CLGJ Scholarship, Symposia, and Publications
Law school publications, faculty scholarship, and symposia contribute to the intellectually vibrant community and global perspective of the USF School of Law.
The international focus of scholarship is broad, with professors writing and presenting on everything from eliminating discrimination, the juvenile death penalty, and human trafficking to how treaty law can affect domestic policy and the nuances of international trade. Symposia showcase the work of USF professors while inviting outside perspectives from visiting lawyers, government officials, judges, and faculty from other universities. Visiting speakers at symposia and other law school events, such as Dennis Edney, the lawyer of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, enhance what students have learned in the classroom. The law school also hosts frequent visitors who come to learn about USF's innovative international and human rights programs. Visitors have included Iranian law professors, community activists from South Asia, Italian lawyers, and members of the human rights committee in Saudi Arabia.
To learn about Center for Law and Global Justice scholarship, symposia, and publications, click the links in the column to the right.
The University of San Francisco, USF School of Law, and Center for Law and Global Justice support numerous internationally-focused journals. The center also publishes teaching materials, reports, and law review articles in concordance with faculty research and Global Justice Projects.
Journal of Law and Social Challenges
Journal of Law and Social Challenges provides legal scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students with a neutral forum for addressing social justice issues that face legislative and judicial scrutiny. Each volume of the journal is thematic in nature and includes an array of perspectives to provide a holistic approach to important legal and social dilemmas. The journal also helps the law school impart a message of public interest and is a valuable tool for effectuating social policies by means of legal analysis.
USF Law Review
USF Law Review is staffed and managed by students of the USF School of Law. Each issue of legal scholarship is comprised of articles by professors and practitioners as well as student notes and/or comments. Journal articles are often focused on international issues, such as global climate change, globalization and trade initiatives, juvenile life prison sentences, and undocumented workers. Visit the journal site here.
JLWOP Report and Law Review Article
In concordance with the Project to End Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences, Director of Human Rights Programs Michelle Leighton and Professor Connie de la Vega authored "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice," a report published by the Center for Law and Global Justice (2007), in association with Human Rights Advocates. Leighton and de la Vega also published "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2008) in their efforts to eradicate juvenile life sentences.
Peace Review
Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research and analysis, focusing on current issues that underlie the promotion of a peaceful world. Peace research is broadly defined to include peace, human rights, development, ecology, culture, and related issues. Journal topics have included the North American Free Trade Agreement, citizenship and social justice, hybrid political orders and peacebuilding, the Darfur crisis, women's rights, and academic repression. Visit the journal site here.
Teaching Materials
The center has produced teaching materials based on its work around the globe. In conjunction with the University of San Francisco, East China University, and the International Council of Toy Industries, the center created training materials for labor law compliance in China's toy factories. Judicial training materials that provide guidance for decision-making, labor law, and genocide were developed for Vietnam and Cambodia. The center, with the support of the United States Agency for International Development, also created materials for a Cambodian law curriculum. The texts, which cover crucial topics in Cambodian law, include A Practical Introduction to Cambodian Law, Cambodian Employment and Labor Law (volumes I and II), Cambodian Law of Elections, Children and the Law, Democracy: A Citizen's Role, International and Cambodian Human Rights Law, The Constitution and Government of Cambodia, and Women and the Law.
For information or to request center teaching materials, please contact the Center for Law and Global Justice at (415) 422-6304 or globaljustice@usfca.edu.
The international focus of scholarship at the USF School of Law is broad, with professors writing and presenting on everything from eliminating discrimination, the juvenile death penalty, and human trafficking to how treaty law can affect domestic policy and the nuances of international trade. Read below for select scholarship by USF School of Law faculty.
Arnold, Margaret. "Teaching U.S. Legal Research to International Lawyers and Law Students: A Profile of a Graduate Legal Research Class" (Research Instruction and Patron Services Law Librarian, 2002).
Brand, Jeffrey. "Striking a Blow for Democracy," op-ed piece (Washington Post, 1997).
Brand, Jeffrey. "The Commercial Law of Cambodia" (Commercial Laws in East Asia, 1996) (with Dolores Donovan).
Brand, Jeffrey. "The Impact of Legal Culture on Democratization in Developing Nations: Cambodia," Conference Proceedings, Symposium on Democratization in the 1990's (Nagoya University, Japan 1996) (with Dolores Donovan).
Brand, Jeffrey. "Decision Making in the Courts: The Civil Case," Cambodian judges' training materials (USF School of Law, 1995).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Special Measures Mandate of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination: Lessons from the United States and South Africa" (forthcoming).
De la Vega, Connie. "Back from the Council" (American Society of International Law Proceedings, forthcoming 2009).
De la Vega, Connie. "Looking Within: Domestic Advocacy Using International Human Rights Law," presentation at the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium "Beyond the Bush Era: International Human Rights Law Looking Forward" (UC Berkeley School of Law, April 2009).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Impact of Human Rights Law on Civil Legal Services," panelist at the 11th Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Retreat (Stanford Law School, February 2009).
De la Vega, Connie. "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2008) (with Michelle Leighton).
De la Vega, Connie. "Time for U.S. to Reaffirm Commitment to Principles Enshrined 60 Years Ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," blog posting (IntLawGrrls, 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. Speaker on international human rights law and affirmative action at the Human Rights Advocates 30th Anniversary Celebration "Dialogue on Racism and International Human Rights Standards - 60 Years After the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (Berkeley, October 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. "The United Nations Human Rights Council: What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Say," panelist at the 2008 International Law Weekend "The United States and International Law: Legal Traditions and Future Possibilities" (New York City, October 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. "Just Back from the Human Rights Council," panelist at the American Society of International Law 102nd Annual Meeting (Washington D.C., April 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. Presentation on human rights and the movement and dumping of toxic wastes at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland, March 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. "Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants in the United States," presentation at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland, March 2008).
De la Vega, Connie. International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) (with David S. Weissbrodt).
De la Vega, Connie. "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice" The Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic and Center for Law and Global Justice, 2007) (with Michelle Leighton).
De la Vega, Connie. "Advocates Should Use Applicable International Standards to Address Violations of Undocumented Migrant Workers in the United States" (Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers, 2006) (with Conchita Lozano-Batista). Reprinted in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2005).
De la Vega, Connie. "Women in Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Devising Solutions to the Demand Side of Trafficking" (William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, 2006) (with Chelsea E. HaleyNelson).
De la Vega, Connie. "Human Rights And Trade: Inconsistent Application of Treaty Law in the United States" (UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 2004).
De la Vega, Connie. "Amici Curiae Urge The U.S. Supreme Court to Consider International Human Rights Law in Juvenile Death Penalty Case" (Santa Clara Law Review, 2002).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Death Penalty" (Peace Review, 2001) (co-editor with Steven Shatz).
De la Vega, Connie. "Book Review: Diarmuid Rossa: Phelan Revolt or Revolution: The Constitutional Boundaries of the European Community" (Human Rights Quarterly, 2000).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Supreme Court of the United States Has Been Called Upon to Determine the Legality of the Juvenile Death Penalty in Michael Domingues v. State of Nevada" (Whittier Law Review, 1999) (with Jennifer Fiore).
De la Vega, Connie. "Book Review: Cholewinksi, Ryszard: Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment" (Human Rights Quarterly, 1999).
De la Vega, Connie. "Can a United States Treaty Reservation Provide a Sanctuary for the Juvenile Death Penalty?" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 1998) (with Jennifer Brown).
De la Vega, Connie. "Civil Rights During the 1990s: New Treaty Law Could Help Immensely" (University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1997).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Right to Equal Education: Merely a Guiding Principle or Customary International Legal Right?" (Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, 1994).
De la Vega, Connie. "Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (Whittier Law Review, 1994).
De la Vega, Connie. "U.N. Responds to Problems of The Homeless" (Great Events From History II: Human Rights Series, 1992) (co-author).
De la Vega, Connie. "Using International Human Rights Law in Legal Services Cases" (Clearinghouse Review, 1989).
De la Vega, Connie. "The Symposium on International Human Rights Law in State and Federal Courts: Comments" (International Lawyer, 1984).
De la Vega, Connie. "Application of International Human Rights Law in State and Federal Courts" (Texas International Law Journal, 1983) (with Kathryn Burke, Sandra Coliver, and Stephen Rosenbaum).
De la Vega, Connie. "Thirty-Fifth Session of the Sub-Commission of Protection of Minorities" (Human Rights Internet Reporter, 1982) (co-author).
Donovan, Dolores. "International Development as Human Rights Lawyering," panelist at the 11th Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Retreat (Stanford Law School, February 2009).
Donovan, Dolores. "A Comparison of Legal Education in Thailand and the United States," presentation at the USF Regional Office for International Relations (Bangkok, Thailand, November 2008).
Donovan, Dolores. "Graduate Legal Education in Indian and the United States," presentation (India, November 2008).
Donovan, Dolores. "The Rule of Law and Human Rights in the U.S. after 9/11," presentation at the United Nations University and the City University of Hong Kong "International Legal Conference on Terrorism, Human Security and Development: Human Rights Perspectives" (Hong Kong, China, October 2007).
Donovan, Dolores. "Homicide in Ethiopia: Human Rights, Federalism, and Legal Pluralism" (American Journal of Comparative Law, 2003) (with Getachew Assefa).
Donovan, Dolores. "The Judicial Duty to Protect and Enforce Constitutional Rights of Accused Persons Unrepresented by Counsel" (Ethiopian Law Review, 2002).
Donovan, Dolores. "Codification in Developing Nations: Ritual and Symbol in Cambodia and Indonesia" (UC Davis Law Review, 1998).
Donovan, Dolores. "The Commercial Law of Cambodia" (Commercial Laws in East Asia, 1997) (with Jeffrey Brand).
Donovan, Dolores. "The Cambodian Legal System: An Overview" (Rebuilding Cambodia: Human Resources, Human Rights, and Law: Three Essays, 1993).
Donovan, Dolores. "Cambodia: Building a Legal System from Scratch" (International Lawyer, 1993).
Donovan, Dolores. "The Structure of the Chinese Criminal Justice System: a Comparative Perspective" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 1987).
Donovan, Dolores. "Informers Revisited: Government Surveillance of Domestic Political Organizations and the Fourth and First Amendments" (Buffalo Law Review, 1984).
Garvey, Jack. "To Fix the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: Avoid the Folly of State Classification," presentation at the USF School of Law Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Series (USF School of Law, February 2009).
Garvey, Jack. "A New Architecture for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" (Oxford Journals' Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 2007).
Garvey, Jack. "The International Institutional Imperative for Countering the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Proliferation Security Initiative" (Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 2005).
Garvey, Jack. "A New Evolution for Fast-Tracking Trade Agreements: Managing Environmental and Labor Standards Through Extraterritorial Regulation" (UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 2000).
Garvey, Jack. "Regional Free Trade Dispute Resolution as Means for Securing the Middle East Peace Process" (American Journal of Comparative Law, 1999).
Garvey, Jack. "AFTA After NAFTA: Regional Trade Blocs and the Propagation of Environmental and Labor Standards" (Berkeley Journal of International Law, 1997).
Garvey, Jack. "Trade Law and Quality of Life-Dispute Resolution Under the NAFTA Side Accords on Labor and the Environment" (American Journal of International Law, 1995).
Garvey, Jack. "Judicial Foreign Policy-Making in International Civil Litigation: Ending the Charade of Separation of Powers" (Law & Policy in International Business, 1993).
Garvey, Jack. "Towards Federalizing U.S. International Commercial Arbitration Law" (International Lawyer, 1991) (with Totton Heffelfinger).
Garvey, Jack. "The New Asylum Seekers: Addressing Their Origin" (The New Asylum Seekers: Refugee Law in the 1980s: The Ninth Sokol Colloquium on International Law, 1988).
Garvey, Jack. "Toward a Reformulation of International Refugee Law" (Harvard International Law Journal, 1985).
Garvey, Jack. "Rethinking Refugee Aid: A Path to Middle East Peace" (Texas International Law Journal, 1985).
Garvey, Jack. Refugee Aid and Middle East Peace ([Tel-Aviv] Produced by WOJAC — World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, 1983).
Garvey, Jack. "Repression of the Political Emigrants; — The Underground to International Law: A Proposal for Remedy" (Yale Law Journal, 1980).
Garvey, Jack. "U.N. Definition of 'Aggression:' Law and Illusion in the Context of Collective Security" (Virginia Journal of International Law, 1977).
Garvey, Jack. "United Nations Peacekeeping and Host State Consent" (American Journal of International Law, 1970).
Hing, Bill. Deporting Our Souls-Morality, Values, and Immigration Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Hing, Bill. Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple University Press, 2004).
Hing, Bill. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Law School Press, 1993).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "Inside Guantanamo" (Nevada Law Journal, forthcoming 2010).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (University of California Press, 2009).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "I Debated a War Criminal," blog posting (Huffington Post, 2009).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "Establishing a Truth Commission for Guantanamo," blog posting (Huffington Post, 2009).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "An Independent, NGO-Sponsored Guantanamo Truth Commission: The Tension with Those Who Want a Government-Sponsored Truth Commission," presentation at the USF School of Law Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Series (USF School of Law, March 2009).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. Presentation on a proposed Guantanamo Truth Commission at the Association of American Law Schools Section on International Human Rights program "New Voices in Human Rights" (San Diego, January 2009).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "A Bumpy Application to Guantanamo," blog posting (Huffington Post, 2007).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "Chasing Enemy Combatants and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse" (UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 2007).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "Executive Power and Detainment of Enemy Combatants," presentation at the UCLA Law Symposium "Protecting the Nation at the Expense of Individuals? Defining the Scope of U.S. Executive Power at Home and Abroad in Times of Crisis" (UCLA School of Law, February 2007).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "'Enemy Combatants:' Is it a Term of Art or of Mischief?" presentation at the World Affairs Council (San Francisco, 2006).
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. "Pursuing Dignity Through Three Tumultuous Decades: Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973" (Santa Clara Law Review, 2003).
Kaswan, Alice. "Climate Change, Consumption, and Cities" (Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2009).
Kaswan, Alice. "Decentralizing Cap-and-Trade," presentation at the University of San Diego School of Law Climate and Energy Law Symposium "Federal Preemption or State Prerogative: California in the Face of National Climate Policy" (University of San Diego, February 2009).
Kaswan, Alice. Presentation at National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions (University of San Francisco, February 2009).
Kaswan, Alice. "A Cooperative Federalism Proposal for Climate Legislation: The Value of State Autonomy in a Federal System" (Denver University Law Review, 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Environmental Justice and Climate Change Policy" (Environmental Law Reporter, 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Cities, Consumption, and Climate Change," presentation at the Cooper-Walsh Colloquium: The Future of the American City (Fordham Law School, November 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Reconciling Justice and Efficiency: Integrating Environmental Justice into Cap-and-Trade Programs for Controlling Greenhouse Gases," presentation at the Georgetown Law Environmental Research Workshop (Georgetown University, November 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Living Up to AB 32: Creating an Effective, Equitable, and Efficient Cap-and-Trade Program," presentation at the Annual California State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Conference (Yosemite, October 2008)
Kaswan, Alice. "A Cooperative Federalist Proposal for Federal Climate Change Legislation: The Value of State Autonomy in a Federal System," presentation at the USF School of Law Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop (USF School of Law, September 2008).
Kaswan Alice. "Are Property Rights Opposed to Environmental Protection?" (USF School of Law, September 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "The Role of Environmental Justice in California's Cap-and-Trade Program: Achieving Efficiency, Efficacy, and Equity in Compliance with AB 32," presentation at the California Air Resources Board (Sacramento, May 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Designing Cap-and-Trade Programs to Meet the Three E's: Efficacy, Equity, and Efficiency," presentation at "From Protection to Empowerment: Policy Solutions to Ensure Equal Access to the Green Economy Conference" (UC Berkeley School of Law, April 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Reconciling Efficiency and Justice: Integrating Environmental Justice into Cap-and-Trade Programs for Controlling Greenhouse Gases," presentation at "Energy and Responsibility: A Conference on Ethics and the Environment" (University of Tennessee, April 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Environmental Justice and Climate Change Policy," presentation at the symposium "Climate Change: Integrating Environmental Justice into Policy, Regulation, and Litigation" (Denver University Sturm College of Law, February 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "Green Buildings: The Future of the Construction Industry," presentation to the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Los Angeles, February 2008).
Kaswan, Alice. "The Domestic Response to Global Climate Change: What Role for Federal, State, and Litigation Initiatives?" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2007).
Kaswan, Alice. "Climate Change and the Courts" (Environmental Litigation Reporter, 2007).
Kaswan, Alice. "Federal Courts and Climate Change Suits" (Environmental News Network, 2007).
Kaswan, Alice. "A Blockbuster Term in the Supreme United States Supreme Court," panelist at the California State Bar Environmental Law Conference (Yosemite, October 2007).
Kaswan, Alice. Co-organizer, USF Law Review symposium "The Domestic Response to Global Climate Change: Federal, State, and Litigation Initiatives" (USF School of Law, March 2007).
Kaswan, Alice. "Introduction to Environmental Justice," panelist at the 2006 California Water Law Symposium "Environmental Justice and Access to Clean Drinking Water" (UC Hastings College of the Law, February 2006).
Kaswan, Alice. Planning committee, 2004 AALS Environmental Law Conference on incorporating international environmental law into domestic environmental law courses (Portland, Oregon, 2004).
Kaswan, Alice. "Distributive Justice and the Environment" (North Carolina Law Review, 2003).
Kaswan, Alice. "Environmental Laws: Grist for the Equal Protection Mill" (University of Colorado Law Review, 1999).
Kaswan, Alice. "Environmental Justice: Bridging the Gap Between Environmental Laws and 'Justice'" (American University Law Review, 1997).
Leighton, Michelle. "Protecting the Most Vulnerable in a Climate-Changed World," presentation at the 19th Annual Fulbright Symposium for the American Society of International Law (Golden Gate University School of Law, April 2009).
Leighton, Michelle. "Climate Change and Conflict: Drivers of Environmental Migration," presentation at the Fordham Environmental Law Review Symposium "Global Responses to Eco-Migration and Environmental Disasters: The Role of U.S. and International Law and Policy" (New York City, February 2009).
Leighton, Michelle. "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2008) (with Connie de la Vega).
Leighton, Michelle. "Desertification, Climate Change and Migration: Perspective on the African Continent," presentation at "Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: Addressing Vulnerabilities and Harnessing Opportunities" (Geneva, Switzerland, February 2008).
Leighton, Michelle. "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice" (Center for Law and Global Justice, 2007) (with Connie de la Vega).
Leighton, Michelle. "Desertification + Migration = Security?" presentation at the Desertification and Security Conference Proceedings (German Federal Foreign Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the Desertification and Security Conference, German Federal Foreign Office (Berlin, Germany, June 2007).
Leighton, Michelle. "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," presentation at the Corporate Accountability, Amnesty International and Stanford Centre on Ethics (Stanford Law School, February 2007).
Leighton, Michelle. Closing lecture at the Climate Change Liability Symposium, Stanford Environmental Law Journal and Journal of International Law (Stanford School of Law, February 2007).
Leighton, Michelle. Governing Global Desertification: Linking Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Participation (Ashgate Press, 2006) (contributor).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the Second International Symposium on Desertification and Migration, Spain Ministry of Environment (Spain, October 2006).
Leighton, Michelle. "Human Rights, Nigeria and Oil," presentation at the World Affairs Council (San Francisco, March 2006).
Leighton, Michelle. "Environmental Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights: Global Issues and Local Perspectives," presentation at the World Affairs Council (San Francisco, June 2005).
Leighton, Michelle. The Human Right to Water: Exploring Public and Private Legal Obligations for the Equitable Distribution, Transfer and Use of Water (American Bar Association, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Developing Indicators and Monitoring Tools to Promote Science and Community-Based Policies for Dryland Biodiversity Protection…Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Global Significance in Arid/Semi-Arid Zones (Global Environment Facility, 2003) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at California's Right to Know, California Legislative Briefing Session, Senate Select Committee on International Trade (Sacramento, October 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at Encuentro Internacional de Doctores y Doctorandos en Derecho Ambiental (Mexico City, October 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Panelist at Water and International Law American Bar Association, fall meeting (Washington, D.C., 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at "Emerging Issues in Social/Sustainability Reporting," CERES Annual 2003 Conference on Advancing Sustainable Governance (New York City, April 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the symposium "Holding the U.S. Accountable: Human and Civil Rights Violations Post 9/11" (UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, March 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at international environmental governance symposium (UC Hastings College of the Law, February 2003).
Leighton, Michelle. Beyond Good Deeds: Case Studies and a New Policy Agenda for Corporate Accountability (Natural Heritage Institute, 2002) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. "Civil Society Concerns in the Context of Economic Globalization" (The Transnational Lawyer, 2002) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. Panelist at the symposium "Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law" (UC Hastings College of the Law, February 2001).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at "Biotechnology and Law" (McGeorge School of Law, May 2000).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the National Summit on Africa Environment Panel (Washington, D.C., February 2000).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the Environmental Grantmakers Association Annual Meeting (Monterey, October 1999).
Leighton, Michelle. Presentation at the Ninth Annual Fulbright Symposium on International Legal Problems "Corporate Accountability and Human Rights" (Golden Gate University, March 1999).
Leighton, Michelle. "Opening the International Court of Justice to Claims of Non-State Actors" presentation at the International and Domestic Perspectives Conference (Stanford Law School, May 1998).
Leighton, Michelle. Opportunities for Addressing Interrelated Problems of Dryland Desertification, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change (Global Biodiversity Forum, 1998).
Leighton, Michelle. World Atlas on Desertification and Drought (UN Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, 1997) (contributor).
Leighton, Michelle. Restoring the Waters (Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado, 1997) (contributor).
Leighton, Michelle. "A Contribution to the Environment and Security Debate: NHI's U.S.-Mexico Case Study on Desertification and Migration" (Environmental Change and Security Project, 1997) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. Environmental Degradation and Migration (U.S. Congressional Commission on Immigration Reform, 1997).
Leighton, Michelle. International Environmental Law Anthology (Anderson Publishing Company, 1996) (contributor).
Leighton, Michelle. Desertification and Migration: Case Studies and Evaluation, Desertification and Migration (J. Puigdefabregas & T. Mendizabal, 1995) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. "Reevaluating the California Tanner Act: Public Empowerment v. Efficient Waste Disposal" (California Real Property Journal, 1995) (co-author).
Leighton, Michelle. "International Legal Protection for Victims of Environmental Abuse" (Yale Journal of International Law, 1993).
Markham, Jesse. "Implied Partial Repeal, Credit Suisse, and the Balance Between Regulation and Antitrust" (forthcoming).
Markham, Jesse. "U.S. Antitrust Law," presentation via video conference to the Transnational Law and Finance Master Program, Universidad de Duesto (Bilbao, Spain, January 2009).
Markham, Jesse. "China's Antimonopoly Law and Intellectual Property Rights," presentation at the University of Industry, Business and Economics (Beijing, China, April 2008).
Markham, Jesse. "Doing Business in China: What to Expect From M&A and Antimonopoly Regulation" (General Counsel, 2007).
Markham, Jesse. "Some Important Implications of ABC International Traders: A Reprieve for Delear Termination Claims and a Wake Up Call for Price Discrimination in Technology Licensing" (Competition, 1998).
McCarthy, J. Thomas. "Dilution of a Trademark: European and United States Law Compared" (Trademark Reporter, 2004).
McCarthy, J. Thomas. "Domain Names and Trademarks" (Australian Intellectual Property Law Journal, 1998).
McCarthy, J. Thomas. "Intellectual Property—America's Overlooked Export" (University of Dayton Law Review, 1995). Reprinted in Intellectual Property Law Review (1996).
McCarthy, J. Thomas. Domestic and International Licensing of Technology, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Literary Property Course Handbook series (Practising Law Institute, 1980) (with Tom Arnold).
McCarthy, J. Thomas. Current Trends in Domestic and International Licensing of Technology, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Literary Property Course Handbook series (Practising Law Institute, 1979) (with Roger M. Milgrim).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment" (Promises of Liberty: Thirteenth Amendment Abolitionism and Contemporary Relevance, 2009).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Immigrant Workers and the Thirteenth Amendment," presentation at "Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment" (Chicago, April 2009).
Ontiveros, Maria. "New Legal Methods and Approaches for the Newly Defined Immigrant Worker," moderator at the symposium "Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law" (USF School of Law, February 2009).
Ontiveros, Maria. "ICE Raids: Raising Human Rights Issues in the Immigrant Worker Context," moderator at the symposium "Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law" (USF School of Law, February 2009).
Ontiveros, Maria. "The Thirteenth Amendment and Access to Education for Children of Undocumented Workers: A New Look at Plyler v. Doe" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2008) (with Joshua R. Drexler).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: Immigrants and Organized Labor" (WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 2008).
Ontiveros, Maria. "The Importance of Teaching the 'Sui Generis' Cases," presentation at the Society of American Law Teachers Conference "Teaching for Social Change" (Berkeley, March 2008).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help?" (Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking In Multiple Voices, 2007).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities" (The Sex Of Class: Women Transforming American Labor, 2007).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Immigrant Rights and the Thirteenth Amendment" (New Labor Forum, 2007).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Noncitizen Immigrant Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment: Challenging Guest Worker Programs" (University of Toledo Law Review, 2007).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Panel One: Women and Children First? New Strategies in Anti-trafficking Initiatives" (Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law, 2005) (co-author).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Immigrant Workers' Rights in a Post-Hoffman World: Organizing Around the Thirteenth Amendment" (Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 2004).
Ontiveros, Maria. "Lessons from the Fields: Female Farmworkers and the Law" (Maine Law Review, 2003).
Ontiveros, Maria. "A Vision of Global Capitalism that Puts Women and People of Color at the Center" (Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law, 1999).
Ontiveros, Maria. "To Help Those Most in Need: Undocumented Workers' Rights and Remedies Under Title VII" (New York University Review of Law and Social Change, 1993-1994).
Sakmar, Susan (adjunct). "The Status of the Draft Iraq Oil and Gas Law" (Houston Journal of International Law, 2008).
Sakmar, Susan (adjunct). "Bringing Energy Trade into the WTO: the Historical Context, Current Status, and Potential Implications for the Middle East Region" (Indiana International Comparative Law Review, 2008).
Sakmar, Susan (adjunct). "Globalization and Trade Initiatives in the Arab World: Historical Context, Progress to Date, and Prospects for the Future" (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2008).
Shatz, Steven. "Narrowing Death Eligibility," presentation at the Capital Case Defense Seminar (Monterey, February 2009).
Shatz, Steven. "The Death Penalty" (Peace Review, 2001) (co-editor with Connie de la Vega).
Shatz, Steven. "Picketing Injunctions in California: A Study of the Role of the Courts in Farm Labor Disputes" (Hastings Law Journal, 1977).
Travis, Michelle. "Past, Present and Future: High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S. Workforce," moderator at "Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law Symposium" (USF School of Law, February 2009).
Travis, Michelle. "The Full-Time Face-Time Norm: Lessons from the United Kingdom" (Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, 2006).
Travis, Michelle. "Stereotyping, Opting Out, and the Law: The Family Responsive Workplace in Europe and the United States," presentation at the Second Annual WorkLife Conference (American University Washington College of Law, March 2005).
Travis, Michelle. Commentator for panel at the "Legislative Approaches to Flexibility and Reduced Working Time," First Annual WorkLife Law Conference "Working Time for Working Families—Europe and the USA" (American University Washington College of Law, June 2004).
The center hosts symposia that provide opportunities for dialogue and reflection upon human rights and justice issues. Recent symposia have included:
The Future of Corporate Accountability and Oversight | April 4, 2008
The Center for Law and Global Justice and the Journal of Law and Social Challenges hosted this symposium to explore corporate social responsibility and the extent to which this responsibility should be legally enforceable. Various stakeholders engaged in discussion, evaluating current law and policy and the future of private sector oversight.
Keynote Speaker:
Hon. Carlos R. Moreno, Calif. Supreme Court
Select Panelists:
Bennett Freeman, Former U.S. Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Dr. Emeka Duruigbo, Professor, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Cindy Cohn, Senior Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Luis Fernando de Angulo, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Dan Henkle, Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, The Gap
Monika Kalra Varma, Director, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center Human Rights
Human Rights and Academic Repression | April 14, 2007
In cooperation with UC Davis, the Scholars at Risk Network, the USF Human Rights Working Group, the McCarthy Center for Public Good, the Peace Review, and the Journal of Law and Social Challenges, the center explored human rights and academic repression at this 2007 symposium. The event considered the intersections-existing and potential —between international human rights standards and traditional understandings of academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the higher education sector. Guests from more than 20 countries participated in the weekend's events, including formerly threatened scholars from Belarus, D.R. Congo, Ethiopia, Colombia, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan. Keynote Speaker: Michael Young, President, University of Utah.
Select Panelists:
Taye Woldesmiate, Visiting Scholar (Ethiopia), Illinois State University
Felix Kaputu, Visiting Scholar (Democratic Republic of Congo), Harvard University
Charas Suwanwela, Professor, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Nozima Kamalova, Visiting Scholar (Uzbekistan)
Ratnajeevan Hoole, Visiting Scholar (Sri Lanka), Drexel University
Shayee Khanaka, Middle Eastern Collection Librarian, UC Berkeley
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Visiting Scholar (Iran), Harvard University
Daniel Coronell, Visiting Scholar (Colombia), UC Berkeley
Vladimir Dounaev, First Vice-Rector, European Humanities University (Belarus/Lithuania)
Kees Bleichrodt, Director, Foundation for Refugee Students UAF (Netherlands)
The Domestic Response to Global Climate Change: Federal, State, and Litigation Initiatives | March 31, 2007
On March 31, 2007, the USF School of Law sponsored a symposium to showcase and evaluate domestic efforts to counter climate change, including federal and state initiatives. State initiatives that were discussed at the conference include California's controls on motor vehicle emissions, the state's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act, and the Northeastern states' Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Federal initiatives that were considered include federal voluntary programs and national energy policy.
Keynote Speaker:
Cindy Tuck, Assistant Secretary for Policy, California EPA
Select Panelists:
Lisa Heinzerling, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Thomas Merrill, Professor, Columbia University School of Law
Ken Alex, Assistant Attorney General, California Attorney General's Office
Ellen Peter, Chief Counsel, California Air Resources Board
Theodore Boutrous Jr., Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
James Goldstene, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Devra Wang, Director of California Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Invisible Chains: Human Trafficking and Forced Labor in the United States | February 3, 2006
In 2006, in conjunction with the Journal of Law and Social Challenges, the center hosted a symposium on human trafficking and forced labor. The United States is a receiving nation of trafficking victims and the state of California is one of the most heavily visited destinations for traffickers and their victims. At the symposium, participants discussed reform of U.S. and California legislation to combat trafficking and to provide services for the rehabilitation of trafficking victims, particularly sexually exploited women and children. Speakers included Congresswoman Lieber, attorneys involved in the prosecution of traffickers, and international groups providing aid to victims.
Select Panelists:
Kay Buck, Executive Director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking
Laurel Fletcher, Professor, UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law
Kathleen Kim, Associate Professor, Loyola Law School (former project attorney for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights)
Michael Rubin, Partner, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain
Juvenile Life Without Parole Materials and Brief Bank
Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison Article (2008)
California Case Study of the Eighth Amendment and the Death Penalty (2007)
Inside Guantanamo (forthcoming 2010)
Climate Change, Consumption, and Cities (2009)
