February 28, 2022
On Monday, February 28, the Center on Tax Law is hosting a (virtual) conference titled, “Tax Lawmaking During Times of Uncertainty.” The speakers include a fantastic mix of academics, current and former government officials, and folks in private practice. The conference is entirely on Zoom, and the program is below.
February 28, 2022
On Monday, February 28, 2022, the UC Law SF Center on Tax Law will (virtually) host a conference on tax lawmaking. Our keynote speaker will be Rebecca Kysar, counselor to the assistant secretary of tax policy. Panel titles include “The Tax Legislative Process: Reconciliation, Budgeting, and More,” “Tax Practice Perspectives…
February 25, 2022
When she was growing up, Debra Bogaards ‘81 remembers her family’s Friday night Shabbat dinners included donating to a favorite charity each week. The Jewish idea of Tzedakah, a Hebrew word that is used to refer to charity or philanthropy, stuck with her as she grew up. She said, “It…
February 25, 2022
Students in UC Law SF’s First Gen program celebrate the program’s kickoff in February. UC Law SF kicked off its First Generation Program – which celebrates and supports law students who are the first in their families to go to college and now attend law…
February 4, 2022
Stop by the library to borrow the latest additions to our Popular Fiction collection: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham Anthem by Noah Hawley Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho How High We Go…
Evergreening is a strategy used by pharmaceutical companies to extend the life of their drug patents and monopoly periods by obtaining additional protections, often based on minor modifications. This searchable drug patent database reports patent extensions by pharmaceutical companies from 2005 to 2018 on brand-name drugs, listed in the…
February 1, 2022
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) says goodbye to it’s longtime Director. Emerita Clinical Professor and Former CNDR Director Sheila Purcell Emerita Clinical Professor, and now former Director of CNDR, Sheila Purcell retired on January 31, 2022, after almost 10…
January 26, 2022
Professor Heather Field posted How the Pandemic Flipped My Perspective on Flipping the Tax Law Classroom (forthcoming in Pittsburgh Tax Review) on SSRN.
January 25, 2022
As historian Matthew Guariglia researches his latest book about the history of race, policing, and surveillance, he is struck by how little has changed in more than a hundred years. “While all the technology policy use has changed, what we ask the technology to do has not…
January 21, 2022
Professor Heather Field Presented Taxpayer Choices, Itemized Deductions, and the Relationship between the Federal & State Tax Systems, at an SMU Dedman School of Law Faculty Forum.
January 20, 2022
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five…
January 18, 2022
Black Californians constitute 6.5% of California’s total population but make up nearly 40% of its homeless population. This disparity exists in San Francisco and it exists in Santa Cruz. It’s an issue in Chico, as it is in Los Angeles. Brandon Greene, affiliated scholar at UC Law SF’ Center for…