April 23, 2021
Sinkyone Council supports an important Indigenous People鈥檚 justice initiative led by Yuki people in collaboration with UC Law SF and Round Valley Indian Tribes to recognize and address acts of genocide against the Yuki perpetrated by the College鈥檚 founder Serranus Hastings, who later became California鈥檚 first Supreme…
April 7, 2021
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing travel, UC Law SF students continued their work to help people seeking asylum. For the past three years, students have gone to T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a facility outside Austin, Texas, where people awaiting decisions on their immigration status are detained. This spring,…
April 6, 2021
One benefit of attending UC Law SF鈥攚ith its proximity to Silicon Valley鈥攊s the opportunity to get hands-on experience working with rising entrepreneurs via the school鈥檚 Startup Legal Garage (SLG). And one benefit of being an entrepreneur in the Bay Area is the chance to get free legal assistance from law…
April 6, 2021
UC Law SF took its mock interview training program to a new level this year, thanks to growing alumni engagement and a new collaboration with Airbnb鈥檚 legal department targeting students from diverse backgrounds. Forty students from the school鈥檚 Legal Education Opportunity Program, which aims to make legal education accessible…
April 1, 2021
Proposed federal legislation to boost lifesaving cancer screening for women of color has been named in memory of a 2016 UC Law SF graduate who died of cervical cancer at age 32. The Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women鈥檚 Health Act would provide funding for preventative health care services such…
March 31, 2021
Each spring, US News & World Report (USNWR) publishes its annual rankings of law schools. This year, UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) ranked 8th in Dispute Resolution Programs! CNDR is one of the largest ADR programs in the…
March 26, 2021
March 25, 2021
The聽Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) is in the midst of an Advanced Practitioner Mediation Training Certificate which runs through 2022. In February’s session, Handling Emotions Productively, we explored the impact of emotions. Human emotions are vital in mediation: They let us know what matters, they help us…
March 24, 2021
The Center for Business Law has launched a new scholarship program aimed at giving students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to flourish in the world of business law. The CBL Scholars Program provides full tuition plus mentorship and support from the alumni and law firms who brought the idea…
March 21, 2021
The shift to online learning has impacted how we communicate with each other. Much is lost when we are not face to face – we are less connected as humans and misunderstandings can happen easily. Law school is an opportunity to practice bringing differing viewpoints together, instead of diverging.
March 19, 2021
As technology revolutionizes the legal industry鈥攁 trend that has gathered steam during the pandemic鈥攁n innovative UC Law SF collaboration is connecting students with Silicon Valley companies at the forefront. Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Alice Armitage offers 鈥淏uilding a Legal Tech Startup,鈥 a course in which upper-level students…
March 17, 2021
The news from Atlanta last night that eight people were killed, in a rampage directed at Asian and Asian American women and employees of massage and spa businesses, brings to the fore once again the depressingly significant part that hate plays in our society. When I teach constitutional law, it…