The five-block walk up Leavenworth Street between McAllister and O’Farrell streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood isn’t as dark as it once was. Along those once dimly lit streets now stand dozens of new streetlights. Throughout the Tenderloin, city officials have erected a total of 97 new streetlights meant to make…
An enthralled crowd watched on from the tables in the Louis Brown Mayer auditorium at UC Law SF as actors traded lines and shared powerful oral histories of the Tenderloin neighborhood. The documentary-style production was a free performance of CuttingBall Theater’s “The Tenderloin,” originally performed in 2012. CuttingBall, which typically…
January 13, 2019
There is significant evidence that personal well-being affects the quality of professional legal practice and work life satisfaction. Lawyers are reported to have high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and dissatisfaction with professional life. There is also evidence that habits and ways-of-being developed during law school are contributing…
SAN FRANCISCO – Michael A. Kelly ‘76, Richard H. Schoenberger ‘85, and Matthew Davis ‘89 are giants of the personal injury bar. Each has brought countless claims on behalf of plaintiffs injured in traffic collisions, by defective products, on dangerous property, and through government negligence. Their work inside the courtroom…
Compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat, “Law Against the People,” 42 AntroPolitica 296 (2018). Veena Dubal (with coauthors), “Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the US,” 16 Perspectives on Politics 919…
December 10, 2018
The faculty at UC Law SF has voted to grant tenure to three outstanding professors. Associate professors Alina Ball, a nationally-recognized expert within the transactional clinical community, Jared Ellias, an expert in the realm of bankruptcy law, and Zachary Price, an expert on constitutional structure, will officially be…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at UC Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
December 6, 2018
UC Law SF hosted another successful event in Southern California as four distinguished judges from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Lisa Hart Cole ‘80, David J. Cowan ‘88, Renee Korn ‘90, B. Scott Silverman ‘75, gathered as a panel of experts to discuss current issues in Civil Law, Probate…
November 27, 2018
Dear UC Law SF Community, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am writing with news and a few thoughts about the California Bar exam results from this past July. This year, the news is mixed: UC Law SF Class of 2018 continued a two-year trajectory of steadily improving…
UC Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school’s thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers—the Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
November 8, 2018
Continuing the College’s winning streak after being named the top trial team program in the U.S. by the interscholastic law school trial competitions, the Hastings mock-trial team took home another first place at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA) Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, Nov. 3. “It feels…
November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul’s previous book, Unlikely Allies (Riverhead, 2009), featured an unassuming shopkeeper, a mysterious cross-dressing spy, and a famous French playwright who changed the course of the American Revolution. His newest book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Riverhead, 2018), focuses on a self-taught man who…