From Feb. 7 to 12, 2019, UC Law SF hosted a ground- breaking symposium and train-the-trainers workshop to support what may be the only in-house law school legal aid clinic currently operating in Haiti, the Clinique de recherche d’analyse et d’assistance légale de l’ESCDROJ (CRAALE). This clinic, which represents indigent…
UC Law SF faculty voted in June to promote Associate Professor Binyamin Blum, an expert in legal history, to the role of full professor with tenure. “The vote of confidence is reassuring,” Blum said. “This makes it possible to engage in more daring projects.” Blum joined the UC Law SF…
Experts from UC Law SF are increasingly invited to spend time overseas, engaging in dynamic exchanges with their counterparts at prestigious international institutions of higher learning. In so doing, faculty, alumni, and students not only bring their expertise to conferences and classrooms throughout the world but also gain invaluable exposure…
November 20, 2019
Everything in the life of Viviana Waisman ’95—from her Her True Calling to her family history to her education and early work experiences—pointed in the same direction. “I’m one of those people who was born to work on social justice issues,” she said. As a young lawyer in Madrid in…
November 20, 2019
The ancient trade route between Europe and China known as the Silk Road allowed for the exchange of goods (jade, horses, cotton and wool, glass, weapons, and, yes, silk), but, just as importantly, things like religion, language, traditions, and other products of the mind: ideas. In Tashkent, one of the…
November 19, 2019
“When I compete in these races, I can’t see a single sign or aid station without thinking about the sponsorship agreement we drafted to go along with that.” Jennifer Gottschalk ’16 began the 2019 IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championships…
November 19, 2019
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law SF was honored to host 22 teams from 11 schools around the country for The ABA Regional Negotiation Competition on Saturday 11/9/2019 and Sunday 11/10/2019. Regionals will continue, and Hastings students on The ADR Team will compete…
November 13, 2019
As lawmakers in Washington, D.C. grapple with how best to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump, UC Law SF students packed the room to hear a panel of professors share the historical underpinnings and theorize about how the proceedings may play out. “The framers of the Constitution could…
November 1, 2019
UC Law SF joins San Francisco in mourning the passing of Burk “Buck” Delventhal ’69, a scholar, professor, city servant and one of the sharpest legal minds in California. Called the “heart and soul of the governmental side of the city,” Delventhal, who spent 49 years in the San Francisco…
Publications Richard A. Boswell, “Advancing a Broader View of Clinical Scholarship,” 26 Clinical Law Review 117 (2019) Jaime King et al., “Navigating Legal Challenges to State Efforts at Control Drug Prices: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulation, Anti-Price-Gouging Laws, and Price Transparency” (National Academy for State Health Policy) Jaime King,…
Publications Scott Dodson, “Leading Cases,” 9 International Journal of Procedural Law 146 (2019) Chimène Keitner & Scott Dodson, “Jam v. International Finance Corp.,” 113 American Journal of International Law 805 (2019) Works Accepted Jodi Short, “The Politics of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Theorizing and Operationalizing Political Influences,” Regulation &…
Robin Feldman UC Law SF Professor Robin Feldman’s op-ed, “Why the cancer ‘moonshot’ has been so disappointing,” was published in The Washington Post. In the op-ed, Feldman argues pharmaceutical companies pour resources into “orphan drugs” rather than making a concerted effort to cure cancer. The result, she…