Peter Keane

• BA, City College of New York
• JD, Southern Methodist University
  

• Criminal Law
• Evidence
• Professional Responsibility

• Served as Dean from 1998 through 2003.
• An audio essay about being a criminal defense attorney was broadcast on National Public Radio. It aired on the program "All Things Considered" as part of their continuing series called "This I believe." The audio program and a transcript is available here.
• 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 President of the Bar Association of San Francisco.
• 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 State Bars.

• Interloper in the fields of academe.(first-time experiences of a non-traditional dean)(Leadership in Legal Education Symposium IV), 35 University of Toledo Law Review 119 (2003).
• The jury - some thoughts, historical and personal, 47 Hastings Law Journal 1249 (1996).

• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Professional Responsibility