December 12, 2024
Richard “Dick” Gayer ’75, pictured in a 1975 Class Digest publication, was a trailblazer in the fight for LGBTQ+ legal rights, challenging discrimination with courage and tenacity even before graduating from UC Law SF. Many students enter law school with ambitious plans to tackle society’s injustices. Richard “Dick”…
December 6, 2024
Professor Cheryl I. Harris, an influential legal scholar renowned for her pioneering contributions to Critical Race Theory and author of the groundbreaking article “Whiteness as Property,” will teach a seminar at UC Law San Francisco this spring. Professor Cheryl I. Harris has spent decades working to understand…
December 5, 2024
Christine la Barraque (third from right, bottom row) defied expectations to become California’s first blind woman attorney after graduating from UC Law San Francisco in 1899. Pictured here with classmates and professors in 1897, la Barraque was accompanied by her reader (to her left), who assisted her by…
November 14, 2024
An illustration from a 1967 alumni publication shows the various locations where UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) held classes before its first building was constructed from 1950 to 1953. War veterans and the GI Bill played a key role in helping the College create a vibrant…
October 31, 2024
Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of a famous vampire in the 1931 film “Dracula” became central to a landmark legal battle over publicity rights that made its way to the California Supreme Court. UC Law San Francisco students have long peered into the most remote, and sometimes scary,…
October 24, 2024
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with students during her visit to UC Law San Francisco in 2011, offering insights into her judicial career and legal philosophy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is remembered as a legal icon who shaped our legal system on voting rights, reproductive freedom,…
October 17, 2024
Bookshelves toppled like dominoes in UC Law SF’s 200 McAllister St. library during the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. The shaking lasted 20 seconds and had a lasting impact on the College. Thirty-five years after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the Bay Area and interrupted the World…
October 10, 2024
Then-Sen. Joe Biden speaks to students and faculty at Snodgrass Hall in 1989, discussing global and national issues. “The world is changing utterly. …. There is a worldwide opportunity for great change and to reshape the diplomatic map,” he said. In January 1989, a Delaware senator visited…
October 3, 2024
More than 40 alumni, students, and supporters gathered to celebrate the launch of the new Latinx Alumni Council at a kickoff event on Sept. 7, 2023. While nearly 20 percent of today’s J.D. students at UC Law San Francisco identify as Latinx, representation among local attorneys –…
September 27, 2024
UC Law SF alumni from the Honolulu area and UC Law SF officials gathered on Sept. 25 to formally launch the Hawaii Alumni Chapter. In the summer of 1966, the Hastings Alumni of Hawaii convened for the first time with 33 alumni in attendance, along with UC…
September 19, 2024
A photograph of a 1950 groundbreaking ceremony for the old 198 McAllister St. building shows four men holding shovels, including the unnamed president of UC Hastings student government body, California First District Court of Appeals Justice and 1910 UC Hastings graduate A. Frank Bray, California Supreme Court Chief…