December 2, 2021
A marketplace app where users can sell services to one another and get paid in crypto. A digital wishing tree used by unhoused people to request money for an umbrella or help toward their monthly grocery bill. A kiosk that dispenses clean needles and opioid overdose reversal medication. And a…
October 9, 2021
Publications Scott Dodson, The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (2021). Scott Dodson, The Red Book of Civil Procedure (2021). Robin Feldman, “The Devil in the…
June 1, 2021
Alumni and faculty are playing a significant role in a case being argued June 2 at the California Supreme Court that could find the state’s death penalty statute unconstitutional. Supervising Deputy State Public Defender Elias Batchelder (’06) identified the key legal issues in the case and will argue on behalf…
May 27, 2021
Seven UC Law SF students won a $5,000 grant to advance their proposal for protecting the belongings and dignity of people who are homeless. After making it to the finals earlier this year in the University of California’s 15th Annual Big Ideas Contest,…
April 6, 2021
UC Law SF took its mock interview training program to a new level this year, thanks to growing alumni engagement and a new collaboration with Airbnb’s legal department targeting students from diverse backgrounds. Forty students from the school’s Legal Education Opportunity Program, which aims to make legal education accessible…
March 10, 2021
A proposal for protecting the belongings and dignity of people who are homeless, developed by seven UC Law SF students, has reached the finals of a statewide contest. After being ranked among the top 8% of 354 entries in the University of California’s Big Ideas Contest, the team is…
August 26, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Veena Dubal alongside 75 professors from across the country have signed a letter calling on the U.S. Senate to support AB5, a law that would force the gig economy giants like Uber and Lyft to classify its workers as employees instead…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “The truth is that it upends this tech model that venture capitalists have poured so much money into,” said Professor Venna Dubal in an NBC News article on Assembly Bill 5, which codifies into law a 2018 California Supreme Court ruling that defined independent contractor status.
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “Everybody wants to point to someone else as the bad guy. But to be fair, each of the parties is contributing to what is driving the prices up,” said Professor Robin Feldman in a piece on non-profit news organization Marketplace. http://bit.ly/30WWb3t – Professor Robin Feldman…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor David Levine shed light on a number of interesting legal questions this month. First: Is it legal to pick a roommate based on astrological sign? Professor Levine spoke to The Guardian about the question in response to a housing inquiry that went viral after an…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “You have this one man right there in Sonoma, and by luck of the draw his case has the potential to move the needle,” said Professor David Levine in an article from the Press Democrat on the weed killer Roundup case. (http://bit.ly/2VkFU5c) – Professor Levine…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “This is the most complicated and difficult decision environment I’ve ever seen for a bankruptcy case,” said Professor Jared Ellias (@jared_ellias) in a New York Times article on Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy filing. https://nyti.ms/2S4Dd52 Professor Ellias was quoted again in an Associated Press article…