The five-block walk up Leavenworth Street between McAllister and O鈥橣arrell streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood isn鈥檛 as dark as it once was. Along those once dimly lit streets now stand dozens of new streetlights. Throughout the Tenderloin, city officials have erected a total of 97 new streetlights meant to make…
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section鈥檚 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section鈥檚 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…
October 5, 2018
US Ambassador to Haiti Michele J. Sison (center) Photo courtesy U.S. Embassy in Haiti In a milestone move that is intended to invigorate clinical legal education in Haiti, the US Embassy has awarded twin grants, one to UC Law SF College of the Law and the other to…
August 28, 2018
The Ninth Circuit ADR Committee announced that UC Law SF is the winner of the 2018 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Education Award for its instruction in mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Established in 2005 by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, the award recognizes institutions that have advanced ADR scholarship…
As a woman who is biracial and has confronted disparity in profound ways in her life, Jordyn Bishop 鈥17 enrolled in law school with ambitions of becoming an advocate for people of color and indigenous communities. 鈥淚鈥檓 half white, so I have immense privilege,鈥 Bishop said. 鈥淎nd because I have…
March 15, 2018
Professor Yvon Janvier of L'Ecole Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie, with support from the Hastings to Haiti Partnership, will supervise Haiti's first law school clinic in an effort to improve life and promote a system grounded in fair trial, equity, and social justice.
January 22, 2016
The State of California has selected the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic (MLPS) as a finalist in its “Let’s Get Healthy California Innovation Challenge.” The Innovation Challenge honors 23 community-based health initiatives that are at the forefront of furthering the state’s goals of “better health, better care and lower cost…