November 28, 2022
Sharon Hartley ’91 and her mentee Rachel Shefer ’24 were paired through the Alumni Mentor Program at UC Law SF. When UC Law SF law student Rachel Shefer ’24 was searching for a summer internship, her mentor Sharon Hartley ’91 offered words of encouragement. Hartley helped Shefer brainstorm…
November 23, 2022
ACLU attorney and First Amendment expert Emerson Sykes spoke to the UC Law SF community about free speech, academic freedom, and racial justice. While UC Law SF is one of the many higher education institutions across the United States grappling with free speech and racial justice issues, it…
November 22, 2022
David Faigman is chancellor and dean of UC Hasitngs College of the Law. Dear UC Law SF Community, I write to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. This is a time of year when we reflect upon, and express gratitude for, our good fortune. I am profoundly thankful for…
November 21, 2022
UC Law SF students provided free legal assistance to rural communities and members of Native American tribes in Northern California during the summer of 2022. For the first time ever, four UC Law SF law students spent their summers helping Indigenous Peoples in Northern California…
November 16, 2022
UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman spoke at a ceremony marking a milestone in the construction of the college’s newest building at 198 McAllister St. UC Law SF’ leaders, with its project development and community partners, marked the topping out of the College’s new building at…
November 14, 2022
UC Law SF alumni and professors posed with members of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at a scholarship fund launch event in September. Andrew Houston ’07, a member of the UC Law SF Board of Directors, often shares his life story…
November 14, 2022
Dear UC Law SF Community, It’s been a busy fall regarding our upcoming name change to UC Law San Francisco. I want to thank all of my colleagues for the immense amount of preparatory work that has gone into the logistics of the name change. I am also grateful to our legal team that is counseling…
November 13, 2022
New Developments in Pacific Rim Arbitration: Perspectives from Hong Kong, Singapore, and California On November 7, 2022, California Arbitration and The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) hosted a panel at UC Law San Francisco featuring speakers Mariel Dimsey (Secretary General, HKIAC), Adriana Uson (Head of Americas,…
November 11, 2022
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution CNDR is pleased to announce the book release of a UC Law SF alum and long-time CNDR faculty member. The icing on the cake for us is that the College is featured as a recurring “character” throughout the book!…
November 10, 2022
CREJ has anxiously watched as Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the senseless death of Mahsa Amini. As educators, we are dismayed by the violent crackdown by Iran’s security forces on students and faculty protesting at universities across Iran including Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology. We write to acknowledge…
November 9, 2022
Data privacy legal expert Lothar Determann (left) moderated a panel of data privacy professionals – Jeewon Kim Serrato, Mariam Abdel-Malek, Barbara Lawler, and Leila Golchehreh (left to right) – at a Privacy Day event co-hosted by LexLab at UC Law SF on Sept. 29. As a center focused…
November 3, 2022
Dear Hastings Law Community (soon to be UC Law SF Community!), I write to offer you an update on the lawsuit filed against our law school in early October. Per my October 4th message, a small group of Hastings’ alumni and some descendants of Serranus Hastings sued…