February 27, 2020
Professor Robin Feldman published an op-ed in the Washington Post in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s comment that he couldn’t promise a coronavirus vaccine would be made available to Americans who couldn’t afford the medicine. The op-ed, “President Trump’s coronavirus response highlights a flawed drug…
February 11, 2020
Americans have ranked health care as one of the issues most important to them. In early 2020, the nonpartisan Law & Medicine Initiative at the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i)Â issued a presidential advisory memo to the presidential campaigns and has updated it…
February 11, 2020
Date: Â February 2020* To: Â Â Â Â Â 2020 Presidential Campaigns From: Â Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Innovation (C4i) Health care policy is one of the most pressing issues facing Americans today. According to a January 2020 Gallup poll, 81% of Americans cited…
UC Law SF has long been a magnet for scholars, students, and practicing attorneys from throughout the world. In the past decade, one key reason for this is the groundbreaking UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, which offers opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between two leading…
Treatments for hemophilia could soon top $1.5 million a year. A drug for childhood leukemia recently debuted with a price tag of $475,000. Prescription drug prices as a whole have risen faster than other health care costs, and generic drugs some- times cost more than branded ones. In her…
June 5, 2019
UC Law SF Professor and Associate Academic Dean Jeffrey Lefstin testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property this week about patent eligibility issues facing inventors in the U.S. The hearing was titled “The State of Patent Eligibility in America: Part I,” and was part…
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’s thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers—the Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
Augie Rakow ’07 was a partner representing startups at Orrick when a Facebook post changed his career. In January 2017, he saw that Justin Kan, an entrepreneur who had sold his live-streaming video company Twitch.tv to Amazon for nearly $1 billion, had posted a poll about the cost of venture…
April 19, 2018
New research by University of California UC Law SF Professor Robin Feldman shines light on the highly secretive world of drug prices, including hidden payments, rebates, and inducements that drive the system toward higher-priced drugs.
March 13, 2018
The innovative startups will receive free legal services from UC Law SF students and practicing attorneys.
December 14, 2017
According to a report released by Lefstin, and two of the nation's other leading patent law scholars, the current rules for determining what innovations are eligible for patent protection are indefensible as a matter of legal principle and are causing particular difficulties for bioscience fields.
November 17, 2017
Grabbing from the headlines and emphasizing innovation, courses like Legal Tech Startups, Advanced Immigration Law, and Stalking and Law will prepare UC Law SF students for next-level legal careers.