Junichi P. Semitsu

Junichi P. Semitsu is a Lawyering Skills Instructor with the University of San Diego School of Law. Prior to his move to Southern California, Junichi taught at the University of California at Berkeley in both the Boalt Hall School of Law and in the Department of African American Studies. While at Berkeley, he was the director of June Jordan's Poetry for the People. Semitsu is an honors graduate of Stanford Law School, where he won Best Individual Oral Advocate in the Kirkwood Moot Court Competition and served as senior editor/ombudsman of the Stanford Law Review and director of the law school musical. After graduation, Semitsu clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced for a year before choosing to retire from the legal profession. His publications include "Burning Cyberbooks in Public Libraries: lnternet Filtering Software vs. the First Amendment," published in the Stanford Law Review, as well as essays in the Chicago Tribune, New Crisis (the NAACP Magazine), Mizna, Hardboiled, ChopBlock, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has appeared and/or performed in the San Francisco Poetry Slam finals, Pacifica radio's "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, the Asian Pacific lslander lssues Conference, and at the Building Unity Conference in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he is busy collecting Pez dispensers, playing poker, planning his wedding (next month), preparing a manuscript, and looking for parking.