Professor Jonathan R. Siegel filed an amicus brief that helped result in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversing and remanding a judgment of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Beberman v. United States. "It was gratifying to be able to help a real plaintiff overcome an artificial and unjust barrier," he said.

November 1, 2018

Susan R. Jones, Professor of Clinical Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.

October 24, 2018

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch referred to Professor Bradford R. Clark's co-written work on the original meaning of the Alien Tort Statute during an oral argument in Jesner v. Arab Bank. 

October 11, 2017

Dmitry Karshtedt, Associate Professor of Law, participated in a debate at the 18th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute. The debate, "Is the PTAB Constitutional?" focused on the question presented in the Supreme Court case Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC. The issue is whether inter partes review, an adversarial process used by the USPTO/Patent Trial and Appeal Board to analyze the validity of existing patents, violates the Constitution by extinguishing issued patents through a non-Article III forum.

January 17, 2018