April 2, 2025
Professor Emily Murphy, the 2025 Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence winner, strives to bring empathy, authenticity, and intellectual rigor to her teaching. While spending over a decade earning advanced degrees in science and law, Professor Emily Murphy encountered a full spectrum of educators and took note of what…
March 28, 2025
Professor and renowned legal scholar Cheryl Harris unpacks the historical connections between racial discrimination, economic inequality, and the law in her speech, “On Race, Capitalism, and (Im)possible Futures,” during the Racial Capitalism Symposium at UC Law San Francisco in February. Ten years ago, while on a road trip…
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Legal Studies and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice. Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and former President of the Asian Law and Society Association, will offer historical insights into Japan’s effort to outlaw…
March 7, 2025
UC Law San Francisco faculty are adding important legal context and meaning to issues at the center of the national debate, including San Francisco’s Presidio, the future of Medicaid, and international asylum seekers fleeing abuse. Some publications may require registration or a subscription. Executive Power San Francisco Chronicle …
February 28, 2025
Professors Rory Little, Dave Owen, Jodi Short, Matt Coles, and Radhika Rao analyze the constitutional limits of presidential power and legal questions surrounding new executive orders during a recent panel discussion at UC Law San Francisco. Freezing federal funding. Shutting down government agencies. Laying off masses of federal…
February 24, 2025
Judge David Tatel speaks with Professor Zachary Price about his career, blindness, and the future of the judiciary at UC Law San Francisco. Judge David Tatel, who retired in 2023 after three decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, visited UC Law San Francisco…
February 21, 2025
From the current administration’s federal funding freeze to the ongoing debate about vaccines and healthcare reform, UC Law San Francisco faculty are adding important legal context to issues at the center of the national debate. Executive Power The Conversation Professor Zachary Price writes about Congresses’ power of the purse…
RSVP Here Please join us for an award ceremony and reception in recognition of Professor Emily Murphy, recipient of the 2024-2025 Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence. You can read more about this award and past recipients here.
February 6, 2025
UC Law San Francisco faculty are speaking about key national issues such as constitutional rights, immigration and refugee rights, presidential powers, vaccines, and workplace equality. Immigration and Citizenship The Guardian Professor Ming Hsu Chen says the Trump administration’s challenges to…
January 24, 2025
UC Law San Francisco faculty members, from left, Matt Coles, Natalia Ramírez Lee, Rory Little, and Zachary Price provided legal insight and analysis on the initial days of the Trump administration on important issues including presidential powers, immigration, birthright citizenship, and the enforcement of the TikTok ban. Analysis…
January 21, 2025
The University of California College of Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) and its Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) were well represented at the 17th Annual AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Conference, held at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law from October 18-19,…
January 16, 2025
On June 20, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed long-time Adjunct Professor James Schurz to the Marin County Superior Court. Judge Schurz had previously practiced law for 35 years, specializing in complex commercial and class action civil cases. The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) recently honored…