Certificate in Legal Research Program: Case Law Research
2025-09-02 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 200-123
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about researching case law. Pizza will be provided to students who RSVP by 5 pm the night before. RSVP at: https://hastingslawlibrary.wufoo.com/forms/r1340b721n428gk.
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES What Makes People Tick: A Mediator’s Introduction to Internal Family Systems
2025-09-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES
What Makes People Tick: A Mediator’s Introduction to Internal Family Systems
David Hoffman
John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law
Harvard Law School

Wednesday, September 3, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 P.M. PST
Via Zoom

RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/dLJXnkQTRyxUrgaK8
The Zoom link will be emailed approximately 24 hours prior to the presentation.

David A. Hoffman is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches three courses: Mediation; Legal Profession: Collaborative Law; and Diversity and Dispute Resolution. David includes in each of those courses a discussion of the IFS model. David is also an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and founding member of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, where he handles cases involving family, business, employment, and other disputes.
Prior to founding BLC in 2003, David was a litigation partner at the Boston firm Hill & Barlow, where he practiced family law, employment law, and general litigation for 17 years. He is past-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. David has published three books (including “Bringing Peace into the Room”) and more than 100 articles on law and dispute resolution.
David is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. 1970, summa cum laude), Cornell University (M.A. 1974, American Studies), and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1984, magna cum laude), where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. David’s TEDx talk about “Lawyers as Peacemakers” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXv1_Sqe_4. David lives in a cohousing community in Acton, Massachusetts with his wife, Leslie Warner, who is a career coach. Together they have five adult children, an adolescent cat, and a rescued Golden Retriever from Serbia. Links to his publications can be found here: https://blc.law/team/david-hoffman.

CBL Kick off & Happy Hour
2025-09-03 16:00 - 18:00 | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
CLICK HERE TO RSVP

UC Law SF Portland Alumni Mixer – September 4
2025-09-04 17:30 - 19:30 | K&L Gates, 1 SW Columbia St, Portland, Oregon, 97204
Portland Area Alumni, You're Invited!

Thursday, September 4, 2025
5:30 – 7:30 PM
K&L Gates LLP
1 SW Columbia Street, Suite 1900
Portland, OR 97204

We’re excited to invite you to our UC Law SF Portland Alumni Mixer, generously hosted by K&L Gates LLP.

Join fellow alumni for an evening of connection and conversation overlooking downtown Portland. Enjoy hosted appetizers, drinks, and city views from the 19th floor of K&L Gates’ beautiful space.

Tickets
$5 for recent alumni (Class of 2015–2025)
$10 for all other alumni
All proceeds support Student Scholarships

👉 RSVP here: https://give.uclawsf.edu/e/uc-law-sf-portland-alumni-mixer-september-4/

Questions? Contact Charles Wollin at wollincharles@uclawsf.edu

Special thanks to Brittany Vulcan ’17 and the team at K&L Gates for sponsoring this event and making it possible.

Certificate in Legal Research Program: Researching Statutes
2025-09-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about researching statutes. This session will take place on Zoom: https://uclawsf.zoom.us/j/95669231691.
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

International Mediation Development and Leadership Institute (IMDLI) Wine & Appetizer Reception
2025-09-11 18:15 - 19:45 | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR)
International Mediation Development and Leadership Institute (IMDLI)
Wine & Appetizer Reception

Join us for a reception with the participants of CNDR’s annual training program, organized in collaboration with the JAMS Foundation and the Weinstein JAMS International Fellowship Program.

Thursday, Sept 11, 2025
6:15 – 7:45 PM

UC Law San Francisco
Deb Colloquium Room & Skydeck
Cotchett Law Center
333 Golden Gate Ave, 5th Floor

RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/WTJWUVp4uW7BgzTS6

Certificate in Legal Research Program: Using Citators to Update Your Case Law Research
2025-09-16 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-123
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about using citator tools such as Shepard’s and KeyCite to update your case law research. Pizza will be provided to students who RSVP by 5 pm the night before. RSVP at: https://hastingslawlibrary.wufoo.com/forms/r1340b721n428gk.
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES The Practical Realities of Seeking Disability Accommodations: Burdens, Backlashes, and Conflict Resolution Breakthroughs
2025-09-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES
The Practical Realities of Seeking Disability Accommodations: Burdens, Backlashes, and Conflict Resolution Breakthroughs
Dan Berstein, MHS
MH Mediate

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 P.M. PST
Via Zoom

RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/29h6gbfNh7HsHUvC9
The Zoom link will be emailed approximately 24 hours prior to the presentation.

Dan Berstein is a mediator living with bipolar disorder working to empower all mental health stakeholders using conflict resolution best practices that promote mental health empowerment and prevent mental illness discrimination. Dan’s book, Mental Health and Conflicts: A Handbook for Empowerment, was originally published by the ABA in 2022 and is being republished this year by DRI Press. Through Dan’s company, MH Mediate, Dan has helped thousands of organizations become more accessible, trauma-informed, and consistent when responding to challenges. In 2023, the AAA-ICDR foundation funded BiasResistantCourts.org, a free platform Dan developed in collaboration with the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center and court systems around the country, teaching court-connected professionals twelve core skills for becoming bias-resistant and trauma-informed. In 2024, Dan led the “Demystifying Distress” event co-sponsored by Mediate.com, ACR, APFM, NAFCM, and CPR. The free resources from this event have helped dispute resolution professionals to manage their own distress while reducing distress for the parties they serve. In 2025, Dan launched free resources to help people living with mental health conditions use conflict resolution best practices when seeking support, reorienting from rejection, and pursuing disability accommodations, all as part of projects funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health’s statewide stigma reduction efforts and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Office of Consumer Affairs. Recently, Dan has been celebrating twenty years since his first hospitalization and diagnosis of bipolar disorder as part of his 20 Years Embracing Bipolar project accessible at www.danberstein.com/20years

Sacramento Alumni Chapter Launch!
2025-09-18 17:30 - 19:30 | Alaro Craft Brewery, 2004 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, 95811, United States
We’re thrilled to officially launch the UC Law SF Sacramento Alumni Chapter — and we’re celebrating in style
on Thursday, September 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Alaro Craft Brewery in Midtown Sacramento!

Join Chancellor and Dean David Faigman and chapter leaders Niki (Anderson) Roman ’09, Erica Connolly ’12, and Steven Ward ’22
for a fun and meaningful evening of connection, community, and conversation.

🍻 First drink and appetizers hosted🎟 $5 for recent alumni (2015–2025)🎟 $10 for alumni from 2014 and earlier✨ All proceeds support student scholarships

We can’t wait to see you there and build this next chapter together.👉 RSVP here

Questions? Reach out directly to alumni@uclawsf.edu

2025 Japanese Law Symposium: Rights and Reparations of the Ainu and Settler Colonialism
2025-09-19 12:30 - 16:30 | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
This year’s Japanese Law Symposium will assess the rights of the Ainu people and examine broader issues of settler colonialism from a comparative perspective.

The Ainu are an Indigenous people who live in Hokkaido and the northern part of Honshu, as well as in southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. After the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the new Meiji government established the Kaitakushi (Hokkaido Development Commission) in 1869. The purpose the Kaitakushi was to defend against the rapidly advancing Russians and develop the resources of Hokkaido. In order to achieve this, the Kaitakushi encouraged immigration from the mainland south of Honshu and allocated these immigrants land where the Ainu people lived. In 1899, the Former Aborigines Protection Law was enacted. Although a small amount of land was allocated to the Ainu, the Law promoted forced assimilation and prohibited use of the Ainu language and religious ceremonies. From this perspective, the Meiji government’s Hokkaido colonization policy is an example of what is known today as settler colonialism.

Pursuant to such policies, the Japanese government denied the existence of Indigenous peoples. However, after the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, there was a growing movement in Japan to recognize the Ainu as an Indigenous people. In 2019, the so-called “New Ainu Law” was enacted, recognizing the Ainu as an Indigenous people and requiring national and local governments to raise awareness of Ainu culture and traditions. In addition, it has become easier to obtain permission to carry out traditional events such as salmon ﬁshing. Even so, compensation for past damages is still inadequate, and the collective right to carry out traditional events has not been recognized. Litigation over these issues continues to this day.

Symposium Schedule
12:00 Light lunch
12:30 Welcome Remarks: Senior Professor Emeritus Setsuo Miyazawa and Center Director Keith Hand
1:00 Keynote Speech: Professor Kunihiko Yoshida
1:45 Break
2:00 Commentary: Professor Jo Carrillo and Professor Natsu Taylor Saito
2:45 Break
3:00 Discussion and Q&A
4:00 Closing Remarks: Senior Professor Emeritus Setsuo Miyazawa

Symposium Participants

Keynote Speaker

Professor Kunihiko Yoshida, Ph.D. is Yunshan Professor of Law at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China.

Professor Yoshida earned a Ph.D. in Civil Law from Tokyo University, Japan, and has visited numerous law schools in the United States, including Northwestern Law School (1989-1991), Stanford Law School (1994-1995), Harvard Law School /Harvard Yenching Institute (2002-2003), the University of Miami Law School (2012-2013), and the University of Colorado Law School (2018-2019). He has written more than 100 articles and case reports and has published ten monographs on a wide range of topics, including contracts, torts, health law, critical legal studies, and critical race theory. His recent publications have focused on property theories, specifically housing, city making, environment, immigration, and reparations. The relational perspective developed by the late Professor Ian Macneil at Northwestern is the common thread across these fields.

Professor Yoshida has visited numerous East Asian countries in recent years to conduct collaborative work on reparations issues related to “comfort women” for the Japanese Army, the Nanjing massacre, the Chongqing bombings, and the Jeju tragedies. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand and Cambodia. Since retiring from Hokkaido University, he has served as the distinguished Yunshan Professor of Law at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

Professor Yoshida is an expert on reparations for the Ainu people, the indigenous people in Hokkaido, from a civil law perspective. His current research focuses on repatriation, environmental injustice, and traditional Indigenous knowledge to support the pressing agenda of Ainu reparations. In advancing this research, he draws on 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other Indigenous peoples’ practices across the globe. For example, he has recently been working on the Brazilian Minamata disease affecting on Indigenous peoples along the Amazon and taken a great interest in the social solidarity economy in the Global South.

Moderator

Setsuo Miyazawa, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at Kobe University and Senior Director Emeritus and Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Center for East Asian Legal Studies (CEALS) at UC Law San Francisco. He is a legal sociologist who holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Law from Hokkaido University. He served as a full professor at four universities in Japan until his mandatory retirement in 2016. Since 1995, he taught as a visiting professor at ten law schools in North America, including Harvard, NYU, and UC Berkeley, before beginning his long-term association with UC Law San Francisco in 2008. He taught at UC Law San Francisco nearly every fall semester from 2008 to 2023 and served as Senior Director of CEALS from 2015 to 2023. He has organized an annual symposium on Japanese law almost every fall since 2012. Professor Miyazawa’s research interests are remarkably broad, encompassing police, criminal justice, legal education, the legal profession, and corporate legal behavior. He has been highly active in international academic organizations. He received the Distinguished Book Award from the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, as well as the International Scholarship Prize, the Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award, and the Legacy Award from the Law and Society Association. He was the Founding President of the Asian Law and Society Association and also served as the President of the Asian Society of Criminology.

Discussants

Jo Carrillo J.D./J.S.D. is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Indigenous Law Center (ILC) at UC Law San Francisco. For over three decades, Professor Carrillo has taught and written extensively in property and property-related subjects, including Federal Indian Law. She earned her B.A. from Stanford University, her J.D. from the University of New Mexico, and her J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. As Faculty Director of the UC Law Indigenous Law Center, Professor Carrillo facilitates a seminar series called Law &. This series brings lawyers, students, and California Tribal leaders into the law school classroom to discuss land back and land stewardship issues. To date, Law & Seminars have covered such topics as Tribal Law, International Indigenous Peoples Rights Law (a seminar that includes instructors from all common law countries), Indigenous Land Acknowledgments (with Jonathan Cordero, Metush (Chair) of the Ramaytush Tribe and Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Oholone) and Enhancing Access to Land and Stewardship (with Curtis Berkey of Berkey Williams and supported by a grant from the Resources Legacy Fund). Recently, again with assistance from the Resources Legacy Fund, Professor Carrillo has undertaken to study land back transfer documents.

As a faculty member, Professor Carrillo has served on the UC Law SF Legacy Committee. She now serves on the UC Law SF Restorative Justice Advisory Board, which counsels UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on decanal-initiated restorative justice efforts for Indigenous communities in California. As a long-term project, Professor Carrillo is co-editing a volume, with UCLA Professor of History Benjamin Madley, on redressing 19th century state sponsored harms against California Indigenous Peoples.

Natsu Taylor Saito, J.D. is a Regents’ Professor Emerita at Georgia State University’s College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, where she taught courses on race, indigeneity, immigration, international law, and human rights for almost 30 years. A graduate of Yale Law School and an activist attorney, she remains involved in efforts to defend Indigenous rights, contest police and prosecutorial misconduct, and protect academic freedom. Professor Saito is the author of several dozen law review articles as well as three books: From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State (University of Colorado Press, 2006), Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law (New York University Press, 2010), and Settler Colonialism, Race and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists (New York University Press, 2020)

Light lunch to be served.
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Certificate in Legal Research Program: Using Secondary Sources
2025-09-23 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about using secondary sources such as treatises and practice guides to jumpstart your research. This session will take place on Zoom: https://uclawsf.zoom.us/j/93501956543
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

Annual U.S. Supreme Court Review and Preview
2025-09-24 12:30 - 14:00 | 198 Auditorium
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Crypto, Compliance & Governance: A Conversation with Candace Kelly
2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:30 | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Join us for this CBL Lunch Speaker Series event featuring Candace Kelly ‘97, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world’s financial infrastructure. With extensive experience at the intersection of law, technology, and policy—including her leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and Uber—Candace will discuss the rapidly evolving world of crypto and digital assets.

This program will explore the legal, regulatory, and governance challenges facing blockchain and fintech companies, offering insights into compliance strategies, policy developments, and the broader implications for corporate governance in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The discussion will be moderated by Professor Evan Epstein, Executive Director of the UC Center for Business Law SF. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from a leader shaping the future of crypto regulation and governance, and to network with peers over lunch.

Lunch will be provided.

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Certificate in Legal Research Program: Federal Administrative Law Research
2025-09-30 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-123
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about researching case law. Pizza will be provided to students who RSVP by 5 pm the night before. RSVP at: https://hastingslawlibrary.wufoo.com/forms/r16vbaa51tkwq5v/
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

Certificate in Legal Research Program: Low-Cost & Free Alternatives to Westlaw & Lexis
2025-10-07 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about low-cost and free alternatives to Westlaw and Lexis. This session will take place on Zoom: https://uclawsf.zoom.us/j/92198709168
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

Join us for a Book Talk & Signing with UC Law SF alumnus Randy Shaw, featuring the new edition of The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco. Lunch will be provided
2025-10-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States

AALS Sections on Education Law & Children and the Law Works-in-Progress Conference
2025-10-10 09:00 - 2025-10-11 14:00 | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
The AALS Sections on Education Law and Children and the Law invite submissions for a Works-in-Progress (WIP) conference to be held on October 10 and October 11, 2025 in San Francisco, at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF). The purpose of the conference is to provide a collegial and supportive environment for advancing scholarship and promoting cross-fertilization among scholars working in related areas of the law. We invite contributions from all legal scholars writing on issues of education law and/or children’s law. Topics may include any area relating to children and the law, PreK-12 education, or higher education law. Paper proposals may be at any stage in the research and writing process, from early works in progress (detailed outlines) to draft articles to completed articles, as long as changes can still be made to the articles prior to publication. We invite a diverse range of proposals in this moment of significant changes for education law and especially encourage new and pre-tenure faculty to participate.
Register Here and Submit a Work-in-Progress for Consideration

KEY DETAILS

The conference will begin on Friday, October 10 and end on Saturday, October 11 by 2PM to allow for travel.
The conference will be held in-person but accommodations may be made, by request, for virtual presentation.
There is no registration fee to attend the WIP session, but participants, including presenters, must pay their own travel expenses. After you register for the conference, you can also book your hotel reservation for the Proper Hotel San Francisco at a discounted rate using this LINK.
In late August, participants shall submit additional documents that they would like reviewers to see, such as a draft of their article.

QUESTIONS? Please contact –
Thalia González (Section on Education Law) gonzalezt@uclawsf.edu
Nicole Tuchinda (Sections on Children and the Law and Education Law) nptuchin@loyno.edu
Amy Saji (Section on Children and the Law) amy.saji@georgetown.edu
Karen Halverson Cross (Section on Education Law) khcross@uic.edu
Diana Newmark (Section on Education Law) newmark@arizona.edu with questions about the WIP session or the submission process.

We are excited to receive your proposals and see everyone in October in San Francisco!

CEALS Presents - Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System
2025-10-13 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-605, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, CA, 94102, United States
Featured Speaker: Professor Ji Li, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Date/Time: Monday, October 13, 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: 200-605

In Negotiating Legality, author Ji Li examines how Chinese multinational companies, such as TikTok, are navigating the challenges of the U.S. legal system amidst intensifying U.S.-China geopolitical tensions. This book introduces a dual institutional framework to analyze these companies’ adaptation strategies, drawing on extensive interviews and multi-year survey data. It explores how Chinese firms build in-house legal capacities, collaborate with U.S. legal professionals, and manage litigation in American courts. In this talk, Li will share highlights from his new book, and offer invaluable insights into China’s global rise and its profound influence on the legal systems of developed nations like the U.S.

Ji Li is the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Professor Li’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of U.S.-China relations and law, particularly the adaptation of Chinese multinational companies to U.S. legal and regulatory systems, the impact of the U.S.-China geopolitical rivalry on transnational legal actors, and the interactions between China and the international legal order. He is the author of two books on these topics: Clash of Capitalisms (CUP, 2018) and Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System (CUP, 2024).

Light lunch to be served.
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Police Surveillance and the Perils of Technology - Zoom Webinar
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
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ADR Speaker Series: Impartiality or Injustice? Re-examining Neutrality in Mediation Through a Racial Justice Lens
2025-10-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES
Impartiality or Injustice? Re-examining Neutrality in Mediation Through a Racial Justice Lens

Sharon Press, Director, Dispute Resolution Institute, Robins Kaplan Distinguished Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Isabelle Gunning, Mayor Tom Bradley Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
REGISTER HERE
Sharon Press is Director of the Dispute Resolution Institute and the Robins Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Litigation Skills and International Dispute Resolution at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, MN. Press serves on the board of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation. Press is a Florida Supreme Court certified county and family mediator and on Minnesota’s Rule 114 Roster of Civil Facilitative and Hybrid Neutrals. She mediates regularly in Conciliation, Housing, and Harassment Courts and for the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Prior to joining Mitchell Hamline Law, Press served as director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center where she was responsible for the ADR programs for the Florida state court system during its formative years. Press was the Association for Conflict Resolution’s representative to the Drafting Committee for the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators adopted by the AAA, ABA and ACR. She received her B.A. from The George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs and her J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center.
Isabelle Gunning (she/hers) was motivated to study law in order to support progressive changes in our larger society. Before becoming a professor, she was a criminal defense attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. and a human rights attorney with the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She is currently the Mayor Tom Bradley Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. She teaches and writes in the area of Conflict Resolution/ Alternative Dispute Resolution. She also teaches Evidence. She also writes in the area of religious/spiritual lawyering. Her main research interests are around justice and fairness in mediation as well as multicultural dialogue and the search for and creation of shared values in the context of racial inequality and other socially defined power hierarchy dynamics. She serves as a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations and is a board member on the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. She practices as a mediator and an arbitrator. She works as a mediator/facilitator in support of resolving community conflicts. In addition, she has over 15 years of experience serving as a labor arbitrator and hearing examiner in workplace disputes.

Criminal Justice at UC Law & Beyond with Professor Kate Weisburd
2025-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-101

CEALS Presents - Controlling Shareholder Standards in Japan and U.S.
2025-10-20 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-605, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, CA, 94102, United States
Featured Speakers: Takumi Sato, attorney in the Silicon Valley office of TMI Associates, Lauren M. Cruz, Senior Counsel at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, and Adjunct Professor David Makman
Date/Time: Monday, October 20, 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: *MOVED TO 200-605

This will be a presentation on issues relating to controlling shareholders under U.S. Law and Japanese law. We will discuss the METI guidelines on mergers and acquisitions and recent developments in Delaware including SB 21.

Light lunch to be served.
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Certificate in Legal Research Program: Research Foreign Laws
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-123
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about researching foreign laws. Pizza will be provided to students who RSVP by 5 pm the night before. RSVP at: https://hastingslawlibrary.wufoo.com/forms/q7b4q4c127hi9m/
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

2025 Contra Costa Alumnus of the Year
2025-10-21 17:30 - 20:00 | The Greenery, 1551 Marchbanks Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, United States
We’re thrilled to celebrate Hon. Wade Rhyne ’01, Judge for the Contra Costa County Superior Court, as this year’s Contra Costa Alumnus of the Year!

Please join us for an evening of community, connection, and recognition as we honor Judge Rhyne’s outstanding work and impact in the Contra Costa region.

Enjoy appetizers, beverages, and conversation with fellow UC Law SF alum and supporters. We will be located in the Eagle Room of The Greenery.

Tickets:$40 for recent alum (Class of 2015–2025)$50 for alum from the Class of 2014 and earlier
$60 for non-alum attendees
Free for students
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ADR Speaker Series - Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap
2025-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-605, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, CA, 94102, United States
FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES
Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap

Laura Kray, Ned & Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 P.M. PST
In Person – Room 200-605
and Via Zoom

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Laura Kray received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Washington. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2002, she taught at the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Since 2018, Kray has been the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership. She is a leading expert on the role of gender stereotypes, power and status, and mindsets on workplace behavior, including negotiations and ethical decision-making. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has been recognized with multiple best research awards from the Academy of Management and the International Association of Conflict Management.

Certificate in Legal Research Program: Federal Legislative History Research
2025-10-28 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-123
Earn your Certificate in Legal Research – and a notation on your transcript – or just attend to learn more about researching federal legislative history. Pizza will be provided to students who RSVP by 5 pm the night before. RSVP at: https://hastingslawlibrary.wufoo.com/forms/r1340b721n428gk.
You are free to attend as few or as many classes as you like; however, to complete the program, you must attend a minimum of 5 live classes (in person or on Zoom) and earn 100% on 12 online quizzes by the time you graduate. To find out more about the program, go to: https://www.uclawsf.edu/academics/library/legal-research-cert-program.

ADR Speaker Series - Pedagogies in the Meantime: Reflections on ADR and Restorative Justice in U.S. and Canadian Legal Education
2025-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
FALL 2025 ADR SPEAKER SERIES
Pedagogies in the Meantime: Reflections on ADR and Restorative Justice in U.S. and Canadian Legal Education

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:30 – 1:30 P.M. PST
Via Zoom

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Amy Cohen, Robert J. Reinstein Chair in Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Daniel Del Gobbo, Assistant Professor & Chair in Law, Gender, and Sexual Justice, University of Windsor Faculty of Law

Amy Cohen is the inaugural holder of the Robert J. Reinstein Chair in law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Amy’s research focuses on two areas of sociolegal scholarship—informal justice, including among people building alternatives to the criminal legal system, and law and economic development, including the law and political economy of agriculture and food. Before joining Temple, she was the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at The Ohio State University and Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney, where she remains an honorary professor. Amy has taught a range of classes including property law, family law, mediation, negotiation, international dispute resolution, law and development, food law, and experimentalist legal theory. She has held visiting professorships at Harvard Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Turin Faculty of Law, and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. She has also held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the American Institute of Indian Studies at the University of Chicago, the Fulbright Program, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto. She used several of these fellowships to develop a multi-year project on smallholder farmers and economic justice in India.

Daniel Del Gobbo (daniel.delgobbo@uwindsor.ca) is an Assistant Professor and Chair in Law, Gender & Sexual Justice at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. Daniel’s research and teaching fall at the intersections of civil procedure and dispute resolution, restorative justice, human rights and equality, legal ethics, and gender and sexuality. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, including the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, UBC Law Review, Canadian Bar Review, Journal of Law and Equality, Dalhousie Law Journal, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. His book, Feminist Frontlines: Campus Sexual Violence and Conflict Resolution, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press. Before coming to Windsor, Daniel was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill University Faculty of Law. He earned his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2011, LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2015, and S.J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2021.

Faculty Teach-In: The Lawfulness of Federal Enforcement Actions in San Francisco?
2025-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States

Business Law Track for 1Ls and the CBL Scholars Program
2025-10-30 12:30 - 13:30 | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States

Mary Kay Kane Excellence Awards & Ceremony
2025-11-06 12:30 - 13:30 | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
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Service Excellence

Scholarly Excellence and Contributions to Intellectual Life

Teaching Excellence (Full-Time Faculty)

Teaching Excellence (Part-Time Faculty)

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Service Excellence

Jeff Lefstin, Professor of Law. When he served as Associate Academic Dean (a role that we now call “Dean of Students”) from 2016 to 2019, Professor Lefstin significantly contributed to the College’s redesign of its academic program, including changes to the Academic Regulations and our pedagogical norms that have benefitted students and helped to produce a sustained 30+ percentage point increase in first-time bar pass rates since 2016. In the years since, Professor Lefstin has played leading roles on the faculty, including chairing the Academic Standards Committee on a regular basis and, in that capacity, navigating complex updates of our Academic Regulations. He has also generously mentored and advised new student affairs officers we have onboarded over the years and advised the administration on student affairs matters.

Professor Lefstin also serves as Advisor for the Intellectual Property Concentration and co-directs the highly regarded Bucerius / UC Law SF Summer Program in Licensing Transactions in IP, an intensive, three-week, English-taught program for upper division students and junior practitioners. His contributions to the College are often behind the scenes, making it particularly fitting that he be honored with an award in Emerita Chancellor & Dean Mary Kay Kane’s name, given that much of what she did to improve the College during her tenure was similarly under the radar.

Scholarly Excellence and Contributions to Intellectual Life

Jodi Short, Mary Kay Kane Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Short is a nationally respected scholar of constitutional law, administrative law, and corporate compliance behavior. Her research investigates how institutions and private actors influence the effectiveness and legitimacy of regulation. Short brings interdisciplinary rigor to her work, often drawing on empirical methods to deepen legal insights. Recently, Professor Short has engaged in applied scholarship, submitting amicus briefs challenging executive orders and actions. It is no accident that Professor Short is the inaugural holder of the Mary Kay Kane Chair, which, like this Kane Excellence Award, is endowed as part of a gift from Dean Kane’s estate. Like Dean Kane was during her lifetime, Professor Short is a pillar of the law school’s scholarly community.

Professor Short served as Associate Dean for Research 2020-2023, during which time she led the College’s efforts to achieve the scholarly and research elements of its mission as a center of higher learning. Both before and after her exemplary service in that key role, Professor Short set a high bar for scholarly engagement and discourse at the College by, among other things, regularly attending and actively participating in scholarly colloquia and generously mentoring peers and commenting on their work. Professor Short combines a fierce intellect with a joyfulness about scholarly inquiry, quietly, through her participation and example, inspiring us all to pursue our research with passion and vigor.

Teaching Excellence (Full-Time Faculty)

Laurie Zimet, Director of Academic Support and Professor of Practice. Professor Zimet helped define the field of professionalized academic skills instruction and support in the legal academy. In a 2024 article posted on the UC Law SF website marking the 40th anniversary of Professor Zimet’s tenure at UC Law SF, we wrote: “Known nationally as a ‘founding mother’ of law school academic support, she helped pioneer a new field of legal education and won numerous accolades along the way. But it wasn’t fame or notoriety that propelled her to do this work. Rather, it was a deep-seated commitment to equity and the idea that every law student should get a fair shake at unlocking their potential.”

One of the ways Professor Zimet has operationalized that value system is by helping to pioneer the use of “active learning” techniques in law school classrooms, a toolkit and pedagogical skill set Professor Zimet has generously shared with many colleagues on the faculty over the years. As Professor Zimet often says when training new faculty members

— “The more I talk, the less students learn. The more they talk, the better they learn.”

That philosophy has sparked a revolution of creativity in our classrooms at UC Law SF. It is thus fitting that we have the opportunity this year to recognize Professor Zimet’s many accomplishments over the past four decades at UC Law SF and in legal education more generally.

Teaching Excellence (Part-Time Faculty)

Rachel Proffitt, Adjunct Professor. Professor Proffitt has taught Venture Capital & Startups at UC Law since 2012. In connection with that, she was an integral part of UC Law SF’s effort to offer an expansive curriculum that gave law students the opportunity to learn from lawyers at the cutting edge of practice. Professor Proffitt’s course is one of the reasons why National Jurist prelaw Magazine regularly rates UC Law SF’s business education programming with the highest rating of A+, as it did this past year.

As one student wrote in a prior end-of-semester course evaluation: “Professor Proffitt brings vast industry experience to the class. She knows how things work in the real world, which really prepares us for [working with] venture capital firms.” As another student wrote: “She’s an incredible professor.”

What makes Professor Proffitt’s dedication to teaching even more remarkable is that she has continued to teach at UC Law SF since she became the CEO of Cooley, one of the country’s top law firms. Professor Proffitt reminds us that the teaching and public service elements of UC Law SF’s mission are intertwined: teaching is a form of public service.

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