This series contains published materials, and working papers, produced by law faculty at Santa Clara University's School of Law. Most of these materials have been published in law reviews and journals, practice materials, and other published sources of legal analysis and commentary.

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Submissions from 2024

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No-Poach Agreements: An Overview of US, EU, and National Case Law, Donald J. Polden

Submissions from 2023

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Against Silence: Why Doctors are Obligated to Provide Abortion, Michelle Oberman

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Doctors’ Duty to Provide Abortion Information, Michelle Oberman and Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

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Abortion Counseling, Liability, and the First Amendment, Michelle Oberman and Katie Watson

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Marvin Claims at Death, Patricia A. Cain

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The New ALI Restatement and the Doctrine of Non-Self-Executing Treaties, David Sloss

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Does Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Violate Laws Against Human Cloning?, Kerry L. Macintosh

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The Financial Impact of Lost Licenses in Texas, Colleen Chien

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The Texas Second Chance Non-Disclosure/Sealing Gap, Colleen Chien

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Restrictions on Worker Mobility and the Need for Stronger Policies on Anticompetitive Employment Contract Provisions, Donald J. Polden

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The Minnesota Second Chance Expungement Gap, Colleen Chien

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The New York Second Chance Sealing Gap, Colleen Chien

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The Missouri Second Chance Expungement Gap, Colleen Chien

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The Financial Impact of Suspended Licenses in Illinois, Colleen Chien

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The Illinois Second Chance Expungement/Sealing Gap, Colleen Chien

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The Oregon Second Chance Set-Aside Gap, Colleen Chien

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The California Way: An Analysis of California’s Immigrant-Friendly Changes to its Criminal Laws, Evangeline G. Abriel

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The Right to a Public Trial, Conditional Courtroom Entry and Tiers of Constitutional Scrutiny, Stephen Smith

Submissions from 2022

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Reconciling Copyright "Restoration" for Pre-1972 Foreign Sound Recordings with the Classics Protection and Access Act, Tyler T. Ochoa

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"The Rule” and the Constitution: Witness Exclusion and the Right to a Public Trial, Stephen E. Smith

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United States v. Allen and Judicial Review of Early Pandemic Courtroom Closures, Stephen E. Smith

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Redefining Progress and the Case for Diversity in Innovation and Inventing, Colleen Chien

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The Inequalities of Innovation, Colleen Chien

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How Abortion Laws Do and Don't Work, Michelle Oberman

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Integrated Nonmarital Property Rights, E. Gary Spitko

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What Will and Won’t Happen When Abortion is Banned, Michelle Oberman

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Estimating the Earnings Loss Associated with a Criminal Record and Suspended Driver’s License, Colleen Chien, Alexandra George, Srihari Shekhar, and Robert Apel

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The Estimated Size and Lost Earnings of New York’s Second Chance Sealing Gap, Colleen Chien, Navid Shaghaghi, Hithesh Bathala, Sarah-Mae Sanchez, and Evan Hastings

Submissions from 2021

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The Online Criminal Trial as a Public Trial, Stephen Smith

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Moby-Dick as Corporate Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, and Redemption, David Yosifon

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Diversity in Innovation Best Practices Guide, Laura Norris, Mary Fuller, Joy Peacock, and Sydney Yazzolino

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The Connecticut Second Chance​ ​Pardon​ ​Gap, Colleen Chien, Hithesh Bathala, Prajakta Pingale, Evan Hastings, and Adam Osmond

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Comments to the National Strategy for Expanding American Innovation, Colleen Chien and Ernest Fok

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The AIA at Ten - How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter?, Colleen Chien, Janelle Barbier, and Obie Reynolds

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What’s in a Name? Strict Scrutiny and the Right to a Public Trial, Stephen Smith

Submissions from 2020

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Parsing the Impact of Alice and the PEG, Colleen Chien, Nicholas Halkowski, Maria He, and Rodney Swartz

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Reputation Systems Bias in the Platform Workplace, E. Gary Spitko

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How Should Non-Probate Transfers Matter in Intestacy?, Mary Louise Fellows and E. Gary Spitko

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The Right to a Public Trial in the Time of COVID-19, Stephen E. Smith

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The Washington State Second Chance Expungement Gap, Colleen Chien, Zuyan Huang, Jacob Kuykendall, and Katie Rabago

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The Engagement of U.S. Courts with International Law, David Sloss

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Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order, David L. Sloss

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Domestic Application of Treaties, David L. Sloss

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Section 230 and the Duty to Prevent Mass Atrocities, David L. Sloss

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Asking Too Much: The Ninth Circuit’s Erroneous Review of Social Security Disability Determinations, Stephen E. Smith

Submissions from 2019

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How can Congress Prevent the Issuance of Poor Quality Patents? Questions for the Record for Colleen V. Chien, Colleen V. Chien

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Patent Litigation: Data Access and Construction, Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love

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Patent Litigation: Empirical Analysis, Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love

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Patent Litigation: Institutions, Processes, and Procedures, Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love

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Patent Litigation: Theory, Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love

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Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift, The RIsk of Net Neutrality Repeal to Energy Reliability, PUblic Safety, and Climate Change Solutions, Catherine J. K. Sandoval

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Outside The Echo Chamber: A Response To The “Consensus Statement On Abusive Head Trauma In Infants And Young Children, Randy Papetti, Paige Kaneb, and Lindsay Herf

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Book Review: Abortion Rights: For and Against, Michelle Oberman and Julia D. Hejduk

Submissions from 2018

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Motherhood, Abortion, and the Medicalization of Women’s Poverty, Michelle Oberman

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Copyright and Underwater Cultural Heritage, Tyler T. Ochoa

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Are the stock markets "rigged"? An empirical analysis of regulatory change, Stephen Diamond

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The Right Tool for Trade Relations with China, Anna M. Han and Colleen Chien

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Emojis and the Law, Eric Goldman

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Determinants of Patent Quality: Evidence from Inter Partes Review Proceedings, Brian Love, Shawn P. Miller, and Shawn Ambwani

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Brief of Amici Curiae - Copyright and Intellectual Property Law Professors in Support of Defendant-Petitioner Pandora Media, Inc., Tyler T. Ochoa and Joseph C. Gratz

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The Plausible and the Possible: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Reasonable Suspicion, W. David Ball

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Inequality, Innovation, and Patents, Colleen V. Chien

Patent Semi-Comparables, Colleen V. Chien and Eric Schulman

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Of Course the First Amendment Protects Google and Facebook (and It’s Not a Close Question), Eric Goldman

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Dr. Seuss, The Juice and Fair Use Revisited: Two Decades of Parody and Satire in Copyright Law, Tyler T. Ochoa

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Licensing & Law Who Owns an Avatar?, Tyler T. Ochoa and Jaime Banks

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A Structural-Purposive Interpretation of “Employment” in the Platform Economy, E. Gary Spitko

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Intestate Inheritance Rights for Unmarried Committed Partners: Lessons for U.S. Law Reform from the Scottish Experience, E. Gary Spitko

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“Undemocratic” Trusts and the Numerus Clausus Principle, E. Gary Spitko

Submissions from 2017

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Are the Stock Markets “Rigged”? An Empirical Analysis of Regulatory Change, Stephen F. Diamond and Jennifer W. Kuan

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California's Climate Diplomacy and Dormant Preemption, David L. Sloss

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The Market for Software Innovation Through the Lens of Patent Licenses and Sales, Colleen V. Chien

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What is a "Useful Article" in Copyright Law After Star Athletica?, Tyler T. Ochoa

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Reach Out and Touch Someone: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Tyler T. Ochoa and Craig Joyce

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Human Rights and Constitutional Democracy, David L. Sloss

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International Law in Domestic Courts, David Sloss and Michael Van Alstine

Submissions from 2016

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If Hindsight is 20/20, Our Justice System Should Not be Blind to New Evidence of Innocence: A Survey of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes and a Proposed Model, Paige Kaneb

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Inter Partes Review: Current Thinking on What, When, Why, and How Much, Brian Love

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Predictably Expensive: A Critical Look at Patent Litigation in the Eastern District of Texas, Brian Love

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Comparative Patent Quality, Colleen Chien

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Recalibrarting Patent Venue, Colleen V. Chien and Michael Risch

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Writing Tenure Review Letters, Eric Goldman

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Randomly Distributed Trial Court Justice: A Case Study and Siren from the Consumer Bankruptcy World, Gary G. Neustadter

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Pay-for-Performance in Prison: Using Healthcare Economics to Improve Criminal Justice, W. David Ball

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The Disembodied Rule and the Rule Made Flesh: Propositions, Illustrations, and the Placement of Citations, Stephen E. Smith

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New Developments, New IPR Strategies Before PTAB, Brian Love

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PTAB Data Analytics: Looking Behind the Numbers, Amy E. Simpson, Brian Love, and Kim Schmitt

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To Improve Patent Quality, Let's Use Fees to Weed Out Weak Patents, Brian J. Love

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“A False Idea of Economy”: Costs, Counties, and the Origins of the California Correctional System, W. David Ball

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Request for Submission of Topics for USPTO Quality Case Studies, Colleen Chien and Brian Love

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Harmony and Disharmony in International Patent Law, Colleen Chien

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Beyond Eureka: What Creators Want (Freedom, Credit, and Audiences) and How Intellectual Property Can Better Give It to Them (By Supporting Sharing, Licensing, and Attribution), Colleen Chien

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What would happen to patent cases if they couldn’t all be filed in Texas?, Colleen Chien and Michael Risch

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Regulation of Lawyers' Use of Competitive Keyword Advertising, Eric Goldman

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Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?, Brian Love, Christine Helmers, and Markus Eberhardt

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Are We Nearing the End of Impunity for Taking Black Lives?, Margalynne J. Armstrong

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Women's Sexual Agency and the Law of Rape in the 21st Century, Michelle Oberman and Katharine K. Baker

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The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change, David Sloss

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Glatt v. Fox Searchlight and the Rhetorical Value of Inter-Circuit Dialogue, Stephen Smith

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The Will as an Implied Unilateral Arbitration Contract, E. Gary Spitko