December 16, 2020
Students at UC Law SF’ new Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic drew on their own experiences this year to help educate disadvantaged taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities. Ezekiel Gorrocino, 2L, had noticed that some clinic clients were in the dark about whether they qualified for tax credits such as the…
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…
July 28, 2020
The UC Law SF Workers’ Rights Clinic – COVID 19 Response, retooled to help low-wage workers secure unemployment insurance benefits, has helped dozens of individuals who have lost vital income and given students their first practical experience of employment law. “The clinic has met the twin goals of helping workers…
February 20, 2020
Hastings Students for Immigrants’ Rights (HSIR) is sending eight law students to Taylor, Texas, in March to support women asylum seekers who are incarcerated at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. This year’s trip builds on the work of two previous trips to family detention centers. Three students went to…
December 15, 2019
Helping renters keep their homes is key to maintaining the fabric of a neighborhood. An innovative housing clinic in the Lower Polk District of San Francisco designed to prevent homelessness has won the prestigious Downtown Achievement Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association (IDA). And partial thanks goes to…
The five-block walk up Leavenworth Street between McAllister and O’Farrell streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood isn’t as dark as it once was. Along those once dimly lit streets now stand dozens of new streetlights. Throughout the Tenderloin, city officials have erected a total of 97 new streetlights meant to make…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at UC Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…