January 2, 2024
David Faigman is Chancellor and Dean of UC College of the Law San Francisco. Dear UC Law SF Community, I hope that you and yours are healthy and safe as we welcome the New Year. 2024 figures to be an eventful year, possibly more than most as we…
December 21, 2023
Justine Chang ’23 will be joining Sidley Austin LLP after graduation, one of the nation’s top 10 law firms By the time she graduates from law school this December, Justine Chang will have already worked on major criminal fraud cases and won multiple awards for her…
December 18, 2023
UC Law SF Graduates who passed the bar exam stand up to take the oath and are sworn in by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Julia Alloggiamento ’94 Years of hard work, persistence, and determination paid off for an auditorium filled to capacity with recent…
December 11, 2023
CNDR Director Hiro Aragaki, Ohio State University Law Professor Sarah Rudolph Cole, Bocconi University Law Professor Catherine Rogers, and SOAS University of London Law Professor Emilia Onyema (left to right) discussed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in international and domestic arbitration at the CNDR 20th Anniversary Conference on…
December 7, 2023
Administrative Assistant Jorge Castaneda, Senior Principal Investigator Andrea Lollini, Executive Director Liz Steyer, and Senior Researchers Maryna Tsapok and Sara Hundt (left to right) are part of a team working for the Bench to School Initiative and California Institute on Law, Neuroscience and Education at UC Law SF.
December 4, 2023
Entrepreneurs in LexLab’s Justice Technology Accelerator Program posed with law professors and students after pitching their startups at the annual Demo Day competition on Nov. 14. Two tech startups that offer legal help to people who might be unable to afford traditional legal services took home top prizes…
November 29, 2023
After graduating from UC Law SF in May, Abigail Cruz ’23 is working to protect the rights of farmworkers on California’s Central Coast. Thousands of farmworkers on California’s Central Coast spend long hours in the hot sun picking fruits and vegetables that help feed America, but few have…
November 28, 2023
November 21, 2023
Dozens of international law students joined faculty and staff members for a pre-Thanksgiving Day potluck to celebrate the many different cultures of LLM and foreign exchange students at UC Law SF. Piles of French crepes and Norwegian waffles, a Japanese beef rice bowl called Gyūdon, and Indian rice…
November 16, 2023
Joined by UC Law SF leaders, Chief Diversity Officer Mario Ernesto Lopez ’15 discussed efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across the campus at a DEI Forum in November. From campus departments and enrollment initiatives to student and alumni affinity groups, UC Law SF is working…
November 14, 2023
After graduating from UC Law SF in May, Jillian MacLeod ’23 is spending the next year fighting to expand access to reproductive health care for people with disabilities. For people with disabilities, barriers to accessing abortion care can limit one’s control over an important life decision: whether and…
November 6, 2023
Members of the UC Law SF graduating Class of 1966 gathered for a special luncheon at the Saint Francis Yacht Club in September. Clockwise from bottom-left are Donald Mitchell, Peter L. Sanford, Judge William C. Harrison (Ret.), William J. McLean, Assistant Chancellor & Dean Jenny Kwon, Judge Leslie…