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.
July 5, 2018
Litigation Trial Lawyers Hall of Famer and UC Law SF Alumnus, Class of 1964, to keynote the College's 137th Commencement
July 5, 2018
Professor Ellias will present his paper "What Drives Bankruptcy Forum Shopping? Evidence from Market Data" at the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in April.
July 5, 2018
Including an overview of the College, highlights of financial operations, and contributions made to UC Law SF between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
Over a six-month period, the Law Library’s Technical Services staff, led by Stephanie Schmitt, accomplished the herculean task of migrating our library records to a new library management and discovery solution. The new system, Ex Libris’ Alma/Primo, replaces the catalog used for the past decade. As an open-source platform, …
June 15, 2018
Recent graduate Samuel "Sammy" Chang '18 identified many problems facing UC Law SF law students and facilitated the change needed to fix them throughout his law school career.
June 7, 2018
The UC Law SF alumna founded Fund Her after the 2016 election to achieve gender parity in the California State Legislature.
May 18, 2018
Members of the Hastings Human Rights and International Law Organization attended the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to meet diplomats, engage in discussions on human rights issues, and deliver advocacy statements during proceedings.
May 15, 2018
Professor Veena Dubal’s work, Wage Slave or Entrepreneur?: Contesting the Dualism of Legal Worker Identities (2017) 10 5 Cal.L.Rev. 65, 72, was cited in the California Supreme Court’s decision in the pivotal “gig economy” case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County. In a…