July 31, 2018
Congratulations to the rising 2L winners of Distinguished Student Scholarships: Victoria B. Ayeni, Leigha M. Beckman, Chelsea Blocklin, Kayla D. Bowen, Deborah Brundy, Michael K. Costello, Karlens Direny, Alisha M. Eastep, Abigail L. Ellerman, Katherine J. Grainger, Faye Hipsman, Emilie Jones, Andrew Klair, Kurtis Knapp, Michael A. Kostukovsky, Kristina…
Rising 2L Constanza “Connie” Ortiz talks about her experience at UC Law SF and her experience at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica in the following Q&A: Where are you from? Miami, Florida. What inspired you go to law school? I aspired to get…
July 26, 2018
Rising 2L Alex Sauerwein strengthened his commitment to advocating for environmental issues this summer as a legal clerk at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. His work was primarily focused on various environmental justice issues in the San Joaquin Valley (the Valley), like reducing air pollution, improving water…
July 26, 2018
UC Law SF is pleased to announce and celebrate Chancellor & Dean David Faigman’s recent funded chair awards and those faculty members elevated to “Distinguished Faculty” status. These awards are based on the faculty member’s accomplishments and promise, and take effect as of July 1, 2018. The following faculty…
July 24, 2018
New Chair Elected to the Board of Directors Tina Combs ’88 was elected as Chair of the UC Law SF Board of Directors after serving on the Board since May 2007. The Oakland resident began her career at Morrison & Foerster, before moving on to Wells Fargo, the University of…
July 22, 2018
Judge S. Jay Plager of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cited Professor Jeffrey A. Lefstin’s work on the history of the patent-eligible subject matter doctrine, in his decision for Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2018). In his opinion, concurring-in-part and dissenting-in-part…
July 20, 2018
Professor Jaime King testified on the subject of “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency in Healthcare Costs for Consumers” before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. “The cost of healthcare in the United States currently threatens the economic stability of our citizens, our businesses, our state and…
July 13, 2018
The UC Law SF Asian Law and Business Association (ALBA) was founded to serve as a career platform for law students interested in Asian law and business by providing opportunities to meet professionals, engage with the international law and business communities, and gain first-hand experience working on international projects. In…
July 12, 2018
After a nationwide search, UC Law SF alumnus David M. Robinson ’92 was announced as UC Berkeley’s Chief Campus Counsel. David has served in this position on an interim basis since August 2017, but his permanent appointment took effect on June 1. “It is a great honor to serve the…
July 9, 2018
This op-ed appeared in the July 10, 2018, print edition of The Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: As recently as the 1990s, Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont found that working-class men in the New York City area held generally positive attitudes toward immigrants, describing them as “family oriented” and “hard workers, just…
July 9, 2018
University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco is pleased to announce the creation of a new outreach and diversity program that will support a pipeline to recruit, enroll, and financially support California residents who graduate from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and the American…
This live-client course at UC Law SF, co-taught by Professors Alina S. Ball and Manoj Viswanathan, is concerned exclusively with transactional tax issues — giving students the opportunity to take their substantive knowledge out for a spin and apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real world issues.