November 23, 2022
ACLU attorney and First Amendment expert Emerson Sykes spoke to the UC Law SF community about free speech, academic freedom, and racial justice. While UC Law SF is one of the many higher education institutions across the United States grappling with free speech and racial justice issues, it…
November 21, 2022
UC Law SF students provided free legal assistance to rural communities and members of Native American tribes in Northern California during the summer of 2022. For the first time ever, four UC Law SF law students spent their summers helping Indigenous Peoples in Northern California…
November 16, 2022
UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman spoke at a ceremony marking a milestone in the construction of the college’s newest building at 198 McAllister St. UC Law SF’ leaders, with its project development and community partners, marked the topping out of the College’s new building at…
November 14, 2022
UC Law SF alumni and professors posed with members of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at a scholarship fund launch event in September. Andrew Houston ’07, a member of the UC Law SF Board of Directors, often shares his life story…
November 14, 2022
Dear UC Law SF Community, It’s been a busy fall regarding our upcoming name change to UC Law San Francisco. I want to thank all of my colleagues for the immense amount of preparatory work that has gone into the logistics of the name change. I am also grateful to our legal team that is counseling…
November 9, 2022
Data privacy legal expert Lothar Determann (left) moderated a panel of data privacy professionals – Jeewon Kim Serrato, Mariam Abdel-Malek, Barbara Lawler, and Leila Golchehreh (left to right) – at a Privacy Day event co-hosted by LexLab at UC Law SF on Sept. 29. As a center focused…
November 3, 2022
Dear Hastings Law Community (soon to be UC Law SF Community!), I write to offer you an update on the lawsuit filed against our law school in early October. Per my October 4th message, a small group of Hastings’ alumni and some descendants of Serranus Hastings sued…
November 1, 2022
Professor Emerita Bea Moulton UC Law SF Professor Emerita Bea Moulton, who began working at the College in 1984 as the Director of Clinical Instruction, has died of cancer at the age of 83. Ms. Moulton, who started as an adjunct professor, is credited with…
October 27, 2022
Natalie Alameddine ’13 is a partner at the firm Blank Rome in Los Angeles specializing in employment and labor law. A partner at the firm Blank Rome in Los Angeles, Natalie Alameddine ‘13 traces her success as an attorney specializing in…
October 25, 2022
Professors Brittany Glidden and Gail Silverstein are co-directors of the new Center for Social Justice at UC Law SF. Most UC Law SF student applicants list wanting “to make a difference in the world” as their primary motives for attending law school, according to recent student surveys. A…
October 20, 2022
Construction project manager Julie Parker earned a Certificate of Studies in Law (CSL) at UC Law SF last spring. Working as a successful construction project manager, Julie Parker encounters legal issues in her job almost every day — from complying with building codes to reviewing contracts to following…
October 17, 2022
UC Law SF lecturer emeritus Richard Zitrin has written a new book on his decades of experience as a trial lawyer and inherent biases in the legal system. Lecturer Emeritus Richard Zitrin has taught Legal Ethics since 1994 at UC Law SF, and…