April 15, 2022
UC Law SF alumni are invited back to campus this spring – for the first time in two years – for a week of celebration and class reunions during the college’s inaugural Spring Week taking place May 9-14. “Our new Spring Week initiative is designed to offer something…
April 14, 2022
Former ASUCH President Myell Mergaert, left, and former 3L Class President Victoria Ayeni, right, spoke at the Class of 2020 celebration. Leaders of the UC Law SF Class of 2020 chose to postpone commencement because of the pandemic and hoped they could get together for a celebration at…
April 13, 2022
Student volunteers include, clockwise, from left: Joe Martin, Patrick Micu, Megan Gregory, Rosamaria Cavalho, and Anastasia Gomez. As April’s national filing tax deadline grows closer, UC Law SF law students are doing their part to assist low-income taxpayers. From greeting clients, answering questions, and helping them fill out…
April 12, 2022
In this month’s Creative Commons on April 7, 2022, we created grounding tools in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Regular hosts, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and the Career Development Office (CDO), worked in collaboration with The Center for Advocacy,…
April 6, 2022
Nikayla Johnson participated in the California Scholars program at UC Law SF and plans to work as an advocate for youth in the future. Growing up in Oakland, there were two things that inspired Nikayla Johnson to go to law school—the first was when members of her…
April 5, 2022
Some law students got hands-on experience helping asylum seekers at the border during spring break. Seven UC Law SF law students spent their spring break at the US-Mexico border, visiting shelters for migrants and assisted Haitian asylum seekers by sharing information about asylum laws and processing steps. The…
March 29, 2022
UC Law SF Professor Scott Dodson Every 1L student in law school has to take a course on Civil Procedure. And many say it’s dense and complicated, and, for some students, even boring—unless it happens to be taught by UC Law SF Professor Scott Dodson. Dodson, who was…
March 18, 2022
Professor Joan Williams, left, and Emtrain CEO Janine Yancey ’92, right. Want to lower incidences of bias and harassment in the workplace? It all starts with respect. Those were some of the findings of a research report conducted in partnership between the UC Law SF Center for…
March 17, 2022
Lilia Kazemi ’24, left, and Sharareh (Sheila) Zareng ’24, right, were chosen as Center for Business Law Scholars. Working with a start-up company, increasing diversity at companies, and advocating for clients are some of the goals of the new recipients of the Center for Business Law Scholarships. UC…
March 1, 2022
Justice Wiley W. Manuel ’53 UC College of the Law, San Francisco is proud to announce that its new Center for Scholarly Publications will be named in honor of Justice Wiley W. Manuel ‘53, the first African American Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of California. This announcement…
February 1, 2022
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) says goodbye to it’s longtime Director. Emerita Clinical Professor and Former CNDR Director Sheila Purcell Emerita Clinical Professor, and now former Director of CNDR, Sheila Purcell retired on January 31, 2022, after almost 10…
February 1, 2022
“Whenever there is a blockbuster drug, there are disputes about who owns it, who owns variations of it, who owns it for how long, and in what context,” Professor Robin Feldman told CNBC News in their story about COVID vaccines and how patent disputes…