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INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL
VOLUME 39 SPRING 2009 NUMBER 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
THE UNINTENDED REVOLUTION: U.S. ANTI-DRUG POLICY AND THE
SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN BOLIVIA
W ill R eisinger ................................................................................. 237
COMPASSIONATE CONSUMERISM WITHIN THE GATT REGIME: CAN
BELGIUM'S BAN ON SEAL PRODUCT IMPORTS BE JUSTIFIED UNDER
ARTICLE XX?
R obert G alantucci ........................................................................... 281
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION: A CHALLENGE TO CANADIAN AND
UNITED STATES LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE CONVENTION
AGAINST TORTURE
M ario Silva ..................................................................................... 3 13
SPEECHES
CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW: CALIFORNIA HERITAGE
PROFESSORSHIPS
Louis and Hermione Brown Professor Thomas D. Barton ............... 357
Earl Warren Professor Michal R. Belknap ...................................... 363
Clara Shortridge Foltz Professor Barbara J. Cox ........................... 369
E. Donald Shapiro Professor Bryan A. Liang .................................. 377
Roger J. Traynor Professor John E. Noyes ...................................... 381
COMMENT
CONSUMING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: A PROPOSAL FOR CARBON
LABELS IN THE UNITED STATES
Stacey R . O 'N eill ............................................................................ 393
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Galantucci, Robert

Compassionate Consumerism Within the GATT Regime: Can Belgium\u27s Ban on Seal Product Imports Be Justified Under Article XX?

Silva, Mario

Extraordinary Rendition: A Challenge to Canadian and United States Legal Obligations Under the Convention Against Torture

Chambers, Megan

Integration as Discrimination Against People with Disabilities? Olmstead\u27s Test Shouldn\u27t Word Both Ways

Aceves, William J.

Cooper, James M.

Gonzalez, Alejandro

Marshall, Pedro Egana

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The Life Cycle of Immigration: A Tale of Two Migrants 
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to (Gender I ionce at the &-,dex,(o Border., 5 SEATTLE SOu JUST. 602)70).
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CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW
VOLUME 46 FALL 2009 NUMBER 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
CREDIT REPORTING, PRESCREENED LISTS, AND ADVERSE ACTION: THE
IMPACT OF THE FAIRREPORTING CREDIT ACT AND THE EQUAL CREDIT
OPPORTUNITY ACT
E lw in J. G riffith ..................................................................................... 1
LOBBYING AND LITIGATING AGAINST "LEGAL BOOTLEGGERS"- THE
ROLE OF THE ORGANIZED BAR IN THE EXPANSION OF THE COURTS'
INHERENT POWERS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Laurel A . R igertas .......................................................................... 65
BILSKI ON BIOTECH: THE POTENTIAL FOR LIMITING NEGATIVE IMPACT
OF GENE PATENTS
B ryan N ese ......................................................................................... 137
COMMENTS
INTEGRATION AS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES? OLMSTEAD'S TEST SHOULDN'T WORK BOTH WAYS
M egan C ham bers ............................................................................... 177
WHEN JUST SAYING "No" IS NOT ENOUGH: HOW AN EMPLOYEE WHO
REJECTS A SUPERVISOR'S SEXUAL ADVANCES MAY NOT BE
PROTECTED FROM RETALIATION-AND WHAT THE SUPREME COURT
CAN Do ABOUT
N atalie W atson W inslow .................................................................... 211
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Ehrlich,, Scott B., Introduction

CLARA SHORTRIDGE FOLTZ PROFESSORSHIP t
BARBARA J. Cox
INTRODUCTION BY ScoTn B. EHRLICH*
Barb and I have skied, hiked in Zion National Park, and roller
bladed together for around twenty years. If you've seen Barb in her
many casts and crutches, you would know that participating in these
activities is generally not a good idea but, typical of Barb, she pursues
everything with zeal, even at great risk to herself.
When Barb asked me to make some comments, she mentioned
that she thought I could give some perspective from the "queer point
of view." Yes, Barb is a lesbian. A very powerful, motherly, proud,
and queer lesbian. For those of you who are not steeped in gay and
lesbian activism, "queer" is a positive term developed from within the
culture as a tool of self-empowerment. It's a term that accepts who we
are and announces without shame that we exist. Queer unites us with
its neutrality and disregard for distinctions based on "sex," "gender,"
and "sexual orientation."
It is not easy being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or queer.
I do not think it is really possible to describe growing up gay or
lesbian in a straight world, especially in Kentucky. Barb stands as a
beacon of queerness for all of us. In the twenty years I have known
her, she's never backed down or tried to hide who she is (alright,
she'd have a hard time hiding at six feet tall and as a dead-ringer for
Garrison Keeler). She does not hesitate to answer questions like "are
you married?" and "what's your husband's name?" with the truth. She
has taken a queer stance for decades, well before the term was used.
t Accepted by Barbara J. Cox on May 1, 2008, at California Western School of
Law.
* Professor of Law, California Western School of Law.
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She has proudly placed herself in the public eye as she pursues her
quest for recognition and equality for all, regardless of gender, sex, or
sexual orientation.
Her scholarship and educational work have been part of the
development of queer theory and she stands at the forefront of
intelligent conversation on the issue of gay marriage. Shortly after her
arrival at California Western School of Law, Barb and I worked
together on bringing domestic partner benefits to California Western
employees. Barb was outraged by the lack of equality for married
employees and long-term same-sex couples. With Barb's typical
insistence on fairness, California Western ended up being the third
law school in the entire country to offer domestic partner benefits. It
serves all of us, straight or queer, to have people like Barb at our
institution and in our lives. She is brilliant, principled, honest,
impassioned, fair, and supportive. This honor she is receiving today is
well earned.
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CLARA SHORTRIDGE FOLTZ PROFESSORSHIP
ACCEPTANCE BY BARBARA J. Cox*
I am so grateful to be here today with my colleagues, students,
friends, and family.
It is a wonderful step forward for the faculty at California Western
School of Law to have these endowed professorships established. I am
excited and humbled to have been selected as one of the first five
members of our faculty to hold a professorship and as the first to
occupy the Clara Shortridge Foltz Professorship.
I want to thank Dean Steven Smith, Jeff Lewin and the rest of the
Board of Trustees, David Bowers, Alan Lewenstein, and the
development office staff who have together created a way to recognize
the incredible work that the members of this faculty do. I find it
difficult to see how I fit in this inaugural group because I cannot hope
to match the scholarship done by my colleagues: John Noyes, Mike
Belknap, Tom Barton, and Bryan Liang. I also know it must have
been a difficult selection process for Dean Smith because so many of
my colleagues are equally deserving of this recognition, and I hope we
will continue to create new professorships so they too will receive the
recognition that they deserve.
I also find it difficult to sit easy in a professorship named for
Clara Shortridge Foltz. I've read quite a lot about Clara lately, and she
was a truly amazing person. As Barbara Babcock, Stanford law
professor and Clara's biographer summarized:
She was the first woman lawyer in California, first woman to attend
law school, first woman notary public, first woman counsel to a
legislative committee, and the first woman deputy district attorney.
She was the first person to conceive of the idea of a public defender
for indigents accused of crime and worked to implement the
concept through legislation in thirty states. The first American
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Constitutional clauses guaranteeing women access to education and
employment were largely due to Foltz. She crusaded for suffrage
and was one of the few original suffragists who lived to cast a
ballot. She practiced law continually for 50 years.1
And she accomplished many of these things very quickly. During
the two years from 1877 to 1879, she turned from obscure housewife,
with five children by age twenty-five, into the renowned "Portia of the
Pacific."2 She read law, passed three bar exams before being admitted,
argued her case for admission to the bar all the way to the California
Supreme Court, lobbied for both the "Women Lawyers Bill" and the
constitutional provisions, and started working for the legislative
committee.
I hope Clara would consider me a fitting person to fill her chair,
the first we believe to exist in the United States. My career, especially
at California Western, has focused on three areas. As my colleagues
will attest, I'm pretty single-minded and I'm sure annoyingly so, about
the continuing need to diversify our faculty, staff, and student body.
I'm the only remaining member of the faculty who first developed our
diversity program (although Christine Hickman is also here today); I
wrote one of the first articles on efforts to end sexual orientation
discrimination in legal education, and I've been one of the people
pushing diversity in my service on the Association of American Law
Schools and American Bar Association accreditation committees. I
feel so strongly about this issue, and as we look around this room
today we can see that our efforts are paying off.
I also have spent much of my time since 1983 working on a "little
project" that a lesbian activist in Madison, Wisconsin, asked me to
take on: seeking legal rights for same-sex couples. Clara obviously
was much more persuasive than I am; it took her only about two years
to open up the California legal profession to women and obtain
constitutional protections for women in employment and education-
1. Barbara Allen Babcock, Reconstructing the Person: The Case of Clara
Shortridge Foltz, 12 BIOGRAPHY: AN INTERDISC. Q. 5 (1989) [hereinafter Babcock,
Reconstructing the Person]; see also Barbara Allen Babcock, Clara Shortridge
Foltz: "First Woman," 30 ARiz. L. REv. 673 (1988); Barbara Allen Babcock, Clara
Shortridge Foltz: Constitution-Maker, 66 IND. L.J. 849 (1990).
2. Babcock, Reconstructing the Person, supra note 1, at 7.
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I, on the other hand, have been doing this work for over twenty-five
years. When I started working on these issues in 1983 and writing
about them in 1986, there was no recognition of our relationships and
only five employers in the country that provided health insurance
benefits to same-sex couples. Today, we have marriage in
Massachusetts and five countries, domestic partnerships or civil
unions in seven states and countless European and other countries
(including Uruguay, the first in South America), thousands of
employers that provide health insurance benefits, and several state
courts, including the California courts, that are considering challenges
against laws banning same-sex couples from marrying.
I have also tried to be a good teacher: fair, rigorous, and caring.
I'm delighted that some of my students are here today. I try to be the
type of teacher who fulfills the saying: "The teacher opens the door,
but the student must walk through it." I hope I can open the door for
my students and push them to embrace the need for them to make the
knowledge their own. I have learned so much from my students, and I
hope I have pushed them to embrace the quest for knowledge that I so
enjoy.
And I have had many blessings that Clara did not. When Clara's
father realized she was both scholarly and eloquent, he was reported to
have said: "It is too bad, daughter, that you are a girl, for if you were a
boy, I would educate you for the law-you would make a great
lawyer."
3
Unlike Clara's parents, my parents and my sisters have always
been more than supportive of my education and going to law school.
In fact, my mother will tell you I've been demanding due process
since I was two years old and she and my father thought it would be
great for me to go to law school so I could earn my living demanding
the fairness that I have been insisting on since age two.
It has been a difficult year for my family, because my father was
diagnosed with cancer last spring and passed away this summer, and it
has been particularly difficult for my mother to have lost him after
fifty-six years of marriage. He would have loved this ceremony and
would have recognized how special it is to me. My mother and sisters
3. Sandra Day O'Connor, Dedication of Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal
Justice Center (Feb. 8, 2002).
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are here, as well as my aunt and uncle, and they have all supported me
as I pursued my education and my career.
I haven't always made it easy for them-it can be difficult to be
the family member of a recovering addict/alcoholic, outspoken
feminist, and out lesbian activist. But they've stayed with me every
step of the way, and there's nothing I can say to adequately thank
them for everything they've given me.
Another difference is that Clara married at fifteen, eloping to
marry Jeremiah Foltz. She had five children, but Jeremiah had
difficulty supporting the family. He took many trips to Oregon where
it turned out he was visiting another woman whom he married within
two weeks after Foltz divorced him. For many years, Clara described
herself as a widow with five children to support even though her
husband was still alive and able-bodied. 4
Unlike Clara, I have had complete support from my partner, Peg
Habetler. We have been together since November 1990; had a private
commitment ceremony in Madison and San Diego in 1992, which
many of you attended; and were married in Canada in July 2003. Peg
agreed to leave Wisconsin after living there for forty-two years and
move to San Diego in 1992, and she arrived here sixteen years ago on
May 1, 1992, as the riots and fires were consuming Los Angeles. She
has supported my work on behalf of same-sex couples and has
withstood countless narratives describing our relationship in various
articles and editorials.
The Appalachian ladder-back chair she just presented to me is
handcrafted; it was made during this past fall and spring, and she
spent hundreds of hours crafting it for me and having it laser-engraved
with my name, the name of the professorship, and California
Western's logo. I hope you'll come up after the ceremony and see
what a marvelous chair it is. I'm thrilled to receive it.
Thanks to my dear friends who are here today. Your love and
support means the world to me.
I was reading a review of the book, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua
Achebe, about the Igbo land in Nigeria. He quoted his father as saying
"whenever something stands, something else stands beside it."' 5 For
4. Babcock, Reconstructing the Person, supra note 1, at 6-8.
5. CHINUA ACHEBE, TMiNGs FALL APART (Everyman's Library 1995) (1958).
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me, that is so true-all of the people in this room and many who are
not here have been instrumental in allowing me to receive this
professorship today.
Thank you to California Western, my friends, my family, and my
colleagues who are here today helping me celebrate this professorship.
Linking Clara's name with mine is a great honor, and I will try in
some small way to fulfill the professorship's responsibilities and, by
doing so, commemorate Clara's amazing accomplishments.
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