[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 43 (Monday, March 13, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E323-E324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 2017 SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW CELEBRATION OF ACHIEVEMENT, 
                             MARCH 25, 2017

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 13, 2017

  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor my friend, Don 
Polden, who has received Santa Clara University School of Law's 2017 
Edwin J. Owens Award.

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  In his nearly forty years in legal education, Don has trained a 
generation of young lawyers in the classroom and as Dean of the 
University of Memphis Law School and later as Dean at Santa Clara 
University School of Law.
  At Santa Clara, Don developed curriculum for leadership education and 
fostered the growth of clinical programs. He secured the gift to launch 
the Katherine & George Alexander Community Law Center, which offers 
free legal services for consumer, labor, and immigration issues. During 
his tenure, Santa Clara Law became nationally recognized for its 
Intellectual Property law curriculum.
  Don's twenty years as law school Dean ended in 2013, but he continues 
his work on leadership education at the Center for Creative Leadership.
  Returning to the classroom has offered Don the opportunity to explore 
his areas of expertise, antitrust and federal and state labor law. He 
continues to serve in the American Law Institute's College of Labor and 
Employment Lawyers in addition to serving as chair of the Advisory 
Board of the Institute of Sports Law and Ethics. Don has written 
extensively on the topic of labor law, from authoring a law school 
textbook to providing commentary in the Huffington Post about how the 
emerging sharing economy tests conventional labor classifications.
  Not your ordinary legal educator, Don can also be described as a 
legal thespian for his role in the 1997 film Legal Commentator.
  Please join me in recognizing Don for his decades of service to his 
students and for receiving the 2017 Edwin J. Owens Award.

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