May 20, 2021
The Law and Society Association is recognizing UC Law SF Professor Setsuo Miyazawa’s four decades of service to the field of socio-legal scholarship with two awards—its Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award and its lifetime achievement Legacy Award. Miyazawa, senior visiting professor of law and senior director of the East…
May 7, 2021
UC Law SF La Raza Law Student Association (LRLSA) announced that 1L Dulce Rodas has been named the 2021 recipient of the Jeanette M. Acosta Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, which comes with an award of $4,200, honors UC Law SF alumna Jeanette Acosta ’16, who rose to national prominence as…
May 7, 2021
Five women just completed their first year of law school in part thanks to a unique state-funded scholarship program available only at UC Law SF. The California Scholars Program provides each student with $65,000 in support per year, covering tuition and a $20,000 stipend for living expenses. The program…
May 5, 2021
Academic Freedom Adopted by the Faculty Executive Committee in 2011; Updated and Approved by the Faculty on April 26, 2023 Preamble Recognizing that robust First Amendment principles in the United States Constitution and corresponding provisions in the California Constitution bind UC Law SF, as a…
May 4, 2021
Please see below for a collection of faculty publications, speaking engagements, grants, and awards: May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 December 2020 – January 2021 November 2020…
May 4, 2021
Publications Kate E. Bloch, “Virtual Reality: Prospective Catalyst for Restorative Justice,” 58 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 285 (2021). Scott Dodson, “In-State Invocation of Diversity Jurisdiction: Theories,” Academia Letters No. 844 (2021). (refereed). Scott Dodson, “Texas v. Pennsylvania and the Political-Question Doctrine,” 2021 University of Illinois Law Review Online 141 (2021).
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: March 2021 Publications David I. Levine, Civil Procedure in California: State and Federal, 2021 Edition (West Academic). Works Accepted Jonathan Abel, “Criminal Justice Contact Tracing,” Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2021). Binyamin Blum, “Canine Zionism,” in The Life and Legacy of Rudolphina Menzel (forthcoming, Brandeis University Press). Scott Dodson,…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: February 2021 Publications Binyamin Blum, “Book Review: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt,” 55(1) Law & Society Review 206-209 (2021). Marsha Cohen, “Written Informed Consent – Translating into Plain Language. A Pilot Study,” 9 Healthcare 232 (2021) (with…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: December 2020-January 2021 Publications Scott Dodson et al., “The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation,” 104:3 Judicature 13 (fall 2020). Veena Dubal, “An Uber Ambivalence: Employee Status, Worker Perspectives, and Regulation in the Gig Economy,” in Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation (Cambridge University Press…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: November 2020 Publications Dorit Reiss, “Digging the Rabbit Hole, COVID-19 Edition: Anti-Vaccine Themes and the Discourse Around COVID-19,” Microbes and Infection (November 2020) (with Tara C. Smith). Jessica Vapnek, “Agricultural Legislation” in International Legislative Drafting Handbook, Carolina Academic Press (2020). Manoj Viswanathan, “The Unintended Consequences of California’s…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: October 2020 Publications Hadar Aviram, “Progressive Punitivism: Notes on the Use of Punitive Social Control to Advance Social Justice Ends,” The Judges’ Book (2020). Binyamin Blum, “From Bedouin Trackers to Doberman Pinschers: The Rise of Dog Tracking as Forensic Evidence in Palestine,” in Global Forensic Cultures…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: September 2020 Publications Scott Dodson, “Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2020). Works Accepted Chimène Keitner, “Prosecuting Foreign States,” Virginia Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2021) Chimène Keitner, “Congressional testimony on China, COVID-19, and Foreign Sovereign Immunity,” Harvard National Security Journal Online…