Previous Slide Next Slide Norene Lew ’96, senior corporate counsel at Salesforce, and Todd Machtmes ’95, Salesforce’s executive vice president for commercial legal, hosted an enthusiastic group of UC Law SF students at the Salesforce Experience in January. A panel of alumni…
An array of academics, policymakers, and activists came together for the eighth annual Baby Markets Roundtable at UC Law SF on May 4 and 5, 2018. The invitation-only event addressed issues in the area of contemporary family-making, which increasingly includes cutting-edge science, international negotiations, and unregulated contracts. Professor Radhika…
On Jan. 11, 2018, UC Law SF Thomas E. Miller Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Geoffrey Hazard passed away at the age of 88. Geoffrey Hazard Geoffrey will long be remembered as one of the leading minds in the development of the civil procedure and legal ethics fields.
What can we do to protect democratic discourse and decision-making in the age of “dangerous speech” and digitally altered photos and videos known as “deep fakes?” That was the fundamental question posed in an in-depth conversation moderated by Professor Chimène Keitner for World Affairs Council of…
September 18, 2018
Updated October 11 to include links and video from the Jeanette M. Acosta Memorial Scholarship Event. Jeanette Acosta ’16 demonstrated her fighting spirit in both her professional and personal life. Detailing her chemotherapy routine in a story she wrote for the health website mindbodygreen, she likened each session to a…
September 4, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Veena Dubal (@veenadubal) discussed “Gig Economy 101,” everything from the May 2018 California Supreme Court ruling in Dynamex v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County to the astounding fact that she has never used an Uber or Lyft, in a live interview with ARS…
August 28, 2018
The Ninth Circuit ADR Committee announced that UC Law SF is the winner of the 2018 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Education Award for its instruction in mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Established in 2005 by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, the award recognizes institutions that have advanced ADR scholarship…
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…