Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest in the fall of 2011, Mr. Basbaum was a law clerk for the Hon. Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During law school, he was a clerk at the Alameda County Public Defender, an intern for the San Francisco City Attorney, and he taught a semester of constitutional law at a San Francisco public high school. Prior to law school, he worked for five years as a criminal defense investigator, first at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center and then at the Bronx Defenders.
Mr. Basbaum is the co-founder of a non-profit bicycle repair shop, and he speaks Spanish and French.
Honors and Awards
UC Hastings College of the Law
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Order of the Coif; Thurston Society
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Editor-in-Chief, Hastings Law Journal, 2009-2010
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Co-President, Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation, 2008-2009
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Best Brief and Best Oral Advocate, Moot Court, 2008
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Witkin/CALI Awards: Criminal Procedure; Federal Courts
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Academic Excellence Award
Publications
"Inequitable Sentencing for Possession of Child Pornography: A Failure to Distinguish Voyeurs from Pederasts," 61 Hastings L.J. 1281 (2010) (cited in United States v. Apodaca, 641 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir. 2011); United States v. Blauvelt, 638 F.3d 281 (4th Cir. 2011))