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…
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…
August 7, 2018
Federal appellate clerkships are among the most coveted opportunities for newly minted lawyers, with only a small percentage of candidates accepted. This year, two remarkable students, 3Ls Nina Gliozzo and Alyxandra Vernon, have secured highly competitive clerkships at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals headquartered in San Francisco. “Alyx and…
As a woman who is biracial and has confronted disparity in profound ways in her life, Jordyn Bishop ’17 enrolled in law school with ambitions of becoming an advocate for people of color and indigenous communities. “I’m half white, so I have immense privilege,” Bishop said. “And because I have…
April 27, 2016
New academic building and student housing in partnership with UCSF will re-energize the campus community.