January 21, 2026
Sixteen leaders from law and technology, many UC Law SF alumni, have joined a new advisory board on AI in legal practice and education. The board will advise on curriculum, professional skills training, and the responsible use of AI in teaching and academic operations. Their guidance positions UC Law…
November 3, 2025
Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Tal Niv, right, addresses the crowd during An Evening of Open: Science, Software, & AI. The event featured remarks from Florian Cardinaux, consul general of France in San Francisco and was co-sponsored by the consulate general and GitHub. Lexlab’s connections to international…
May 15, 2025
Building on its leadership in AI law, UC Law San Francisco will launch the inaugural Law and Artificial Intelligence Program, a five-day course for lawyers, technologists, and policymakers in July. LexLab Director Drew Amerson is among those leading efforts at UC Law SF to shape the legal…
December 4, 2023
Entrepreneurs in LexLab’s Justice Technology Accelerator Program posed with law professors and students after pitching their startups at the annual Demo Day competition on Nov. 14. Two tech startups that offer legal help to people who might be unable to afford traditional legal services took home top prizes…
June 8, 2023
LexLab, a center at UC Law San Francisco that focuses on law, technology, and innovation, is joining forces with gener8tor, Village Capital, and the Justice Technology Association for a groundbreaking accelerator program supporting justice tech startups. Launched in…
May 8, 2023
LexLab Director Drew Amerson, center, presented prize checks to contest winners Aliza Shatzman, left, president and founder of the Legal Accountability Project, and Dina Joseph and Mike Jones, right, cofounders of Aurelian, at the Demo Day event in April 2023. Having investors back consumer lawsuits, reviewing judges for…
November 9, 2022
Data privacy legal expert Lothar Determann (left) moderated a panel of data privacy professionals – Jeewon Kim Serrato, Mariam Abdel-Malek, Barbara Lawler, and Leila Golchehreh (left to right) – at a Privacy Day event co-hosted by LexLab at UC Law SF on Sept. 29. As a center focused…
July 18, 2022
UC Law SF law students Sasha Madani J.D. ’23, Rebecca Siegel, J.D. ’22, and Christoph Keese LL.M. ’22, pitched tech startup ideas to a panel of experts at LexLab’s DemoDay competition in April 2022. For the last five years, the UC Law SF LexLab has hosted a shark-tank…
January 20, 2022
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five…
May 3, 2021
It was only supposed to be an educational exercise. But for Justin MacFayden (’20) and Karolina Dziadosz (’21), a Spring 2020 project leapt from the classroom into the marketplace. 3L Karolina Dziadosz For their course on how to build a legal-tech startup, MacFayden and Dziadosz…
March 19, 2021
As technology revolutionizes the legal industry—a trend that has gathered steam during the pandemic—an innovative UC Law SF collaboration is connecting students with Silicon Valley companies at the forefront. Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Alice Armitage offers “Building a Legal Tech Startup,” a course in which upper-level students…
August 23, 2019
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for emerging legal technologies, today announced its second cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first cohort earlier this year, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in its accelerator program. From machine learning and natural…