“Ohana” means family in Hawaiian, and the long association between UC Law SF and the Aloha State bears all of the hallmarks of a familial relationship. That connection goes back to the 1950s when students from Hawaii were allowed to pay in-state resident tuition at UC Law…
Sina Alavi ’14 For a tiny country, the European principality of Liechtenstein—population 38,000—has an outsized influence on international criminal law, according to Sina Alavi ’14. Sina has served as a senior legal and political adviser at Liechtenstein’s mission to the United Nations for three years.
The UC Law SF community—and defenders of justice for all—lost a fierce champion in February with the death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi ’85. “The legal profession has lost one of its best,” said UC Law SF Chancellor & Dean David Faigman in a letter…
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Mieke Eoyang ’02 Mieke Eoyang ’02, who spent years working as a legislative aide specializing in national security issues on Capitol Hill, is currently the vice president for the national security program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C. In this role, she…
UC Law SF has long been a magnet for scholars, students, and practicing attorneys from throughout the world. In the past decade, one key reason for this is the groundbreaking UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, which offers opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between two leading…
The third edition, edited by Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson, builds on the influential efforts of the first two editions with a new collection of scholarly writings. Articles in this edition include Manoj Viswanathan on the rhetoric of tax loopholes, Aaron Rappaport on the…
Treatments for hemophilia could soon top $1.5 million a year. A drug for childhood leukemia recently debuted with a price tag of $475,000. Prescription drug prices as a whole have risen faster than other health care costs, and generic drugs some- times cost more than branded ones. In her…
From Feb. 7 to 12, 2019, UC Law SF hosted a ground- breaking symposium and train-the-trainers workshop to support what may be the only in-house law school legal aid clinic currently operating in Haiti, the Clinique de recherche d’analyse et d’assistance légale de l’ESCDROJ (CRAALE). This clinic, which represents indigent…
UC Law SF faculty voted in June to promote Associate Professor Binyamin Blum, an expert in legal history, to the role of full professor with tenure. “The vote of confidence is reassuring,” Blum said. “This makes it possible to engage in more daring projects.” Blum joined the UC Law SF…
Experts from UC Law SF are increasingly invited to spend time overseas, engaging in dynamic exchanges with their counterparts at prestigious international institutions of higher learning. In so doing, faculty, alumni, and students not only bring their expertise to conferences and classrooms throughout the world but also gain invaluable exposure…
November 20, 2019
Everything in the life of Viviana Waisman ’95—from her Her True Calling to her family history to her education and early work experiences—pointed in the same direction. “I’m one of those people who was born to work on social justice issues,” she said. As a young lawyer in Madrid in…