California Western School of Law receives the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for 2009, in recognition of service donated by the school’s faculty, staff, and students through academic service learning and volunteerism. The award is one of the federal government’s highest community service honors for institutions of higher education.
“It is a [...]

Professor Ruben J. Garcia

Tomorrow, Professor Ruben J. Garcia will participate on a panel discussion at Princeton University, entitled “Immigration and the Challenge to Labor Unions.” The discussion is part of Race, Immigration, and the Law of the Workplace: 21st Century Challenges – A Public Conference, a two-day conference hosted by Princeton University’s Program in Law [...]

Professors Justin P. Brooks and Jan Stiglitz of the California Innocence Project, housed at California Western School of Law, join the ranks of California’s best attorneys as recipients of California Lawyer Magazine’s 14th annual Attorney of the Year Award.
Brooks and Stiglitz’s CLAY honor was likely solidified by the California Innocence Project’s exoneration of three wrongfully [...]

Last January, then-President-elect Obama set a goal for every American to have an electronic health record by 2014.
On Saturday, February 20, California Western School of Law Dean Steven R. Smith serves on a panel of distinguished scholars and professionals, entitled “Your Medical Records Online: The Promises and Pitfalls.” The panel will explore the technical, ethical, and societal implications [...]

 The Sixth Annual Janeen Kerper Trial Skills Academy welcomes approximately 80 attorneys from Latin American countries February 12 through 16. Sponsored by the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy and Proyecto ACCESO, the five-day program is designed to teach Spanish-speaking attorneys litigation skills.
“This is a truly diverse international group, which shows the strength of the adversarial [...]

California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Diego will host a Master’s in Health Law information session on the schools’ joint advanced degree program. The session will be held on Thursday, February 11, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at California Western School of Law, 350 Cedar Street, in the third-floor [...]

California Western School of Law begins accepting applications for the Adrianne Baker Fellowship yesterday. The fellowship is the school’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program for graduates employed by a legal aid, legal services, or other nonprofit advocacy or policy organizations.
The fellowship was named after the late Adrianne Baker, a 1989 graduate of California Western who spent [...]

This month, California Western and UC San Diego announced the creation of a joint committee to explore an affiliation which could lead to a law school at UC San Diego. It’s not a new idea-officials from both schools explored the idea in the early 1980s-but the proposal holds enormous potential for the future of both [...]