May 14, 2020
Starting May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral argument by phone, and released livestream audio, in 10 important cases. This is unprecedented. The decisions, expected in June, could dramatically affect the November presidential election, as well as other major issues. Join Professor Rory Little as he discusses…
May 14, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a short-form podcast series, “Law and the Pandemic,” to share insights relating to some of the most pressing legal issues arising from the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. In each episode, faculty tackle some of the thorniest questions of the moment, from whether the…
May 13, 2020
If you are thinking about retiring but aren’t sure when or how to start, or what you would do if you leave practice, Ida Abbott ’75 has written a new book, Retirement by Design (Ulysses Press, 2020), which uses design principles for creative retirement planning. She is helping firms manage partner…
May 13, 2020
UC Law SF Professor Jared Ellias and leading bankruptcy scholars from around the country have asked Congress to consider enlarging the nation’s bankruptcy system to cope with an expected flood of corporate bankruptcies. The Large Corporate Bankruptcy Scholars COVID-19 Committee is one of four committees that make up a…
May 11, 2020
UC Law SF Professor Joan C. Williams argues in a new Harvard Business Review article that the pandemic is blowing up our notion of the “ideal worker,” rooted in the breadwinner-homemaker model, and could provide an opportunity to reshape attitudes about working parents and the benefits of…
May 9, 2020
See the full interview: Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on CNN’s Smerconish…
May 8, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a clinic to help low-wage workers with state unemployment insurance appeals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The faculty have redesigned the law school’s Workers’ Rights Clinic for summer 2020 to help those who have lost jobs during the pandemic file appeals if they…
May 8, 2020
Press Advisory—UC Law SF Response to San Francisco’s Tenderloin Neighborhood Safety Assessment and Plan for COVID-19: “Entirely Inadequate” (San Francisco) May 8, 2020 On May 4, 2020, UC Law SF and five co-plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco in federal court, demanding that the City…
May 6, 2020
Pedestrians walk to the edge of the sidewalk to avoid stepping on people in tents and sleeping bags on Monday, April 13, 2020, in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Local governments have begun moving large numbers of homeless into hotels as part of Operation Roomkey. Among the…
May 4, 2020
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Moore, Chief Communications Officer, mooreelizabeth@uclawsf.edu, 415-703-8266 UC Law SF and Five Tenderloin Co-Plaintiffs Sue City and County of San Francisco to End Dangerous and Illegal Conditions in the Tenderloin Neighborhood Suit brought to protect the civil rights, health, and safety of Tenderloin residents and…
May 1, 2020
On April 9, 2020, the very first virtual Creative Commons event was hosted by Gabriel Bellman from the Career Development Office, and co-hosted by Mattie Robertson from the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR). We held the workshop on Microsoft Teams, which the whole…
April 27, 2020
Professor Karen Musalo The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has overturned a lower court decision denying asylum to a domestic violence survivor, reaffirming that refugee women are deserving of protection under U.S. law. UC Law SF’s Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), which…