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Tracking the Future of the Affordable Care Act

March 22, 2017

UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy launches Health Reform Tracker website.

UC Law SF LL.M. student Simren Delaney works with early stage Bay Area startups

March 21, 2017

Now in its 7th year, the Startup Legal Garage enables UC Law SF students to work with early stage Tech and BioTech companies to provide them with corporate and intellectual property legal services under the supervision of leading attorneys throughout the Bay Area.

Message from Dean Faigman: US News Rankings

March 14, 2017

While it is an annual rite of spring for deans to celebrate or lament the widely variable swings in rankings from year-to-year, UC Law SF must keep its eyes on what counts. We are doing that.

What Worked for Us May Work for You: Alumni Share Bar Success Stories for New Blog

March 7, 2017

UC Law SF launches the Bar Passage Success Stories and Strategies blog.

UC Law SF Ranks #29 in National Law Journal’s Top 50 Go-To Law Schools Report

March 6, 2017

The annual "Go-To" report identifies the U.S. law schools with the most recent grads joining the nation's largest law firms as associates.

Ben Bartlett: Be About It

March 3, 2017

"Only crazy people change the world and it's my duty to change the world." A day in the life with Ben Bartlett '14.

Comparing Middle Eastern Autocrats and American Populists for the Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens ’89 Memorial Lecture Series

March 3, 2017

Furthering the discussion of cutting-edge topics in law, diplomacy, and international relations with guest speaker Leila Fadel.

Always look for the helpers’: Meet 1L Michelle Human, AKA Miss Honey, Professional Faerie

February 22, 2017

This little girl looked at me and she said, you're a flower fairy right? I said yes, I'm a flower fairy. She said, okay I have a wish, I wish that the garden in front of my house in Syria, I wish that the flowers could grow there again because right now there's fire and the ground is ash. I wish that we lived in a world where there's no bombs or bullets or fires, and that the earth was reminded how to grow flowers again.

Civil Rights Lawyer Zahra Billoo ’09 Is Fighting President Trump’s “Travel Ban”

February 7, 2017

As leader of a Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter, she is standing up for the rights of Muslim Americans in court and in the media.

Hadar Aviram assumes the presidency of the Western Society of Criminology

February 6, 2017

Congratulations to UC Law SF Professor Hadar Aviram, who is set to begin her term as the president of the Western Society of Criminology.

Statement from Dean Faigman: Deans Letter to California Supreme Court re California Bar Exam

February 1, 2017

Today a group of 20 deans of ABA-accredited California law schools submitted a letter to the California Supreme Court, calling upon it to "exercise its legal jurisdiction over the California State Bar to adjust its scoring methods to bring them in line with the nation's at large."

Statement from Dean Faigman: President Trump’s Executive Order re Travel

January 30, 2017

The UC Law SF' seal carries the words fiat justitia -- Let Justice Be Done. This motto is not a hollow promise; it is who we are and what we do.