August 22, 2023
After a three-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Senior Professor Setsuo Miyazawa returned to the UC Law SF campus to resume teaching his well-known course on the Japanese legal system. The course presents students with insights on the “role of law, lawyers, and the judicial system in Japanese…
August 22, 2023
David Faigman is Chancellor & Dean of UC College of the Law San Francisco. Dear UC Law SF Community, Welcome, and welcome back, to UC Law San Francisco. I hope that you have had a safe, productive, and rewarding summer. You come to, or return to, the College…
August 21, 2023
Students from the new JD class of 2026 took the pledge of professionalism during a convocation ceremony in August. UC Law SF students have much to look forward to this fall: a brand-new high-rise campus building, cutting-edge classes on the most pressing legal issues, and accomplished professors joining…
August 16, 2023
Valeria Vera did extensive legal research, writing, and advocacy work in her summer internship with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. UC Law SF student Valeria Vera ’25 helped represent immigrants facing deportation and those held in detention centers, in her summer internship with the Immigration Unit of…
August 15, 2023
CEALS is honored to announce the appointment of Sally A. Harpole as an Affiliated Scholar. Ms. Harpole is a leading international arbitrator, mediator, and attorney-at-law whose practice has emphasized investment, trade, technology and disputes in the People’s Republic of China and other Asian locations since the 1970’s. She is a…
August 14, 2023
Visiting Professor Jerry López will speak about transforming law schools in a lecture this fall and a seminar in the spring. For over four decades, Jerry López has championed transforming lawyering and legal education, while training law clinic students to serve clients from low-income communities…
August 9, 2023
UC Law SF student Sasha Nasir ’24 did legal research and writing, community organizing, and advocacy work with ACLU NorCal this summer. UC Law SF student Sasha Nasir ’24 spent the summer helping people who face discrimination in her internship with the American Civil Liberties…
August 8, 2023
On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, the upper chamber of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) passed the Mediation Bill, 2023 that had been pending for about two years. The text of the Mediation Bill may be found on this page. It is awaiting signature by the President of India, at which…
August 7, 2023
Professor Dave Owen will mentor, support and promote other faculty members engaged in scholarly work as Associate Dean for Research at UC Law SF. Professor Dave Owen, one of the country’s leading environmental law scholars, is assuming a new role at UC Law San Francisco…
August 4, 2023
Rowena Brown advanced her career in public service with a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree from UC Law San Francisco. After changing careers to pursue a future in public service, Rowena Brown of Oakland, California, decided to advance her skills in law and policymaking by enrolling…
August 2, 2023
Justin Pedroso ’25 and Natalie Dybeck ’25 spent their summers working on issues related to environmental law and state prisons in their internships with the California Department of Justice. With one year of law school under their belts, UC Law SF students Natalie Dybeck ’25 and Justin Pedroso…
July 31, 2023
The MEND Project California has passed a new law (SB464) that requires hospital-based perinatal clinicians to receive implicit bias training, with the goal of improving care and outcomes for Black birthing people in particular. This project has engaged Black birthing people, perinatal clinicians,…