Jeffrey G. Purvis

Jeffrey G. Purvis

Professor of Law

jpurvis@sjcl.edu

Education

J.D., University of California, Davis
B.A., University of California, Davis

Courses Taught

Business Organizations I
Business Organizations II
Constitutional Law I
Constitutional Law II
Constitutional Law Research Seminar
Legal Process

In 1993, Professor Purvis was selected as the James K. and Carol Sellars Herbert Professor of Constitutional Law at San Joaquin College of Law. Professor Purvis teaches Constitutional Law and various constitutional law electives and taught Business Organizations for many years. He has been Faculty Chair and Chairperson of the Faculty Committee since 2007. Prior to joining SJCL's full-time faculty he served as a senior research attorney for the Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District of the State of California from 1983-1985, and served as a research attorney for the Superior Courts of Fresno (1982-1983) and Sonoma (1980-1981) Counties. He was editor in chief of the BarPassers bar review course from 1985 to 1990.

Scholarship

Publications

  • Dear Faux Amici. Bar Bulletin (Fresno County Bar Ass’n), Regular Column from February 2013 to Present.
  • Corporate supply chain transparency: California's seminal attempt to discourage forced labour, 20 THE INT’L J. OF HUMAN RIGHTS 55 (published online July 2, 2015) (2016) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2015.1039318
  • NANCY K. D. LEMMON, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW, excerpt from Judges Going Rogue: Constitutional Implications When Mandatory No-gun Possession Language Removed From Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, 26 WIS. J.L. GENDER & SOC’Y 275 (Fall 2011) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer), 864 (4th ed. 2013).
  • Is Mom’s Basement The Newsroom Of The 21st Century?:  An Analysis Of Statutory Protections For Online News Reporters, 2 REYNOLDS CTS. & MEDIA L. J. 107 (Winter 2012) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer).
  • The California Supply Chain Transparency Act at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Human Trafficking Conference: Human Trafficking Corporate Supply Chain Transparency: How Best to Legislatively Approach Disclosure, (Oct. 2012) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer).
  • Is Mom’s Basement The Newsroom Of The 21st Century?:  An Analysis Of Statutory Protections For Online News Reporters, “Media in Modern Trial Practice”, Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media at Cooper, White, & Cooper, LLP, and Santa Clara University of Law (Nov. 2011) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer).
  • Judges Going Rogue: Constitutional Implications When Mandatory No-gun Possession Language Removed From Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, 26 WIS. J.L. GENDER & SOC’Y 275 (Fall 2011) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer).
  • Judges Going Rogue: Constitutional Implications When Mandatory No-gun Possession Language Removed From Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, at the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Symposium:  Gender, Justice, & Victim Rights: A gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System (Feb. 2011) (with Benjamin Thomas Greer)
  • Newsperson Shield Laws and the New Media, 43 WORLD JURIST ASSOCIATION LAW/TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 19 (Fall 2010)

Presentations

Media