Publications Hadar Aviram, “Book Review,” 53 Law & Society Review 313 (2019) Ben Depoorter, “The Promises and Pitfalls of a Copyright Small Claims Process,” 33 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 711 (2019) Ben Depoorter, “Who’s Afraid of 3D Napster?,” Journal of Science & Technology Law…
“Work hard and be your authentic self.” That short, simple sentence echoed in the ears of UC Law SF College of the Law’s 2018 graduating class. The inspirational line was delivered by Clinical Professor Mai Linh Spencer, whose commitment to teaching and inspiring students has been recognized with the…
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…
February 1, 2019
Publications Richard A. Boswell, “Book Review: The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education,” 67 Journal of Legal Education 1081 (2018). Thomas Greaney, “The New Merger Wave: Does the ‘Vertical Good’ Maxim Apply?,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Jan. 10, 2019)…
The five-block walk up Leavenworth Street between McAllister and O’Farrell streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood isn’t as dark as it once was. Along those once dimly lit streets now stand dozens of new streetlights. Throughout the Tenderloin, city officials have erected a total of 97 new streetlights meant to make…
January 4, 2019
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Veena Dubal (@veenadubal) appeared in the KCET and Link TV documentary series “City Rising: The Informal Economy.” An article about the acclaimed series appeared in Boyle Heights Beat. http://bit.ly/2Ts3uvx – “There’s hypersurveillance. All the corporate entities are super vigilant (and) weary of…
Compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat, “Law Against the People,” 42 AntroPolitica 296 (2018). Veena Dubal (with coauthors), “Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the US,” 16 Perspectives on Politics 919…
December 10, 2018
The faculty at UC Law SF has voted to grant tenure to three outstanding professors. Associate professors Alina Ball, a nationally-recognized expert within the transactional clinical community, Jared Ellias, an expert in the realm of bankruptcy law, and Zachary Price, an expert on constitutional structure, will officially…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at UC Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Karen Musalo, the director of Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, provided commentary for an article in The Nation that looks at an immigration case that has resulted in a major impact on asylum claims.http://bit.ly/2FO0yHx Musalo was quoted in an article from NPR entitled “Trump Escalates…
UC Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school’s thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers—the Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…