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.
The UC Law SF community—and defenders of justice for all—lost a fierce champion in February with the death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi ’85. “The legal profession has lost one of its best,” said UC Law SF Chancellor & Dean David Faigman in a letter…
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Mieke Eoyang ’02 Mieke Eoyang ’02, who spent years working as a legislative aide specializing in national security issues on Capitol Hill, is currently the vice president for the national security program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C. In this role, she…
UC Law SF has long been a magnet for scholars, students, and practicing attorneys from throughout the world. In the past decade, one key reason for this is the groundbreaking UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, which offers opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between two leading…
The third edition, edited by Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson, builds on the influential efforts of the first two editions with a new collection of scholarly writings. Articles in this edition include Manoj Viswanathan on the rhetoric of tax loopholes, Aaron Rappaport…
Treatments for hemophilia could soon top $1.5 million a year. A drug for childhood leukemia recently debuted with a price tag of $475,000. Prescription drug prices as a whole have risen faster than other health care costs, and generic drugs some- times cost more than branded ones. In her…
From Feb. 7 to 12, 2019, UC Law SF hosted a ground- breaking symposium and train-the-trainers workshop to support what may be the only in-house law school legal aid clinic currently operating in Haiti, the Clinique de recherche d’analyse et d’assistance légale de l’ESCDROJ (CRAALE). This clinic, which represents indigent…