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Subject: Medical Cannabis health emergency
From: Office of the City Attorney
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution renewing the City Council's Declaration of a local public health emergency with respect to safe, affordable access to Medical Cannabis in the City of Oakland
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ESOLUTION APPOINTING MARGARET M. RUSSELL AS A MEMBER OF THE
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 11503 C.M.S. creates the Oakland
Museum of California Foundation, whose members are appointed by the
Mayor and confirmed by a majority of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the Bylaws of the Oakland Museum of California
Foundation specify that members of the Oakland Museum of California
Foundation are to serve three year terms, which are to be staggered so
that some appointments will expire every year, and appointments to fill a
term of office are only to be for the remainder of that term; now, therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, that by the nomination of the Mayor and confirmation
by a majority of the Council, the following individual is hereby appointed to
the term set forth below:
Margaret M. Russell, to complete the term beginning November 1,
2001 and ending November 1, 2004, filling a position formerly held by Tim
Silva.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES- BRUNNER, WAN, NADEL, QUAN, BROOKS, REID, CHANG, AND
PRESIDENT DE LA FUENTE
NOES-
ABSENT-
ABSTENTION-
ATTEST:
CEDA FLOYD
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council
of the City of Oakland, California
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MARGARET M. RUSSELL
Work:
Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara, CA 95053
(408) 554-5234; FAX (408) 554-4426
imrussell aiscaedu
EDUCATION:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey - A.B. cum laude, 1979 (Honors in
History and the Program in American Studies). Thesis Adviser: Eric F. Goldman.
Honors: National Merit Finalist; National Achievement Scholar; Resident Adviser.
Activities: Whig-Cliosophic Society.
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA - J.D., 1984; J.S.M. 1990. Honors: Graduate
Professional Opportunities Fellowship; Spaeth Fellowship for Aspiring Law
Teachers. Activities: Co-Founder and President, East Palo Alto Community Law
Project; Stanford Journal of International Law; Women of Stanford Law; Black
Law Students Association.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA - Assistant Professor,
August 1990 to December 1994; Associate Professor, January 1995 to present
(scheduled for review for promotion to full professor in fall 2003). Courses:
Constitutional Law I (National Power and Federalism); Constitutional Law 11
(Individual Rights); Constitutional Law Seminar (selected topics); Social Justice
Workshop; Pleading and Civil Procedure; Employment Discrimination; Sem inar in
Contemporary Legal Theory.
University of California at Berkeley, Richard and Rhoda S. Goldman School of
Public Policy, Berkeley, CA - Visiting Associate Professor, October to December
2002 and August to December 1997. Course: Law and Public Policy.
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA - Visiting
Associate Professor, August 2001 to May 2002. Courses: Constitutional Law I
(National Power and Federalism); Constitutional Law 11 (Individual Rights);
Pleading and Civil Procedure.
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA - Lecturer, September to December 1989.
Course: Civil Procedure.
New College of the Law, San Francisco, CA - Lecturer, January to May 1989.
Course: Discrimination and the Law.
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OTHER EMPLOYMENT:
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA - Director of Public Interest Programs and
Acting Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, July 1987 to August 1988; Special
Assistant to the Dean and Director of Public Interest Programs, October 1986 to
June 1987.
Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco, CA - Law Fellow, October 1985 to
September 1986 (one-year fellowship).
Chambers of the Honorable James E. Doyle, United States District Court for the
Western District of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - Judicial Law Clerk, August 1984 to
September 1985 (one-year judicial clerkship).
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Law Review Articles:
'Re-opening Civil Rights Era Cases," Nfichigan Law Review (forthcoming, spring
2003).
'Foreword: Exploring Race and Poverty," 1 Hastings Race and Poverty Law
Journal (forthcoming, spring 2003).
'McLaurin's Seat- The Need for Racial Inclusion in Legal Education, " from
Colloquium: What Does It Mean to Practice Law "In the Interests of Justice" in the
21" Century? 70 Fordham Law Review 1825 (2002).
"Foreword: Law In Living Color," 5 Asian Law Journal 1 (1998).
'Beyond 'Sell-Outs' and 'Race-Cards': Black Attorneys and the Straitjacket of
Leual Practice," 95 Michigan Law Review 766 (1997).
"De Jure Revolution?", 93 Michigan Law Review 1173 (1995).
"Privacy and IVHS: A Diversity of Viewpoints," 11 Santa Clara Computer & High
Technology Law Journal 145 (1995).
"Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights and 'the Civil Rights Agenda,"' 1 African-
American Law & Policy Report 33 (1994).
"Beginner's Resolve: An Essay on Collaboration, Clinical Innovation, and the First-
Year Curriculum," 1 Clinical Law Review 135 (1994).
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PUBLICATIONS:
1. Law Review Articles (continued):
"Entering Great America: Reflections on Race and the Convergence of Progressive
Legal Theory and Practice," 43 Hastings Law Journal 749 (1992).
"Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film,"
15 Legal Studies Forum 243 (1991).
2. BookChapters/Essavs:
"Flag Symbolism and the First Amendment" in Law & Popular Culture
(Proceedings from Law & Popular Culture Conference, University College, London,
June 2003) (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2004).
"African-American Women and Reproductive Rights," in Historical and
Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Riahts in the United States,
edited by Judith A. Baer (Greenwood Press, 2002).
'Black Women and the Law," in Feminism, Media, and the Law, edited by Martha
A. Fineman and Martha T. McCluskey (Oxford University Press, 1997).
"Rewriting History with Lightning," in Legal Reelism: Movies as Le2al Texts,
edited by John Denvir (University of Illinois Press, 1996).
Four Biographical Essays in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical
Dictionary edited by Melvin I. Urofsky (Garland Reference Library of the
Humanities, Vol. 1851, 1994).
3. LawTextbookContributions(ReprintedArticles):
"McLaurin's Seat: The Need for Racial Inclusion in Legal Education," in
Lawyering for Social Justic edited by John Caimore, Martha Mahoney, and
Stephanie Wildman (forthcoming, West Publishing Company, 2003).
"Entering Great America: Reflections on Race and the Convergence of Progressive
Legal Theory and Practice," in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law:
A Multiracial Approach edited by Timothy Davis, George Martinez, and Kevin
Johnson (Carolina Academic Press, 2001).
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PUBLICATIONS:
3. Law Textbook Contributions (Reprinted Articles)(continuedl:
"Entering Great America: Reflections on Race and the Convergence of Progressive
Legal Theory and Practice," in Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse
America edited by Richard Delgado, Angela Harris, Juan Perea, and Stephanie
Wildman (West Publishing Company, 2000).
"Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film,"
in Critical Race Theory- The Cut-tiny Edge, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean
Stefancic (Temple University Press, 1" edition, 1994).
4. Other (OV-Ed Pieces, Magazine Articles):
"Civil Liberties Update," Los Angeles Daily Journal, 10/02.
"Be Wary of the Court's Protection," Los Angeles Times, 3/12/99, p. 7.
Additional articles in the California Lawyer, Santa Clara Magazine, and Santa
Clara University School of Law's Et Al. Magazine.
ACADEMIC & OTHER PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (PARTIAL LIST):
1. Upeomin2:
Panel Discussion, "Federalism and Separation of Powers," with Professor Jesse
Choper and Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, American Bar Association Conference,
Los Angeles, CA, August 2003.
Paper Presentation, "Flag Symbolism and the First Amendment," at the Conference
on Law & Popular Culture, University College, London, England, June 2003.
Commentary, "Women in Legal Education," Joint Conference of the American
Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association, New York, NY, June
2003.
Panel Discussion, "Poverty and Social Justice," Grillo Social Justice Retreat of the
Society of American Law Teachers, Santa Cruz, CA, March 2003.
Lecture, "Civil Liberties and Counter-Terrorism," Stanford University, February
2003.
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ACADEMIC & OTHER PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (CONTINUED):
Paper Presentation, "Re-Opening Civil Rights Era Cases," Symposium on Racial
Justice. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, November 2002.
Panel Discussion, "Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism," American Civil
Liberties Union Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, September 2002.
Panel Discussion, "Teaching and Social Justice," Grillo Social Justice Retreat of the
Society of American LawTeachers, Santa Cruz, CA, March 2002.
Panel Discussion, "Day of Remembrance: Remembering the Japanese-Arnerican
Internment," Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, March 2002.
Commentary on Deborah Rhode's In the Interest of Justice, Markkula Center on
Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA, February
2002.
Colloquiurn Paper Discussions, "What Does It Mean to Practice Law'In the
Interest of Justice' in the Twenty-First Century?", Fordham Law School, New
York. NY, November 2001.
Panel Discussion, "Understanding Civil Liberties," Hastings College of the Law, San
Francisco, CA, November 2001.
Debate, "Abortion and the Constitution," Hastings College of the Law, San
Francisco, CA, October 2001.
Panel Discussion, "Civil Liberties and 9/11," American Civil Liberties Union
Annual Conference, Marin County, CA, September 2001.
Panel Discussion, "Bush v. Gore," Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa
Clara University School of Law, January 2001.
Panel Discussion, "Napster and Free Expression," Santa Clara University School of
Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, November 2000.
Series of Panel Discussions on Constitutional Law Issues (U.S. Supreme Court
Update; Clinton and the Impeachment Process), Santa Clara University School of
Law, Santa Clara, CA, Fall 1999 through Spring 2000.
Full List of Academic & Other Professional Presentations Available Upon Request.
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ACADEMIC & OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
1. University and Law School Committee Service: Over the past twelve
years at Santa Clara, my committee service has included the following: University
Research Committee; University Human Subjects Committee; Law School Dean
Search Committee; Law School Academic Affairs Committee; Law School Minority
Affairs Committee; Law School Public Interest Endowment Committee; Law
School Center for Social Justice and Public Service Steering Committee; Law
School Mentoriug (Tenure and Promotion) Sub-Committees. I am also a Fellow
at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
2. Student Group Advising: Over the past twelve years at Santa Clara, I
have served as formal or informal faculty advisor to several student groups,
including Women & Law, the Black Law Students Association, and the Asian &
Pacific Islander Law Students Association.
3. Boards of Directors (recent participation):
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Chairperson of the Board
of Directors, December 1999 to December 2002. Before serving as chair, I was a
member of the Board of Directors for eleven years, during which time I served as
vice-chair, chair of the Legal Committee, chair of the Legislative Policy Committee,
and member of the Executive, Development, and other committees.
National American Civil Liberties Union. Vice-President, 1994 to 2000. Member of
the National Board, 1990 to 2000. While on the National Board, I served on several
standing and special policy committees.
HONORS:
While at Santa Clara, I have been honored by the Asian & Pacific Islander Law
Students Association, the Black Law Students Association, and Women & Law.
REFERENCES:
Professor Stephanie Wildman Professor Eric Wright
Director, Center for Social Justice & Public Service Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University School of Law School of Law
Santa Clara, CA 95053 Santa Clara, CA 95053
(408) 554-4000 (408) 554-4353 /0 cc
Additional references available upon request. ORAICOUNCIL
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