Health Policy & Law Affinity Group
September 21, 2021
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New Tech and Innovation Concentration Boots Up
September 9, 2021
UC Law SF students interested in shaking up the delivery of legal services may now pursue a concentration in Technology and Innovation in the Practice of Law. The offering represents the latest creation of LexLab, the school’s hub for collaboration among faculty, students, and alumni interested in legal tech…
Engaged Scholarship Q&A: Hadar Aviram
September 3, 2021
In our Engaged Scholarship series, we speak with members of the UC Law SF faculty who are influential scholars, advocates, and thought leaders. Our first conversation is with Thomas Miller Professor of Law Hadar Aviram. Hadar Aviram is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is…
Center for Litigation and Courts Takes Flight
August 25, 2021
UC Law SF today officially launches its new Center for Litigation and Courts, a nonpartisan effort to expand knowledge of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and the courts. The impetus for creating the center was to fill a gap in the study of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and…
Accellion Data Breach
CGRS Director Karen Musalo Publishes LA Times Op-Ed On Afghan Refugee Crisis
August 20, 2021
Karen Musalo is a law professor and the founding director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Law SF. The following op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 20, 2021. In the past week we have seen…
Ming Hsu Chen Joins UC Law SF As Visiting Professor
August 18, 2021
Ming Hsu Chen—an expert on race, immigration, and citizenship—has joined the UC Law SF faculty as a visiting professor for the 2021-22 academic year. While at UC Law SF, she will teach Legislation and Administrative Regulation plus the seminar Citizenship and Equality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the fall semester and Constitutional…
Staff Member Lauren Lofton Wins Major DEI Award
August 18, 2021
In early March 2020, Lauren Lofton was at a conference in Tennessee, where the mood was dire. The state had just been devastated by 10 tornadoes. By the time Lofton arrived home in California, UC Law SF’s campus was moving into pandemic lockdown, where it would remain for more than…
Cathy Sakimura ’06 Receives National LGBTQ+ Bar’s Highest Honor
August 5, 2021
Just a year after the Supreme Court decided in favor of gay marriage, its justices decided in favor of gay families. In the latter case—decided in summary disposition—the Supreme Court overturned an Alabama decision to affirm the rights of nonbiological parents. Cathy Sakimura (’06), who represented the nonbiological parent…
We’re Conducting an Open-Rank Search for Three New Faculty Members
August 2, 2021
The University of California Hastings College of the Law (“UC Law SF) in San Francisco is conducting an open-rank search to hire three entry-level, lateral tenure-track, or lateral tenured faculty members to begin the 2022-2023 academic year, i.e., July 1, 2022. We seek innovative and productive scholars and devoted…
UC Law SF Programs Rank Among Nation’s Best
July 26, 2021
A recent analysis shows that UC Law SF moved up from #23 to #18 in the nation when it comes to the reputation and quality of fields of study – or “specialty programs” – ranked by U.S. News & World Report. The analysis, which gives equal weight to each…
CNDR and Student Services Present at NALSAP
July 11, 2021
The National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals (NALSAP) hosted its Fifth Annual Conference, bringing together professionals from around the country. NALSAP serves as the professional home for those who support law students by providing leadership, professional development, and student affairs resources. On June 24,…