March 8, 2020
Media Highlights Covid-19 disparities fuel tribes’ vaccine rollout success Native Sun News Today—February 25, 2021 Jo Carillo: “The Indian Health Service, in my view, is part of the story of Covid’s impact on Native American and indigenous communities.” Is a Mass Reckoning Coming for the Plaintiffs Bar? Law.com—February…
March 2, 2020
UC Law SF La Raza is co-hosting the National Latina/Latino Law Student Conference March 5-7 with students at Berkeley Law La Raza. The national conference draws more than 300 students, attorneys, and academics from around the country. The three-day conference includes a moot court competition, workshops, law firm tabling,…
March 1, 2020
Media Highlights Policing experts from 3 countries examine video of fatal shooting in U.S. The Telegraph—February 24, 2021 Setsuo Miyazawa: “Under Japanese law, an officer may finally shoot at the body only when the person came very close with a clear intention to attack an officer.” Bills to…
February 20, 2020
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law SF is known internationally for it’s leading ADR courses and programs, but CNDR also keeps its focus on students. Over one-third of Hastings students taking CNDR’s offerings annually, and many go on to find careers in the ADR field,…
February 20, 2020
Hastings Students for Immigrants’ Rights (HSIR) is sending eight law students to Taylor, Texas, in March to support women asylum seekers who are incarcerated at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. This year’s trip builds on the work of two previous trips to family detention centers. Three students went to…
February 14, 2020
Professor Frank H. Wu William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor Frank H. Wu has been awarded the 2020 John Hope Franklin Award for his longtime contributions to higher education and diversity. Franklin, an American historian best known for his 1947 work From Slavery to Freedom, was awarded the Presidential Medal…
February 13, 2020
Professor Hadar Aviram Professor Hadar Aviram has won the UC Law SF Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. The annual award from the Foundation Board of Trustees recognizes demonstrated scholarly production. And with three books in the last five years, Aviram hits the mark. Aviram is…
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…