Sophia Gallardo Named CLEA Outstanding Externship Student

California Western has honored recent graduate Sophia Gallardo ’21 with the 2021 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Externship Student Award. Here, Gallardo discusses what it means to win the award and how this represents a fitting end to her law school education.

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Unraveling the Regulatory Hurdles of the Alcohol Beverage Industry Adena Santiago ’05 is passionate about the alcohol beverage industry and has spent more than a decade counseling clients on all aspects of the industry. Here she talks about how she found her niche and how she ended up turning her passion into a career in law. Learn More

California Western School of Law Adopts Unitary Tenure Track Policy

The California Western School of Law is pleased to announce that the faculty and Board of Trustees have voted to adopt a unitary tenure track. This change to the institution’s Faculty Bylaws creates opportunities for its clinical, Legal Skills, and other skills professors who were hired as full-time faculty to achieve tenure, with the same faculty governance and voting rights that come with an existing tenure-stream faculty position.

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Taming the Algorithmic Onslaught Facing Consumers

In a scholarly paper published in the West Virginia Law Review, California Western Professor Tabrez Ebrahim discusses the phenomenon of algorithmic decision-making in business and the need for a regulatory response to the use of algorithms in the consumer-merchant context.

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Obamacare Survives Fourth SCOTUS Encounter

In an academic commentary recently published in JURIST, California Western Constitutional Law Professor and Supreme Court Expert Glenn Smith discusses the recent SCOTUS Obamacare reprieve and the legal and practical importance of the complex doctrines surrounding standing to sue.

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