Venture Fund Representation: Insights from Leading Counsel
2025-03-26 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 333 Deb Colloquium and Sky Deck, 5th Floor Cotchett Law Center, 333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Save the date for this Spring’s Speaker Series!
The first date will take place February 27, 2025.
The Second date will take place March 26, 2025.
Lunch will be provided in both.

More information regarding speakers will be shared to all registrants as we near each date!

FEBRUARY RSVP
MARCH RSVP

Venture Fund Representation: Insights from Leading Counsel
2025-03-26 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
Save the date!
The first date will take place February 27, 2025.
The Second date will take place March 26, 2025.
Lunch will be provided in both.

More information regarding speakers will be shared to all registrants as we near each date!

MARCH RSVP

FLSA's Career Panel
2025-03-26 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102
UC Law SF’s Family Law Student Association is hosting an Alumni Career Panel

Clinic Talks: Building Real-World Skills
2025-03-26 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-403, San Francisco, CA, United States
Are you interested in gaining hands-on legal experience while making a real impact? Join us for Clinic Talks, where professors from the Workers’ Rights Clinic and Individual Representation Clinic will share insights into their clinics, the types of cases students work on, and how these experiences help build essential litigation and advocacy skills.

APO Film Screening
2025-03-27 18:30 - 21:00 | 333-204, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
We will be screening a documentary made by Jeff Adachi for our members.

Careers in Federal Courts
2025-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Panel o fjudges, magistrates, career clerks, and other answering questions about their career in the federal court system.

VITA Tax Clinic
2025-03-31 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-07 17:00 - 19:00
During the 2024 tax filing season, the UC Law SF Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) clinic provide free tax assistance to people who generally make $67,000 or less annually, or people with disabilities who need assistance in preparing their own CA and Federal tax returns. The assistance sessions will be in-person, located at 200 McAllister Street at Hyde in San Francisco. The clinic will run on Mondays from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, beginning February 3, 2025, through April 14, 2025, excluding February 17 and March 3. The VITA clinic is drop-in only and does not take appointments.
Please bring with you:

Photo ID & Social Security Card or ITIN for each person on your tax return
W-2 for all jobs
All 1099s, 1098s, and any other tax forms
Your household’s health coverage information, including Forms 1095-A, B, or C, if applicable
If you received the Advanced Child Tax Credit in 2023, Letter 6419
Last year’s tax return
Savings/ checking account and routing numbers for direct deposit
Clients are encouraged to wear a well-fitting mask (N95, KN95, or equivalent) on site

For more information about the VITA clinic, including what to bring with you to have your taxes prepared, please see this flyer. If you have questions, you can email us at vita@uclawsf.edu or call us at 628-207-1956.

Federal Clerkship Panel and Mixer
2025-03-31 17:30 - 19:00 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
Current and past federal clerks and Professor and Faculty Supervisor Professor Dodson are going to answer questions about their time as federal clerks. Mixer to follow.

Surviving 2L Panel
2025-04-01 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-202
The board will be giving tips and tricks to 1Ls to make the most out of their 2L year.

UC Law Christians Weekly Meeting
2025-04-01 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-04-08 12:30 - 13:30 | 198-205

If/When/How X WLS X CARE - Reproductive Justice Career Panel
2025-04-01 12:30 - 13:30 | 198-106

Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens ('89) Memorial Symposium
2025-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
RSVP Here (In-Person)
Attend Virtually via Zoom

We will gather to hear from some of Ambassador Stevens’ friends and peers, to reflect on Ambassador Stevens’ remarkable career and his dedication to diplomacy, international relations, and the rule of law, and to discuss current events and a path forward in these challenging times. The symposium will feature distinguished speakers and panelists who will discuss relevant topics related to his work and its enduring impact.

This event offers a valuable opportunity to engage with leading experts, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of law and international affairs in the Middle East and North Africa region The program will be moderated by UCLSF professor Moria Paz, and feature brief presentations and dialogue between Prof. Daniel Zoughbie, Associate Project Scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, and Peter Bartu from the UCB Department of Global Studies, an expert and advisor in Political Transitions and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

We anticipate a thoughtful and informative program, and we hope you will join us in commemorating Ambassador Stevens’ contributions, and channeling his energy and diplomatic skill in focusing on a “people first” mode of advocacy.

Speakers

Moria Paz
Moria Paz is an Associate Professor at UC Law SF. Her research critically investigates the place of minorities, migrants, and refugees within a legal order, international and national, that remains fundamentally rooted in state sovereignty. Her most recent book is The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (edited with James Loeffler, Cambridge University Press, 2019). Paz’s articles have won multiple prizes and awards, including the Sakip Sabanci International Research Essay Award, the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Writing Competition, and the Laylin Prize for Best Paper in International Law. She was also chosen as a New Voices selection by both the European Journal of International Law and the American Society of International Law. Paz has been a visitor / fellow at Stanford Law School, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley Law School, the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations at Harvard University, the Center on National Security and the Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Peter Bartu
Peter Bartu teaches courses at the University of California, Berkeley on the Arab Spring, Israel-Palestine, the Gulf States and the UN and global governance. In 2011 he was a member of the UN’s stand-by mediation team and worked in Benghazi and Tripoli during the Libyan revolution. He had other assignments in Djibouti, Iraq, and Malawi. In 2008-2009 he led a United Nations team that produced a seminal report on the disputed internal boundaries between the Arabs and the Kurds in Iraq. From 2001-2003 he was a political advisor to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, based in Jerusalem. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor in the Australian Prime Minister’s Department and had other appointments with the UN in East Timor in 1999 and Cambodia from 1991-1993. He has a Ph.D. in history from Monash University.

Daniel E. Zoughbie
Daniel E. Zoughbie is a complex systems scientist, a historian, and an expert on presidential decision-making. He is associate project scientist at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) at UC Berkeley, a faculty affiliate of the UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Diplomacy, Delivery, and Economics and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. He is also principal investigator of the Middle East and North African Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative (MENA-3D). The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Zoughbie has been appointed to positions at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, University College Dublin, University of Athens, and Campus Bio Medico University of Rome. Dr. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate in international relations, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar.

Spring 2025 UC Law SF Tax Policy Colloquium
2025-04-02 10:30 - 11:00
We are delighted to announce our spring 2025 speakers for the UC Law SF Tax Policy Colloquium. All talks are on Wednesdays between 10:50a-11a PST. If you are interested in attending, please email tax@uclawsf.edu.

January 22, 2025: Jeesoo Nam, USC Gould School of Law, presents Desert-Based Taxation

February 12, 2025: John Brooks, Fordham School of Law, presents Did the Supreme Court Cause the 1929 Stock Market Crash? The Dark History of Stock Dividends

March 12, 2025: Hayes Holderness, University of Richmond School of Law, presents Multistate Tax Customs

April 2, 2025: Natasha Sarin, Yale Law School, presents Broken Budgeting

Narcan Overdose Training
2025-04-02 12:00 - 13:30 | 333-101, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
HLS and DPH will be hosting an overdose prevention and narcan training.

OUTLaw Wellness Event
2025-04-02 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Please join OUTLaw for a Wellness event.

Japan’s 1919 Racial Equality Proposal for the League of Nations Covenant
2025-04-02 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-202
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Legal Studies and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice. Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and former President of the Asian Law and Society Association, will offer historical insights into Japan’s effort to outlaw racial inequality in international law at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and examine the impact of this proposal on African American legal scholars and activists such as WEB Dubois, William L. Patterson, and Paul Robeson, who submitted the petition We Charge Genocide to the United Nations in 1951, and related historical links among Japanese, American, and Caribbean political activists.

Hiroshi Fukurai is Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz & President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2018-2019). Professor Fukurai specializes in lay adjudication, Asian law and politics, Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL), private international law, and race and law. He is a co-founder of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) “East Asian Law and Society” and the International Research Collaborative (IRC) “The State and the Corporation as Legal Fictions: Original Nation and Dissent” at the Law and Society Association (LSA). His receht books include: People’s Prosecution Review Commissions & Japan’s Prosecution (2022); Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of Anthropocene (2021); Civil Jury Trials will Democratize Japan (2020); East Asia’s Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st Century (2015).
Light lunch and refreshments to be served.
RSVP here!

UC Law Journal 1L Mixer
2025-04-02 17:00 - 19:00 | 333 Skydeck
UC Law Journal annual pre-write-on competition mixer with 1Ls

HLPS GBM
2025-04-03 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-203, San Francisco, CA, United States
Health Law and Policy Society General Body Meeting.

Sharks on the Quad
2025-04-03 15:30 - 19:00 | 333 Quad, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Please join UCLAS for Sharks on the Quad!

SDR End of Semester Wellness/Graduation Event
2025-04-03 16:00 - 17:00 | 200-123
SDR will host an end of semester wellness event. We will offer mindfulness activities such as coloring and “zentangle” lessons.

VGLS Spring Final Lap Event
2025-04-03 16:00 - 19:00 | 333-LL04
Join VGLS for a fun game night to decompress and connect with others before going into finals. Food and drinks provided, potions craft supplies, as well as video and board games.

UCLATS Spring Mixer Event
2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
UCLATS Spring Mixer Event with students, professors, and alumnus.

Survival, Healing, and Performance: Formerly Incarcerated Voices on Health Justice Inside & Out
2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:30 | 198 Auditorium
This event features performances by three solo theater performers, Tony Cyprien, Pamela Ann Keane, and Tylon Sizemore, all of whom have all lived through incarceration, to share their personal encounters with the justice and healthcare systems. Through their stories, they will explore life both behind bars and upon reentering society.
In their poignant and necessary narratives, the performers will shed light on the injustices entrenched within the carceral system, including systemic obstacles to adequate healthcare and the poor treatment endured by incarcerated individuals, especially those from marginalized racial backgrounds.
Following these powerful performances, we will delve deeper into the intersections of the justice system, healthcare, and structural racism through a panel discussion and audience Q+A featuring the performers themselves, alongside UCSF academics and community-engaged researchers Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng, whose research focuses on racial health inequities and structural racism in healthcare, and Dr. Jennifer James, whose work lies at the intersections of race, gender, health, and incarceration. Complementing their insights will be the legal expertise of Mark McGoldrick, J.D., a Former Assistant Public Defender with three decades of experience in public criminal defense in California.
We invite you to enjoy these remarkable performances. The performers’ stories will illuminate the necessity for reform and advocacy regarding the health and healthcare of incarcerated individuals, as well as to address overarching systemic injustices within the justice system, including at its intersections with race and racism. We hope you will leave the event with a more profound empathy for those with lived experiences of incarceration and a greater appreciation for the resilience and courage of individuals who have persevered through injustice to survive and heal.
RSVP here.
About FIPPP:
FIPPP features formerly incarcerated performers telling stories about their life experiences and is currently the Company-in-Residence at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. FIPPP believes that sharing the stories of those who have been formerly incarcerated will foster compassion and understanding about the circumstances that may lead to incarceration. For their audiences, the stories at FIPPP are meant to bring hope and shed light on the inhumane conditions prisoners often endure during and after incarceration. Find out more about FIPPP here.
About the RISE Project:
The RISE research team is a group of interdisciplinary researchers based at the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF that aims to understand how structural racism shapes the experiences of older Black adults living with serious illness. Using qualitative and community-based participatory research methods, the RISE team seeks to confront structural racism in healthcare and identify ways to advance health justice for older Black adults in San Francisco and beyond. Find out more about RISE here.
About the Consortium:
Founded in 2008, the Consortium leverages law and policy to address the conditions in health care systems and society that together enable health and well-being. The Consortium envisions a world in which all individuals and communities can attain the highest level of health possible, defined on their own terms. To this end, the Consortium builds multidisciplinary and multistakeholder collaborations among faculty and students of UCSF and UC Law SF and the patients, clients, communities, and organizations we serve alongside. Through these collaborations, we engage in education and training, research, and public service that advances health and health equity. In all areas, the Consortium’s work is guided by core values of empathy, intellectual and academic integrity, and optimism.
This performance is part of the Consortium’s Health Justice Event Series. We invite you to learn more on the Consortium website here, or email consortium@uclawsf.edu for more information.

Rights & Bites: Environment Law with Associate Dean and Professor Dave Owen
2025-04-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Center for Social Justice (200-105), 200 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
RSVP HERE

All Alumni Party at San Francisco City Hall
2025-04-04 17:30 - 20:00 | San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, 94102
The UC Law SF community is invited to the event of the year for a night of dancing, partying, beverages, and food at the iconic San Francisco City Hall, where we will also be honoring our Alum of the Year, Kelly Matayoshi ’12.
Purchase tickets here: https://give.uclawsf.edu/e/spring-week-2025/

Earth Month Event with Pro Bono
2025-04-05 10:00 - 17:00 | 333-101, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
Inviting guest speakers to discuss the intersection of settler colonialism and the environment.

Final LLSA GBM
2025-04-08 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102

How to Take Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others
2025-04-08 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-630
Lunchtime talk with crafts and Professor Kate Weisburd and Professor Prithika Balakrishnan.
