August 2, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Joan C. Williams (@joancwilliams) contributed an Op-Ed to the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Elites Feed Anti-Immigrant Bias.” https://on.wsj.com/2vatQZ1 — “There’s nothing inherent about the glamour work that makes it more valuable. It’s just very situational,” said Professor Williams in an article for CNN…
July 31, 2018
Professor Shanin Specter appeared on CNN, with host Michael Smerconish, to discuss the legal ramifications of the tape of Michael Cohen speaking with then-candidate Trump about making a payment to a Playmate. “It is a new level. It’s shocking that the President would suggest that his former lawyer…
July 31, 2018
Congratulations to the rising 2L winners of Distinguished Student Scholarships: Victoria B. Ayeni, Leigha M. Beckman, Chelsea Blocklin, Kayla D. Bowen, Deborah Brundy, Michael K. Costello, Karlens Direny, Alisha M. Eastep, Abigail L. Ellerman, Katherine J. Grainger, Faye Hipsman, Emilie Jones, Andrew Klair, Kurtis Knapp, Michael A. Kostukovsky, Kristina…
Rising 2L Constanza “Connie” Ortiz talks about her experience at UC Law SF and her experience at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica in the following Q&A: Where are you from? Miami, Florida. What inspired you go to law school? I aspired to get…
July 26, 2018
UC Law SF is pleased to announce and celebrate Chancellor & Dean David Faigman’s recent funded chair awards and those faculty members elevated to “Distinguished Faculty” status. These awards are based on the faculty member’s accomplishments and promise, and take effect as of July 1, 2018. The following faculty…
July 24, 2018
New Chair Elected to the Board of Directors Tina Combs ’88 was elected as Chair of the UC Law SF Board of Directors after serving on the Board since May 2007. The Oakland resident began her career at Morrison & Foerster, before moving on to Wells Fargo, the University of…
July 22, 2018
Judge S. Jay Plager of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cited Professor Jeffrey A. Lefstin’s work on the history of the patent-eligible subject matter doctrine, in his decision for Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2018). In his opinion, concurring-in-part and dissenting-in-part…
July 20, 2018
Professor Jaime King testified on the subject of “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency in Healthcare Costs for Consumers” before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. “The cost of healthcare in the United States currently threatens the economic stability of our citizens, our businesses, our state and…
July 18, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor David Levine appeared on KQED’s Forum to discuss the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision. http://bit.ly/2u1jPw2 — Professor Levine was interviewed live on KTVU to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold President Trump’s travel ban. http://bit.ly/2MLDY0J — “You’re swimming upstream if you’re a plaintiff,” said Professor Levine in an article for the Associated…
July 12, 2018
After a nationwide search, UC Law SF alumnus David M. Robinson ’92 was announced as UC Berkeley’s Chief Campus Counsel. David has served in this position on an interim basis since August 2017, but his permanent appointment took effect on June 1. “It is a great honor to serve the…
July 9, 2018
University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco is pleased to announce the creation of a new outreach and diversity program that will support a pipeline to recruit, enroll, and financially support California residents who graduate from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and the American…
This live-client course at UC Law SF, co-taught by Professors Alina S. Ball and Manoj Viswanathan, is concerned exclusively with transactional tax issues — giving students the opportunity to take their substantive knowledge out for a spin and apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real world issues.