September 22, 2022
UC Law SF student Raquel Grande, JD ’24, was awarded the Jeanette M. Acosta Memorial Scholarship this year. From helping domestic violence survivors to supporting at-risk youth and undocumented immigrants, UC Law SF student Raquel Grande, JD ’24, has spent most of her adult life fighting for social…
September 20, 2022
UC Law SF graduates Tanisha Gooch ’14 and Jeremy Schwartz ’18 work as leaders in the City of San Francisco’s Office of Cannabis. Two UC Law SF graduates are on the frontlines of regulating a growing multibillion-dollar cannabis industry in a city with storied history and connection to…
September 16, 2022
UC Law SF student Jose Cajero, JD ’25, served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps before entering law school this year. Growing up in a small Texas town with immigrant parents who never made it past the sixth grade, Jose Cajero, 30, overcame a number of obstacles…
September 14, 2022
Professor Joel Paul talks about his new book, which explores the history of American nationalism popularized by Daniel Webster in the early 1800s. UC Law SF Constitutional Law Professor Joel Richard Paul has written a new book, INDIVISIBLE: Daniel Webster and the Birth…
September 12, 2022
UC Law SF 1L student Victor Torres spent five years working in Sacramento politics before entering law school this year. UC Law SF student Victor Torres, JD ’25, spent five years working in Sacramento and helping to pass state legislation, including significant reforms to California’s criminal justice and…
September 8, 2022
Professors Stephen Tollafield, Angie Gius, and Teresa Wall-Cyb help UC Law SF law students master the art of legal research and writing. At UC Law SF, three dedicated professors— Angie Gius, Stephen Tollafield, and Teresa Wall-Cyb—bring nearly five decades…
September 6, 2022
UC Law SF student Miranda Lockman, JD ’25, has a background in environmental sustainability and previously worked as a law firm case manager. Incoming UC Law SF student Miranda Lockman ’25 once helped turn a barren, strip-mined piece of land into a biodiversity hotspot full of native plants,…
September 2, 2022
Professor Ming Hsu Chen — an expert on race, immigration, and citizenship – has launched a new center at UC Law SF this fall that will pursue groundbreaking research on equality issues and collaborate with other scholars and academic institutions. Chen, who previously founded the Immigration and…
August 31, 2022
Apple executive and UC Law SF alumna Adelmise Warner ’01 spoke to the incoming class of JD students during a convocation ceremony in August. The incoming JD class of UC Law SF got a special welcome from one of the school’s noteworthy alumni – Adelmise…
August 29, 2022
UC Law SF Professor Emeritus John Leshy is author of the book, “Our Common Ground.” UC Law SF Emeritus Professor of Law John Leshy is the author of “Our Common Ground,” published this year by Yale University Press. In his book,…
August 24, 2022
The podcast Contraindicated is now available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. A new podcast launched by UC Law SF looks at issues of health inequity – from the Britney Spears conservatorship to trauma at the border, to how implicit bias can affect mortality in Black mothers.
August 22, 2022
David Faigman is Chancellor and Dean of UC Law SF College of the Law. Welcome, and welcome back, to campus! I am extraordinarily excited to start the new year. Despite COVID’s ever-continuing presence, now distressingly joined by monkeypox as a health concern, we have resumed normal…