March 31, 2021
Each spring, US News & World Report (USNWR) publishes its annual rankings of law schools. This year, UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) ranked 8th in Dispute Resolution Programs! CNDR is one of the largest ADR programs in the…
March 29, 2021
Media Highlights Shasta County man in jail 7 years without conviction found incompetent for trial Record Searchlight— March 22, 2021 George Bisharat: “The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution includes a person’s right to be present at their trial, and checking for competency is a way of ensuring they…
March 26, 2021
March 25, 2021
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) is in the midst of an Advanced Practitioner Mediation Training Certificate which runs through 2022. In February’s session, Handling Emotions Productively, we explored the impact of emotions. Human emotions are vital in mediation: They let us know what matters, they help us…
March 24, 2021
The Center for Business Law has launched a new scholarship program aimed at giving students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to flourish in the world of business law. The CBL Scholars Program provides full tuition plus mentorship and support from the alumni and law firms who brought the idea…
March 21, 2021
The shift to online learning has impacted how we communicate with each other. Much is lost when we are not face to face – we are less connected as humans and misunderstandings can happen easily. Law school is an opportunity to practice bringing differing viewpoints together, instead of diverging.
March 19, 2021
As technology revolutionizes the legal industry—a trend that has gathered steam during the pandemic—an innovative UC Law SF collaboration is connecting students with Silicon Valley companies at the forefront. Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Alice Armitage offers “Building a Legal Tech Startup,” a course in which upper-level students…
March 17, 2021
The news from Atlanta last night that eight people were killed, in a rampage directed at Asian and Asian American women and employees of massage and spa businesses, brings to the fore once again the depressingly significant part that hate plays in our society. When I teach constitutional law, it…
March 12, 2021
In the latest Creative Commons workshop on February 24, 2021, Razor Writing, Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), and Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) led students in an interactive writing practice. A key skill for lawyers is being able to distill complex…
March 10, 2021
UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) hosted the final speakers of this series for a one-hour “lunch and learn” virtual event. The series featured different speakers over the course of the 2020-21 school year at UC Law SF, and was open to the public.
March 10, 2021
The UC Law SF Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) is proud to announce the 2020-21 school year results for the Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Team (The ADR Team)! The Team has consistently been ranked # 1 both nationally and internationally for two decades.
March 10, 2021
A proposal for protecting the belongings and dignity of people who are homeless, developed by seven UC Law SF students, has reached the finals of a statewide contest. After being ranked among the top 8% of 354 entries in the University of California’s Big Ideas Contest, the team is…