April 9, 2020
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from AccessLex and gifts from faculty, staff, and alumni totaling $88,000, UC Law SF students in financial need can take advantage of a new Student Emergency Fund. The fund provides individual grants of up to $750 per academic year for students facing emergency needs, including…
April 7, 2020
UC Law SF offers a unique scholarship program to students who graduated from a California high school and went on to graduate from a historically black college or university (HBCU) or the American University of Armenia. A state-funded initiative available only at UC Law SF, The California Scholars Program…
April 7, 2020
Back row, from L-R: Professor Richard Boswell; Nicole Aston (1L);Front row, from L-R: Irvin De La O (1L); Josephine Mendoza (1L); Maria Salinas Mendoza (1L)Not pictured: Aleen Mankerian (1L); Andrew Newcomb (3L) Michelle Trejo-Saldivar (3L) “This trip has reminded me of how resilient the human spirit…
March 12, 2020
UC Law SF 1Ls are Semi-Finalists at the International Academy of Dispute Resolution International Mediation Tournament The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) congratulates Kelly Sagaser (1L), Brian Ruben (1L) and Sarah Mojarro (2L) for placing as Semi-Finalists at the International Academy of Dispute Resolution International Mediation Tournament at…
March 12, 2020
UC Law SF CNDR’s Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Team Wins the Lowell Milken Institute for Law and Business Policy Transactional Law Meet at UCLA School of Law The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) congratulates Joseph Dell (3L), Ryan Snyder (3L) and Kenny Gutierrez (3L) for taking 1st…
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…
January 5, 2020
Class of 2019 pass rate jumps by 20 points over July 2018, following adoption of innovative teaching methods “We teach differently now,” Ratner said. “From the student vantage point, it’s much more high touch than the traditional Langdellian model of legal education.” -Academic Dean Morris Ratner…
Recent UC Law SF graduates Ayana Faison, Sarah Doan-Minh, Claudia Cesena and Elsa-Marie Medeiros recently received the Legal Services for Children (LSC) Certificate in Child Advocacy. The four were honored at an event on May 9th by LSC Executive Director Abigail Trillin, who is also an adjunct professor at…
UC Law SF students recently scored a major victory. 3Ls Laura Anderson and Miranda Rowley argued their way to a fourth national championship in the 2018-19 academic year for UC Law SF Moot Court, with a win at the 34th Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition late last…
Alex Sauerwein, 2L, had been interested in organic farming ever since he fed chickens and picked produce in his backyard while growing up in San Jose, Calif. But it wasn’t until his junior year in college that he decided to make sustainable agriculture the focus of his career. He was…
Though Alexis Lazzeri entered UC Law SF with an interest in the burgeoning cannabis industry, she didn’t think there were many opportunities for lawyers to work in the field and decided to instead explore other potential career paths. But Lazzeri says attending the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Cannabis Conference…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “Is building a wall military work? There’s lots of room for debate,” Professor Rory Little (@RoryLittle) said in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “An emergency declaration for Trump’s wall? Not so fast, say experts.” http://bit.ly/2MJiKSh –Professor Little appeared on KQEDForum…