December 18, 2018
For Elyse Whitehead, Keesal Young & Logan is all about “the people” – the unique collegial environment that makes the firm a great place to build a career. Within her practice, the San Francisco-based attorney enjoys the ongoing challenge of helping clients piece together the “puzzle” of their employment needs, whether responding…
Dena Sharp ’06 was recently made a name partner at a prominent plaintiff’s class action firm in San Francisco. With founder Daniel Girard and others, the aptly named Sharp helped grow a successful practice that challenges antitrust violations and other corporate wrongdoing, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. Sharp joined the…
Compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat, “Law Against the People,” 42 AntroPolitica 296 (2018). Veena Dubal (with coauthors), “Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the US,” 16 Perspectives on Politics 919…
December 12, 2018
On December 31, 2018, Bloomberg will retire its BNA Resource Center platform and transition all law school accounts to Bloomberg Law. All content found in the BNA Resource Centers has migrated to Bloomberg Law and is available through its Practice Centers. If you receive e-mail alerts from Bloomberg…
December 10, 2018
The faculty at UC Law SF has voted to grant tenure to three outstanding professors. Associate professors Alina Ball, a nationally-recognized expert within the transactional clinical community, Jared Ellias, an expert in the realm of bankruptcy law, and Zachary Price, an expert on constitutional structure, will officially be…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at UC Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
December 6, 2018
UC Law SF hosted another successful event in Southern California as four distinguished judges from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Lisa Hart Cole ‘80, David J. Cowan ‘88, Renee Korn ‘90, B. Scott Silverman ‘75, gathered as a panel of experts to discuss current issues in Civil Law, Probate…
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…
November 27, 2018
Dear UC Law SF Community, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am writing with news and a few thoughts about the California Bar exam results from this past July. This year, the news is mixed: UC Law SF Class of 2018 continued a two-year trajectory of steadily improving…
UC Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school’s thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers—the Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
November 8, 2018
Continuing the College’s winning streak after being named the top trial team program in the U.S. by the interscholastic law school trial competitions, the Hastings mock-trial team took home another first place at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA) Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, Nov. 3. “It feels…
November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul’s previous book, Unlikely Allies (Riverhead, 2009), featured an unassuming shopkeeper, a mysterious cross-dressing spy, and a famous French playwright who changed the course of the American Revolution. His newest book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Riverhead, 2018), focuses on a self-taught man who…