September 14, 2026
As part of the Into the Future campaign, the David L. Faigman Professor of Public Law endowment will celebrate a storied career and support continued faculty excellence. For nearly four decades, Chancellor & Dean David Faigman has helped shape UC Law SF — as a scholar, teacher, and for the…
September 14, 2026
In thinking about writing the welcome to this magazine, the last of my 11-and-a-half-year tenure as dean and my 40 years on the faculty of UC Law San Francisco (née “Hastings”), I searched for a single word that would capture my emotions in the moment. I came up with “passion.”…
September 14, 2026
From Silicon Valley startups to the executive suite at Lyft, Kristin Sverchek ’07 has spent her career at the forefront of technological change — and is helping future lawyers do the same. Immediately after Kristin Sverchek ’07 earned her J.D., she entered an industry defined by its relentless drive…
September 14, 2026
From the bench to the boardroom, UC Law SF alumni continue to make an impact. Listed below are some of the honors, appointments, and accomplishments of classmates from 2025 through June 2026. 1960s David Van Atta ’69 joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a senior partner in the firm’s San Francisco…
December 6, 2019
2013 JACQUELINE TOKOS LENTZ passed away on July 25, 2018. She worked for several years as a U.S. congressional aide in the 10th Congressional District and practiced political law as an attorney with the law firm of Nielsen Merksamer in San Rafael. 1989 WILLIAM (BILL) MITCHELL ANDREWS passed away at…
UC Law SF Magazine Fall 2019 Volume 12, Number 2 Dear UC Law SF Community, The theme of this year’s edition of UC Law SF magazine is UC Law SF’ impacts on the world stage. On that stage, of course, UC Law SF is a relatively small player.
Young people stand in small groups and lounge on benches in the sun, chatting and sipping beer and wine. Others walk to grab glasses of champagne or soda, or to refill their cups at one of four free-flowing kegs. Toward the back of the patio, people sit at picnic tables…
“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…