March 6, 2023
From watching the SF Giants take on the LA Dodgers, to meeting classmates at a reception at San Francisco City Hall, UC Law San Francisco alumni are invited to a week of exciting activities for this year’s Spring Week, taking place from April 12 -15.
May 18, 2022
Alumni mixed and mingled at a Spring Week reunion jazz brunch on May 14. For the first time in over two years, alumni were welcomed back to the UC Law SF campus to celebrate Spring Week – a first-ever weeklong celebration for law school…
April 20, 2022
Shashikala “Shashi” Deb ’94, left, and Andrew Houston ’07, right, joined the UC Law SF Board of Directors. UC Law SF welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors — Shashikala “Shashi” Deb ‘94 and Andrew Houston ‘07, who were appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Both…
April 15, 2022
UC Law SF alumni are invited back to campus this spring – for the first time in two years – for a week of celebration and class reunions during the college’s inaugural Spring Week taking place May 9-14. “Our new Spring Week initiative is designed to offer something…
March 18, 2022
Professor Joan Williams, left, and Emtrain CEO Janine Yancey ’92, right. Want to lower incidences of bias and harassment in the workplace? It all starts with respect. Those were some of the findings of a research report conducted in partnership between the UC Law SF Center for…
August 27, 2020
“The Cotchett Law Center is the first new building in UC Law SF’s Academic Village, which will transform our campus, animate our educational experience, help revitalize San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods, and serve as a model for urban universities across the country.” —Chancellor and Dean David…
June 11, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a major fundraising campaign to expand the work of its Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ). “As a public institution, we have the responsibility to oppose racial injustice in all its forms; as a law school, we have the skillset to address those…
“Ohana” means family in Hawaiian, and the long association between UC Law SF and the Aloha State bears all of the hallmarks of a familial relationship. That connection goes back to the 1950s when students from Hawaii were allowed to pay in-state resident tuition at UC Law…
Phil Ginsburg ’93 has one of the more enviable – and difficult – positions in the City and County of San Francisco. As general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Ginsburg manages roughly 15 percent of the city’s total land. It’s a job…
Accountability and transparency have been hot-button issues of late, with individual and corporations increasingly facing up to offenses past and present. Universities have not been exempt from such culpability. Recognizing this, the class of 2019 made a gift to establish the Annual Native Law and Policy Symposium, a lecture series…
When she was a junior at UC Irvine, Victoria Ayeni read An Expendable Man in a course called “Miscarriages of Justice.” The book tells the story of Earl Washington, Jr., an intellectually disabled black man wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a white woman in Virginia. He spent…
SAN FRANCISCO – Michael A. Kelly ‘76, Richard H. Schoenberger ‘85, and Matthew Davis ‘89 are giants of the personal injury bar. Each has brought countless claims on behalf of plaintiffs injured in traffic collisions, by defective products, on dangerous property, and through government negligence. Their work inside the courtroom…