Full-Time Faculty A-L

• Former trial attorney with the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where she litigated and settled several civil environmental claims
• Taught classes at the National Advocacy Center
• Received a Gold Medal from the US Environmental Protection Agency in 2008
• Former editor of the Minnesota Law Review
• Publications include "A Wrong Turn Crushes Protective Air Regulations: American Trucking Ass'ns v. EPA," 85 Minnesota Law Review 319 (November 2000).

• Served as Judicial Clerk for the Hon. Napoleon A. Jones Jr., US District Court
• Designed Youth Outeach Project for San Diego Legal Aid Society as part of Equal Justice Works Fellowship
• Associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Diego

• Author of Real Property in a Nutshell and The Black Letter Law of Real Property, two widely used student texts
• Leading authority on real property law in California
• Editor of the California Real Property Law Reporter
• Author of numerous books on Mortgage and Property Law
• Member of the California and New York Bars

• Practiced bankruptcy law in San Francisco at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin
• Law Clerk to Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
• Fulbright Scholar 2000
• Taught at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Articles include "Toward an International Bankruptcy Policy in Europe: Four Decades in Search of a Treaty", and other articles on bankruptcy and international law
• Co-author of "Limitations on Use of the California Homestead Exemption in Bankruptcy Cases"
• Member of the California Bar

• Specialist in tax law, real estate development and the arts
• Lecturer on tax incentives for rehabilitation to the National Society for Historic Preservation
• Advisor to nonprofit arts organizations
• Member of the California Bar

• Created and directed the First District Appellate Project
• Co-author of California Speedy Trial Law and "Waiver of the Right to Appeal"
• Served in the Peace Corps in Turkey
• Clerked for the US District Court
• Former Alameda County Public Defender
• Member of the California Bar

• Has taught at Golden Gate University School of Law for more than 12 years
• Served as Interim Dean of Law Student Services for one year and as Interim Director of the LLM in Taxation Program
• Wrote the article, My Father Is a Woman: Oh No! The Failure of the Courts to Uphold Individual Substantive Due Process Rights for Transgender Parents Under the Guise of the Best Interests of the Child" (Santa Clara Law Review, 2003)

• Former associate, Latham & Watkins (London and San Francisco); practice emphasized cross-border corporate finance and capital markets
• Former foreign/international law clerk to Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa
• Author of Adjudicating Non-Justiciable Rights: Socio-Economic Rights and the South African Constitutional Court, 38 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 321 (2007).
• Author of Security Freeze Laws, Free Speech and Tenant Screening Procedures: Recent Legal Developments in the Fight Against Identity Theft, 30 Real Property Law Reporter 5 (Continuing Education for the Bar, California; January 2007).
• Author of Ending the Apartheid of the Closet: Sexual Orientation in the South African Constitutional Process, 32 NYU J. Int'l L. & Pol. 997 (2000)
• Former editor-in-chief of NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and NYU JILP International Citation Manual
• Member of the California Bar
  

• Sr. Corporate Counsel, Electronics For Imaging, Inc.
• Associate, Intellectual Property licensing and litigation, Perkins Coie LLP and O'Melveny & Myers LLP
• Law Clerk, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, U.S. District Court (N.D. CAL.)
• Member, California State Bar
• Member, Patent Bar

• Consultant to the California Mental Health Association
• Member of the Board of Directors for the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
• Author of numerous books, manuals, and articles
• Former trial attorney with the US Department of Justice
• Member of the California, New York, and Michigan Bars

• Former Electronic Formats Librarian, GGU Law Library
• Former tax law practitioner in tax, litigation, and landlord-tenant law

• Most recently worked at the Center for Access & Fairness, The State Bar of California
• Former director, academic support programs, Santa Clara University, University of San Francisco, and Golden Gate University
• Former chair, Section on Academic Support Programs, American Association of Law Schools
• Author of Retaining Generation X'ers in a Baby Boomer Firm
• Co-author of Law School ABCs and Inclusive Teaching Methods Across the Curriculum: Academic Resource and Law Teachers Tie a Knot
• Recipient of the San Francisco Minority Bar Coalition's Outstanding Service to the Legal Community, 1999 & 2004
• Member of the California Bar

• Former partner in the San Francisco office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, specializing in intellectual property and complex business litigation
• Extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the California State Bar Court
• Lecturer in law and sociology at Santa Clara University for eight years, teaching Intellectual Property Law; Legal Ethics; and Business, Technology, and Society
• Recurring visiting professor of international intellectual property law at Vytautas Magnus University School of Law in Kaunas, Lithuania
• Co-founder, Collaborative Research Network on Intellectual Property Law and Policy for the Law and Society Association
• Published articles include "Ideologies of Professionalism and the Politics of Self-Regulation in the California State Bar (Pepperdine Law Review) and "Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation" (Santa Clara Law Review)
• Editor, International Essays in Law and Society: Intellectual Property (Ashgate Press 2007)
• Member, California State Bar

• Veteran Bay Area IP and business attorney with 20 years in practice before joining the GGU faculty in 2000
• Specialist in IP, entertainment law, and business litigation, as well as transactional work
• Published articles include "Reason or Madness: Copyright's Growing Pains (38 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law Fall 2007, lead article); "The Baby and the Bathwater Too: A Critique of ALA v. U.S. (Syracuse Science & Technology Law Reporter Fall 2005, lead article); and "A Return to Lilliput: The Licra v. Yahoo! Case and the Regulation of Online Content in the World Market" (18:4 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1191 (Fall 2003).
• Successful plaintiff's counsel in Meagher v. IAM, 856 F.2d 1418 (9th Cir. 1988)
• Frequent lecturer and panelist on IP issues; panelist for ABA IP Law Section conferences
• Member of the California Bar; Federal District Bar for the Eastern, Central, and Northern Districts; Federal Court of Appeals

• Former practicing international attorney in Germany (Gleiss, Lutz, Hootz & Partner) and in the United States (Foley & Lardner)
• Taught at Freie Universitaet, Berlin; Tulane Law School, ELTE Law School and Central European University (both in Budapest, Hungary); SMU School of Law; Harvard Law School (Graduate Program); and American University of Armenia (Yerevan)
• Chair, Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law
• Co-rapporteur, Committee on Regional Economic Development Law of the International Law Association
• Has numerous publications on international and comparative law, including "Rousing the Sleeping Dog: The Validity Exception to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods"; "The First Five-Year Span (1989-1994): Law and Religion in Post-Communist Hungary"; "Subregional Coalescence in European Regional Integration"; and "European Integration through the Kaleidoscope: the View from the Central and East European Margins"
• Member of the Illinois State Bar Association

• Former partner in the San Francisco law firm Goodman Kang
• Former Trial Attorney with the US Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section
• Has successfully litigated numerous significant environmental cases
• Member of the California Bar.

• Served as Dean from 1998 through 2003
• Author of San Francisco's Handgun Control Ordinance and of California's Proposition 190 amending the California Constitution and reforming the State Commission on Judicial Performance
• Former Vice-President of the State Bar of California
• Former Chief Assistant Public Defender in the San Francisco Public Defender's office from 1979 through 1998
• Former assistant professor at Hastings College of the Law
• Internationally known legal analyst for broadcast media: has appeared on CBS Evening News, CNN, BBC, ABC World News, Larry King Live, Nightline, Burden of Proof, MSNBC InterNight, and other news programs throughout the world
• Provides regular legal analysis on CBS television and radio in San Francisco
• From 1994 to 1997, he hosted "Keane on the Law," a weekly program on KPIX radio in San Francisco
• Member of California and Texas Bars

• Practiced tax law in New York City
• Clerked for a judge of the US Tax Court
• Author of several articles and book chapters, including "Financing Higher Education: Federal Income Tax Consequences"

• Of counsel to and former partner at Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley LLP in the environmental/land use practice group
• Former adjunct professor at GGU; has also taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Directed GGU's "City Parks" Project and authored the 2007 GGU report Access to Parkland: Environmental Justice at East Bay Parks
• Faculty editor of the Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal
• Publications include Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (MIT Press, 2007) and The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage (Routledge Press, 1999).
• Former co-chair, National Resources Subsection of Real Property Section of the State Bar of California
• Member of the State Bar of California

• Author of Bankruptcy: Do It Yourself and Chapter 13: The Federal Plan to Repay Your Debts
• Author of "Property Disposition in Antenuptial, Postnuptial and Property Settlement Agreements"
• Practiced with Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliffe
• Former member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Family Law Specialization Exam Writing Committee of the California State Bar, and the Board of Directors of Legal Assistance for Seniors
• Member of the California Bar