UC Law SF Professor Veena Dubal spoke with the New York Times about Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a landmark bill that will require gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft to treat workers as employees, not like independent contractors. When asked about potential actions taken by…
UC Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias was quoted extensively in a Sept. 5 Wall Street Journal article titled, “PG&E, Insys Bankruptcies Stumble in Bids for Bonuses, Severance.” “In both of these decisions, bankruptcy judges are policing the edges of what debtors are allowed to do…
Publications Luke A. Boso, “Rural Resentment and LGBTQ Equality,” 71 Florida Law Review 919 (2019) Ben Depoorter, editor, Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar 2019) (with Peter Menell) Ben Depoorter, Copyright Law (2019) Ben Depoorter, The Property Multivitamin (2019) (with Seven Balogh) Ben…
August 23, 2019
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for emerging legal technologies, today announced its second cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first cohort earlier this year, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in its accelerator program. From machine learning and natural…
July 22, 2019
The Law Library now subscribes to the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library, providing UC Law SF students with online access to hundreds of WK study aids, including the Emanuel CrunchTime series, Emanual Law Outlines, Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, and more. Go to http://uclawsf.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebooks.aspenlaw.com to access the…
July 12, 2019
Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material. The Law Library recently purchased two online collections of historical newspapers: the Washington Post (1877-2002) and the Wall Street Journal (1889-2001). Both can be accessed from the Library’s A-Z Databases page. Both collections are fully searchable and indexed…
June 25, 2019
Joseph, a homebound Korean War veteran, lost access to Medi-Cal and in-home care after a lengthy hospitalization. Unable to care for himself at home, the 90-year-old’s health further declined until he was referred by his physician to the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (MLPS) at UC Law SF. MLPS advocates…
Scholarly Books Scott Dodson, editor, The Judges’ Book Vol. 2 (UC Law SF 2018) John Leshy, Debunking Creation Myths About America’s Public Lands (University of Utah Press 2018) Ugo Mattei, general series editor, The Common Core of European Private Law (Cambridge 2018) (with Mauro Bussani) Ugo Mattei, The Turning…
Publications The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice (Hadar Aviram et al. eds. Cambridge 2019) Ben Depoorter, “When the Remedy is the Wrong: Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age,” 66 UCLA Law Review 400 (2019) Ben Depoorter, “Who’s Afraid of 3D Printing?,” 25 B.U.
It took roughly two decades, but earlier this spring the implementation of the settlement of Holocaust-era class actions against Swiss banks was completed. The final step was the issuance of the special master’s final report on the settlement process. The voluminous document highlights the significant role…
April 12, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias will present his new article “Bankruptcy Hardball,” which is forthcoming in the California Law Review in 2020, at this year’s prestigious Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. The Article is co-authored with Robert Stark of Brown Rudnick LLP, a leading…
Though Alexis Lazzeri entered UC Law SF with an interest in the burgeoning cannabis industry, she didn’t think there were many opportunities for lawyers to work in the field and decided to instead explore other potential career paths. But Lazzeri says attending the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Cannabis Conference…