May 3, 2021
UC Law SF Moot Court held on to its coveted #1 ranking this semester, capping off a school year that saw alumni coaches participate in greater numbers than ever. The 90-plus student team members were dubbed 鈥淐ovid National Champions鈥 in a recent Zoom awards ceremony to celebrate the achievement.
April 28, 2021
UC Law SF Professor Kelly Weisberg received the Hope Rising Journalism Award at the International Family Justice Center Conference earlier this month in recognition of her work as editor of the leading legal newsletter on domestic violence. Professor Kelly Weisberg 鈥淚t鈥檚 not journalism in the…
April 24, 2021
An award-winning negotiation and dispute resolution team, a top-tier mediation clinic, and a holistic approach to providing students with the skills they need to be successful in the workplace are three of the qualities that likely earned UC Law SF its #8 ranking for dispute resolution programs in U.S. News…
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…
March 9, 2021
Professor Veena Dubal聽has won the UC Law SF Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. The award from the Foundation Board of Trustees is given annually to a聽faculty member who has demonstrated scholarly excellence and promise. Dubal鈥檚 work intersects law, technology, and precarious employment.聽She uses empirical research and critical…
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 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 10, 2020
Prof. Robin Feldman has been honored with the 2020 Leon I. Goldberg Memorial Lecture Award by the University of Chicago鈥檚 Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics for her work in pharmaceutical policy and law. She is the first person from outside the field of medicine to receive the award,…
October 11, 2020
The year was聽2012.聽Few if any specialists outside of scientific labs聽knew what CRISPR聽stood for, let alone what the technology could do.聽 But a聽small,聽select group of UC Law SF students, working with聽UC Law SF鈥櫬燬tartup Legal Garage聽under…
UC Law SF students recently scored a major victory. 3Ls Laura Anderson and Miranda Rowley argued their way to a fourth national championship in the 2018-19 academic year for UC Law SF Moot Court, with a win at the 34th Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition late last…
鈥淲ork hard and be your authentic self.鈥 That short, simple sentence echoed in the ears of UC Law SF College of the Law鈥檚 2018 graduating class. The inspirational line was delivered by Clinical Professor Mai Linh Spencer, whose commitment to teaching and inspiring students has been recognized with the…
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…