November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul’s previous book, Unlikely Allies (Riverhead, 2009), featured an unassuming shopkeeper, a mysterious cross-dressing spy, and a famous French playwright who changed the course of the American Revolution. His newest book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Riverhead, 2018), focuses on a self-taught man who…
November 2, 2018
Below is the October 2018 Roundup, compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications Scott Dodson published “Jurisdiction in the Trump Era” in Fordham Law Review. Dave Owen published “Cooperative Subfederalism” in Irvine Law Review. John Leshy…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Rory Little (@rorylittle) produced two articles on the SCOTUS Blog this month. The first entitled, “Argument preview: Do ‘slight force’ robberies count for enhancing Armed Career Criminal Act sentences?” (http://bit.ly/2RmJs4l) and the second, entitled “Argument preview: What vehicle burglaries, if any, count for enhancing Armed…
October 16, 2018
With the Nov. 6 election right around the corner and absentee voting underway, our faculty experts break down some of the measures that appear on the 2018 ballot, including the rent control and gas tax repeal measures. Watch the short videos below to learn more about the measures.
October 5, 2018
US Ambassador to Haiti Michele J. Sison (center) Photo courtesy U.S. Embassy in Haiti In a milestone move that is intended to invigorate clinical legal education in Haiti, the US Embassy has awarded twin grants, one to UC Law SF College of the Law and the other to…
October 1, 2018
September was a very active month for UC Law SF faculty scholarship and related activities. Below is the September Roundup, including entries from Aug. 20-31, compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat published a coauthored contribution…
October 1, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “It is a bit strange for a judge who claims to follow the literal text of the Constitution to insist that the president has a privilege that does not appear anywhere in the Constitution,” said Professor Joel Paul (@JoelRichardPaul) in an article for Tufts Now on…
September 26, 2018
The United States Court of Appeals 10th Circuit recently cited an article from Professor Scott Dodson in a contract assignment decision. The 10th Circuit quoted from Dodson’s, “Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty,” 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777, 778 (2003), in Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services v. United…
Professor Abraham Cable and Glen Van Ligten ’91 have been co-teaching the corporate classroom component of the Startup Legal Garage—a program offered by the UC Law SF Institute for Innovation Law—for the past three years. The class is intended to help students who are working with early-stage technology companies…
What can we do to protect democratic discourse and decision-making in the age of “dangerous speech” and digitally altered photos and videos known as “deep fakes?” That was the fundamental question posed in an in-depth conversation moderated by Professor Chimène Keitner for World Affairs Council of…
Professor Jennifer Dunn has been on the frontlines – even targeted and threatened by anti-abortion activists. But Dunn is not deterred. She’s even more determined, as she devotes a career to reproductive justice. “It is about more than abortion,” explained Dunn, a 1998 graduate of UC Law SF who has…
September 4, 2018
Professor Jaime S. King and Katherine L. Gudiksen, senior research fellow at the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition, co-authored Commentary on California’s Drug Transparency Law (SB-17) for the September edition of Health Affairs, the leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research. Along with Timothy T. Brown, associate…