Santa Clara University School of Law - Notable Current Faculty

Notable Current Faculty

• David D. Friedman – author of The Machinery of Freedom, son of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman.
• Beth van Schaack – Executive Director and Staff Attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability; defense attorney for John Walker Lindh; former clerk for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Deputy to United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. State Department.
• Edward Steinman – Civil Rights and Criminal Defense attorney; argued and won a unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court in the landmark civil rights case Lau v. Nichols, which expanded the rights of students nationwide with limited English proficiency.
• Kenneth A. Manaster – Environmental Law scholar; Chair, Public Advisory Committee to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
• Tyler Ochoa – Intellectual Property Law scholar.
• Kathleen (Cookie) Ridolfi – Director of the Northern California Innocence Project, member of the Camden 28.
• Gerald F. Uelmen – former Dean; Criminal Law/Procedure; member of the defense team for the O.J. Simpson murder case.
• Catherine Sandoval – Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission.
• Stephanie Wildman – Social Justice scholar, Director of the Center for Social Justice and Public Interest.