August 14, 2018
Elizabeth McGriff ’96 was a young single mother when she enrolled at UC Law SF through the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), which admits students from adverse backgrounds and supports them to succeed. Now, as the program approaches its 50th anniversary, McGriff has returned to take the helm as…
Part litigator and part policy guru, the counselor on international law is an outside expert who serves in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser (L), typically with expertise in litigation involving international and foreign relations law. When UC Law SF Professor Chimène Keitner assumed that position…
Joseph W. Cotchett ’64 understands the value of both education and philanthropy. One of the nation’s leading trial attorneys and a longtime UC Law SF booster, Cotchett recently donated $1.5 million to support the Building UC Law SF Fund and to name the Joseph W. Cotchett Advocacy Center. To be…
August 11, 2018
Look out for how law will be shaped in the 21st century. Look out for the next wave of lawyers. Look out for UC Law SF.
August 10, 2018
Rising 2L Erin Sclar discusses her experience at UC Law SF, her love of the San Francisco wine scene, and her work at the Harvard Law School’s Center for Health Law Policy and Innovation (CHLPI) in Boston this summer. Where are you from? Tinley Park, IL. Why did you choose…
August 10, 2018
UC Law SF student Arturo Reyes ’19 contributes to the #summergig series with a Q&A about working at Earthjustice in New York City. Where are you from? I am from Oxnard, California. What did you want to be when you grew up? I always thought I wanted…
August 9, 2018
Washington, D.C. (August 7, 2018) – The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s gutting of asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality. At issue are new “expedited removal” policies put forth by…
August 7, 2018
The Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO) announced the winners of its inaugural CLEO EDGE Awards in Education and selected both UC Law SF and Jan Jemison, retired Director of UC Law SF LEOP, as awardees. CLEO, widely renowned for its mission to increase the number of lawyers…
Perhaps there is no area of law more affected by technological innovation than the litigation practice. Consider how the field has changed in the past 80 years: In 1938, when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were first adopted by the courts, there were no direct-dial long-distance calls, no electric…
August 7, 2018
Increasingly, physicians are understanding that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all treatment for patients, even if they have the same condition. “Precision medicine,” or personalized medicine, is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. A treatment that is successful…
August 7, 2018
In San Francisco, the future is now. Here, the cars drive themselves, prospectors “mine” the Internet for cashless currency, and technologies that change the world—for better and worse—are born. No industry is safe from disruption, even the tradition-bound legal landscape, which is undergoing a sea change thanks to a burgeoning…
August 7, 2018
A large black sign with white lettering hangs on the wall of Professor Alina Ball’s office. It doesn’t mince words, and it doesn’t pull punches: Work Hard, Be Kind. The maxim caught Ball’s eye one day after work, on her walk to BART. Feeling that it articulated something essential…