February 12, 2021
UC Law SF congratulates Mieke Eoyang, Class of 2002, on her recent appointment as deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. Mieke Eyoang ’02, featured in the 2019 UC Law SF magazine Eoyang will lead the Department of Defense鈥檚 cyberspace policy and strategy,…
January 15, 2021
Can hospitals sell the COVID-19 vaccine for a profit? Can you sue if you get sick from the COVID vaccine? Can hospital workers be fired for refusing to vaccinate? As a leading vaccine law scholar, Prof. Dorit Reiss answers these questions and more in a series of three succinct…
January 12, 2021
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR)’s Director and Professor Sheila Purcell, along with Adjunct Professor John Dean, spoke on ethics in negotiation at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Negotiation Training held on January 6, 2021. Adjuncts Kavya Mohankumar and Shirish Gupta also spoke on ADR choices at…
January 8, 2021
Professor D. Kelly Weisberg poses with one of the books in her Hornbook Series, a collection of treatises on specific areas of the law. As a national expert on domestic violence law, UC Law SF Professor D. Kelly Weisberg聽observed with concern…
December 14, 2020
We are proud to share that alumnus David A. Pereda 鈥05 has been appointed to serve as a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court. David A. Pereda ’05 From Governor Newsom鈥檚 press release: Since 2018, Pereda has served as Special Counsel at the…
December 10, 2020
On December 8, 2020, Professor Veena Dubal appeared on Democracy Now. She spoke about a potential wave of new anti-worker laws alongside Cherri Murphy, who is a Lyft driver and an organizer with Gig Workers Rising. The full segment, “After Prop 22 Win for Uber & Lyft, Advocates…
December 8, 2020
Key subsection titled 鈥淭he Feldman Report鈥 finds state鈥檚 insulin costs Increased by 280%. The Colorado Department of Law released a report earlier this month on the high cost of insulin and the barriers to access facing Coloradans that cited work by Professor Robin Feldman and UC Law SF鈥…
November 20, 2020
The UC Law SF Moot Court is once again the highest ranked moot court team in the nation. It is not unfamiliar territory. In 2017, UC Law SF was named the No. 2 Moot Court Team of the Decade, having placed first or second many times in the last…
November 16, 2020
Former Hastings Institute Student and Interviewer Idil Elveris CNDR Director Sheila Purcell was interviewed on the conflict resolution podcast We Can Find a Way, produced by Idil Elveris of Istanbul, Turkey who currently lives in London. She is a former student of Professor Purcell’s…
November 10, 2020
Prof. Hadar Aviram has received the Western Society of Criminology’s聽June Morrison-Tom Gitchoff Founders Award聽for 2021, which honors a person who, through scholarship and/or activism, has significantly improved the quality of justice in the United States. The award acknowledges Aviram’s “profound influence on criminology and criminal justice.” Aviram has been one…
November 7, 2020
Over my four years as dean of UC Law SF, I have had the honor of congratulating and celebrating the achievements of so many of our talented graduates. These include state and federal judges, law firm partners, public interest lawyers, city, state and federal prosecutors, local and federal…
November 4, 2020
On October 28, 2020, Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) and co-host Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), led students in a Creative Commons workshop focused on using Improv techniques to learn adaptability and reacting in the moment. Staying focused and being able to…