SAN JOSE — Justice Allison M. Danner acknowledges she often knows little about many of the cases she decides on the 6th District Court of Appeal. But she’s used to getting up to speed on unfamiliar topics.
It’s the same curiosity, and confidence in her core legal skills, that led her to the classroom as a professor a few years out of law school, teaching about United Nations criminal tribunals and the international justic... (continued)