Faculty & Scholarship

Our Faculty & Scholarship

Our faculty scholars explore legal theory, practice, and history, propose important legal reforms, and study the impacts of legal systems on people around the world. Using a variety of research methods, they illuminate important issues through articles, books, reports, congressional testimony, popular media, and other avenues.

We invite you to take a look at the latest publications, news and more from our professors and scholars.

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Our faculty and scholars are leaders in their fields. They’re also passionate teachers who inspire the next generation of lawyers and leaders. We invite you to meet them at the directory below.

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UC Law SF’s research centers study cutting-edge areas of law and bring together students, researchers, and practitioners. We invite you to take a look at the vital work from our centers.

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WorkLife Law Wins $150k Grant to Support Pregnant, Postpartum Farmworkers

The grant will support WorkLife Law’s efforts to help pregnant and postpartum farmworkers assert their legal rights and avoid health risks while pregnant. The Center for WorkLife Law has received a $150,000 grant to support a program that helps pregnant farmworkers and those who have… Read More

Meet Some of Our Scholars

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Alina Ball

Professor of Law, Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law, and Co-Director of the Center for Racial and Economic Justice
View Alina Ball’s Profile

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Ming H. Chen

Professor and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, Director of the Center on Race, Immigration, Citizenship and Equality
View Ming H. Chen’s Profile

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Ben Depoorter

Max Radin Distinguished Professor of Law
View Ben Depoorter’s Profile

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Scott Dodson

James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Litigation and the Courts
View Scott Dodson’s Profile

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Heather Field

Stephen A. Lind Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law
View Heather Field’s Profile

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Richard Marcus

Distinguished Professor of Law and Horace O. Coil Chair in Litigation
View Richard Marcus’s Profile

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Karen Musalo

Professor and Chair in International Law, Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
View Karen Musalo’s Profile

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Manoj Viswanathan

Joseph W. Cotchett ’64 Professor of Law and Co-Director, UC Law SF Center on Tax Law
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Faculty Events

Immigration Programs & Citizenship Day Lunch Time Kick-Off Event

Learn all about how UC Law SF can prepare you for a career in immigration law! This event will highlight courses, clinics, RICE, student orgs, pro bono opportunities in immigration […]

Sep 25
Event Date September 25th
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Event Location 200 ARC

The Center for East Asian Legal Studies (CEALS) presents: 2024 Japanese Law Symposium

demic Symposium Date: 9/27 Time: 12:00pm-4:20pm Symposium Title: “Learning Across the US-Japan Border: IP Trends, Challenges, and Insights.” Agenda: 12:00: Light lunch served. 12:30: Welcome by Dave Owen, Associate Dean […]

Sep 27
Event Date September 27th
12:00 pm – 4:20 pm
Event Location 333-501 and SkyDeck
Oct 2
Event Date October 2nd
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Event Location 198 Auditorium

Selected Scholarship

  • Empirically Assessing Medical Device Innovation, 25 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 73 (2024).

    September 9, 2024

  • Epilogue: We the People: Race, Citizenship, and Equality, 75 U.C. LAW JOURNAL _ (2024)

    September 9, 2024

  • Race and Regulatory Equity, 22 GEORGETOWN J. LAW & PUB. POLICY _ (2024)

    September 9, 2024

  • If They Meant It, Then Make Them Say It: Lower Courts Should Put Immunity Ruling to the Test, LAW.COM (July 12, 2024), https://www.law.com/therecorder/2024/07/12/if-they-meant-it-then-make-them-say-it-lower-courts-should-put-immunity-ruling-to-the-test/.

    September 9, 2024

  • Internet Drug Prohibition and the Opioid Overdose Crisis, 99 Wash. L. Rev. 361 (2024).

    September 9, 2024

  • Euthanize the Death Penalty Already! Scenes from Capital Punishment’s Chronic Deathbed, 27 Green Bag 2d (forthcoming 2024).

    September 9, 2024

  • Secretive Sheriffs: Opacity and Variation in California’s Jail Responses to COVID-19, Nev. L.J. (forthcoming 2024).

    September 9, 2024

  • Yesterday’s Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Birth of Just Deserts in Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice (forthcoming 2024).

    September 9, 2024

  • Torts: Cases and Materials (West Academic 4th ed. 2024) (with John L. Diamond).

    September 9, 2024

  • Silent Witnesses: The Material Turn in the Forensic Sciences, 7 Law Soc’y & Culture (2024) (Isr.).

    September 9, 2024