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Office of Communications staff support UC Law SF’s mission to “provide a rigorous, innovative, and inclusive legal education that prepares diverse students to excel as professionals, advance the rule of law, and further justice” by promoting excellence in teaching, scholarship, and public impact.  

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Our faculty scholars harness our academic and geographic assets to shed light on matters of legal theory, law practice, emerging technologies, and societal circumstances affecting the lives of people in all walks of life.

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Making Headlines

Our professors and scholars are making headlines with their research, publications, Congressional testimony and more. Read more about their work below.

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Constitutional Law

What is Due Process? Courts Push Back as Trump Moves to Limit This Right

Prof. Matt Coles explains that due process under the Fifth Amendment is only meaningful when applied fairly to everyone and not bypassed for the sake of speed.

AI

Efficiency vs authenticity: Where’s the line when using AI to create art?

Prof. Robin Feldman examines the legal battlegrounds over generative AI in Hollywood and beyond that are affecting jobs, art, and what it means to create.

Employment Law

Teachers tend to plan pregnancies with summer due dates. Could a LAUSD policy change that?

Center of WorkLife Law Co-Director Liz Morris explains how gaps in California’s paid family leave policies may contribute to teacher turnover in public schools as the Los Angeles Unified School District considers new policies.

Environmental Law

Simplifying environmental permits to boost their impact

Prof. Dave Owen suggests that modernizing small-scale permitting could ease regulatory backlogs and improve government efficiency without weakening environmental protections.

Vaccines

RFK Jr. will order placebo testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts

UC Law SF Prof. Dorit Reiss challenges the government’s assertion that a change in how vaccines are tested would produce greater transparency and better information for consumers.

Evidence

Your legal rights: forensic science

Chancellor & Dean David Faigman is joined by National Medal of Science recipient Bruce Alberts for a discussion on the role of science in society and the law, and what should qualify as scientific evidence.

Technology and Crime

Amid Calls to Reform Bail, Judges in St. Louis Embrace Ankle Monitors

The increasing use of ankle monitors instead of bail for people awaiting trial raises important questions about efficacy and privacy rights, Prof. Kate Weisburd says.

Health Care

How Trump’s Pharmaceutical Tariffs Could Send Drug Prices Soaring

“You don’t need a crystal ball to predict that the impact will fall primarily on patients, as well as on taxpayers who support the government health programs,” Prof. Robin Feldman says.

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