January 25, 2020
Media Highlights Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push Bloomberg Law—January 21, 2021 John Leshy: “As I read it, Interior needs to pause all activities in connection with the leases for the duration of the moratorium.” The Problem With Trump’s Odious Pardon of Steve Bannon…
January 24, 2020
Criminal Procedure Scholar and Public Defender Jonathan Abel Joins UC Law SF Faculty Professor Jon Abel Public defender and criminal procedure scholar Jonathan Abel will join the UC Law SF faculty as a tenure-track associate professor on July 1. He will teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure…
January 18, 2020
Media Highlights Why being anti-racist is not enough ABA Journal—January 14, 2021 Richard Zitrin: “For us white progressives, deep self-examination is also not enough unless it’s abiding. There’s always more to understand.” The COVID-19 Vaccine Debate: How Employer Decisions Could Help Or Hurt Businesses for Years to Come…
January 12, 2020
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment & Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Present: Progressive Prosecution and the Carceral State Symposium View the full webcast of the symposium. Previous Slide Next Slide February 7,…
January 5, 2020
Class of 2019 pass rate jumps by 20 points over July 2018, following adoption of innovative teaching methods “We teach differently now,” Ratner said. “From the student vantage point, it’s much more high touch than the traditional Langdellian model of legal education.” -Academic Dean Morris Ratner…
January 2, 2020
Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet Numerous UC Law SF professors are presenting this week at the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on panels addressing some of the most innovative techniques in legal education and cutting-edge policy issues. The participants:…
January 2, 2020
Dear Hastings Community, David Faigman New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution. Since becoming Chancellor and Dean, I have taken the opportunity of each new year to reflect on the successes of the past year and to set forth my resolutions for the year ahead, often…
December 17, 2019
“Laurie Zimet was one of the first people to engage with me in an explicit and rigorous way about what it means to be an effective teacher.” Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet UC Law SF Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet has been honored by the…
December 6, 2019
2013 JACQUELINE TOKOS LENTZ passed away on July 25, 2018. She worked for several years as a U.S. congressional aide in the 10th Congressional District and practiced political law as an attorney with the law firm of Nielsen Merksamer in San Rafael. 1989 WILLIAM (BILL) MITCHELL ANDREWS passed away at…
November 25, 2019
May 2019 graduates in the top quartile by law school GPA had a first-time pass rate of 100%. The first-time bar passage rate for 2019 UC Law SF graduates was 80.5% and the overall first-time pass rate of UC Law SF graduates, including prior-year grads who took the California bar…
November 23, 2019
UC Law SF Clinical Professor Carol Izumi has been named the winner of this year’s Rutter Award. Founded by law-guide publisher William Rutter in 1979, the Rutter Award honors outstanding professors at California’s top law schools. The Rutter Endowment provides UC Law SF an annual award of $10,000…
November 21, 2019
Jackson has taught Trial Advocacy at UC Law SF Since 2006 Governor Gavin Newsom has nominated San Francisco Superior Court Judge Teri L. Jackson as associate justice of the First District Court of Appeal, Division Three. If confirmed, Judge Jackson will be the first African-American woman justice in the court’s…