June 25, 2026
Professor Hadar Aviram explores biblical stories of imprisonment and what they reveal about the history of confinement in new book. Prof. Hadar Aviram investigates narratives of incarceration in the Hebrew Bible as part of a broader inquiry into the history of confinement. Her research identifies carceral themes…
March 2, 2026
Professor Ming H. Chen’s research examines how immigration policy, race, and administrative law shape identity and inclusion in the United States and beyond. The UC Law San Francisco Foundation Board of Trustees has selected Professor Ming H. Chen as the winner of this year’s Foundation Faculty…
December 9, 2025
Ben Barsky, Disability, Race, and Health Beyond the Carceral State, Michigan Law Review (with Craig Konnoth & Michael Ashley Stein) (reviewing Mary Crossley, Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health). Ben Barsky, Access to Care and Outcomes With the Affordable Care Act for Persons With Criminal…
August 21, 2025
Spirited debates between Rick Trachok of the Nevada Board of Bar Examiners and David Faigman of UC Law San Francisco led to a landmark study showing little correlation between bar exam performance and attorney competence. UC Law SF leaders co-authored a first-of-its-kind study showing bar exam scores…
December 11, 2023
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) is proud to announce that Daniel Partiyeli, a third year J.D. student at UC Law San Francisco, recently won the American Bar Association’s prestigious 2023 James B. Boskey Law Student Essay Contest on Dispute Resolution.
December 7, 2023
Administrative Assistant Jorge Castaneda, Senior Principal Investigator Andrea Lollini, Executive Director Liz Steyer, and Senior Researchers Maryna Tsapok and Sara Hundt (left to right) are part of a team working for the Bench to School Initiative and California Institute on Law, Neuroscience and Education at UC Law SF.
November 7, 2023
Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) Professor Clark Freshman presented a part of his larger project on Re-Negotiating LGBTQ Equality in an Age of Counter-Reformation at the 2023 AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference (WIP) in October 2023. Quinnipiac University School of Law and Yale Law School co-hosted…
October 15, 2023
On October 12 and 13, Professor Thalia González, affiliated faculty with the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and Co-Director of the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) at UC Law San Francisco hosted a working conference supported by the Spencer Foundation with collaborators from…
August 7, 2023
Professor Dave Owen will mentor, support and promote other faculty members engaged in scholarly work as Associate Dean for Research at UC Law SF. Professor Dave Owen, one of the country’s leading environmental law scholars, is assuming a new role at UC Law San Francisco…
October 15, 2021
Four UC Law SF professors rank among the most-cited scholars in their fields over the past five years. One of them—UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman—topped the list of evidence scholars at #1. Two—Richard Marcus and Scott Dodson—made the top-10 civil procedure list alongside scholars from Yale, NYU,…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: February 2021 Publications Binyamin Blum, “Book Review: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt,” 55(1) Law & Society Review 206-209 (2021). Marsha Cohen, “Written Informed Consent – Translating into Plain Language. A Pilot Study,” 9 Healthcare 232 (2021) (with…
May 4, 2021
Faculty Achievements: November 2020 Publications Dorit Reiss, “Digging the Rabbit Hole, COVID-19 Edition: Anti-Vaccine Themes and the Discourse Around COVID-19,” Microbes and Infection (November 2020) (with Tara C. Smith). Jessica Vapnek, “Agricultural Legislation” in International Legislative Drafting Handbook, Carolina Academic Press (2020). Manoj Viswanathan, “The Unintended Consequences of California’s Proposition…