July 31, 2023
The MEND Project California has passed a new law (SB464) that requires hospital-based perinatal clinicians to receive implicit bias training, with the goal of improving care and outcomes for Black birthing people in particular. This project has engaged Black birthing people, perinatal clinicians,…
July 31, 2023
Bench to School Initiative The California Bench to School Initiative (B2S) was established by the California Legislature in June of 2021 as a collaboration between UC Law SF, UCSF, and the UCLA School of Education. This initiative aims to disrupt the school to…
July 31, 2023
Statewide Medical-Legal Learning Collaborative The Dementia Care Aware Medical-Legal Learning Collaborative is a new statewide initiative that aims to improve care for underserved Californians with cognitive impairment. This Collaborative is embedded within a broader effort known as Dementia Care Aware (dementiacareaware.org), led…
April 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an increased and urgent need for advance care planning, a process through which people document the treatment they want to receive if they become unable to make medical decisions for themselves. This is an area where medical-legal partnerships, such as the Medical-Legal Partnership for…
June 25, 2019
Joseph, a homebound Korean War veteran, lost access to Medi-Cal and in-home care after a lengthy hospitalization. Unable to care for himself at home, the 90-year-old’s health further declined until he was referred by his physician to the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (MLPS) at UC Law SF. MLPS advocates…
June 25, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Tim Greaney spoke before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights about ways competition in health care markets can be improved. Greaney told the Senate Committee on Wednesday, June 12 that “it is especially appropriate that this subcommittee…
February 1, 2019
Publications Richard A. Boswell, “Book Review: The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education,” 67 Journal of Legal Education 1081 (2018). Thomas Greaney, “The New Merger Wave: Does the ‘Vertical Good’ Maxim Apply?,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Jan. 10, 2019)…
September 4, 2018
Professor Jaime S. King and Katherine L. Gudiksen, senior research fellow at the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition, co-authored Commentary on California’s Drug Transparency Law (SB-17) for the September edition of Health Affairs, the leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research. Along with Timothy T. Brown, associate…
January 8, 2018
Tucker founded the End of Life Liberty Project in 2015 as a program within the Disability Rights Legal Center.
September 25, 2017
Seven dynamic thought leaders bring wide-ranging experience and expertise to UC Law SF.
September 11, 2017
Professor Greaney's commentary suggests that regulations should target the real culprits, providers with market power and the ability to stifle competition.
March 22, 2017
UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy launches Health Reform Tracker website.