January 12, 2021
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR)’s Director and Professor Sheila Purcell, along with Adjunct Professor John Dean, spoke on ethics in negotiation at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Negotiation Training held on January 6, 2021. Adjuncts Kavya Mohankumar and Shirish Gupta also spoke on ADR choices at…
January 8, 2021
Professor D. Kelly Weisberg poses with one of the books in her Hornbook Series, a collection of treatises on specific areas of the law. As a national expert on domestic violence law, UC Law SF Professor D. Kelly Weisberg observed with concern…
November 16, 2020
Former Hastings Institute Student and Interviewer Idil Elveris CNDR Director Sheila Purcell was interviewed on the conflict resolution podcast We Can Find a Way, produced by Idil Elveris of Istanbul, Turkey who currently lives in London. She is a former student of Professor Purcell’s…
November 10, 2020
UC Law SF’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, in partnership with the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ), hosted an event on Oct. 16 featuring Adjunct Professor and CREJ Affiliated Scholar T. Anansi Wilson. Wilson presented two papers, “Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being” and “…
November 4, 2020
On October 28, 2020, Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) and co-host Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), led students in a Creative Commons workshop focused on using Improv techniques to learn adaptability and reacting in the moment. Staying focused and being able to…
November 3, 2020
UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) hosted the series’ first two speakers in October. This one-hour virtual, “lunch and learn” series will feature different speakers over the course of the 2020-21 school year at UC Law SF. This event is open to the public.
October 11, 2020
The year was 2012. Few if any specialists outside of scientific labs knew what CRISPR stood for, let alone what the technology could do. But a small, select group of UC Law SF students, working with UC Law SF’ Startup Legal Garage under…
September 24, 2020
On September 2nd and 16th, UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) kicked off its Advanced Practitioner Mediation Certificate Series with adjuncts Jessica Notini (How to Assume the Neutrals’ Role) and John Ford (Increasing Effective Communication). Adjunct Professors Jessica Notini…
September 24, 2020
AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Gilead lead a crowded field of drug makers who excessively extend patent protections to limit the market entry of competing products in an anti-competitive practice called “evergreening,” a primary driver of high drug prices. This is one finding of many according to a public…
September 22, 2020
In the first Creative Commons workshop of the school year, on September 17, 2020, Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), and co-host Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) led students in an exploration of the connection between poetry and the law. The topics…
September 18, 2020
Stress for UC Hasting students and Community is being highlighted in new ways this school year; from virtual classes to dealing with a pandemic and wildfires at the same time, focusing has never been more difficult. How can we support our community? Dr. Ivy Hall…
September 2, 2020
Prof. Karen Musalo testified Tuesday at a virtual public briefing open to congressional staff and others about the impact of the recent Canadian Federal Court ruling that the United States is not a safe country for people seeking asylum. The court determined that the longstanding “Safe Third Country Agreement” between…