at SJCL Professor Barreto is the Director of the since March of 1990, teaching Civil Proce- Christine A. Goodrich New American Legal Clinic and teaches Im- dure I & II and Professional Responsibility. migration Law. Prior to joining the full-time faculty at SJCL, she worked defending the Mark J. Masters rights of immigrant children as a staff at- J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles M.L.I.S., University of California, Los Angeles torney for the non-profit organization, Kids Mark Masters has been teaching Legal in Need of Defense (KIND) and as an as- Methods I and II since the fall of 2014. Be- sociate attorney for Lazaro Salazar Law, Inc. fore serving as San Joaquin College of Law’s

Denise M. Kerner 8 Library Director, Mr. Masters was the refer- pal Code. Dean Tennerelli practiced corpo- ence and collection development librarian at rate bankruptcy and real estate law at Gold- the Fresno County Public Law Library for berg Kohn in Chicago, IL before moving to five years. Prior to becoming a law librarian, Fresno, California and earning her Master’s he practiced as a civil litigator in Ventura in Counseling at Fresno State University. She County for five years. His areas of practice graduated from the University of Chicago were first-party insurance policy issues, Law School with honors and was a member common-interest community law, education of the The University of Chicago Law Re- law, and neighbor disputes. Mr. Masters re- view. During her time in law school, she also Mark J. Masters ceived his Master’s in Library Science from received the Lord, Bissell & Brook Prize for FACULTY the University of California, Los Angeles and Outstanding Brief in the law school’s Moot his Juris Doctor from the evening program Court Competition and volunteered at the at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He also Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic for the has a Master’s in Visual Arts Administration Employment Discrimination Project. from New York University and a Bachelor SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE of Arts in History/Art History from Loyola Marymount University. He currently lives in Andreas Borgeas Fresno with his wife and three cats. J.D., Georgetown Law School M.A.L., Harvard University Jeffrey G. Purvis B.A., Northern Arizona University J.D., University of California, Davis Andreas Borgeas, PhD B.A., University of California, Davis Professor Andreas Borgeas is a Scholar in Jeffrey G. Purvis In 1993, Professor Purvis was selected Residence and has been a member of the SJCL as the James K. and Carol Sellars Herbert faculty since 2007. He received his graduate Professor of Constitutional Law at San education at Harvard University, Georgetown Joaquin College of Law. Professor Purvis University Law Center and Panteion Univer- teaches Constitutional Law and various sity of Political Sciences. Following his legal constitutional law electives and taught Busi- education, Borgeas served as a judicial law ness Organizations for many years. He has clerk at the US Court for the Eastern District been Faculty Chair and Chairperson of the of California. He is a member of the bar in Faculty Committee since 2007. Prior to California and Washington, DC, holds a cer- joining SJCL’s full-time faculty he served as tificate from The Hague Academy of Interna- a senior research attorney for the Court of tional Law, and in private practice specialized Appeal, Fifth Appellate District of the State in international law at Luce Forward. Borgeas of California from 1983-1985, and served as was a Fulbright Scholar, Marshall Memorial Logan Tennerelli a research attorney for the Superior Courts of Fellow, Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Centre Fresno (1982-1983) and Sonoma (1980-1981) for European Studies, Contributing Fellow for Counties. He was editor in chief of the Bar- the Woodrow Wilson Int’l Center for Schol- Passers bar review course from 1985 to 1990. ars, and a Policy Specialist Fellow at the US Logan Tennerelli Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. He also served as an official political observer in J.D., University of Chicago Law School both the constitutional referendum and na- B.A., University of California, Berkeley Prior to her appointment as Dean of Stu- tional elections of the Nagorno Karabagh Re- dents as San Joaquin College of Law, Dean public. Borgeas’ record of scholarship includes Tennerelli taught Legal Methods at SJCL as extensive field research in Central Asia and well as Law and Democracy, Civic Engage- China, with publications in international jour- nals from Cornell University, Columbia Uni- ment and Leadership, and other pre-law Andreas Borgeas classes at Fresno City College. In addition versity and Yale University.Andreas Borgeas is to teaching, she served as the Fresno City currently serving as a California State Senator, College counselor for pre-law students. Dean an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Insti- Tennerelli continues to run the Fresno City tute of International Studies in Monterey, and College Student Advocacy Municipal Hear- a Commissioner on the US-China Economic ing Clinic at Fresno City College, which al- and Security Review Commission. lows pre-law students to represent appellants in matters pertaining to the Fresno Munici-

9 LAW LIBRARY

San Joaquin College of Law’s The Peace Collection Law Library Law Library The Peace Collection was donated to the SJCL Library by Doug Noll, the Chair of SJCL’s Mark Masters SJCL’s Law Library holds more than 80,000 Board of Trustees. The original collection con- Law Library Director volumes, including law reviews, annotated sisted of 165 titles, covering a range of subjects [email protected] codes, appellate court reports of all jurisdic- and all have a common thread of Peace and/or tions, and complete Federal and California Kerry Hanson non-violent conflict resolution. Titles include collections. The resources available include Head of Public Services the subjects of religion, philosophy, sociology, the principal secondary sources and a growing [email protected] history, psychology, negotiation, mediation and collection of practice materials. law. The Peace Collection is housed in the same The SJCL Library is a member of several state Cynthia Robinson room as the Rule of Law Collection. Technical Services Librarian and national interlibrary loan networks. Virtu- [email protected] ally any law journal, law review, manuscript or treatise can be accessed through our library. The Winton Collection In addition, hundreds of thousands of The J. Martin Winton Collection on Land volumes are available through web-based Development, Water Use, and the Public Trust Library Hours subscriptions. While on campus and connected Doctrine was donated to San Joaquin College Except during holidays, to SJCL’s Wi-Fi network, students have unlim- of Law in 1988. The Collection represents semester breaks, and ited access to HeinOnline, CCH Intelliconnect, Winton’s lifelong interest and commitment examination weeks and Lexis-Nexis State Capital. Students have to preserving the natural resources of the San library hours are as unlimited access to LexisNexis, Westla, CEB Joaquin Valley and includes books, reports, re- follows: Onlaw, The Making of Modern Law Collec- cords, maps, photographs, and personal papers tion, and CALI available via the internet 24 on San Joaquin wildlife and water development. Monday – Thursday hours a day, on or off campus. The Collection, which has been archived and 9:00am – 10:00pm Study carrels are available for individual indexed, is housed in our Winton Special Friday studying. Two rooms are available for study Collections Room and is available by appoint- group meetings on the second floor. ment only. 9:00am – 5:00pm Saturday – Sunday The “Rule of Law” Collection 8:30am – 6:00pm The “Rule of Law” collection is a gift from James K. and Carol Sellers Herbert. It includes The Library is available works on jurisprudence, philosophy, and his- only to faculty, students, tory. It is designed to enable students to explore and alumni of SJCL. the classic writings on the crucial role of law in a civilized society.

10 Robert C. Abrams Thomas H. Armstrong igation with the San Francisco firm of J.D., San Joaquin College of Law J.D., San Joaquin College of Law Dooley, Anderson, Berg, Pardini, John- B.S., University of California, Berkeley B.A., California State University, Fresno son & Ziegler and in business transac- Property I Bankruptcy tions with McCormick, Barstow, Shep- Property II Thomas H. Armstrong is a sole prac- pard, Wayte & Carruth in Fresno. He Real Property Drafting titioner, practicing primarily in the also served a six month internship at Mr. Abrams is the owner of the Law area of bankruptcy law. Mr. Armstrong the United States Department of Labor Office of Robert C Abrams which prac- has represented institutional creditors, in Boston, Massachusetts, adjudicating tices in the areas of Real Estate Law, small and large businesses, Debtors and compensation claims and preparing Civil Litigation, Family Law, Wills Creditors, Trustees and Creditors Com- studies concerning industrial cases of and Trusts. Prior to opening his firm mittees in bankruptcy proceedings. hearing loss, asbestosis and mesotheli- in 2016 he worked in the Fresno City He served as a judicial law clerk to the oma among civilian employees at mili-

Attorney’s office and another local law Hon. Richard T. Ford, United States tary shipyards and aircraft facilities. ADJUNCT FACULTY firm. Mr. Abrams has been a Licensed Bankruptcy Judge Retired, from 1989 Real Estate Broker since 1980 and is a through 1994. He has spoken at various Arthur G. Baggett, Jr. licensed General Contractor. He has seminars on multiple issues arising un- J.D., San Joaquin College of Law over 10 years in commercial banking, der the Bankruptcy Code in continuing M.S., Antioch College B.S., University of Cincinnati where he was involved in real estate education courses offered by numerous Water Law finance, and over 20 years running a entities including, Central California Professor Baggett has been the at- company involved in many aspects of Bankruptcy Association, SJCL, the torney member of the California State real estate including, Construction and California Bankruptcy Forum and the Water Resources Control Board since Development, Property Management, National Business Institute. He has 1999. The Board is charged with pro- Inspections, Sales and Marketing. He is been a contributing editor to Norton’s tecting, preserving and restoring all a former President of the Fresno Asso- On Bankruptcy Law. He also was an California waters while providing for ciation of Realtors, former Board Chair adjunct professor at SJCL instructing the equitable use of the state’s surface of the Community Housing Counsel in the area of bankruptcy law in the waters. Prior to his appointment by and former Board Chair of Habitat for school’s former paralegal program. Governor Davis, he practiced law in Humanity Fresno for whom he is cur- Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Mariposa, California. He served two rently general counsel. State Bar of California, the Fresno terms as a county supervisor, and as County Bar Association, and the Fed- adjunct faculty for the University of Miiko Anderson eral Bar Association. He is admitted to California’s Sierra Institute, the Yo- J.D. John F. Kennedy University, School of Law practice in the Eastern, Northern, and A.A., Laney College semite Institute, and California State Southern District Courts of California, Human Trafficking University, Fresno. Miiko Anderson is a certified Crimi- and the United States Court of Appeals nal Specialist and Senior Deputy Dis- for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Armstrong Marsha Baum trict Attorney at the Fresno County has argued numerous cases before the J.D., SUNY at Buffalo District Attorney’s Office. As a spe- Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the M.S.L.S., Columbia University cialty unit prosecutor, she prosecutes Ninth Circuit and the United States B.A., History, University of Rochester Animal Law Gang, Domestic Violence, Sexual As- Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Marsha Baum is currently the Asso- sault and Human Trafficking Cases. He is a past president ofthe Central ciate Vice President for Faculty Affairs She has taken over 60 cases to jury trial California Bankruptcy Association and in the Provost’s Office at Fresno State. and gained convictions and lengthy the California Bankruptcy Forum. She joined Fresno State after serving as sentences on some of Fresno County’s Lawrence M. Artenian a full-time tenured professor of law at most violent offenders. Professor An- J.D., University of San Francisco, School of Law the University of New Mexico School derson also serves on the Board of B.A., Harvard University of Law in Albuquerque, where she Directors for Breaking the Chains, a Contracts I taught Property Law, Intellectual Prop- non-profit organization dedicated to Contracts II erty, Animal Law, Commercial Law, providing resources to survivors of hu- Professor Artenian returned to pri- and Legal Ethics. She previously taught man trafficking. She has received mul- vate practice in 2010 after 19 years as in the law schools at the University of tiple awards for her tireless efforts to a member of the full-time faculty at Minnesota, University of Connecticut, prosecute some of the most challenging SJCL. He has taught Contracts, Rem- and the University of South Carolina cases in Fresno County. edies, Real Estate Secured Transactions as well as serving as visiting scholar or and a variety of other courses. His cur- visiting professor at the University of rent work with the Fresno firm of Wag- Tasmania, University of North Ade- ner & Jones emphasizes employment laide, Sydney Law School, and Flinders and class action litigation. Previously, University in Australia. Her research Professor Artenian practiced in civil lit-

11 interests include the intersection of ani- tax-free exchanges, employee benefits, Phillip H. Cherney mal law and disaster law. and general business practices. J.D., Lincoln Law School, San Jose B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Barry J. Bennett Amanda D. Cary The Death Penalty J.D., New York University Law School J.D., UC Davis School of Law For six years Professor Cherney A.B., University of Rochester B.A., University of Southern California taught Criminal Law and Procedure Private Labor Law Appellate Advocacy and Evidence I-II to law students at Public Labor Law Moot Court San Joaquin College of Law. He is now Professor Bennett is a partner in the Amanda D. Cary has been a Deputy teaching a single, advanced Criminal law firm of Bennett & Sharpe. In 1975- Attorney General in the Criminal Law course, The Death Penalty. In 76 he was Regional Director of the Division – Appeals, Writs, and Trials addition to his teaching experience, Agricultural Labor Relations Board in section – of the California Attorney Professor Cherney has over four de- Fresno. Prior to entering private prac- General’s office for the past 12 years.

ADJUNCT FACULTY cades of trial and appellate experience tice, he was staff attorney for the Equal She is admitted to practice in all Cali- in state and federal courts in civil and Employment Opportunities Commis- fornia Courts, the U.S. District Court criminal litigation. For the past thirty- sion (1974-75), a member of the New for the Eastern District of California, three years he focused his practice on York Office of Labor Relations (1973- the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, criminal defense representation, tried 74), and staff member and attorney for and the United States Supreme Court. twenty murder cases, including six the International Garment Worker’s Professor Cary handles appeals in a capital cases, and he was appointed by Union (1968-73). Professor Bennett wide range of adult and juvenile cases, the California Supreme Court as lead has been a contributing editor for A including murder and capital murder counsel in six death penalty appeals Dictionary of Arbitration (1970) and cases. She has argued more than a and habeas corpus proceedings. Retir- California Administrative Mandamus dozen times in the California Court of ing from active practice in 2019, he has for Continuing Education of the Cali- Appeal, Fifth Appellate District, twice been a consultant to public defender fornia State Bar. in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, agencies and private counsel, testified and once in the California Supreme as as an expert witness on professional Alyson A. Berg Court. During law school, Professor standards and practices for defense J.D., University of California, Cary was an editor of the UC Davis counsel in death penalty trials, and he Hastings College of Law Law Review, and had her student arti- B.S., University of San Francisco has published scholarly articles on select cle “Cocaine Base: Not All It’s Cracked Advanced Research & Writing topics in criminal law. Up to Be” chosen for publication. She Alyson has been litigating cases in also holds bachelor’s degrees in political federal and state courts for over 20 David P. Chiappetta science and economics from the Uni- years. For nearly ten years, Alyson has J.D., University of Washington School of Law versity of Southern California. tried multi-million dollar civil and B.A., Willamette University Civil Procedure I criminal cases for the government. Her Daniel E. Casas Professional Responsibility trial experiences are wide¬ranging, J.D., University of California, Los Angeles Professor Chiappetta is a partner at including defending the government B.S., California State University, Fresno Perkins Coie LLP, an international law in employment discrimination, fraud, Tribal Sovereign Immunity firm with over 1,100 lawyers. With over worker injuries cases, and participating Daniel E. Casas is the Chief Legal twenty five years of legal experience, his in drug and human trafficking trials. Counsel to Table Mountain Ran- practice primarily involves the litigation Alyson has also handled several appeals cheria’s Tribal Government, Table of complex commercial disputes, with in matters relating to wrongful termi- Mountain Casino and Table Mountain a focus on antitrust and unfair business nation/employment discrimination, Rancheria Tribal Gaming Commis- practice claims, class actions, contract fraud and personal injury claims. In sion. Mr. Casas has developed a level of and partnership disputes, and intel- addition to her trial and post-trial work expertise in the area of Federal Indian lectual property matters. Professor Chi- in employment matters, Alyson has Law and Tribal Sovereign Immunity appetta also has extensive experience provided employment training to sev- in his ten plus years at Table Mountain counseling clients on issues relating to eral agencies relating to harassment and Rancheria. His opinions and advice are antitrust law and trade regulation, and racial and religious discrimination. frequently sought by members of our has represented clients before federal state and federal legislators who desire and state government enforcement David M. Camenson an unbiased assessment of the current agencies in relation to mergers, acqui- J.D., Indiana University, Bloomington state and trends in the field Federal sitions, joint ventures, and civil and M.B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington Indian Law. Mr. Casas also frequently B.A., University of California, Los Angeles criminal investigations. He has served participates in panel discussions with Basic Individual Income Taxation as an international enforcer, spending local and state officials in topics that -af Law Practice Management four years of his legal career in Austra- fect or pertains to the development and Secured Transactions lia prosecuting cases on behalf of the implementation of successful Govern- Professor Camenson is a solo practi- Australian Competition and Consumer ment-to-Government communication tioner, emphasizing retirement plans, Commission. While attending the Uni- and programs.

12 versity of Washington School of Law, Brown appointed Mark to the Fresno rights and employment litigation. Prior Professor Chiappetta was a member of County Superior Court. Mark assumed to law school, Mr. Fuentes served as a the Moot Court Honor Board, and he his role as a Judge in Superior Court in legislative staffer in the U.S. House of was named to the Order of the Coif on January, 2016, and is currently assigned Representatives. graduation. He is admitted to practice to Department 1, hearing misdemeanor in California, New York, the District of cases. Hon. Erica Grosjean Columbia, and Australia. J.D., Harvard Law School Matthew Farmer B.A., University of California, Berkeley Lisa B. Coffman J.D., Univiersity of the Pacific, Civil Trial Practice J.D., Georgetown University Law Center McGeorge School of Law First Amendment A.B., Harvard/Radcliffe College B.A., California State University, Sacramento Prisoner Rights Species Protection Policy and Law Administrative Law Judge Grosjean was appointed in Professor Coffman is a career law Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning I October 2015 to the Eastern District of clerk/staff attorney with the United Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning II California as a U.S. Magistrate Judge. ADJUNCT FACULTY States District Court for the Eastern Professor Farmer is an attorney with She presides over various federal cases District of California, where she has Littler Mendelson. His practice consists involving such issues as prisoner civil supported District Judges Oliver W. solely of representation of employers rights, employment discrimination, Wanger, Lawrence J. O’Neill, and Dale in various civil and agency matters, in- social security, Americans with Dis- A Drozd. Previously, she clerked for cluding suits for wrongful termination, abilities Act, and habeas corpus. She District Judge James Robertson in the sexual harassment, and discrimination. also handles criminal pretrial matters as District of Columbia. Although she has Jessica E. Hafer Fierro well as settlement conferences. wide-ranging experience reflecting the Prior to joining the bench, Judge J.D., San Joaquin College of Law breadth of topics that come before the Grosjean worked as a partner for the M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and federal district courts, she has devel- B.A., Lawrence University oped particular expertise in environ- Environmental Law Sullivan, in New York and Los Angeles, mental, water, and administrative law. Jessi Fierro has worked at the San where she litigated across a wide range She also holds a bachelor’s degree in en- Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution of areas of law, including structured vironmental science and public policy. Control District since 2005, working finance, patent infringement, contract, antitrust, misappropriation, insurance, Hon. Jonathan B. Conklin first in regulation and plan develop- ment before taking the role of Assistant securities, unfair competition, constitu- J.D., McGeorge School of Law Counsel starting in 2014. Her legal tional law, and fraudulent transfer. B.A., California State Polytechnic University, Judge Grosjean also clerked for the Pomona work includes civil enforcement of en- vironmental regulations through the late Ninth Circuit Judge Herbert Y.C. Criminal Law Choy. Criminal Procedure eight county Superior Courts of the Professor Conklin was appointed to San Joaquin Valley; federal appellate David J. Guy the Fresno County Superior Court in work in the Ninth and D.C. Circuits; J.D., University of Colorado School of Law October of 2005. Prior thereto, he was and advising on employment and B.S., San Diego State University an Assistant United States Attorney in public agency issues. She serves on the Water Law the Criminal Division of the United Executive Committee of the Environ- Professor Guy is the President of the States Attorney’s Office in Fresno. From mental Law Section of the California Northern California Water Association, 1985 – 1990, he served as a Deputy Lawyers Association. Through this where he represents numerous water District Attorney in the Kern County committee, Professor Fierro has coordi- districts and local governments in the District Attorney’s Office. nated and moderated several conference Sacramento Valley. He was previously panels and co-chaired two environmen- the Chief Executive Officer for the Hon. Mark E. Cullers tal law conferences. Professor Fierro has Yosemite Association, a non-profit asso- J.D., George Washington University Law School also taught as an adjunct professor at ciation dedicated to connecting people B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Fresno City College, CSU-Fresno, and to Yosemite National Park. He has rep- Criminal Trial Practice Kern County College of Law. resented public, private and nonprofit Mark is the former Chief of the U.S. clients on all aspect of natural resources Attorney’s Office in Fresno, where he Robert A. Fuentes law and policy, including water, land supervised 22 federal prosecutors and J.D., Yale Law School use, and real property, including serv- oversaw office operations. He has tried M.P.A., Harvard Kennedy School ing Of Counsel to Somach, Simmons over 30 federal criminal jury trials to B.A., Stanford University and Dunn, a natural resources law firm verdict. He is an Adjunct Professor at Evidence I with offices in Sacramento and Fresno, San Joaquin College of Law, teaching a Evidence II and the California Farm Bureau Fed- class every Spring semester on Criminal Robert A. Fuentes is a career law eration. He has advised the last three Trial Practice. He is also a member of clerk/staff attorney at the U.S. District Governors on California water policy the Law School Faculty Committee. Court for the Eastern District of Cali- and he has been appointed to serve on In November, 2015, Governor Jerry fornia. Previously, Mr. Fuentes worked in private practice, focusing on civil

13 numerous commissions and boards. He Andrew S. Kucera is in chemical engineering. Mr. Levitt is has written two dozen articles on water J.D., San Joaquin College of Law a member of the State Bar of New Jersey. and natural resources law and policy in M.B.A., California State University, Fresno Today, he is a sought-after speaker on a various law reviews and other profes- B.A., San Diego State University variety of commercial and intellectual sional journals. Community Lawyering property topics. Legal Technology Jason P. Hamm Practice 99 Michael R. Linden J.D., University of Southern California Professor Kucera has been teach- J.D., John F. Kennedy University School of Law B.A., University of California, Los Angeles ing at SJCL since 2013. In 2014 and B.A., California Polytechnic State University-San Employment Law 2017, he received the Adjunct Faculty Luis Obispo Remedies I of the Year award. Professor Kucera is Land Use Remedies II also a partner at Palmer Kucera LLP Public Entity Liability Professor Hamm is the General Professor Linden is a Senior Counsel

ADJUNCT FACULTY in Clovis, CA, where he practices real Counsel of Valley Yellow Pages. Prior estate/business law, landlord-tenant at Lozano Smith in Fresno. His practice to this he was an associate with Lang, law, and estate planning. Professor is focused on assisting local government Richert & Patch (2000-2005) where he Kucera is admitted to practice in all clients in a wide-variety of legal issues. specialized in employment and business California courts, and the U.S. District Mr. Linden serves as Deputy County litigation. He was a staff member of the Court for the Eastern District of CA. Counsel for the County of Madera, as Southern California Law Review. Professor Kucera was Valedictorian well as Deputy City Attorney or the of the 2013 graduating class of SJCL, Cities of Clovis and Lemoore. Mr. Lin- Ray Horng den was previously employed at both J.D., University of Michigan Law School where he obtained his Juris Doctor- ate with High Honors. At SJCL, he Fresno County Counsel and Merced B.A., Yale University County Counsel, where he handled Legal Methods I received the Dean’s Scholarship and both litigation and transactional mat- Legal Methods II 17 Witkin Awards for Academic Ex- ters for various departments, including Ray Horng has served as a law clerk cellence. In 2005, Professor Kucera the Sheriff’s Office. From 2002-2010, to the Hon.s Anthony W. Ishii and Oli- obtained a MBA from the Craig School Professor Linden was an attorney ver W. Wanger, United States District of Business at California State Univer- at Weakley, Arendt & McGuire in Judges for the Eastern District of Cali- sity, Fresno. In 1997, Professor Kucera Fresno, where he represented numerous fornia, Fresno Division. obtained a BA, Cum Laude, with Dis- tinction in Economics, and a minor public entities and employees in civil Kathi Kesselman in Real Estate, from San Diego State litigation. From 2001-2002, Profes- J.D., San Joaquin College of Law University. sor Linden was an attorney at Roger, B.A., City University of New York Scott & Helmer in Redwood City, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning I Cary Levitt where he represented land developers Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning II J.D., College of William & Mary School of Law and contractors in construction defect Professor Kesselman has maintained B.S., Cornell University litigation. a solo practice, emphasizing family law, Contracts I wills, and probate since 1980. She was Contracts II John Malmo a partner in the firm of Lusk and Kes- Mr. Levitt’s 35 years of legal experi- J.D., Ventura College of Law selman and also worked for Bennett ence centers in the corporate sector B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara Evidence I and Ostroff. Professor Kesselman has where he has been at the forefront of Evidence II taught in the Department of Education commercial and intellectual property Professor Malmo has practiced civil at California State University, Fresno. practices. During his legal career, Mr. Levitt served as General Counsel of litigation, with emphasis on personal Stefanie J. Krause a publicly traded company, a global injury matters, for over 30 years. He J.D., San Joaquin College of Law joint venture and a start-up. As Chief also practiced insurance defense for a B.A., California State University, Fresno Intellectual Property Counsel at Dow year. He taught Legal Analysis, Evi- Advanced Research & Writing Corning Corporation, Mr. Levitt led dence, and Advanced Evidence at the Professor Krause is a solo practitioner a global team of more than 25 em- Ventura and Santa Barbara Colleges of focusing on estate planning, probate, ployees. His team executed the global Law from 1987 to 2000. and conservatorships. She previously protection of patents, trademarks, trade worked at the Law Office of Sarah A. Devon McTeer secrets and domain names; developed J.D., San Joaquin College of Law Schmidt, where she focused on insur- IP strategies; implemented an IP li- ance defense and animal law. She is Co- B.S., California State University, Fresno censing program and formed strategic Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Founder and Treasurer of the Central alliances and partnerships. Mr. Levitt Devon McTeer began her legal prac- Valley Coalition for Animals, a 501(c) also served as Corporate Counsel for tice with McCormick Barstow in 2003. (3) non-profit charitable corporation. DuPont, including 4 years in DuPont’s She is currently a partner at Whitney European headquarters located in Gene- Thompson & Jeffcoach. She has tried va Switzerland. His undergraduate degree cases at both the state court and federal

14 court levels and in arbitration. Ms. ist in the George Hopper Moot Court California Attorney General’s Office. McTeer has extensive experience in the Competition. Jesse is a current member defense of business and complex com- of the Association of Corporate Coun- Dan Rogers mercial litigation matters, fraud, unfair sel and the International Association J.D., San Joaquin College of Law competition, corporate and partnership for Privacy Professionals and is com- B.S., San Diego State University Interactive Media disputes, and professional malpractice, pleting an executive program in digital including attorneys, accountants, di- leadership and strategy at Columbia Professor Rogers practices interac- rectors, and officers liability. She also Business School. Jesse serves on several tive entertainment, transactional, and has extensive experience in defending boards focusing on education, equity intellectual property law, primarily hospitals, medical groups, physicians, and diversity within the community in- within the video game and social media and other medical facilities in matters cluding the President’s Advisory Board industries. His writing, research, and relating to healthcare litigation. She has at Fresno State University, the Board of lectures have helped many understand the dynamics of the video game and been retained, on numerous occasions, Trustees at SJCL, the Fresno Compact, ADJUNCT FACULTY to assist both large and small employers Fresno Innovative Charter Schools and interactive media industries. Prior, Pro- in obtaining Workplace Violence Re- California Law Pathways. fessor Rogers served as a senior partner straining Orders in an effort to protect with Interactive Studio Management, their employees, both from a safety and James Mugridge general manager with Sierra On-Line liability standpoint. J.D., San Joaquin College of Law (now Vivendi Universal), and director B.A., University of California, San Diego of entertainment software for IBM. Mark D. Miller Moot Court J.D., Santa Clara University James Mugridge serves as a Law Katherine Englander Schuh B.S., Louisiana State University Clerk to the Hon. Anthony Ishii, J.D., New York University School of Law Copyright/Trademark Law Senior District Judge in the Eastern B.A., Cornell University Patent Law District of California. Prior to and dur- Legal Methods I Legal Methods II Professor Miller is the owner of Si- ing his legal education he spent several erra IP Law, PC which specializes in years working in a criminal defense of- Kate is an Assistant United States patent, trademark, copyright, unfair fice where he wrote motions, writs, and Attorney in the Narcotics and Violent competition and related matters. He is appeals. In law school, he was a mem- Crime Unit of the Fresno United States a member of the American Intellectual ber of SJCL’s 2013 Traynor Moot Court Attorney’s Office. Kate started her Property Law Association, the Federal team which took the Roger J. Traynor career in civil practice in New York Circuit Bar Association, and the Patent, Trophy for best oral advocacy. City, focusing primarily on securities Trademark & Copyright section of the and antitrust litigation. In 2016, Kate and State Bar of California. John M. O’Connor moved to Fresno to become a law clerk J.D., University of California, Hastings College to the Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill, Jesse Molina of Law United States District Court Judge for J.D., San Joaquin College of Law M.A., University of Southern California, the Eastern District of California. Kate B.A., California State University, Fresno Annenberg School for Communications joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office as a Business Organization I B.A., Pomona College prosecutor in 2018. Business Organization II Constitutional Law I Jesse Molina is the Chief Legal Of- Constitutional Law II Hon. Michael Sheltzer ficer for Aplos Software, LLC and is the Mr. O’Connor has been the Research J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law former General Counsel of FocusVision Attorney for the Madera Superior B.A., Tulane University Worldwide, Inc., an international pri- Court for the last seven years. Prior to Advanced Criminal Law vate equity owned tech company and that he was in private practice in Los Professor Sheltzer is a Judge of the Decipher, Inc., a privately owned tech Angeles, California, where his practice Tulare County Superior Court. Prior to company. Jesse’s focus is on corporate involved civil litigation (covering real his appointment to the Bench in 2013, law, contracts, mergers and acquisi- estate, commercial lease, intellectual he worked as a public defender for tions, and data privacy law. Previously, property, and employment disputes, nearly 29 years both in San Francisco he also served as Manager of ADR among other areas) in state and federal and Tulare counties. He was appointed Services at the American Arbitration courts. Chief Public Defender for Tulare Association (the worlds’ largest alterna- County in 2002, managing an office tive dispute provider) where he admin- Jennifer Oleksa of 45 attorneys. He has tried countless istered business-to-business contract J.D., San Joaquin College of Law criminal cases including many murder B.S., California State University, Fresno disputes primarily focused in the tech and capital murder cases. Professor Appellate Advocacy Sheltzer has taught at the annual Cali- sector. In law school Jesse was the exec- Legal Methods I fornia Public Defenders Association utive editor of the San Joaquin Agricul- Legal Methods II Trial Skills Institute and has taught tural Law Review, placed third in the Jennifer Oleksa is a Deputy Attorney a variety of law related courses at the National Asylum and Refugee Moot General in the Criminal Division--Ap- undergraduate level. Prior to attending Court Competition, and was a final- peals, Writs, and Trials section--of the law school he was a probation officer in New Orleans. 15 ADJUNCT FACULTY

16 Michael E. Smith Amelia Thompson every major team in the DA’s Office; J.D., University of California, Davis J.D., University of North Carolina School of Law including homicide, sexual assault, ca- B.A., Claremont Men’s College B.S., Appalachian State University reer criminal, and the crime charging Education Law Legal Methods I unit. He is certified by the State Bar as Michael E. Smith is a Founding Legal Methods II a Specialist in Criminal Law and served Partner of Lozano Smith. He is a school Amelia Thompson serves as a Law as a Commissioner on the State Bar law attorney, an educator and a speaker. Clerk to the Hon. Jeremy Peterson, Criminal Law Advisory Commission Mr. Smith graduated from Claremont Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District from 2014 through 2018. Professor Tre- Men’s College (Magna Cum Laude) Court for the Eastern District of Cali- isman successfully litigated cases on be- and obtained his J.D. from the Uni- fornia at Yosemite. She has also served half of the District Attorney’s Office in versity of California at Davis. He was as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Louise W. the Superior Court, the Superior Court admitted to the California Bar in 1980, Flanagan and the Hon. Malcolm J. Appellate Division, the Fifth District

and has represented school districts for Howard, both District Judges in the Court of Appeal, and the California ADJUNCT FACULTY approximately 38 years. In addition to Eastern District of North Carolina. Supreme Court. his general counsel experience in all as- Before moving to Fresno, Ms. Thomp- pects of educational law, Mr. Smith of- son practiced at the South Carolina Alicia Diaz Wrest fers specific expertise in collective bar- Environmental Law Project. During J.D., San Joaquin College of Law gaining, labor and personnel, student her time at the University of North B.A., Penn State M.L.I.S., University of Arizona discipline matters, and constitutional Carolina School of Law, she taught Legal Process questions involving the First Amend- an exam writing course, and worked Alicia Diaz Wrest graduated from ment. Mr. Smith also works extensively at the North Carolina State Ethics San Joaquin College of Law with high drafting superintendent and adminis- Commission, the Environmental Pro- honors and serves as the Associate trator contracts with a specialized focus tection Agency Region 9 office, and Academic Dean and Pathways to Law on management compensation and Department of Justice Environmental Champion. During her time as a stu- CalSTRS/CalPERS retirement issues. Enforcement Section, along with com- dent at SJCL, she was a staff member pleting over two hundred hours of pro of the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Re- Vincente Tennerelli bono work for various nonprofit orga- view, and served as the Assistant Editor- J.D., University of Chicago nizations. in-Chief. Before joining the faculty at B.A., University of Notre Dame Advanced Research & Writing Douglas O. Treisman SJCL, Professor Wrest was a sharehold- Vince is an Assistant United States L.L.M., Chapman University School of Law er at Dias Law Firm, Inc., in Hanford, Attorney in the Fresno Office’s White J.D., Santa Clara University, School of Law California. She practiced in the areas Collar Unit. Vince began his legal ca- B.A., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor of civil law/litigation, estate litigation, Criminal Law reer as a corporate bankruptcy attorney business law, and transactional law. She Criminal Procedure before practicing civil litigation in Chi- is a member of the Kings County Bar Professor Treisman was admitted cago, where he litigated against major Association, Fresno County Bar Associ- to practice law in California in 1987. banks in disputes involving fraudulent ation, Fresno County Women Lawyers He retired from the Fresno County home loans issued in the run-up to the and is a former Soroptimist. District Attorney’s Office as a Senior Great Recession. In 2014, Vince joined Deputy and the Lead Attorney of the the Fresno U.S. Attorney’s Office’s -Af Writs and Appeals Unit in March of firmative Civil Litigation Unit, where 2022. Although his career began in he pursued healthcare providers and civil practice at the law firm of Baker, government contractors for civil recov- Manock & Jensen, in 1989, and for eries under the False Claims Act. Vince more than 30 years thereafter, he joined the White Collar Unit in 2018. worked as a prosecutor assigned to

17 L105F Business Organizations I relationship between state governments L135F Criminal Law This course examines the nature of and the federal government, and the The criminal law course provides an agency and partnership relationships, relationships among branches of the overview of the purpose of criminal including the rights, duties, and federal government. It also explores law, the procedures by which it is liabilities of principals, agents, and the nature of, and limitations on, the enforced, and its substantive content, partners. This course also includes an judicial power of the federal courts, and including offenses against the person, introduction to corporations, limited certain rights protected by amendments habitation and property, imputability liability companies, and other limited to the Constitution. Topic areas include and responsibility, modifying circum- liability entities. (2 units) enumerated powers, separation of powers, stances negating responsibility, and implications of federalism, intergovern- limitations on criminal capacity. The L105G Business Organizations II mental immunities, limitations on state criminal procedure course reviews the This course contains an in-depth regulatory power (the Dormant Com- constitutional principles regulating and merce Clause, the Contract Clause, the

REQUIRED COURSES REQUIRED examination of issues related to limiting criminal procedures of arrest, corporations, including problems of Interstate Privileges and Immunities investigation, discovery, accusation, management, duties and liabilities Clause), the Takings Clause, Procedural trial, sentencing, punishment, and of officers and directors, shareholder Due Process, Substantive Due Process, appeal. (3 units) rights, securities fraud, and fundamen- justiciability (the political question tal corporate changes. (2 units) doctrine, standing, and related areas), L135G Criminal Procedure and the Second Amendment. While the The criminal law course provides an L111F Civil Procedure I focus is on discerning applicable rules overview of the purpose of criminal This course involves the study of and applying them to fact situations, law, the procedures by which it is constitutional, statutory, and common relevant constitutional policy and enforced, and its substantive content, law bases of modern civil procedure in theory are examined to aid comprehen- including offenses against the person, both state and federal courts. Emphasis sion and deepen understanding of habitation and property, imputability is placed on personal jurisdiction, the lawyer’s role in our constitutional and responsibility, modifying circum- subject matter jurisdiction, venue, system. (3 units) stances negating responsibility, and transfer, forum non conveniens, and limitations on criminal capacity. The issues related to choice of law. State L125G Constitutional Law II criminal procedure course reviews the and federal rules of civil procedure are This course focuses primarily on constitutional principles regulating and considered. (3 units) study of those portions of the United limiting criminal procedures of arrest, States Constitution that protect critical investigation, discovery, accusation, L111G Civil Procedure II human rights such as freedom of speech trial, sentencing, punishment, and This course involves the study of civil and of association, freedom of religion, appeal. (3 units) litigation from the commencement of and equal protection. The doctrine of an action through trial and appeal. State Action is also examined. While L140F Evidence I Emphasis is placed on pleading, join- the focus is on discerning applicable This course examines the rules of der, discovery, pre-trial motions, trial, rules and applying them to fact situa- evidence, which includes common law motions after trial, appellate review, tions, relevant constitutional policy and and Constitutional principles as well as and preclusion. State and federal rules theory are explored to aid comprehen- federal and California rules, relating to of civil procedure are considered. This sion and deepen understanding of relevance, materiality, and the hearsay course includes a review of the topics the lawyer’s role in our constitutional rule and its exceptions. (3 units) covered in Civil Procedure I. (2 units) system. (3 units) L140G Evidence II L115 Community Property L130F Contracts I The course continues examining This course is an overview of marital This course introduces students to the the rules of evidence relating to property systems. It covers the com- basic elements of consensual liability, scientific evidence, the opinion rule, munity property system in California including the fundamental principles of authentication and the best evidence – characterization of assets, rights to contract formation, performance, breach, rule, impeachment and rehabilitation, management and control, resolution of and remedies. This course also includes presumptions and burden of proof, disputes involving community assets, an analysis and application of the parole evidence rule, and the conduct creditors’ rights, and distribution of Uniform Commercial Code. (3 units) of the trial from opening statement to the community property on death or final argument. (3 units) dissolution. (3 units) L130G Contracts II This course continues to look at the L151F Legal Methods I L125F Constitutional Law I elements of consensual liability and This course is an introduction to legal This course introduces the student may include such other principles as methods, including case briefing, the to legal issues arising from the gov- restitution, advanced remedies, third impact of precedent, factual analysis, ernmental structures governed by the party beneficiaries and parole evidence. the importance of policy and the use of United States Constitution, including (3 units) analogy. Distinguishing and synthesizing the sources of federal power, the cases are also topics. Also covered are the 18 purposes and sources of the law, court L160F Property I L170G Torts II structures, and study techniques. (2 unit) Following an introduction to the This course involves the study and general concepts of real and personal, analysis of legal rules which determine L151G Legal Methods II the course examines adverse possession, whether civil liability should attach to Students are taught how to locate, use, estates in land, and future interests. conduct resulting in harm to others. and cite all the major types of research The relation, rights, and duties of Intentional torts, negligence, causation, materials available to the legal practi- the landlord and tenant will also be strict liability, nuisance, misrepresenta- tioner. The emphasis is on developing covered. (3 units) tion, defamation, invasion of privacy, practical research skills. Writing skills are interference with economic relations, and developed through briefs and exercises, L160G Property II product liability are considered. (3 units) and drafting of memoranda, complaints, This course continues the study of and points and authorities. (2 unit) real property, exploring individual and L175 Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning I societal rights to water, air, and natural COURSES REQUIRED L155 Moot Court resources. Conveyancing, easements, The course examines the transfer This program is designed to further covenants, and servitudes are covered. of assets at death through intestate the skills of legal research, brief writing, Finally, the State’s ability to control succession and by will. The patterns of and oral advocacy. Students are given a land use or to take property is exam- intestate succession and family mem- mock appellate case. Students research ined. (2 units) bership determination are reviewed. and write a brief for either the appellant The formalities of will execution, will or appellee. They are then coached L161 Real Property Drafting contest, and revocation are studied. (2 for and participate in oral argument This course gives students the oppor- units) of their case before panels of judges tunity to put their academic knowledge selected from members of the Bar and of Real Property law into practice by L175 Wills, Trusts, and bench. The course culminates in the drafting various documents related to Estate Planning II annual George A. Hopper Moot Court real property issues and transactions. This course continues the study of Competition. Selected students who The course will be graded Pass/Fail. (1 the transfer of assets at death through demonstrate exceptional skills are invited unit) probate alternatives. Formation of to participate in state and/or national trusts, restraints on alienation of a moot court competitions. (2 units) L165F Remedies I beneficial interest in a trust, revocable Remedies focuses upon the develop- trusts, charitable trusts, and fidu- L158 Appellate Advocacy ment, nature, and scope of relief that ciary duties of trustees are considered. The purpose of this course is to a court may grant a party who has Instrument interpretation, protection teach students the nature of appellate established its entitlement to a substan- against unintentional disinheritance, law in general, explain the processes, tive right. Remedies I covers compensa- and other topics applicable to both wills requirements, and formal briefs used tory damages involving tort, contract, and trusts are reviewed. (3 units) in California Appellate law to the constitutional claims and dignitary students, and to reinforce the legal harm. The course also commences L180 Professional Responsibility research and writing skills that students an exploration of equitable coercive This course explores the organization have developed in their previous remedies and their basic requirements of the bar and regulation of the legal coursework through the completion of (3 Units). profession. Students will also be guided an Appellant’s Opening Brief. in the recognition of and response to The majority of class time will be L165G Remedies II the varying and sometimes conflicting dedicated towards teaching students Remedies II continues the exploration duties of an attorney to client, court how to write an Appellant’s Opening of coercive equitable remedies, includ- and society. (2 units) Brief utilizing a gradual series of ing the availability of preliminary benchmark assignments throughout the injunctive relief. This course also covers L200 Advanced Research & Writing semester. This will be a gradual process declaratory relief, punitive damages, This advanced program of legal analysis and through which the students can prac- restitutionary remedies, and equitable legal writing will focus on writing projects tice their legal research and persuasive defenses to remedies (2 Units). beyond those covered in the beginning legal writing skills. These benchmarks writing courses. Subject to the preference of will be based on the contents of an L170F Torts I the instructor, students may draft contracts, motions, pleadings, complex memoranda, Appellant’s Opening Brief and the This course involves the study and research the students must perform in statutes, wills and/or other types of legal analysis of legal rules which determine documents. Professional writing style and the support of their brief. This course will whether civil liability should attach methods of powerful written communication are also provide necessary preparation for to conduct resulting in harm to others. covered. (3 units) the required Moot Court class offered Intentional torts, negligence, causation, during the Spring semester. strict liability, nuisance, misrepresenta- tion, defamation, invasion of privacy, interference with economic relations, and product liability are considered. (2 units) 19 L145 Basic Individual Income deliver legal services and how to build a and discuss some of the issues and Taxation sustainable (profitable) practice, while concerns that a practitioner will have to This course is designed to introduce also expanding access to legal services. address when representing clients who students to the fundamental concepts Practice 99 focuses on community interact with federally recognized tribal with regard to income taxation under lawyering, and the four core areas of governments. (2 units) federal law, with primary emphasis on law practice management – marketing, individuals. The course more specifi- technology, finance, and management. L207 Municipal Law cally examines identification of income This includes cloud-based practice This course provides an overview of the subject to taxation, identification of the management platforms, online delivery form and structure of local government proper taxpayer, deductions allowable of legal services, building streamlined with an emphasis on decision-making, in computing taxable income, the revenue models, and grassroots market- open government and ethics. Topics proper year of inclusion of deduc- ing. Law students will leave Practice 99 include home rule, open meeting laws,

ELECTIVE COURSES tions, characterizations of income and empowered, with foundational tools conflicts of interest, due process, and deductions (capital gains and losses), for starting and growing a law practice checks and balances. Case studies will deferral and non-recognition of income of their own, and ready to serve the 99 include particular types of decisions deductions, computation of taxable percent. (2 unit) such as land use, public works, and income and tax liabilities, and basic personnel. (2 units) federal tax procedures. (3 units) L203 Legal Process The course will focus on skills and L208 Animal Law L156 Moot Court Competition knowledge useful for success on the In this course, students will discuss Upon recommendation of the Moot California Bar Examination. Students a series of topics that relate to animals Court Director, students participating will be exposed to bar-style essay and law in various environments. in external moot court competitions exams, MBE exams, and Performance The course will cover a wide array of may receive academic credit. (2 units) Exams. Students will also receive some animal law issues, including the legal substantive review in Torts, Contracts, classification of animals as property, L201 On-Line Legal Research and Constitutional Law. Enrollment constitutional standing to sue on This course focuses on the use of will be limited to graduating students. behalf of animals, laws and enforce- electronic resources to conduct general (3 units) ment relating to commercial uses of legal research. It will examine different animals, and criminal and civil action effective means of performing legal L205 Administrative Law that affect animals such as animal research; explore searching methods Administrative Law addresses the anti-cruelty laws and private causes of for both Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw and practices and procedures by which action such as loss of companionship/ examine other online materials and administrative agencies act to imple- emotional distress. This course will their use. The course will introduce ment governmental policies, as well focus on the evolution, interpretation, students to some specialized research. as the rights citizens have to seek and enforcement of laws relating to the This is designed as a skills course. Stu- judicial review of agency actions. The use and treatment of animals in our dents will complete a series of graded course includes a review of the con- society, evaluation of whether, how and research assignments both during class stitutional principles of separation of why such laws should be modified, the and outside of class. Students will powers which determine the roles of the possible ramifications of such change, maintain a research log which records President, Congress and the Judiciary and the practical impact that lawyers their research process. Course limited in overseeing administrative agen- can have in representing clients on to those who completed Legal Research cies. A particular focus is on federal animal-related issues. The course grade & Writing. (1 unit) administrative law and the operation will be based on a final examination. of the Administrative Procedure Act, (2 units) L202 Practice 99 which govern the promulgation of rules Few consumers of legal services and orders by federal administrative L209 Species Protection Policy and Law can afford to pay prevailing market agencies, as well as the rights of citizens This course introduces students to rates. Some qualify for government- to challenge such agency action in court environmental law and policy through subsidized legal aid services such as and seek monetary and injunctive relief. the federal Endangered Species Act Central California Legal Services (2 units) (ESA), arguably the most powerful and (“CCLS”). But the other “99 percent” the most controversial environmental often go unserved, due to socioeco- L206 Tribal Sovereign Immunity statute in the world. Lectures and nomic or geographical barriers. Practice This course explores the origin of readings will cover the policies behind 99 teaches law students how to start tribal sovereign immunity, its evolution the ESA; trace the statute’s step-by-step and grow a community-based law through the courts, and the effect species protection scheme; examine key practice that serves modest means or that tribal sovereignty has had on the administrative rules and caselaw; and “low bono” clients, commonly in rural societal and business relationships with explore both sides of the public policy areas. Students learn how to use law federally recognized tribes and their debate. Students will be evaluated practice technology to market and businesses. The course will examine based on small-group presentations,

20 periodic short writing assignments, and of the courts and NLRB interpreting Electives a final paper. (2 units) the Act, as well as in-depth case studies San Joaquin College of Law offers between of certain key areas of law developed eight and fourteen different elective classes L210 Bankruptcy under the Act. (2 units) Bankruptcy is designed to provide each year, the bulk being offered during students with a fundamental under- L213 Public Labor Law summer sessions. Regularly offered electives standing of basic bankruptcy law. The The course will examine Constitu- are augmented by other electives. class will cover federal statutes giving tional and statutory considerations rise to bankruptcy law, the Bankruptcy pertaining to employment relations The regularly offered electives, offered at Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy issues concerning public employees, least once every two years, include: Admin- Procedure, and the main participants in unionized and non-union, with bankruptcy cases. The various chapters particular emphasis on California law, istrative Law, Bankruptcy, Civil Trial Practice, under the Bankruptcy Code will be and particularly the right to organize, Civil Litigation (Pre-Trial) and Advanced discussed with particular emphasis on bargaining rights, and the administra- Criminal Procedure. debtor and creditor rights in Chapter 7 tion of finalized agreements containing and 13 cases. The course will also cover terms and conditions of employment Other electives are offered based upon trustee’s duties, avoidance actions under applicable to state, county, and other student need and interest as well as legal the Bankruptcy Code, property of the governmental employees. (2 units) estate, exemptions, the automatic stay, trends. The electives listed below have all payments of claims under the priority L215 Employment Law been taught within the last four years. scheme set out under the Bankruptcy This course provides an overview Code, discharge, objections to dis- of various legal issues arising out of charge and the nondischargeability of the employment relationship and the certain debts. (2 units) termination of the employment rela- including the mock trial of a civil tionship. There will be an emphasis on action is required. (3 units) L211 Education Law employment discrimination, wrongful This course will provide students with termination and related torts. (2 units) L227 The Death Penalty an introduction to key issues facing This advanced criminal law course is California Public Schools. Topics L220 Law Practice Management offered to students as an introduction will include many areas of constitu- This course covers the skills of to 8th Amendment jurisprudence tional law such as: Student free speech managing a law practice and provides a with a survey of the death penalty in controversies and dress codes in an basic understanding of the skills needed America and its status in other coun- era of social media; employee rights to to succeed in the practice of law. The tries. Students will learn about how speak on controversial issues; the role of course will cover the organization and capital punishment has been upheld religion on campus, including prayer at management of legal work as well as against systemic challenges to its school board meetings, religious clubs practical knowledge about how law consistency and reliability under the and student and staff religious liberty firms really work. The class will divide “Cruel and Unusual Punishment” rights; student searches; non-discrimi- into “law firms” and produce projects Clause, and how courts apply “super nation laws affecting students and staff in various areas. The course will cover a due process” to death penalty cases. such as Title IX; educating students number of topics involving the business Students will receive an overview of the with disabilities; student discipline side of law practice, such as manage- unique aspects of death penalty litiga- proceedings, the rights of immigrant ment and planning skills, as well as tion under California’s Briggs Initiative students; collective bargaining and legal issues that impact law firms, such (1977), familiarizing themselves with the role of unions in public schools; as partnership law, labor and employ- “death eligible” crimes, prosecutorial personnel issues and the rights of school ment law, leasing, pension law and charging decisions, motion practice, district employees; and laws governing malpractice. The course will also explore and problems generated by pretrial the management of school districts financial issues, marketing and technol- publicity in high-profile capital cases. such as California’s open meeting law ogy, as well as principles of professional Students will review jury questionnaires and the Public Records Act. (2 units) responsibility in these areas. (2 units) and “death qualification” jury selection L212 Private Labor Law L225 Civil Trial Practice in a local capital case, and explore some special “guilt phase” dynamics, and the The course focuses primarily on This course covers civil trial prepara- impact those strategies may have on the rights of employees, employers, tion and presentation, including file the “penalty phase” of trial, including and labor organizations under the summary and organization, voir dire, the presentation of “aggravation” and National Labor Relations Act and direct and cross examinations, and “mitigation” evidence. Course materials related statutes, primarily in the areas opening and closing arguments. Rules utilize judicial decisions and legislation, of organizing and representation. The of evidence and trial objections are philosophical and religious essays, curriculum includes both a general included. Extensive class participation law review articles, award-winning study of the Act and specific decisions

21 films, and case examples from the drafting methods for various types professor’s practice in trial and post- L233 Homicide of business contracts and alternative conviction proceedings. Criminal Law The law of homicide: Is there suf- dispute resolution clauses. The specific and Criminal Procedure (6 units) are ficient evidence to ethically prosecute practice areas to be examined will vary pre-requisites. (2 units) this case? from year to year, but may include, This course will cover the California for example: employment contracts, L230 Federal Courts and the Federal law of homicide from lawful self- personnel policies, real estate purchase System defense through vehicular homicide all agreements, title insurance policies, This course is an advanced seminar the way to death penalty prosecutions loan and collateral documents, deeds of analyzing select issues relating to including theories of liabilities and trust, security agreements, assignments, federal court jurisprudence. Topics will defenses. The focus of this course will processor/grower contracts and leases, include the authority of Congress to be on whether or not a homicide can various UCC agreements, and settle-

ELECTIVE COURSES restrict the jurisdiction of the federal be ethically prosecuted in light of the ment agreements. (2 units) courts, justiciability (standing, moot- evidence that is presented and the ness, ripeness, etc.), subject matter current status of California homicide L241 Land Use jurisdiction of federal courts, the law. Students will be evaluated based This course will provide an overview Eleventh Amendment, federal common on in class participation, a writing of the relative rights the individual and law, abstention and federal civil rights assignment and a group presentation government concerning the use and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Completion project. Extensive class participation is regulation of land. Course topics will of this course will give the student a required. (2 units) include nuisance law, eminent domain, greater sense of confidence in practicing community planning, zoning, local before federal courts. (2 units) L235 Constitutional Law Research land use entitlements, subdivision Seminar maps, environmental regulations, L232 Prisoner Rights Students will engage in collaborative development fees, inverse condemna- Approximately 25% of the civil cases research on a very focused constitu- tion, and judicial review. (2 units) filed in Ninth Circuit are prisoner civil tional law topic selected by the instruc- rights cases. This course objectively tor. Completion of Constitutional Law L242 Community Lawyering surveys the constitutional law that may be helpful but is NOT required. Community Lawyering is the second applies to those cases. What consti- Class time will include lecture material of three substantive courses in SJCL’s tutional rights do prisoners have once on the research topic, discussion and new Practice Program, and explores they have been sentenced and confined analysis of research results, and ongoing what it means to be a “community to an institution? The course will reformulation of research strategies. lawyer” and why we do it. Think of examine U.S. Supreme Court case law Grade is based on the quality of the Community Lawyering as the “why” regarding constitutional rights such as student’s research and contribution to complement to the “how” of Practice the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition classroom discussions. (2 units) 99. The course will discuss theories of against cruel and unusual punishment community lawyering, competencies as it applies to excessive force, failure to L237 First Amendment and skills for effective community protect, conditions of confinement and The meaning of the First Amend- lawyering, modes of social justice medical care; the First Amendment’s ment is a topic of great controversy lawyering, and sites for community protection of freedom of speech as it today, including whether the rights lawyering. After completion of the applies to access to mail, publications to free expression include the right to course, students will be ready to imple- and the courts; the Fourteenth Amend- withhold certain services from certain ment what they’ve learned in Practice ment’s due process clause as it applies groups, whether the prohibition against 99. (2 units) to disciplinary proceedings and solitary establishment of religion mandates confinement; and other legal issues separation of church and state or is L243 Environmental Law arising in such cases. The course will a prohibition against preferring one This course provides an overview of develop skills useful for all attorneys religion over another, whether social the constitutional and common law by evaluating precedent to tailor claims media sites and postings on them can foundations for environmental law, and and arguments in court. It will also or should be constrained. This course then presents a survey of the statutes give students sufficient familiarity to will review the history behind the First and agencies that currently address take on a prisoner case pro bonoafter Amendment, seminal Supreme Court various environmental concerns, being admitted to the bar, no matter cases, and current litigation. The goal is including air quality, water quality, what their practice area may be. Finally, to better understand the law regarding wildlife, land use, and more. The it will ask students to grapple with the the First Amendment and form a better course will investigate the interplay difficult questions about what rights understanding about how it influences of various levels of government can and cannot be taken away by the our world today and should influence it (federal, state, and local) in addressing government and how a society should in the future. (2 Units) environmental issues. Along the way, treat those who have lost their freedom. the course will address some of the (2 units) L239 Contract Drafting practicalities surrounding environmen- This course provides introductory 22 tal compliance from the industry or business perspective. (2 Units) L244 Water Law This course examines the develop- ment of water law from English and Eastern riparian theory, through the California and Western prior appropria- tion doctrine, and then to present day institutional, statutory, and judicial water resource governance. (2 units)

L245 Family Law ELECTIVE COURSES This course is an introduction to the laws and procedures relating to mar- riage and family relations, including the rights and obligations of spouses, terminating the marital relationship, parent and child relations, child and spousal support, non-marital relation- speakers. Case studies will be in a of Juvenile Justice, focusing on delin- ships, and adoptions, with an emphasis multimedia format. The student will be quency issues. The course will explore on practice under the California Family presented with actual communications the underlying and evolving policies Code. (2 units) captured between victims and traffick- and philosophies of delinquency ers. (2 Units) proceedings. It will further examine the L246 Human Trafficking practical application of those policies in This course will be an in-depth and L250 Advanced Criminal Law the juvenile courts. (2 units) comprehensive exploration of the This advanced criminal procedure complex issues related to the growing course will explore current and practi- L257 Special Education Law international and domestic problem cal pretrial issues in the criminal arena. This course explores the rights of of human trafficking. Covering both Topics will include charging discretion, students who receive assistance through labor and sex trafficking, the material arraignment and bail hearings, pre- special education and the responsibili- will explore current federal and state liminary hearings, discovery practice, ties of the school districts that educate law, policy considerations, and signifi- pleas, plea bargains, case negotiation them. The class will examine and cant legislative and societal changes and sentencing considerations, pretrial discuss the Individuals with Disabilities related to the crime of human traffick- case preparation and investigation Education Act, Title II of the Ameri- ing. The student will be introduced to strategies, motion practice and pretrial cans with Disabilities Act, Section the industries wherein cases of human writs and appellate remedies. Course 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, trafficking are commonly found, methodology will include traditional California’s related statutes, and related recruitment tactics of traffickers, as casebook learning coupled with regular case law. (2 units) well as the “profiles” of traffickers, in-class mock adversarial exercises. victims and buyers. Through the lens of Pre-requisite: completion of criminal L260 Pre-Trial Civil Litigation actual human trafficking prosecutions, law/criminal procedure or extensive This course is designed for law students will examine the challenges criminal law work background. (3 students interested in working in the found in the identification, investiga- units) civil litigation field. It involves training tion and prosecution of these cases. students in developing the skills to Student will be exposed to the unique L251 Criminal Trial Practice practice law as it relates to most aspects dynamic between victim and trafficker, This course will present a detailed of civil pre-trial litigation (from the the perplexing occurrence of victims analysis of the elements of each stage of initial filing of Complaint up until the who become perpetrators, modern a criminal trial. The conduct of a com- time of trial.) It includes lectures relat- trends in human trafficking, such as plete trial will be emphasized; however, ing to responding to a Complaint, fact the increase of female sex trafficker trial preparation, sentencing and post gathering, case management, written and the ever-changing use of social trial responsibilities of counsel will be and oral discovery skills, pleadings, pre- media, and victim centered approaches included. Practices in state trial courts trial motion work, oral argument/court to prosecutions. The course will also will be emphasized. Class participation appearances and alternative dispute address the psychological, physical and is required. (3 units) resolution. (3 units) financial impact of human trafficking on victims. The teaching methods will L255 Juvenile Justice L275 Law and the War on Terror include lectures, discussion and guest This course will provide an overview

23 This course is an in depth analysis of infringement, enforcement, remedies federal and state law as they pertain to and defenses. (2 units) the study of terrorism. Topics include search and seizure issues, privacy laws, L285 Interactive Media the U.S. Patriot Act, Constitutional Interactive Media Law is a survey of debates in reference to terrorism inves- legal issues and conflicts arising in the tigation and prevention, and criminal creation and management of websites, procedure. An added component to this social networks; downloadable mov- course is an examination of the histori- ies, television, and music; interactive cal, political, and ideological motivations entertainment and virtual worlds; behind terrorism for a more insightful and on-line business transactions. In understanding of the legal responses to these areas, we will consider specific

ELECTIVE COURSES the war on terror. (2 units) legal conflicts arising in tort, contract, intellectual property, Constitutional, L276 Legal Technology and other areas of law. Regardless of Technology continues to shape the where you are in your law school stud- legal profession in ever-increasing ways. ies, this class should help reinforce law 35 states have now adopted an ethical you already know and provide a brief duty of technology competence. Law preview of issues you’ll soon study. schools must teach, and law students (2 units) must learn, technology competencies in order to create productive members of L286 National Security Law the legal profession and meet the next This course is an in-depth analysis generation demands from law firms, of select laws and issues pertaining to clients, courts, and the legal market- national security; including search and outside the United States. (3 units) place. Legal Technology is a survey seizure issues, privacy laws, PATRIOT course covering diverse aspects of Act, constitutionality of certain 288 Human Rights and Immigration technology as they relate to the practice terrorism investigation/prevention This course will examine human of law. Specific topics will include measures, criminal procedure, and rights and immigration law with cloud-based practice management plat- water and food production security. emphasis as to where the two areas forms, paperless law offices, document An additional course component is the intersect. The primary text is a case management systems, hardware and examination of the historical, political, book that explores human rights from software, cybersecurity, data privacy, and ideological motivations behind both domestic and international law and technology ethics. Additional focus terrorism for students to better appreci- perspectives. Areas examined will will be on current events and emerging ate some of the legal instrumentality include asylum and refugee status, civil technologies. (2 units) involved in national security matters. rights in the United States, interna- The required text for this course is tional criminal law before and after 279 Patent Law Wayne McCormacks’ Legal Responses the establishment of the International This course provides an overview to Terrorism (First Edition), which can Criminal Court and detention in the and introduction to the substantive only be purchased from the Professor. United States immigration system. law of patents. The course examines John Esposito’s Unholy War: Terror Historical examples of genocide and the doctrines of novelty, utility, and In The Name of Islam (Oxford Univ. gross human rights violations such as obviousness in the context of the appli- Press 2002) is to be read prior to the the Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian cation process; disclosure, claiming and first day of class. (2 units) , Rawandan and Sudanese genocides statutory bars; the scope of protection will also be discussed and analyzed. In afforded by patents; infringement, L287 Immigration Law addition, discussion through a human enforcement, remedies and defenses. (2 This course provides an overview rights lens of very recent events in Syria units) of immigration and citizenship law. and at the United States border with We will discuss general immigration the influx of unaccompanied minor 281 Copyright/Trademark Law policy issues and how those policies children will also be part of the reading This course provides an overview and are implemented. We will also spend a requirements and class discussions for introduction to the substantive law substantial amount of time discussing the course. In addition, to the text stu- of copyrights and trademarks under the practical side of immigration. dents will be required to read excerpts federal law. The course examines Throughout the semester, we will from Immigration Law Stories as well the protections afforded through ask and attempt to answer numerous as a course reader with supplemental copyrights and trademarks, application important and complex questions articles. (3 units) processes, practice before the Trade- involving our immigration policies and mark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), their effect on people, both inside and L291 Secured Transactions This course is designed to engage 24 students in understanding and This course surveys the foundations counties; the California Court of Ap- performing tasks relating to secured and principles of international law, peal for the Fifth District; the Federal transactions–protecting the rights of including the nature and sources of District Court, Eastern Division; the the seller of goods or property without international law; the role of NGOs, U.S. Attorney General’s Office; the immediate payment therefor. The class individuals and corporations; bases Federal Defender; the California will address real property transactions of jurisdiction; immunity; human Attorney General’s Office; County and personal property transactions, rights; criminal law; law of the sea Counsel of Fresno County; Fresno City with the main focus on real property and environmental law. An additional Attorney’s Office; Central California transactions. The goal of the class is course component is the examination Legal Services; California Rural Legal to have students understand secured of the historical, political, and ideologi- Assistance. Students may also work in transactions and become capable of cal motivations behind international an arranged private legal setting with conducting any secured transaction law for students to better appreciate the approval of the Associate Dean. (1 - 4 upon course completion. (2 units) political instrumentality involved in units) ELECTIVE COURSES international matters. (2 units) L294 Public Entity Liability L381 Directed Research in Legal This course will examine the proce- L350, L351 Clinical Program Problems dural and substantive law aspects of Students work under the direction of Students may undertake in-depth public entity civil liability in California. an attorney in a variety of established research in particular fields of the law Legal and factual issues related to the settings, including: the District with the consent and direction of an prosecution and defense of civil actions Attorney’s Offices in Fresno, Tulare, instructor. The results of the research against public entities and public Madera, and Merced counties; the are embodied in a paper. Pass/Fail. employees, in both law and equity, Public Defender’s Offices of Fresno, (1 unit) will be addressed. The presentation of Tulare, and Merced counties; the claims through appropriate govern- Superior Courts of Fresno and Tulare mental entities, followed by the filing of the complaint, the answer, and other pleadings will be considered. (2 units) L295 International Law This course will focus primarily on law and practice before the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC). It will cover the law relating to: (1) energy rates, charges, service and billing disputes; (2) utility facilities, such as municipal franchises, power line extensions, outages, sub-metering, damage caused by utility facilities, and facility construction, maintenance, and repair; (3) PUC procedure, includ- ing PUC jurisdiction; rulemaking, ratesetting, investigation and complaint proceedings; PUC decisions and appeals; and rate and tariff creation and modification, and (4) State energy policy, including legislative and PUC initiatives on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, demand response, electric vehicle infrastructure, and distributed generation.(2 units) L296 California Energy Law & Practice

25 Admissions Special Students Application Procedures Several academic factors influence Exceptional applicants who do not All applicants are required to take the admission decision: undergraduate have a baccalaureate degree, associate the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) grade point average (GPA), Law School degree or 60 qualifying units of college and register with Credential Assembly Admission Test (LSAT) score, a record credit are classified as Special Students. Council (CAS). Both are coordinated of improvement in undergraduate A limited number of Special Students by Law School Admission Council study, graduate education, additional are accepted each year. (LSAC). LSAT registration is available training, and continuing education. When reviewing Special Student at www.lsac.org. Other application Honors, publications, and community applications, the Admissions Commit- procedures are completed through service are also relevant. tee stresses a solid LSAT score (50th SJCL or online at www.sjcl.edu. ADMISSIONS SJCL attempts to discover students percentile or better), a GPA of 3.0, who show the capacity to succeed in or above, on any college coursework Law School Admission Test law. The School’s broad policy includes completed, maturity, and a record of consideration of community involve- personal accomplishment. (LSAT) ment, life experience, employment All Special Students must take three The LSAT is a standardized test history and accomplishments, motiva- College Level Examination Program of reading comprehension, writing tion, and maturity – factors which (CLEP) tests. Pursuant to Committee ability, and analytical skills. It is given indicate the applicant will add a unique of Bar Examiners’ rules, an applicant six times annually at testing centers perspective to the student body. must take the English Composition or throughout the United States. San The Law School prefers applicants English Composition with Essay and Joaquin College of Law is designated as who hold a bachelor’s degree or the two other examinations, each designed Test Center #9521. equivalent from an accredited college or to correspond to full-year courses (6 The LSAT may be taken more than university. In some instances, particu- semester hours each) or four other once. LSAT scores are valid for three larly outstanding individuals without a examinations, each designed to cor- (3) years. four-year degree will be considered for respond to semester courses (3 semester A sample LSAT test is available at admission, provided other requirements hours each) that can be selected from lsac.org. Additional sample tests are are met. (See Special Students.) any of the following subjects: com- available for a fee on-line at www. position and litereature (Humanities lsac.org. There are preparation books Preparation for Law School examination only), foreign language, available at most large bookstores. history and social sciences, science and Because strong analytical and There are also preparation courses that mathematics, or business. communication skills are vital to the the applicant may wish to explore. Upon completion of their first practice of law, students are urged to year, “Special Students” must success- incorporate writing, logic, philosophy, fully pass the First-Year Law Student’s Credential Assembly and research courses into their pre-law Examination administered by the curriculum. Please contact the Director Committee of Bar Examiners in order Service (CAS) of Admissions for additional guidance. All applicants must register with to proceed. CAS. The Law School Admission Pre-Admission Counseling Transfer Students Council provides a uniform analysis of Interviews with the Director of applicant biographical and academic Students who are in good standing Student Services, Dean, and other staff information to law schools. at either a state-accredited or ABA-ac- can be scheduled to explore admission CAS requires official transcripts sent credited law school and are applying for criteria, procedures, finances, and directly from each college or university admission with advanced standing are career options. Also, meetings can attended. Official transcripts must also considered Transfer Students. Transfer be arranged with current students or be sent to CAS directly from all col- Students are required to submit official faculty who can share insight into the leges and universities attended whether transcripts for all law school work and rewards and demands of law school. or not a degree was received. It is a letter of good standing from the dean advisable to register with CAS as early of the law school previously attended. as possible to allow time for mailing Admission Categories Credit for specific course requirements and processing of transcripts. Regular Students is established on an individual basis. Once SJCL receives your application Those holding a Bachelor’s degree in SJCL maintains a written record of a we will contact CAS to order your any major from an approved college of Transfer Student’s previous education report. When your CAS file is complete university qualify for admissions as a which indicates the credit that has been and without financial holds, your Regular Student. Under the rules of the granted and what work the Transfer report will be sent to SJCL. If you reap- California Committee of Bar Examiners, Student must complete at SJCL to ply to SJCL in a subsequent admission Regular Student status also may be attain the degree. year, you will need to purchase a new achieved with 60 qualifying units of report. college credit.

26 Admission Checklist For more information about LSAT/ Financial Information CAS, visit their website at www.lsac.org ✔ Tuition is computed on the basis of Apply Online or call 215/968-1001. $975 per semester unit for the 2021- ✔ Personal statement (1-3 Pages) 2022 academic year. Tuition and fees are Transcripts due and payable at registration, unless ✔ Completion of the Law School Official transcripts must be sent other arrangements have been made. Admission Test (LSAT) directly from each institution attended Adjustments in tuition will not be made ✔ Registration with the Law School to LSAC for the CAS report. Addition- for late enrollment or absence from class. Admission Council (LSAC) to set up ally, an official transcript must be your Credential Assembly Service submitted to SJCL from your degree 2021-21 Schedule (CAS) report granting institution. of Tuition and Fees ✔ Tuition (per unit )...... $ 975 Official transcripts from your Your Personal Statement Student Association Fee...... 35 degree granting institution must be A personal statement is required from Registration Fee (per semester)...... 25 provided to SJCL. Official transcripts all applicants. The statement serves as Technology Fee (per semester)...... 200 must also be sent to CAS directly an example of your ability to express Matriculation Fee...... 250 from all colleges and universities yourself clearly and concisely – skills (Graduation Fee) attended whether or not a degree essential to the practice of law. Your was received. statement should focus on: why you The Matriculation Fee is assessed at ✔ Three (3) letters of recommendation have chosen to study law, why you the start of the student’s last semester. (sent to either SJCL or CAS) believe you will be successful in your The fee is assessed regardless of whether studies and in the legal profession. Your or not the student participates in ✔ Deposit Paid statement is your opportunity to call the graduation ceremony. The fee is attention to particular areas of your refunded if the student fails to meet the background, such as work experience or academic requirements for graduation. community activities. Service Specific Fees Application Deadline Letters of Are Non-Refundable The application deadline is June 30; however, it These fees are for services rendered is to your advantage to apply early. The Law School Recommendation at the time the fees are paid and are operates on a “rolling” admissions process – that is, Applicants to SJCL are required non-refundable accepting qualified individuals as their applications to submit three (3) letters of recom- Application Fee...... $ 50 are completed. Because there are a limited number mendation. Letters should come Enrollment Deposit...... 100 of spaces, the class could fill prior to the deadline. from individuals who know you well, Late Registration Fee.....$40+$5 per day excluding family members. These Deferred Payment Fee...... 15 individuals should be able to describe Schedule Change Fee...... 25 your academic qualifications, analytical Re-examination Fee...... 150 ability, communication skills, character Transcript Fee...... 10 and/or accomplishments. Special Returned Check Fee...... 20 emphasis is given to letters from Replacement Student ID...... 5 Admissions persons who have taught or worked Late Upload...... 100 1st incident Joyce Morodomi with the applicant. of Exam Fee...... 250 2nd incident Director of Student Services [email protected] No services will be provided by SJCL Tuition Tax Credits or Lonzetta Hightower to or for any student or graduate who is Deductions delinquent in payment of tuition or fees Student Services Assistant In addition to the financial aid at SJCL. San Joaquin College of Law [email protected] already mentioned, many students reserves the right to change tuition and/or Diane Steel are eligible for the Lifetime Learning fees at any time. Director of Admissions income tax credit or a Deduction [email protected] for Higher-Education Expenses for Return of Title IV Funds Policy qualified tuition and fee expenses. Federal Title IV student loan Francisco Rosas These credits/deductions are claimed recipients must understand the Federal Assistant Director, Admissions when federal tax returns are filed. Return of Title IV Funds policy, to & Student Engagement Contact your tax preparer, or download determine the amount of loan funds [email protected] the IRS publication 970 from the they are eligible to keep when they IRS website, https://www.irs.gov/ for completely withdraw from classes. In further information. You may also call effect this federal policy requires SJCL 1-800-TAX-FORM for the form. 27 to return a percentage of student loan Return of Federal Loan Funds Withdrawal Schedule funds used to pay tuition and fees, 2021-21 ACADEMIC YEAR when a student withdraws before the 60% point of the semester, frequently SUMMER 2021– 2 UNIT CLASSES resulting in the student owing the Enrollment period...... 6/8/20 – 7/14/20 school money. Calendar days in semester ...... 37 days 60% point – LDA for return of loan funds...... 6/29/20 Calculation of Amount of Title No return of loan funds 6/30/2021 and after IV Federal Loans Earned FALL 2021 Through the 60% point in each Enrollment period...... 8/17/20 – 12/11/20 payment period or semester, a pro rata Calendar days in semester (excluding 5-day Thanksgiving break)...... 117 days schedule is used to determine how 60% point - LDA for return of loan funds...... 10/26/20 much federal student loan aid the No return of loan funds October 27, 2021 and after student has “earned” at the time of withdrawal. The percentage earned is SPRING 2022 FINANCIAL INFORMATIONFINANCIAL calculated by dividing the number of Enrollment period...... 1/11/21 – 5/14/21 calendar days in the semester com- Calendar days in semester (excluding 10-day spring break) ...... 114 days pleted as of the last documented day of 60% point – LDA for return of loan funds...... 3/20/21 attendance by the number of calendar No return of loan funds March 21, 2022 and after days in the semester (excluding scheduled breaks of 5 days or more). The resulting percentage is multiplied by the net amount of financial aid Aid Office to ensure they understand received, or that could have been all of the financial implications. Sample Adds, Drops, Withdrawals, received, to determine the amount of Return of Title IV Fund calculations and Refunds of Classes aid “earned.” are available in the Financial Aid Office Add/Drop Policy upon request. A student may ADD or DROP an Calculation of Unearned Title individual class to his/her educational IV Federal Loan Funds to be Refund Distribution program in accordance with the fol- Returned Where a refund is applicable, SJCL lowing policy. If, in adding or dropping The difference between the net must return funds in the following a class, a student’s course load for the amount of aid received and the amount order under federal regulations: semester either exceeds the maximum, earned is the amount of “unearned” • Federal Direct Unsubsidized or drops below the minimum number aid that must be returned. The school • Federal Grad PLUS of units allowed per semester (see “Unit is responsible for returning the lesser of • Other Federal, Title IV assistance Registration Requirements” in the 1) the amount of unearned aid received programs Juris Doctor Program section of this or 2) the percentage of aid unearned • Other Federal, State, private or handbook), permission of the Dean or multiplied by the amount of institu- institutional assistance programs Dean’s designee must be obtained. tional charges (tuition, registration • Student A student may ADD a class prior to fee and student association fee) for the Student loan recipients are urged to the first meeting of that class. After the semester. The student is responsible consult with the Financial Aid Office first meeting, no class may be added for returning any remaining unearned prior to withdrawing. without the written permission of the financial aid. Students can return instructor. No class may be added after unearned loan amounts in accordance Return of Federal Loan the third class meeting. Externship with the terms of the promissory note. courses are an exception and may be The key thing to understand about Funds added at any time. A student must the Return of Title IV Funds Policy is If a student’s LDA (last date of register and pay for externship units that a student loan recipient who stops attendance) for the semester is after the prior, to beginning the work for which attending classes at or before the 60% 60% point the student has earned all of they plan to seek credit. point in the semester may owe the the Title IV loan funds and no funds Whenever a student adds a class, he/ school money for tuition. The closer are returned. she is responsible for payment of the to the 60% point a student withdraws If a student’s LDA (last date of at- full tuition for that class. Substituting the more money he or she may owe the tendance) for the enrolled period is on one class for another is considered school. However, the earlier a student or before the 60% point the unearned adding a class. withdraws the less his or her student portion of the Title IV loan funds must To DROP a class, the student must loan debt will be, and overall educa- be returned. Refer to the Return of notify the Registrar of the law program tional costs will be less also. Title IV Funds policy or the Financial in writing of his/ her decision. A class Students considering withdrawing Aid office for further instructions on dropped after the second week of the from San Joaquin College of Law are calculating return of “unearned” loan semester will be recorded as a “W’ strongly urged to contact the Financial funds. on the official transcript. A student 28 may drop a class no later than two weeks prior to the final examination. the student is strongly urged to consult In some classes, like Moot Court and Complete Withdrawal the Financial Aid or Accounting Office Trial Practice, special deadlines will be From SJCL Policy and prior to withdrawing. announced. Failure to drop formally The following schedule applies only from a class by the established deadline, Procedures to Complete Withdrawal from the results in a failing grade for that class. Student Notice to SJCL of fall, spring or summer session at SJCL. Tuition refunds for dropped classes Complete Withdrawal Students receiving Federal Direct will be calculated from the date of Official notice of complete with- loans must also refer to the new federal the written notice. Any refund due drawal from school must be made in Return of Title IV Funds policy. In ef- a student will be paid within 30 writing, electronically, or verbally to fect, this policy requires SJCL to return days after written notification of the one of the following individuals: student loan funds used to pay for student’s decision to drop is received. • Director of Student Services tuition and fees if a student withdraws Consult the Dropping a Class Refund • Financial Aid Director before the 60% point of the semester, Schedule below to determine periods • Chief Financial Officer frequently resulting in the student eligible for a refund. CAUTION: • Dean owing the school money for tuition and

Reduction in units may jeopardize your • Dean of Students fees previously paid for with financial INFORMATIONFINANCIAL financial aid. Students are strongly advised aid funds. to submit a written notice of their Schedule Change Fee withdrawal. Official withdrawal forms are available at the reception desk. Leave of Absence A student may make a change (add A student may be granted an and/or drop a class, change sections) in The SJCL Withdrawal Refund will be calculated from the last documented administrative leave of absence of up his or her academic schedule pursuant to one year. No leave of absence will be to the Add/Drop Policy. A student may day of attendance. A student who elects to completely granted which extends a student’s stud- make a change after close of Registra- ies beyond five years, after beginning tion and up to the start date of the withdraw from all classes at SJCL may receive a refund of tuition and fees, if the study of law. A student contemplat- semester without fee by notifying the ing taking a leave of absence should Registrar (Joyce Morodomi) via email. eligible, in accordance with the fol- lowing policy. Refunds are calculated seek both academic and financial aid Any change of academic schedule counseling. made after the semester start thorugh based upon the total semester cost of tuition and fees less an administrative The Dean’s permission is required partial refund date will result in the for a leave of absence to be granted. In student being assessed a Schedule fee equal not greater than $100. The refund policy is subject to change order to be granted a leave of absence Change Fee of $25 per Add/Drop Form. the student: Clinical units may be added or dropped in accordance with federal and state regulations. For specific information • Must be in good academic standing, at any time without fee. No fee will be AND assessed for administrative withdrawals. regarding a student’s potential refund,

Drop a Class Refund Schedule Tuition & Fees The following schedule applies when a student drops an individual class but does Time of complete not completely withdraw from school. A student completely withdrawing from withdrawal* Refund %* school should consult the SJCL Withdrawal Refund Schedule. On or before the 7th day of the semester...... 100% Fall and Spring Semesters On the 8th day of the semester, Notification Date of Dropping Class Tuition Refund % and through completion of Before the first class session...... 100% 10% of the semester...... 90% Day 1 through Day 21 of the semester*...... 100% Through completion of 25% Day 22 and thereafter...... NO REFUND of the semester...... 50% Summer Semester Through completion of 50% Notification Date of Dropping Class Tuition Refund % of the semester...... 25% Before the first class session...... 100% After the completion of Day 1 through Day 8 50% of the semester...... NO REFUND of the semester*...... 100% Day 9 and thereafter...... NO REFUND * All calculations are in calendar days. * Tuition and fees refund percentage is *All calculations are in calendar days beginning the first day of the semester. calculated less the administrative fee * The 90% tuition/fee refund is not applicable to the summer term due to its length. 29 Academic Calendar

Summer Term 2021

Memorial Day Holiday...... May 31 On-Line Registration...... May 27-30 1st Day of Term...... June 7 Independence Day Holiday (Observed)...... July 5 Instruction Ends...... July 9 Final Exams...... July 12-13 Summer Term Ends...... July 13 Summer Break...... July 14-Aug. 6

CURRENT ACADEMICCURRENT YEAR Fall Term 2021

Online Registration...... July 27-29 Orientation Week (Entering Students)...... Aug. 9-12 1st Day of Term (Returning Students)...... Aug. 16 Labor Day Holiday...... Sept. 6 Instruction Ends...... Nov. 23 • Must make a written request to Thanksgiving Recess...... Nov. 24-26 the Dean, explaining the reason(s) Final Exams...... Nov. 29-Dec. 10 for the requested leave of absence. Fall Term Ends...... Dec. 10 The request must indicate the date Winter Recess...... Dec. 11-Jan. 7 the leave is to commence and end, and be signed by the student. If Spring Term 2022 the request is not made prior to the proposed commencement date, the Online Registration...... Dec. 30-Jan. 2 student should also explain the delay 1st Day of Term (All students)...... Jan. 10 in making the written request. The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday...... Jan. 17 Dean’s decision is final. Presidents’ Day Holiday...... Feb. 21 Spring Recess...... April 11-15 Instruction Ends...... April 29 Student Honor Code Final Exams...... May 2-13 SJCL strives for the highest standards Spring Term Ends...... May 13 in ethics, professionalism and integ- Commencement Ceremonies...... May 28 rity. Upon admission, each student is expected to act with utmost honesty, *Dates subject to change fairness and concern for his/her profes- sional reputation and the reputation of the school. A student who witnesses any unethical conduct, as defined in the Student Handbook, by another student should promptly report such conduct to his/her professor or a member of the SJCL administration. Any attempt to retaliate against a person reporting an Honor Code violation is strictly prohibited.

30 SJCL’s Alumni have practiced or currently practice in myriad capacities in the legal profession. Some notable positions include:

JUDGES U.S. Department of Agriculture United States Magistrate Secretary, California Department of Health & Human United States Bankruptcy Judge Services Fresno County Superior Court Deputy Director, California Environmental Protection Glenn County Superior Court Agency Madera County Superior Court Member/Chair California State Water Resource Control Board Monterey County Superior Court Fresno County Board of Supervisors County Counsel COURT COMMISSIONERS Contra Costa County City Attorney Fresno County Fresno County Clerk Kings County San Luis Obispo County PRIVATE SECTOR Academic Professors and Department Chairs Tulare County Corporate In-House Counsel Celanese, Irving, Texas ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES – STATEWIDE Chevron, Concord, California Centuries Communities – multiple states DISTRICT ATTORNEYS Focus Vision, Fresno Fresno County Agribusiness In-House Counsel Kings County Maricopa Orchards Madera County Trinity Fruit Company Tulare County Hospital In-House Counsel St. Agnes Medical Center PUBLIC SECTOR Valley Children’s Hospital U.S. Patent Office Court TV Correspondent, New York U.S. Food & Drug Administration

FIRMS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES

31 Policy of Non- Family Educational Rights Bureau for Private Discrimination and Privacy Act Postsecondary Education San Joaquin College of Law provides San Joaquin College of Law complies An individual may contact the Bureau equality of opportunity in legal educa- with the Family Educational Rights for Private Postsecondary Education for tion for all persons, including faculty, and Privacy Act of 1974. Congress review of a complaint. The bureau may employees, applicants for admission, passed this act to protect the privacy of be contacted at: enrolled students and alumni, without student records and establish a method discrimination on the basis of race/ for student inspection of their own files Bureau for Private color, religious creed, national and records. San Joaquin College of Postsecondary Education origin/ancestry, age, gender, mental or Law will release transcripts only upon 2535 Capitol Oaks Drive, DISCLOSURES physical disability, medical condition, written authorization. Students who Suite 400 marital status, sexual orientation, wish to inspect their records must visit Sacramento, CA 95833 pregnancy or any other basis protected the Registrar Office. Students have the Phone: (916) 431-6924 by federal, state or local law or ordi- right, in the event of alleged noncom- Toll-free: (888) 370-7589 nance or regulation. SJCL does not pliance with the act, to file a complaint Fax: (916) 263-1897 discriminate on the basis of any of the with the Dean. www.bppe.ca.gov above characteristics in administration of its educational policies, admissions Practice Outside California Should you need a paper copy of policies, scholarship and loan programs, any institutional policy, please contact “The State Bar of California’s website and any other school administered [email protected]. For additional (www.calbar.ca.gov) contains informa- programs. information visit www.sjcl.edu. tion on the passage rates of graduates of this law school and other California Reservation of Rights law schools on the California Bar This publication is intended to serve Examination. as a general source of information for Study at, or graduation from, this prospective students. This catalog does law school may not qualify a student to not create a contract between SJCL and take the bar examination or be admit- any applicants, students, or graduates. ted to practice law in jurisdictions other The School reserves the right to change than California. A student who intends any of its policies, without prior notice, to seek admission to practice law as it deems necessary or desirable. The outside of California should contact the School further reserves the right to admitting authority in that jurisdiction refuse admission to any applicant at the for information regarding its education discretion of the Dean or the Admis- and admission requirements. sions Committee and to disqualify, discontinue, or exclude any student SJCL Bar Pass Rate at the discretion of the Dean, faculty, Cumulatively 80% of SJCL graduates administration or Honor Board. who have taken the Bar Examination This catalog supersedes all previous have passed. Statistics for each admin- catalogs. This catalog is supplemented istration of the Bar Exam can be found by the rules and regulations stated in at the State Bar’s website: www.calbar. The Student Handbook and by posted ca.gov/admissions. notices. Where conflict exists between any of these sources, the most recent rule or policy is controlling. Upon acceptance and registration, it is the responsibility of the student to familiar- ize himself or herself with all the rules, regulations, and policies of the Law School and the rules of the California Committee of Bar Examiners as to admission to the practice of law.

32 Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees of San Joaquin College of Law is the legally constituted policy-making body of the institution. Members are selected on the basis of their integrity and concern for the community, as well as their ability and desire to work unselfishly for the good of the College.

CHAIRPERSON BOARD MEMBERS Douglas Noll, J.D. Ligia Bernardo, J.D. Jesse Molina, J.D. Peacemaker In-House Counsel Chief Legal Officer Olam Americas, Inc. Aplos Software, LLC VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ross Borba, Jr. Richard Caglia, J.D. Vong Mouanoutoua, J.D.

Councilmember OF TRUSTEES BOARD Borba Farms Attorney at Law City of Clovis Hon. Jane Cardoza (Retired) SECRETARY/TREASURER Hon. Robert Oliver (Retired) Melissa White, J.D. Judge Fresno Superior Court Judge General Counsel Fresno County Superior Court Trinity Fruit Company, Inc. Daniel S. Castro, J.D. Eddie Ruiz, J.D ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE Partner Loza & Loza LLP Ruiz Law Offices Hon. James Petrucelli (Retired) Deborah A. Coe, J.D. Lisa A. Smittcamp, J.D. Shareholder District Attorney Baker, Manock & Jensen Fresno County Kevin Hansen, J.D. Dennis Veeh, CPA (Retired) Partner Baker Peterson Franklin McCormick Barstow et al LLP David Weiland, J.D. David Hogue, J.D. Coleman & Horowitt, LLP Partner Bob Whalen, J.D. H & K, Inc., Attorneys at Law Deputy District Attorney Jan Kahn, J.D. Fresno County Partner Clovis City Council Kahn, Soares & Conway Nick Zinkin, J.D. Anthony Mendes, J.D. Law Offices of Nick Zinkin A.F. Mendez. Inc.

Non-Members but Attending

FACULTY LIAISON STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION LIAISON Mark Masters, J.D., M.L.I.S. Erika Esqueda

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