UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

3L Graduation Celebration
2025-04-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
3L graduation event with dinner and stoles!

JREJ Study Hall
2025-04-17 09:00 - 15:00 | 198-213
The Journal for Race and Economic Justice is hosting a study hall on the first day of reading period. There will be space for quiet studying, group studying, and board games for study breaks!

Bagels & Coffee in the Law Library
2025-04-22 08:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-29 08:00 - 11:00 | Library Circulation Desk, San Francisco, CA, United States
Stop by the Circulation Desk in the Law Library for bagels and coffee starting at 8 am on Tuesday, April 22 and Tuesday, April 29.

APALSA - 3L Cultural Graduation
2025-05-10 11:00 - 13:00 | CA

BLSA Black Grad
2025-05-10 16:00 - 18:30 | 198 Auditorium
Graduation for our 3L members.

CREJ & Hand in Hand presents: Legal and Policy Perspectives on Domestic Employment
2025-05-13 18:00 - 21:00 | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
A Symposium Recognizing 15 Years of Hand in Hand’s Work & Advocacy

The UC Law SF Center for Racial & Economic Justice (CREJ) invites legal scholars, students, and advocates to examine the legal and policy dimensions of domestic employment and labor justice. Taking place on May 13, 2025, this event will critically engage with the evolving legal landscape shaping the rights and responsibilities of domestic employers and workers, with particular attention to the intersection of labor law, racial justice, and economic equity. The convening will also recognize the 15th anniversary of Hand in Hand, a nonprofit organization that advocates for equitable labor standards and helps shape policy undergirding just employer practices in the domestic work sector. In accordance with CREJ’s mission, discussions will focus on the role of legal frameworks in strengthening protections for domestic workers, promoting public investment in care, and advancing collective solutions that support both workers and employers. Through scholarly dialogue and policy analysis, the event aims to deepen understanding of domestic employment as a critical site of labor rights innovation and economic justice advocacy.

Dinner will be served!
Please RSVP here, no later than May 5th.

Crash Course in Legal Research (Zoom Event)
2025-05-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
Join the law librarians for a 90-minute overview of the research process, from getting the assignment to finding primary law to making sure the sources found are still good law. This event will take place on Zoom. No RSVP is necessary.
Zoom link: https://uclawsf.zoom.us/j/91811062361

Meet the Employers
2025-06-17 17:30 - 20:30 | 333 Quad, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Annual UCLJ “Meet The Employers” networking event with law firms and other employers.

CREJ – Logged In, Left Out: Racial Inequality in Remote Work (Zoom Webinar)
2025-08-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
Join us for a 1-hour webinar where experts will discuss changing remote work norms, examine racial disparities in remote work access and provide insight into courts’ views on remote work discrimination.

Please Register Here

Center on Tax Law Panel: "What Does the New Tax Law Mean for You? "
2025-08-28 16:00 - 17:00 | 333-201

Certificate in Legal Research Program: Case Law Research
2025-09-02 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/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
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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

Cookies and Constitutions for Constitution Day
2025-09-17 12:30 - 13:30 | CA
Cookies and Constitutions for Constitution Day
Stop by the ARC for cookies and a pocket Constitution! Available while they last!
We’ll also be commemorating the launch of the new Center for Constitutional Democracy – with some creative activities and opportunity to sign up to get involved with the Center’s work going forward!
Wednesday, September 17
12:30-1:30 p.m.
ARC

CNDR Fall 2025 Student Lunch Social
2025-09-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Dobbs Atrium
Students: Please join us for a pizza lunch to get to know one another and learn about CNDR programs and scholarship opportunities. We’ll also acknowledge our 2025 McGovern Scholarship recipient, Ron Kinan (’26).

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ZNDi2Qd6U4Uqnpq

OASIS Academic Support
2025-09-18 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-02 12:30 - 13:30 | CA

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.

Justice and Professor Joseph Raymond Grodin: A Memorial and Retrospective
2025-10-03 09:00 - 12:00 | 198 Auditorium
Join friends, colleagues, and family for a celebration and retrospective on the life and career of Joseph R. Grodin, a unique figure connecting the UC law SF school and the California Supreme Court, as a former California Supreme Court justice and professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. This event will overview his jurisprudence as a justice on the Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court, his legal scholarship, and the historical and legal significance of the 1986 retention election. Open entry without registration, and broadcast on Zoom after Justice Kruger’s opening remarks.

Click here to watch live on Zoom (link will appear day of event)

Agenda:
Opening Remarks: California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger

Justice Grodin’s Jurisprudence and Legal Scholarship
Professor Darien Shanske (UC Davis Law School) Justice Grodin’s annotated California constitution scholarship
Professor David A. Kaiser (UC Law SF) Justice Grodin on the right to happiness in the California constitution

Justice Grodin in California Legal and Political History
Moderator: Sunil “Neil” Gupta (Principal Attorney to the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court)
Professor Reuel Schiller (UC Law SF)
Beth Jay (former Principal Attorney to the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court)
Jake Dear (former Chief Supervising Attorney of the California Supreme Court, former chambers attorney to Justice Grodin)

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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.
