Fulfilling the Promise: A Blueprint to Build Police-Free Schools
October 3, 2023
Center for Racial and Economic Justice
Visiting Professor Jerry López Tells Students They Can Transform Law Schools
August 14, 2023
Visiting Professor Jerry López will speak about transforming law schools in a lecture this fall and a seminar in the spring. For over four decades, Jerry López has championed transforming lawyering and legal education, while training law clinic students to serve clients from low-income communities…
UC Law SF faculty are leading the charge to advance racial equity through legal scholarship and education
This is a sampling of their work over the past year Thalia González writes at the interdisciplinary nexus of education, health, and race. She interrogates an underexamined, yet widespread, driver of racialized and gendered health inequities—school discipline and school policing—in several recent articles. Two articles co-authored with Alexis Etow…
Prof. Thalia González Shares Expertise on Student Discipline with PBS NewsHour
May 11, 2023
Close video 0 UC Law San Francisco Professor Thalia González – an expert on education law, juvenile justice, and restorative justice – spoke to PBS Newshour about a recent push by…
Visiting Prof. Scott Cummings Talks Role of Cities in Fighting Inequality
February 6, 2023
Visiting Professor Scott Cummings discussed the roles that organizers, lawyers, and local laws play in fighting economic inequality in cities like Los Angeles during a lecture in January. Local laws and lawmaking have been used as effective tools by organizers in Los Angeles to challenge and disrupt structural…
Woman, Life, Freedom
November 10, 2022
CREJ has anxiously watched as Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the senseless death of Mahsa Amini. As educators, we are dismayed by the violent crackdown by Iran’s security forces on students and faculty protesting at universities across Iran including Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology. We write to acknowledge…
CREJ Hosts Critical Conversations About Anti-AAPI Violence
October 4, 2021
After six Asian women were murdered in Atlanta in March 2021, there was a wave of public outcry that resulted in awareness-raising solidarity campaigns, bystander trainings, and even federal legislation to address the issue of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) violence. Meanwhile, UC Law SF professors Alina Ball…
Russell Robinson Joins Faculty as CREJ Visiting Professor
July 19, 2021
Russell Robinson—one of the few scholars in the country focused on the intersection of race, sexuality, and the law—has joined the UC Law SF Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) as its inaugural Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor. His arrival signifies a pivotal step in realizing…
New Podcast Highlights Black Voices at Hastings
August 3, 2020
UC Law SF’ Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) has launched Black Hastings Speaks, a six-episode podcast series designed to preserve and present authentic stories of Black experiences within the UC Law SF community. The series of one-on-one conversations between students, faculty, staff, and alumni…
Evelyn Rangel-Medina Joins Faculty as CREJ Visiting Professor
July 23, 2020
Evelyn Rangel-Medina has joined the UC Law SF Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) as its inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor. Her July 1 appointment marks an important expansion for CREJ, led by professors Alina Ball and Shauna Marshall. Over the past decade and a half, Rangel-Medina…
Fundraising Campaign for Center for Racial and Economic Justice
June 11, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a major fundraising campaign to expand the work of its Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ). “As a public institution, we have the responsibility to oppose racial injustice in all its forms; as a law school, we have the skillset to address those…