UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

VC and PE: From Law School to the Deal Table
2026-03-12 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister St, San Francisco, 94102, United States
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Open House for Center for Racial and Economic Justice
2026-03-18 12:30 - 13:30 | 333 Skydeck
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Breaking Into Transactional Law: Building a Corporate Legal Career
2026-03-19 12:30 - 13:30 | 198 – 240, 198 McAllister Street, Room 240, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Join LexLab for lunch and a panel discussion about building a corporate legal career. Our panelists will be:

Lindsey Mignano, Co-Founding Partner of SSM
Will Newsom, Partner at Cooley
Ali Alemozafar, Partner at WSGR
Daniel Lopez, Partner at Willkie Farr

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All of our events and registration links can be found at: https://lexlab.uclawsf.edu/events

Center for Social Justice - Dependency Law
2026-03-25 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-640, 200 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA, 94102
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Reception and Tasting Tour for Immigration Law Attorneys
2026-03-26 16:00 - 18:00 | 198 – 240, 198 McAllister Street, Room 240, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
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Social Justice Concentration Info Session
2026-03-30 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102
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CEALS Presents - Bumps on China's Belt and Road
2026-04-01 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-201
Featured Speaker: Professor John Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 12:30-1:30 PM
Location (*ROOM CHANGED): Room 333-201 (333 Golden Gate Ave., UC Law SF in Room 201)

The Belt and Road Initiative, announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, has provided the framing for a dramatic expansion of China’s reach into the global economy. Please join the Center for East Asian Legal Studies for a talk with Professor John Ohnesorge who will briefly describe the Initiative and debates surrounding it, then focus on key current economic and geopolitical challenges to its continued expansion.

Professor John Ohnesorge is Professor of Law, Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center, and founder and director of the Compliance Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. A native of Minneapolis, Professor Ohnesorge received his B.A. from St. Olaf College (English and Psychology, 1985), his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School (cum laude, 1989), and his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2002). He spent several years in East Asia, as a teacher and law student in Shanghai in the 1980s, as a lawyer in private practice in Seoul in the 1990s, and as a visiting scholar at Seoul National University. He spent 2023 as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul. His research interests include Administrative Law, Politics and Compliance, Law and Economic Development, East Asian Legal System Development, and International Economic Law.

A light lunch will be provided.

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Center for Racial and Economic Justice - Juvenile Court Fines and Fees: Unseen Shackles Webinar
2026-04-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Webinar
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A Matter of Conscience: Sanctuary in the 1980s to the Present
2026-05-27 17:30 - 19:30 | 333-501 and SkyDeck
Please join the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE) Center, and the Law & Society Association (LSA) for a film screening and discussion exploring the Sanctuary Movement that took root in the United States in the 1980s. The movement, born in a time when the U.S. rejected the asylum claims of those fleeing U.S. funded wars in El Salvador and Guatemala, was, and continues to be a concrete form of resistance. This year, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention during a time of unprecedented challenges to refugee protection worldwide. We come together at this moment to draw inspiration from the Sanctuary Movement, and the courage and conscience of those who have participated in it. The event will feature a presentation by documentary filmmaker Theo Rigby, with excerpts from two of his films, and will include remarks by Karen Musalo, Ming Hsu Chen, Jose Artiga and Pastor Drew Paton.
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CEALS Presents - China's Jurisdictional Maximalism
2026-09-09 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-201
Please join the Center for East Asian Legal Studies for a talk with Junhao Chen, who will explore the aggressive expansion of control by Chinese courts over litigation implicating China’s overseas interests, a strategy that extends beyond critical patents in the telecom sector to cover a broader set of international commercial disputes. A light lunch will be served.

Featured Speaker: Junhao Chen, JSD Candidate, NYU School of Law
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Room 333-201 (UC Law SF, 333 Golden Gate Ave, Room 201)

In 2020, China began asserting judicial authority in ways that encroached upon the legal sovereignty of other jurisdictions around the world, including the United States. The front line of this incursion was an unprecedented wave of “anti-suit injunctions” issued by Chinese courts: judicial orders preventing non-Chinese litigants from suing, or continuing to sue, in other jurisdictions. Many scholars appear to regard these injunctions as reasonable, legitimate tools to protect the integrity of Chinese adjudication. Even those few critics who have raised concerns tend to frame such injunctions as unique features of transnational patent litigation in the telecom sector. Chen’s new article argues that the wave of anti-suit injunctions should be understood, instead, as both the starting point and a crucial element of China’s grand strategy of jurisdictional maximalism: that is, the aggressive expansion of control by Chinese courts over litigation implicating China’s overseas interests. This strategy extends beyond critical patents in the telecom sector to embrace a broader set of international commercial disputes. Drawing on a review of Chinese judicial opinions, official statements, and trends in legal doctrine—most of which are unavailable in English translation—Chen reveals the scale of the emerging jurisdictional paradigm.

Hybrid Event — This event will be live-streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendance is optional.

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Untamed Unicorns: A Book Talk With Renee Jones
2026-09-30 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-201
Open to all UC Law SF students
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Center for Racial and Economic Justice - Litigating Adultification Bias in Criminal Cases Webinar
2026-10-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Webinar
