August 18, 2025
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. This is my tenth welcome message to the UC Law community since becoming dean in 2016. It seems that year-after-year I comment…
August 14, 2025
UC Law SF’s newest students mingle on the Quad during orientation, making the first connections in their lifelong professional network. Orientation helps students start their journey with confidence and get to know the students, faculty, and staff they’ll be interacting with over the next three years. …
August 13, 2025
Administrative and constitutional law scholar Jodi Short of UC Law SF offered expert analysis to federal judges weighing cases involving executive authority. Professor Jodi Short joined top legal scholars to submit briefs in two major federal court cases involving executive power. The cases challenge executive orders and actions…
August 12, 2025
At UC Law San Francisco, students aiming for careers in tech don’t just study statutes and case law—they learn from the people who helped shape the legal and business strategies behind some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. Ernest Hammond, associate general counsel of AI Product at Meta,…
August 1, 2025
This summer, UC Law San Francisco students traveled across California and the nation to put their legal education into action—drafting energy legislation, helping adjudicate federal employment disputes, and representing tenants at risk of losing their housing. From rural legal aid offices to federal agencies in New York City, they…
July 31, 2025
Heather Varanini, professor of practice at UC Law SF, supports LEOP students with academic skills training and bar exam preparation. Professor of Practice Heather Varanini draws on personal experience and nearly a decade of work in academic skills training to support students in the Legal Education Opportunity Program…
July 14, 2025
A 2006 graduate of UC Law SF, Moira O’Neill returns to her alma mater with deep expertise in housing, climate, and land-use law and policy. UC Law SF alumna Moira O’Neill has joined the faculty in Fall 2025 to teach environmental, land-use, and property law. Her research has…
July 11, 2025
UC Law SF’s Professor Zachary Price shares expert analysis with national news organizations on timely constitutional issues, including presidential powers. Leading national news outlets regularly turn to Professor Zachary Price for insight on timely legal controversies involving constitutional limits and executive authority. He’s offered key analysis on high-profile…
July 10, 2025
UC Law SF alumni Jeffrey El-Hajj ’09 and Eunice W. Lee ’09 bring extensive public service and private practice experience to their new roles as Superior Court judges in Santa Clara County. Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed two UC Law San Francisco…
June 27, 2025
Recent legal and governmental developments could dramatically change life for millions of Americans. UC Law San Francisco faculty provide the expertise and analysis to make sense of federal vaccine recommendations, potential changes to birthright citizenship, the ban on medical treatments for transgender youth, and the U.S. strikes on…
June 27, 2025
UC Law San Francisco’s Equality Action Center will help 20 private-sector companies increase workers’ access to opportunities and improve performance evaluations thanks to a $200,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The new project will use EAC’s evidence-based Bias Interrupters model to help companies create a consistent employee…
June 26, 2025
Julia Hunter ’26, Nicole Johnson ’26, and Alfred Si ’26 were recently awarded the 2025 Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing (LRW). The awards were presented during the annual UC Law SF Moot Court Awards Ceremony, held April 15,…