November 13, 2020
UC Law SF held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new building at 198 McAllister Street, which will provide 650 units of below-market housing to students of UC Law SF and UCSF, and said goodbye to Snodgrass Hall, home to lecture halls and the college’s celebrated Moot Court courtroom, now coming…
November 13, 2020
I want to thank the dignitaries who have joined us today to mark this celebratory occasion. Today, we do not simply say hello to the spectacular new building that will sit on this site in the future, but also say goodbye to a stalwart of our campus—indeed, the building…
November 12, 2020
Continuing a long tradition of attracting prominent members of the judiciary to its teaching ranks, UC Law SF has added two new accomplished jurists as faculty for the Spring 2021 term – Chief Judge of the U.S. Tax Court Judge Maurice Foley and California Court of Appeal Justice Therese Stewart.
November 10, 2020
Prof. Hadar Aviram has received the Western Society of Criminology’s June Morrison-Tom Gitchoff Founders Award for 2021, which honors a person who, through scholarship and/or activism, has significantly improved the quality of justice in the United States. The award acknowledges Aviram’s “profound influence on criminology and criminal justice.” Aviram has been…
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 10, 2020
Prof. Robin Feldman has been honored with the 2020 Leon I. Goldberg Memorial Lecture Award by the University of Chicago’s Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics for her work in pharmaceutical policy and law. She is the first person from outside the field of medicine to receive the award,…
November 9, 2020
Media Highlights Federal Supply Deal For COVID-19 Antibody Treatment Lacks Some Customary Protections NPR—November 6, 2020 Robin Feldman: “With these contracting practices, the administration is essentially giving away the store.” Uber and Lyft’s Big Win BBC—November 6, 2020 Veena Dubal: “What Prop 22 does…
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.
November 2, 2020
Media Highlights Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With It. Mother Jones—November/December 2020 Karen Musalo: “To pretend that those countries are safe countries for asylum seekers is beyond obscene.” Without Barrett, Supreme Court Halts Pennsylvania and North Carolina Attempts to Limit Ballot Counts…
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October 26, 2020
Media Highlights How Should We Use Public Lands? Voters Will Help Decide Aspen Public Radio—October 23, 2020 John Leshy: “I think it’s fair to say the Trump administration’s policies aim at nothing less than a complete upending of many decades of bipartisan policy making concerning public lands.”…