April 4, 2022
UC Law SF’ specialty programs are ranked highly nationwide. UC Law SF College of the Law continues to be recognized by its peers as having top-ranked programs in law – including its Dispute Resolution program, ranked 9th in the nation; Health Law at 12th in the nation, Tax…
March 29, 2022
Kathryn Cunningham, UC Law SF’ Sustainability Manager, adds a LEED sticker to one of the rooms at 333 Golden Gate Ave. UC Law SF is ramping up its sustainability efforts. So far, the law school has started energy and water conservation projects, waste reduction initiatives across campus, earned…
March 29, 2022
UC Law SF Professor Scott Dodson Every 1L student in law school has to take a course on Civil Procedure. And many say it’s dense and complicated, and, for some students, even boring—unless it happens to be taught by UC Law SF Professor Scott Dodson. Dodson, who was…
March 23, 2022
UC Law SF OUTlaw has been recognized as the Law Student Association of the Year by the BALIF Foundation. BALIF is the nation’s oldest and largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBTQ+ persons in the legal field. Each year, the award is given to…
March 18, 2022
Professor Joan Williams, left, and Emtrain CEO Janine Yancey ’92, right. Want to lower incidences of bias and harassment in the workplace? It all starts with respect. Those were some of the findings of a research report conducted in partnership between the UC Law SF Center for…
March 17, 2022
Lilia Kazemi ’24, left, and Sharareh (Sheila) Zareng ’24, right, were chosen as Center for Business Law Scholars. Working with a start-up company, increasing diversity at companies, and advocating for clients are some of the goals of the new recipients of the Center for Business Law Scholarships. UC…
March 14, 2022
Tax Law Professor Peter Maier There was a time when, if a UC Law SF student considered tax law as a concentration, that student would peruse the course catalog and see a class called Basic Income Tax. But if it had Peter K. Maier’s name…
March 1, 2022
Justice Wiley W. Manuel ’53 UC College of the Law, San Francisco is proud to announce that its new Center for Scholarly Publications will be named in honor of Justice Wiley W. Manuel ‘53, the first African American Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of California. This announcement…
February 25, 2022
When she was growing up, Debra Bogaards ‘81 remembers her family’s Friday night Shabbat dinners included donating to a favorite charity each week. The Jewish idea of Tzedakah, a Hebrew word that is used to refer to charity or philanthropy, stuck with her as she grew up. She said, “It…
February 25, 2022
Students in UC Law SF’s First Gen program celebrate the program’s kickoff in February. UC Law SF kicked off its First Generation Program – which celebrates and supports law students who are the first in their families to go to college and now attend law…
February 1, 2022
“Whenever there is a blockbuster drug, there are disputes about who owns it, who owns variations of it, who owns it for how long, and in what context,” Professor Robin Feldman told CNBC News in their story about COVID vaccines and how patent disputes…
January 25, 2022
As historian Matthew Guariglia researches his latest book about the history of race, policing, and surveillance, he is struck by how little has changed in more than a hundred years. “While all the technology policy use has changed, what we ask the technology to do has not…