ML is inviting a set of diverse attorneys from the various affinity groups at the firm to have a casual, honest conversation about DEI in big law, and answer any questions students may have. They will also be serving pressed juice, tea, and various other healthy snacks and “swag.”…
January 18, 2022
Black Californians constitute 6.5% of California’s total population but make up nearly 40% of its homeless population. This disparity exists in San Francisco and it exists in Santa Cruz. It’s an issue in Chico, as it is in Los Angeles. Brandon Greene, affiliated scholar at UC Law SF’ Center for…
December 13, 2021
Drawing on four decades of research, Distinguished Professor Joan Williams published her twelfth book in November 2021, Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good (Harvard Business Review Press), a comprehensive guide for company executives. The book outlines evidence-based techniques developed in Williams’…
December 7, 2021
When Mario Ernesto Lopez was named UC Law SF’s inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives this past August, he was undaunted by the fact that the position came without a roadmap. “I’ve always done things a little bit differently,” Lopez says, grinning. Since 2016, he’s brought what coworkers…
October 22, 2021
For the past year, UC Law SF’s Center for Advocacy, Resources and Education (CARE) and the Disability Resource Program (DRP) have led workshops on how to cover sensitive topics in the classroom. “Each semester, students would come to us because they were triggered in their classes,” says DRP Director Lisa…
October 4, 2021
After six Asian women were murdered in Atlanta in March 2021, there was a wave of public outcry that resulted in awareness-raising solidarity campaigns, bystander trainings, and even federal legislation to address the issue of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) violence. Meanwhile, UC Law SF professors Alina Ball…
September 24, 2021
UC Law SF has been alive with activity over the past few weeks after some 18 months of remote teaching and learning. The once-quiet halls of the college’s new Cotchett Law Center are now bustling, as students shuffle between classes and gather for group work (masked, of course); its…
July 14, 2021
Late Monday evening, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed budget legislation that makes historic investments in public education. The 2021-22 state budget includes a $4.5 million renewal of UC Law SF’s California Scholars Program, a unique scholarship opportunity for students who graduated…
April 6, 2021
UC Law SF took its mock interview training program to a new level this year, thanks to growing alumni engagement and a new collaboration with Airbnb’s legal department targeting students from diverse backgrounds. Forty students from the school’s Legal Education Opportunity Program, which aims to make legal education accessible…
April 1, 2021
Proposed federal legislation to boost lifesaving cancer screening for women of color has been named in memory of a 2016 UC Law SF graduate who died of cervical cancer at age 32. The Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women’s Health Act would provide funding for preventative health care services such…
February 9, 2021
UC Law SF’s Indigenous Law Center kicks off its important work Feb. 10 with a panel discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on Native American and Indigenous communities. The panel features leading figures including Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez. The center was established in September 2020 to celebrate,…
November 10, 2020
UC Law SF’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, in partnership with the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ), hosted an event on Oct. 16 featuring Adjunct Professor and CREJ Affiliated Scholar T. Anansi Wilson. Wilson presented two papers, “Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being” and “…