December 12, 2019
The journal staff will host a symposium on “progressive prosecution” Feb. 7, 2020, featuring, among other speakers, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The editors and staff of the Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment. UC Law SF adds a tenth title to its suite of…
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 25, 2019
May 2019 graduates in the top quartile by law school GPA had a first-time pass rate of 100%. The first-time bar passage rate for 2019 UC Law SF graduates was 80.5% and the overall first-time pass rate of UC Law SF graduates, including prior-year grads who took the California bar…
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 21, 2019
Jackson has taught Trial Advocacy at UC Law SF Since 2006 Governor Gavin Newsom has nominated San Francisco Superior Court Judge Teri L. Jackson as associate justice of the First District Court of Appeal, Division Three. If confirmed, Judge Jackson will be the first African-American woman justice in the court’s…
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…
Sina Alavi ’14 For a tiny country, the European principality of Liechtenstein—population 38,000—has an outsized influence on international criminal law, according to Sina Alavi ’14. Sina has served as a senior legal and political adviser at Liechtenstein’s mission to the United Nations for three years.
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Mieke Eoyang ’02 Mieke Eoyang ’02, who spent years working as a legislative aide specializing in national security issues on Capitol Hill, is currently the vice president for the national security program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C. In this role, she…
Experts from UC Law SF are increasingly invited to spend time overseas, engaging in dynamic exchanges with their counterparts at prestigious international institutions of higher learning. In so doing, faculty, alumni, and students not only bring their expertise to conferences and classrooms throughout the world but also gain invaluable exposure…
November 20, 2019
Everything in the life of Viviana Waisman ’95—from her Her True Calling to her family history to her education and early work experiences—pointed in the same direction. “I’m one of those people who was born to work on social justice issues,” she said. As a young lawyer in Madrid in…