UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

Public Defender Speaker Series pt. 2: Immigration
2025-10-28 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 200 ARC, Alumni Reception Center, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
This panel will feature four public defenders from San Francisco’s Public Defender’s Office: Hayley Upshaw and Genna Beier from the immigration defense unit, Alejandra Ramirez Diaz from the felony unit and La Raza Centro Legal, and Amy Tao from the misdemeanor unit. We will combine questions in the next two weeks from students and our board to present to the attorneys before hand to prepare them for the series of questions they may be asked. Questions will focus on what their work looks like, especially under the current administration, how clients facing criminal charges may face immigration consequences, and where the intercepts of the laws are heaviest. They will have an opportunity to inform students of what their case load currently looks like, a day in their lives, and more

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.

Flourish Before Finals and Build a Bouquet
2025-10-28 12:30 | 200-605, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA, CA, 94102, United States
Take a break from outlining and let your creativity bloom. Join LLSA and MLSA for a relaxing hand-on activity where you’ll build your own flower bouquet.

UCLAS Professional Headshots
2025-10-27 09:30 - 17:00 | Deb Colloquium Room, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, United States
UCLAS is hosting a free professional headshot event for all students. We’ve fundraised to hire a photographer who will photograph approximately 60 students a day in 15-minute intervals using both the Colloquium and Sky Deck for background variety. UCLAS will provide all necessary resources and staffing for the event; we only request one table for student check-in and check-out.

October Run & Social #2
2025-10-25 16:30 - 18:00 | 198-213
Come run/walk with run club to Taco Bell!

Festival of Lights
2025-10-24 18:00 - 21:00 | 333 Quad, 333 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, 94102
This event will celebrate the South Asian cultural festival known as Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. This holiday is celebrated across many nationalities, religions, and cultures within South Asia. We will have food at this event, music, as well as opportunities for socializing and networking with attorneys and professors.

AALS ADR Section Works in Progress Conference
2025-10-24 08:00 - 2025-10-25 13:00 | 333-501 and SkyDeck
The AALS ADR Section Works in Progress Conference (“WIP”) brings together dispute resolution scholars, teachers, and practitioners to present and receive feedback on their scholarly ideas and projects in a welcoming and collegial environment. Projects at any stage are welcome.
This year’s WIP will include a special plenary workshop. Presenters selected for the workshop will be paired with a senior scholar, who will read the paper in advance and provide commentary. Those interested in participating in the plenary should submit a draft paper for consideration by the registration deadline. Scholars at any stage of their career are welcome, but junior scholars and newcomers to the field are especially encouraged to apply.
In addition to the plenary, we will have the usual parallel-track panel presentation format and one or more sessions for beginning stage “ideas-in-progress.”
The conference will take place in-person with Zoom access. Zoom will be limited to a webinar format, in which remote participants may submit questions through the chat only. Presenters are strongly encouraged to participate in person.
For more information and to register, please visit the conference website here.

PALS and VALS wine and paint night
2025-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | 198-213

OASIS Academic Support
2025-10-23 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-16 12:30 - 13:30 | CA

TLS Panel with Gunderson Dettmer - What is Tech Law?
2025-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | 198-106
Panel of Gunderson Dettmer attorneys to discuss what it means to work at the intersection of law and technology. Gunderson Dettmer will be sponsoring the event.

Sports Law Panel
2025-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | 200-122, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Panel of various attorneys in the area who work in sports law.

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.

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

RSVP here

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.

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!

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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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.

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

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.

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!

Public Defender Speaker Series pt. 1: Careers in Public Defense
2025-10-21 12:30 - 13:30 | 333-LL02
This panel will feature three public defenders from San Francisco. Hayley Upshaw and Genna Beier work in the immigration defense unit of the Public Defender’s office and Alejandra Ramirez Diaz is from the felony unit at the Public Defender’s office and La Raza Centro Legal. We will combine questions in the next two weeks from students and our board to present to the attorneys before hand to prepare them for the series of questions they may be asked. Questions will focus on what their work looks like, especially under the current administration, how clients facing criminal charges may face immigration consequences, and where the intercepts of the laws are heaviest. They will have an opportunity to inform students of what their case load currently looks like, a day in their lives, and more.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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.
