Crypto, Compliance & Governance: A Conversation with Candace Kelly
2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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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OASIS Academic Support
2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-02 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-09 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-16 12:30 - 13:30 | CA

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.

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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.

Haiti Justice Partnership Fall GBM
2025-10-08 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-309

Meet the Author - Dolores Atenci
2025-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
“Meet the Author” event to celebrate Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month with Dolores, author of The Illustrious Impact of Luminarias on the Law.

NLG Annual DisOrientation
2025-10-10 10:00 - 16:00 | 200-605, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, CA, 94102, United States
Annual DisOrientation symposium.

WNBA Finals Watch Party
2025-10-10 16:30 - 20:00 | 333-201
A watch party to watch the WNBA Finals Game 4 with food and drinks provided with space to study for Midterms or take a break!

Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) Potluck
2025-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 | 198-213
Come celebrate Chuseok with KALA! Also known as Hangawi, Chuseok is a major Korean mid-autumn harvest festival based on the lunar calendar when families and friends gather to eat and celebrate.

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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Letter Writing Committee Orientation
2025-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 333-309
APO Letter Writing Committee orientation introducing students to letter writing process, rules and guidelines, and potentially also releasing first assignments if students form groups.

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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BLSA Study Hall #2
2025-10-15 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-404, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Gathering to provide community and academic support to the 1L class in a relaxed environment.

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
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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.

Career Panel
2025-10-16 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-404, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
OutLaw hopes to share with aspiring LGBTQ+ law students experiences from Big Law, public service, boutique and medium size firms. Panelists will present on their current practice, path to their position, scope of service their firm provides, any firm initiatives that advance the interests of LGBTQ+ individuals, and the application process for summer clerks and interns.

ELS Music Law Panel
2025-10-16 12:30 - 13:30 | 333 – 309
The Entertainment Law Society is bringing in attorneys from various music sectors to speak at a lunch panel.

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

Ski Club General Meeting
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-204, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
We will introduce our members and begin planning for the ski and snowboard season!

BLSA x Morgan Lewis Meet and Greet Panel
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-202
A meet and greet panel and networking opportunity with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, hosted by BLSA.

Career Panel
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-201
Come lean about 2L summer jobs and careers from attorneys & upperclassmen!

UCLJxJIOP Panel
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-101, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
Hosting a panel aimed towards 1Ls about JIOP. The panel will comprise of local judges and students who have participated in the JIOP program.

Spring 2026 Clinics & Externships Open House
2025-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | 333 Quad, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Come learn from faculty about the clinics and externships offered next semester!

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
12:30pm – 1:30pm

The Quad

Food will be provided!

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.

DOs, DON’Ts, & DONUTS!
2025-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-630
The FLSA Board will be hosting a Q&A Panel on Wednesday, October 22 to talk through how to approach your first meeting, share helpful do’s and don’ts, and answer any questions you might have about making the most of this experience.
