August 19, 2020
UC Law SF is committed to creating an anti-racist culture on our campus. As part of this ongoing effort, please see the public statements of support for the Black community from various individuals and campus organizations below: UC Law SF Black Law Students Association…
August 17, 2020
Professor Hadar Aviram Eighteen prominent criminal justice and corrections scholars, including UC Law SF Professors Hadar Aviram, Rory Little and Mai Linh Spencer, as well as the ACLU of Northern California, are joining litigation as amici curiae brought on behalf of San Quentin prisoners facing danger…
August 13, 2020
August 12, 2020
Wendy M. Hernandez ’20 has won the California Lawyers Association Public Law Section’s annual Public Law Writing Competition. Her piece on equitable cannabis regulation, published in the Public Law Journal: Spring 2020, Vol. 43, No. 2 of the California Lawyers Association, earned her a $2,000 prize. Hernandez…
August 11, 2020
UC Law SF students have access to a rich array of pro bono opportunities: professional work, such as helping clients through clinics and providing legal counsel at a homeless shelter with the Bar Association of San Francisco, as well as non-legal volunteer services, such as serving food at St. Anthony’s…
August 11, 2020
More than 50 UC Law SF students participated in this summer’s first Leadership Lab Certificate program, a six-week series featuring interactive learning in a virtual environment focused on practical skills-building in the dispute resolution field. Organized by the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), the program imparted…
August 10, 2020
In a win for the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) and the Hastings Appellate Project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision Aug. 7 denying asylum to an indigenous Guatemalan woman seeking refuge in the U.S. from domestic violence. Sontos Diaz-Reynoso was represented…
August 5, 2020
CNDR’s Deputy Director Mattie Robertson Teaching Leadership Lab Online The first ever Leadership Lab Certificate was held this summer by the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) from June 23 – July 28, 2020. Free to current UC Law SF students during…
August 3, 2020
UC Law SF’ Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) has launched Black Hastings Speaks, a six-episode podcast series designed to preserve and present authentic stories of Black experiences within the UC Law SF community. The series of one-on-one conversations between students, faculty, staff, and alumni…
August 3, 2020
July 29, 2020
UC Law SF has a legacy of training students for public-interest careers. To support that effort, the college awards deserving graduates with the Nancy Stuart Public Interest Award to help fund their bar preparation studies. The $4,000 award, for students committed to careers devoted to closing the access-to-justice gap for…
July 28, 2020
Rising 2L Marcus Grimes was recently featured in the UC Law SF Alumni Newsletter. Grimes is co-president of the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) at Hastings, and is one of the first recipients of the California Scholars scholarship, a three-year full-ride scholarship for Californians who attend a HBCU…