December 1, 2020
Media Highlights Let’s hear it for the judges for dismissing Trump’s lawsuits Boston Globe—November 23, 2020 Joseph Grodin: If our democracy survives the current president’s onslaughts, it will be due in large part to the existence of a judiciary committed to the rule of law. Pfizer’s…
November 30, 2020
Only one word comes to mind after Giving Tuesday – WOW! Thanks to the generosity of close to 400 donors, over $228,000 was raised to support UC Law SF students and programs. Our team is incredibly proud of how the UC Law SF community came together, particularly in this most challenging of years. The action our community…
November 23, 2020
Media Highlights Federal Water Rule Expected to Stay Murky Through Biden Term Bloomberg Law—November 20, 2020 Dave Owen: “I think it’s going to be a mess for a pretty long time.” What Trump Showed Us About America Politico—November 19, 2020 Joan Williams: “Americans feel…
November 23, 2020
Jared Ellias Jared Ellias has been named to the American Bankruptcy Institute’s “40 Under 40” list for his study of the epic PG&E bankruptcy in California and leadership in how Congress should respond to the pandemic-induced economic crisis. Ellias, the Bion M. Gregory Chair in…
November 20, 2020
The UC Law SF Moot Court is once again the highest ranked moot court team in the nation. It is not unfamiliar territory. In 2017, UC Law SF was named the No. 2 Moot Court Team of the Decade, having placed first or second many times in the last…
November 16, 2020
Media Highlights Employers Facing Wave of Lawsuits by Parents Fired During Pandemic Insurance Journal—November 12, 2020 Joan Williams: “We’re going to be seeing the economic consequences of this period — and they’re going to be to impoverish women and children for decades.” Uber Brands Gig Companies’…
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 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 “…