California Western School of Law’s Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team brought home top honors from the Pacific Super Regional Competition. The team’s championship finish from a field of 24 law schools secured a spot in the White & Case International Rounds hosted in Washington, D.C., later this month.
California Western’s Jessup Moot [...]

When California Western Professor Jacquelyn H. Slotkin wrote her first book on women in the legal profession, she discovered something unexpected. Men married to lawyers have just as hard of a time balancing work and life as the women they love.
 In her latest book, Sharing the Pants: Essays on the Work-Life Balance by Men Married [...]

This is a year of many milestones for California Western School of Law including the 10th anniversary of Proyecto ACCESO, a rule of law training program which works with lawyers, judges, and government officials in Latin America. The project is fueled by the work of California Western professors, students, and members of the local bench and bar [...]

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 Tuesday, March 2, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at La Jolla Village Professional Center, 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite [...]

Wednesday, Proyecto ACCESO will officially celebrate its tenth anniversary with a reception and film screening at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. This milestone for the judicial innovation program based at California Western is indicative of the need to promote the rule of law in Latin America and educate the public on legal [...]

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 [...]