August 11, 2020
More than 50 UC Law SF students participated in this summer’s first Leadership Lab Certificate program, a six-week series featuring interactive learning in a virtual environment focused on practical skills-building in the dispute resolution field. Organized by the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), the program imparted…
August 10, 2020
In a win for the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) and the Hastings Appellate Project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision Aug. 7 denying asylum to an indigenous Guatemalan woman seeking refuge in the U.S. from domestic violence. Sontos Diaz-Reynoso was represented…
August 10, 2020
Media Highlights Real Life Horror Stories From the World of Pandemic Motherhood New York Times – August 6, 2020 Joan Williams: Employers are using the pandemic to get rid of mothers, and our attempts to protect them are failing. Legal Scholars Dispute Trump’s Claim to…
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August 5, 2020
CNDR’s Deputy Director Mattie Robertson Teaching Leadership Lab Online The first ever Leadership Lab Certificate was held this summer by the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) from June 23 – July 28, 2020. Free to current UC Law SF students during…
August 3, 2020
UC Law SF’ Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) has launched Black Hastings Speaks, a six-episode podcast series designed to preserve and present authentic stories of Black experiences within the UC Law SF community. The series of one-on-one conversations between students, faculty, staff, and alumni…
August 3, 2020
July 29, 2020
UC Law SF has a legacy of training students for public-interest careers. To support that effort, the college awards deserving graduates with the Nancy Stuart Public Interest Award to help fund their bar preparation studies. The $4,000 award, for students committed to careers devoted to closing the access-to-justice gap for…
July 28, 2020
Rising 2L Marcus Grimes was recently featured in the UC Law SF Alumni Newsletter. Grimes is co-president of the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) at Hastings, and is one of the first recipients of the California Scholars scholarship, a three-year full-ride scholarship for Californians who attend a HBCU…
July 28, 2020
The UC Law SF Workers’ Rights Clinic – COVID 19 Response, retooled to help low-wage workers secure unemployment insurance benefits, has helped dozens of individuals who have lost vital income and given students their first practical experience of employment law. “The clinic has met the twin goals of helping workers…
July 24, 2020
Chancellor and Dean David Faigman is one of 19 California law school deans asking the California Supreme Court to retroactively apply the lowered 139 cut score to graduates who took the February 2020 bar exam. The July 23 letter asks the court to grant bar admission to those who scored…
July 23, 2020
Evelyn Rangel-Medina has joined the UC Law SF Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) as its inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor. Her July 1 appointment marks an important expansion for CREJ, led by professors Alina Ball and Shauna Marshall. Over the past decade and a half, Rangel-Medina…