February 20, 2020
Hastings Students for Immigrants’ Rights (HSIR) is sending eight law students to Taylor, Texas, in March to support women asylum seekers who are incarcerated at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. This year’s trip builds on the work of two previous trips to family detention centers. Three students went to…
February 18, 2020
Left to rights: 2020 ALMA President Anna Pletcher, Catalina Lozano and Marin Superior Court Judge Sheila Lichtblau (courtesy photo) Longtime adjunct professor and civil rights fighter Catalina Lozano ’81 has been awarded the Unity Award by The Minority Bar Coalition, a network of over 40 diverse bar associations…
February 17, 2020
Francis McGovern, portrait at Duke Law UC Law SF and the national litigation community is mourning the sudden death of Visiting Professor Francis McGovern, following a fall at his home in Marin. He was 75, and to many, completely irreplaceable. Professor McGovern taught each spring semester at UC…
February 14, 2020
Professor Frank H. Wu William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor Frank H. Wu has been awarded the 2020 John Hope Franklin Award for his longtime contributions to higher education and diversity. Franklin, an American historian best known for his 1947 work From Slavery to Freedom, was awarded the Presidential Medal…
February 13, 2020
L to R: Paige Shatola 1L, Leisa Boswell 1L, Skyler Sugimoto ’17, Katie Hekstra 1L, and Thomas Maloney 1L The UC Law SF Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Team had a very successful weekend at the American Bar Association Representation in Mediation Competition, where Leisa Boswell and Paige…
February 13, 2020
Professor Hadar Aviram Professor Hadar Aviram has won the UC Law SF Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. The annual award from the Foundation Board of Trustees recognizes demonstrated scholarly production. And with three books in the last five years, Aviram hits the mark. Aviram is…
February 12, 2020
Photo credit: Atterberry The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has appointed John W. Busterud ’81 as Regional Administrator for Region 9. He will oversee federal environmental protection efforts in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the U.S. territories in the Pacific, and 148 federally recognized tribes. “John Busterud’s extensive background…
February 11, 2020
Americans have ranked health care as one of the issues most important to them. In early 2020, the nonpartisan Law & Medicine Initiative at the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i) issued a presidential advisory memo to the presidential campaigns and has updated it…
February 11, 2020
Date: February 2020* To: 2020 Presidential Campaigns From: Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Innovation (C4i) Health care policy is one of the most pressing issues facing Americans today. According to a January 2020 Gallup poll, 81% of Americans cited…
January 25, 2020
Media Highlights Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push Bloomberg Law—January 21, 2021 John Leshy: “As I read it, Interior needs to pause all activities in connection with the leases for the duration of the moratorium.” The Problem With Trump’s Odious Pardon of Steve Bannon…
January 24, 2020
Criminal Procedure Scholar and Public Defender Jonathan Abel Joins UC Law SF Faculty Professor Jon Abel Public defender and criminal procedure scholar Jonathan Abel will join the UC Law SF faculty as a tenure-track associate professor on July 1. He will teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure…
January 18, 2020
Media Highlights Why being anti-racist is not enough ABA Journal—January 14, 2021 Richard Zitrin: “For us white progressives, deep self-examination is also not enough unless it’s abiding. There’s always more to understand.” The COVID-19 Vaccine Debate: How Employer Decisions Could Help Or Hurt Businesses for Years to Come…