tion. The school and students gain from their experience as well. “The international IP students have been a definite asset to the law school,” says Glancy. “They contribute great comparative insights to their Santa Clara Law classmates.”
LOOKING AHEAD The school’s high tech activities continue to grow organically. In 2008, a group of students formed the Biotechnology Law Group to advocate for their interests, much as twenty years earlier their predecessors formed the Intellectual Property Association. Goldman is enthusiastic about the group’s efforts and says the school is working to make students and the community more aware of its surprisingly rich biotech offerings. (For more information on biotech law and profiles of alumni working in biotech, see the profile on page 12 and also see law.scu.edu/biotech.) But nothing stays the same in high tech law, which is more and more part of general law, says Goldman, who spends a lot of time focusing on what the school needs to do next to keep its edge. “Although our high tech curriculum has expanded over the years, it is not radically different from a curriculum we might have developed a couple decades ago,” says Goldman. “Our challenge is to continually evolve and improve our curriculum to reflect the realities facing 21st century lawyers.” If past and present are a guide, the future history of tech law in Silicon Valley and beyond will include a lot of lawyers from Santa Clara Law. “We are peppered all over the place,” says Shane Lunceford ’08, who started a LinkedIn page for Santa Clara Law alumni. “If you go to any Bay Area tech company, we’re probably there. If you go to any Bay Area law firm, we’re definitely there.”
High Tech Faculty Santa Clara Law has more than a dozen full-time faculty members with expertise in every area of IP and high tech law. • Colleen Chien—patent law and international intellectual property law, with an emphasis on empirical research and access to technology issues • Steve Diamond—the impact of globalization, new technology and financial innovation on social and political institutions • David Friedman—economic analysis of the law, as well as computers, crime and privacy • Dorothy Glancy—privacy law, intellectual property, copyright law, administrative law, natural resources, land use, and property • Eric Goldman—Internet and IP law • Allen Hammond—contracts, communications law, cyberspace • Anna Han—business organizations, legal issues of startup businesses, technology licensing, and China trade and investment law • Kerry Macintosh—commercial transactions, electronic commerce, and law and biotechnology • Tyler Ochoa—intellectual property law, copyright law, rights of publicity, and statutes of limitation • Catherine Sandoval—communications law, contracts, property, business organizations, civil procedure, regulated industries and administrative law • Phil Jimenez—international business negotiations (technology transfer simulation), civil procedure, and conflict of laws • Michelle Oberman—legal and ethical issues relating to adolescence, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood • Kevin P. Quinn, S.J.—health care policy and bioethics
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Santa Clara Law adds Communications and Computer Law, later taught by Howard Anawalt, to its offering of one basic survey course in intellectual property law.
IBM releases the IBM PC.
Macintosh personal computer is released.
Santa Clara Law's Student Intellectual Property Law Association is founded.
Xerox Star PC is offered to the public.
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Supreme Court rules that biotechnology is patentable.
Creation of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit creates surge in patent law.
Santa Clara Law launches the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal. Windows 1.0 is launched
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