UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

Fall 2025 Tax Speaker Series
2025-09-05 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Center on Tax Law is delighted to announce the lineup for our Fall 2025 Tax Speaker Series. Please email tax@uclawsf.edu if you would like to attend.

Date
Presenter
Paper

Friday, September 5, 2025
Amanda Parsons, Univ. of Colorado

Taxing Social Data

Friday, October 3, 2025
Alex Zhang, Emory University

The Forgotten Attribution Power

Friday, October 31, 2025
Miranda Fleischer, Univ. of San Diego

Equality of Opportunity and a Universal Child Allowance

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
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

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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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!

Police Surveillance and the Perils of Technology - Zoom Webinar
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, San Francisco, CA, United States
RSVP Here and for Zoom Information

Criminal Justice at UC Law & Beyond with Professor Kate Weisburd
2025-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-101
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Matthew O. Tobriner Lecture featuring Erwin Chemerinsky
2025-11-14 12:30 - 13:30 | 198 Auditorium
UC Law San Francisco presents the annual Matthew O. Tobriner Lecture featuring Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law of UC Berkeley Law.

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The 2026 Wiley Manuel Lecture - The Big Sort: Reconciling College, Opportunity and Racial Justice in American Society
2026-02-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
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