October 8, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a six-month pilot program with Urban Alchemy to provide enhanced safety on campus sidewalks and streets. The move comes at a time when many cities and organizations are looking at alternatives to traditional policing. “There’s been a very important conversation nationally about the appropriate…
October 6, 2020
“This is a great time to be in law school and become a lawyer. You see it every day in the headlines. We need more people to speak out about what’s right, and be advocates for equity, for so many different causes and so many different people.” That’s how Dean…
October 6, 2020
UC Law SF held its annual U.S. Supreme Court review and preview, packed with analysis from Professors Radhika Rao, Jodi Short, Matt Coles and Rory Little on what was an unprecedented 2019 term and what is predicted as a riveting session that began Oct. 5. Last…
October 5, 2020
Media Highlights A Rush to Confirm Justice Nominee Can Hurt Supreme Court for Years The Hill—October 2, 2020 James Wagstaffe: Hurriedly replacing the leading lioness of liberalism with a dogmatic conservative could threaten the critical dynamism of the Supreme Court for a generation to come. So,…
October 2, 2020
September 29, 2020
UC Law SF has forged a partnership with Spelman College, a historically Black liberal arts college for women, on a program that will allow students to obtain their bachelor’s degree and a J.D. in six years rather than the typical seven. Under this “3+3” program, students will spend their first…
September 28, 2020
Three UC Law SF students who received prestigious scholarships from the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Justice and Diversity Center took disparate paths and overcame numerous obstacles to get to law school. Now Miriam Yarde, Graciella “Gracie” Maynetto and Karla Martinez plan to use their legal education to make a…
September 28, 2020
Media Highlights The Pandemic Imperils Working Mothers’ Careers Society for Human Resource Management—September 26, 2020 Joan Williams: “There’s no wishing this pandemic away. If employers don’t come to terms with this, we will come out a workforce bleached of mothers.” Blue Health Insurers Reach Tentative Antitrust…
September 28, 2020
Each month, the alumni newsletter features a Q&A with a student. Meet 3L Zaren Craddock. He has a master’s degree in Criminology, and hopes to become a prosecutor. He is currently externing with U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen of the Northern District of California. He hopes to enroll…
September 24, 2020
On September 2nd and 16th, UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) kicked off its Advanced Practitioner Mediation Certificate Series with adjuncts Jessica Notini (How to Assume the Neutrals’ Role) and John Ford (Increasing Effective Communication). Adjunct Professors Jessica Notini…
September 24, 2020
AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Gilead lead a crowded field of drug makers who excessively extend patent protections to limit the market entry of competing products in an anti-competitive practice called “evergreening,” a primary driver of high drug prices. This is one finding of many according to a public…
September 22, 2020
In the first Creative Commons workshop of the school year, on September 17, 2020, Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), and co-host Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) led students in an exploration of the connection between poetry and the law. The topics…