UC Law SF plunged into the deep end of conversations that matter — in a big way. Partnering with the World Affairs Council, the College this fall launched the Democracy, Technology and Security Series, a four-part colloquium that brought together professionals in the fields of national security law, cybersecurity,…
August 15, 2018
The first edition, published in 2017, was dubbed “important and welcome” by Judge MARSHA S. BERZON of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “It has become commonplace for judges to complain that the articles published in law reviews are abstract, abstruse, and self-absorbed,” she wrote. “The articles…
August 15, 2018
Previous Slide Next Slide On April 26, UC Law SF launched its Southern California Kickoff Event Series with an exclusive art gallery and book-signing event featuring Professor Joel Paul, author of the best-selling book Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and…
August 14, 2018
When members of the class of ’92 celebrated their 25th reunion last fall, many of them had not seen each other in decades. The gathering was an opportunity for them to recall shared experiences and memories of departed friends, one of whom still held a deeply special place in their…
August 14, 2018
Elizabeth McGriff ’96 was a young single mother when she enrolled at UC Law SF through the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), which admits students from adverse backgrounds and supports them to succeed. Now, as the program approaches its 50th anniversary, McGriff has returned to take the helm as…
Part litigator and part policy guru, the counselor on international law is an outside expert who serves in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser (L), typically with expertise in litigation involving international and foreign relations law. When UC Law SF Professor Chimène Keitner assumed that position…
Joseph W. Cotchett ’64 understands the value of both education and philanthropy. One of the nation’s leading trial attorneys and a longtime UC Law SF booster, Cotchett recently donated $1.5 million to support the Building UC Law SF Fund and to name the Joseph W. Cotchett Advocacy Center. To be…
August 7, 2018
The Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO) announced the winners of its inaugural CLEO EDGE Awards in Education and selected both UC Law SF and Jan Jemison, retired Director of UC Law SF LEOP, as awardees. CLEO, widely renowned for its mission to increase the number of lawyers…
Perhaps there is no area of law more affected by technological innovation than the litigation practice. Consider how the field has changed in the past 80 years: In 1938, when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were first adopted by the courts, there were no direct-dial long-distance calls, no electric…
August 7, 2018
Increasingly, physicians are understanding that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all treatment for patients, even if they have the same condition. “Precision medicine,” or personalized medicine, is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. A treatment that is successful…
August 7, 2018
In San Francisco, the future is now. Here, the cars drive themselves, prospectors “mine” the Internet for cashless currency, and technologies that change the world—for better and worse—are born. No industry is safe from disruption, even the tradition-bound legal landscape, which is undergoing a sea change thanks to a burgeoning…
August 7, 2018
A large black sign with white lettering hangs on the wall of Professor Alina Ball’s office. It doesn’t mince words, and it doesn’t pull punches: Work Hard, Be Kind. The maxim caught Ball’s eye one day after work, on her walk to BART. Feeling that it articulated something essential…