September 19, 2019
On September 17, 2019, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution hosted the eighth Annual 鈥淎DR Around the World鈥 in collaboration with the JAMS Foundation. We were honored to have five Weinstein JAMS International Fellows. This Fellowship Program provides opportunities for qualified individuals from outside the United States to…
September 19, 2019
Hastings’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution’s Director, Professor Sheila Purcell, hosted a lunch on September 16th as part of a larger visit by a high level delegation of legal educators and lawyers visiting from the Republic of Uzbekistan. As an international leader in ADR education, CNDR continues to…
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…
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鈥檚 health further declined until he was referred by his physician to the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (MLPS) at UC Law SF. MLPS advocates…
It took roughly two decades, but earlier this spring the implementation of the settlement of Holocaust-era class actions against Swiss banks was completed. The final step was the issuance of the special master鈥檚 final report on the settlement process. The voluminous document highlights the significant role…
April 12, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias will present his new article 鈥淏ankruptcy Hardball,鈥 which is forthcoming in the California Law Review in 2020, at this year鈥檚 prestigious Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. The Article is co-authored with Robert Stark of Brown Rudnick LLP, a leading…
January 13, 2019
There is significant evidence that personal well-being affects the quality of professional legal practice and work life satisfaction. Lawyers are reported to have high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and dissatisfaction with professional life. There is also evidence that habits and ways-of-being developed during law school are contributing…
December 19, 2018
鈥淛udge Sullivan鈥檚 decision ensures that our asylum system remains open to refugees at our border, including those fleeing domestic violence and gang violence. These individuals raise legitimate claims under U.S. and international law, and have an unequivocal right to seek asylum. I am thrilled that the court鈥檚 order upholds that…
Compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat, 鈥淟aw Against the People,鈥 42 AntroPolitica 296 (2018). Veena Dubal (with coauthors), 鈥淒isrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the US,鈥 16 Perspectives on Politics 919…
UC Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school鈥檚 thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers鈥攖he Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
October 1, 2018
September was a very active month for UC Law SF faculty scholarship and related activities. Below is the September Roundup, including entries from Aug. 20-31, compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat published a coauthored contribution…
September 4, 2018
Professor Jaime S. King聽and聽Katherine L. Gudiksen, senior research fellow at the聽Source on Healthcare Price and Competition, co-authored Commentary on California鈥檚 Drug Transparency Law (SB-17) for the September edition of聽Health Affairs, the leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research. Along with Timothy T. Brown, associate…