shared content: Faculty

Peter Keane
Titles:
  • Dean Emeritus

  • Professor of Law
Department:
Law
Campus:
San Francisco

  • 415-442-6610

Dean of the Law School, 1998-2003.

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Evidence
  • Professional Responsibility

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Ethics
  • Evidence
  • Litigation

    • EDUCATION

    • JD, Southern Methodist University

    • BA, City College of New York

    PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 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.

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

    • Member of California and Texas State Bars