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…
UC Law SF Magazine Fall 2019 Volume 12, Number 2 Dear UC Law SF Community, The theme of this year’s edition of UC Law SF magazine is UC Law SF’ impacts on the world stage. On that stage, of course, UC Law SF is a relatively small player.
November 20, 2019
New paper outlines how the tiered system that health plans use to reimburse drugs is being abused, costing $4.2 billion. Since the 1980s, health care insurers have established tiered pricing systems, commonly known as formularies, that determine what Americans will pay for their drug prescriptions. The formularies are…
Young people stand in small groups and lounge on benches in the sun, chatting and sipping beer and wine. Others walk to grab glasses of champagne or soda, or to refill their cups at one of four free-flowing kegs. Toward the back of the patio, people sit at picnic tables…
“Ohana” means family in Hawaiian, and the long association between UC Law SF and the Aloha State bears all of the hallmarks of a familial relationship. That connection goes back to the 1950s when students from Hawaii were allowed to pay in-state resident tuition at UC Law…
Sina Alavi ’14 For a tiny country, the European principality of Liechtenstein—population 38,000—has an outsized influence on international criminal law, according to Sina Alavi ’14. Sina has served as a senior legal and political adviser at Liechtenstein’s mission to the United Nations for three years.