May 24, 2022
UC Law SF students will provide free legal assistance to members of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and others this summer. From helping Native Americans draft wills, stay in their homes, and navigate the court system, four UC Law SF law students will spend this summer assisting indigenous…
April 12, 2022
In this month’s Creative Commons on April 7, 2022, we created grounding tools in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Regular hosts, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and the Career Development Office (CDO), worked in collaboration with The Center for Advocacy,…
December 23, 2021
UC Law SF’s storied Moot Court Team finished the fall semester with a win streak, holding on to its #1 national ranking for the third straight semester. The discipline of dozens of student competitors and their 45 alumni coaches—who practiced multiple times a week over several months—paid…
September 24, 2021
UC Law SF has been alive with activity over the past few weeks after some 18 months of remote teaching and learning. The once-quiet halls of the college’s new Cotchett Law Center are now bustling, as students shuffle between classes and gather for group work (masked, of course); its…
June 29, 2021
From the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), Deputy Director Mattie Robertson taught the application-only Leadership Lab Certificate for a second summer. A six-hour, interactive skills course for current UC Law SF students held in June 2021, Leadership Lab was designed to help students…
May 7, 2021
Five women just completed their first year of law school in part thanks to a unique state-funded scholarship program available only at UC Law SF. The California Scholars Program provides each student with $65,000 in support per year, covering tuition and a $20,000 stipend for living expenses. The program…
May 3, 2021
UC Law SF Moot Court held on to its coveted #1 ranking this semester, capping off a school year that saw alumni coaches participate in greater numbers than ever. The 90-plus student team members were dubbed “Covid National Champions” in a recent Zoom awards ceremony to celebrate the achievement.
April 22, 2021
An update from the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), on the Mediation going virtual for Spring 2021: “Designing the car while driving it” is the way Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Clinical Professor of Law Gail Silverstein described the Mediation Clinic’s new Small Claims virtual mediation…
April 7, 2021
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing travel, UC Law SF students continued their work to help people seeking asylum. For the past three years, students have gone to T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a facility outside Austin, Texas, where people awaiting decisions on their immigration status are detained. This spring,…
March 30, 2021
David Faigman, Hastings College of the Law With the publication today of US News & World Report’s (USNWR) annual rankings of law schools, it is a propitious time to take stock of the state of UC Law SF. As detailed below, the news is good. However, before getting…
March 24, 2021
The Center for Business Law has launched a new scholarship program aimed at giving students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to flourish in the world of business law. The CBL Scholars Program provides full tuition plus mentorship and support from the alumni and law firms who brought the idea…
March 21, 2021
The shift to online learning has impacted how we communicate with each other. Much is lost when we are not face to face – we are less connected as humans and misunderstandings can happen easily. Law school is an opportunity to practice bringing differing viewpoints together, instead of diverging.