July 21, 2022
UC Law SF law students Maleeha Ghaznavi ’23 and Zoë Grimaldi ’24 won prestigious Peggy Browning fellowships. Two UC Law SF law students – Maleeha Ghaznavi ’23 and Zoë Grimaldi ’24 – have won prestigious Peggy Browning fellowships and are spending their summers fighting for…
July 18, 2022
UC Law SF law students Sasha Madani J.D. ’23, Rebecca Siegel, J.D. ’22, and Christoph Keese LL.M. ’22, pitched tech startup ideas to a panel of experts at LexLab’s DemoDay competition in April 2022. For the last five years, the UC Law SF LexLab has…
July 14, 2022
Desiree Robedeaux ’23 is doing public-interest work this summer after winning a prestigious Equal Justice Works fellowship. UC Law SF law student Desiree Robedeaux ’23 is spending her summer helping people with disabilities prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfire disasters. She won a prestigious fellowship from…
July 11, 2022
A new study by the Center for WorkLife Law finds bias likely makes it harder for women and people of color to rank highly on a prestigious wealth advisors list. An influential list that many people use to pick who will manage their money appears to favor white…
July 8, 2022
Professor Hiro Aragaki, the incoming Director of The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law SF, has been invited to participate in a webinar co-sponsored by the Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC) and the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) as part of THAC International ADR Week…
July 5, 2022
What are UC Law SF faculty members reading this summer and why? Whether for knowledge or for fun, faculty members share their summer book picks below. Professor Alice Armitage Alice Armitage – Professor and Director of Applied Innovation, LexLab I’m reading Benjamin…
June 24, 2022
Jennifer Oliva Professor Jennifer Oliva Oliva is a nationally-recognized health law scholar who serves as Senior Scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown Law and on the National Pain Advocacy Center’s Science and Policy Advisory Council. She was most recently the Associate…
June 24, 2022
Thalia González Professor Thalia González González joins Hastings after working at Georgetown University Law Center as a Senior Scholar in the Center on Poverty and Inequality and as the Madeline N. McKinnie Professor of Politics at Occidental College. She is an expert in restorative and transformative justice, including how restorative…
June 24, 2022
Ming Hsu Chen Professor Ming Chen Chen is a familiar face at Hastings after serving as a visiting professor during the 2021-2022 school year and now joins the permanent faculty. She will become the Professor and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair and a Professor of Law. Her…
June 24, 2022
Hiro Aragaki Professor Hiro Aragaki Aragaki is a specialist in alternative dispute resolution who is particularly interested in the intersection of contract law and civil procedure. He worked at Hastings as an adjunct professor nearly 20 years ago so, in his words, “the law school has always been…
June 23, 2022
UC Law SF students who did public-interest work during the 2021-’22 academic school year were celebrated at a ceremony in May. UC Law SF law students worked approximately 55,000 unpaid hours over the last year providing more than $7 million in free legal support to nonprofits, public agencies,…
June 20, 2022
Celina Reynes ’22 strummed the ukulele while singing an original song in her first-place winning video. UC Law SF students showed their love for their law school by creating original videos in a contest sponsored by Class of 1996 alumni. In the 15 videos submitted, students sang original…