February 11, 2020
Americans have ranked health care as one of the issues most important to them. In early 2020, the nonpartisan Law & Medicine Initiative at the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i) issued a presidential advisory memo to the presidential campaigns and has updated it…
February 11, 2020
Date: February 2020* To: 2020 Presidential Campaigns From: Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Innovation (C4i) Health care policy is one of the most pressing issues facing Americans today. According to a January 2020 Gallup poll, 81% of Americans cited…
January 24, 2020
Criminal Procedure Scholar and Public Defender Jonathan Abel Joins UC Law SF Faculty Professor Jon Abel Public defender and criminal procedure scholar Jonathan Abel will join the UC Law SF faculty as a tenure-track associate professor on July 1. He will teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure…
January 12, 2020
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment & Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Present: Progressive Prosecution and the Carceral State Symposium View the full webcast of the symposium. Previous Slide Next Slide February 7,…
January 5, 2020
Class of 2019 pass rate jumps by 20 points over July 2018, following adoption of innovative teaching methods “We teach differently now,” Ratner said. “From the student vantage point, it’s much more high touch than the traditional Langdellian model of legal education.” -Academic Dean Morris Ratner…
January 2, 2020
Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet Numerous UC Law SF professors are presenting this week at the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on panels addressing some of the most innovative techniques in legal education and cutting-edge policy issues. The participants:…
December 17, 2019
“Laurie Zimet was one of the first people to engage with me in an explicit and rigorous way about what it means to be an effective teacher.” Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet UC Law SF Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet has been honored by the…
December 15, 2019
Helping renters keep their homes is key to maintaining the fabric of a neighborhood. An innovative housing clinic in the Lower Polk District of San Francisco designed to prevent homelessness has won the prestigious Downtown Achievement Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association (IDA). And partial thanks goes to…
December 6, 2019
2013 JACQUELINE TOKOS LENTZ passed away on July 25, 2018. She worked for several years as a U.S. congressional aide in the 10th Congressional District and practiced political law as an attorney with the law firm of Nielsen Merksamer in San Rafael. 1989 WILLIAM (BILL) MITCHELL ANDREWS passed away at…
November 26, 2019
Professionals from all over the world come to UC Law SF to study alternative dispute resolution (ADR), citing the wide selection of dispute resolution courses and the college’s international reputation among practitioners. Photo: left to right, Prof. Sheila Purcell, Director, CNDR; Mr. Hakan Öztatar, Head of…
November 23, 2019
UC Law SF Clinical Professor Carol Izumi has been named the winner of this year’s Rutter Award. Founded by law-guide publisher William Rutter in 1979, the Rutter Award honors outstanding professors at California’s top law schools. The Rutter Endowment provides UC Law SF an annual award of $10,000…
November 20, 2019
New paper outlines how the tiered system that health plans use to reimburse drugs is being abused, costing $4.2 billion. Since the 1980s, health care insurers have established tiered pricing systems, commonly known as formularies, that determine what Americans will pay for their drug prescriptions. The formularies are…