January 25, 2022
As historian Matthew Guariglia researches his latest book about the history of race, policing, and surveillance, he is struck by how little has changed in more than a hundred years. “While all the technology policy use has changed, what we ask the technology to do has not…
January 21, 2022
Professor Heather Field Presented Taxpayer Choices, Itemized Deductions, and the Relationship between the Federal & State Tax Systems, at an SMU Dedman School of Law Faculty Forum.
January 20, 2022
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five…
January 18, 2022
Black Californians constitute 6.5% of California’s total population but make up nearly 40% of its homeless population. This disparity exists in San Francisco and it exists in Santa Cruz. It’s an issue in Chico, as it is in Los Angeles. Brandon Greene, affiliated scholar at UC Law SF’ Center for…
January 13, 2022
The Law Library will be closed on Monday, Jan. 17, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The Law Library collection contains a number of MLK-inspired ebooks, including Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.; Misremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of…
December 28, 2021
Professor Heather Field published Taxpayer Choices, Itemized Deductions, and the Relationship between the Federal & State Tax Systems in the Columbia Journal of Tax Law.
December 28, 2021
The UC Law SF Library is currently accepting applications from students who are available in Spring 2022 to staff the Circulation Desk for 4-20 hours per week. Positions are open to rising 2Ls, 3Ls, MSLs, and LLMs. Shifts are flexible. Work-Study is preferred, but not required. The payrate is $16.65/hr…
December 23, 2021
UC Law SF’s storied Moot Court Team finished the fall semester with a win streak, holding on to its #1 national ranking for the third straight semester. The discipline of dozens of student competitors and their 45 alumni coaches—who practiced multiple times a week over several months—paid…
December 17, 2021
The UC Law SF Library will be closed from Saturday, December 18, through Saturday, January 8th. We will reopen at 10 am on Sunday, January 9th. Our warmest wishes to you and your family for a happy and safe holiday season!…
December 13, 2021
Drawing on four decades of research, Distinguished Professor Joan Williams published her twelfth book in November 2021, Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good (Harvard Business Review Press), a comprehensive guide for company executives. The book outlines evidence-based techniques developed in Williams’…
December 7, 2021
When Mario Ernesto Lopez was named UC Law SF’s inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives this past August, he was undaunted by the fact that the position came without a roadmap. “I’ve always done things a little bit differently,” Lopez says, grinning. Since 2016, he’s brought what coworkers…
December 2, 2021
A marketplace app where users can sell services to one another and get paid in crypto. A digital wishing tree used by unhoused people to request money for an umbrella or help toward their monthly grocery bill. A kiosk that dispenses clean needles and opioid overdose reversal medication. And a…