January 5, 2020
Class of 2019 pass rate jumps by 20 points over July 2018, following adoption of innovative teaching methods 鈥淲e teach differently now,鈥 Ratner said. 鈥淔rom the student vantage point, it鈥檚 much more high touch than the traditional Langdellian model of legal education.” -Academic Dean Morris Ratner…
Publications Richard A. Boswell, 鈥淎dvancing a Broader View of Clinical Scholarship,鈥 26 Clinical Law Review 117 (2019) Jaime King et al., 鈥淣avigating Legal Challenges to State Efforts at Control Drug Prices: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulation, Anti-Price-Gouging Laws, and Price Transparency鈥 (National Academy for State Health Policy) Jaime King,…
Publications Scott Dodson, 鈥淟eading Cases,鈥 9聽International Journal of Procedural Law聽146 (2019) Chim猫ne Keitner & Scott Dodson, 鈥淛am v. International Finance Corp.,鈥 113聽American Journal of International Law聽805 (2019) Works Accepted Jodi Short, 鈥淭he Politics of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Theorizing and Operationalizing Political Influences,鈥澛燫egulation &…
September 19, 2019
UC Law SF Emeritus Lecturer Richard Zitrin is set to receive the California Lawyers Association鈥檚 2019 Harry B. Sondheim Professional Responsibility Award for his contributions to the field of legal ethics. Zitrin is only the fourth lawyer to receive the award. Established in 2010, the…
Publications Luke A. Boso, 鈥淩ural Resentment and LGBTQ Equality,鈥 71 Florida Law Review 919 (2019) Ben Depoorter, editor, Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar 2019) (with Peter Menell) Ben Depoorter, Copyright Law (2019) Ben Depoorter, The Property Multivitamin (2019) (with Seven Balogh) Ben…
June 25, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Tim Greaney spoke before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights about ways competition in health care markets can be improved. Greaney told the Senate Committee on Wednesday, June 12 that 鈥渋t is especially appropriate that this subcommittee…
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…
Scholarly Books Scott Dodson, editor, The Judges鈥 Book Vol. 2 (UC Law SF 2018) John Leshy, Debunking Creation Myths About America鈥檚 Public Lands (University of Utah Press 2018) Ugo Mattei, general series editor, The Common Core of European Private Law (Cambridge 2018) (with Mauro Bussani) Ugo Mattei, The Turning…
Publications The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice (Hadar Aviram et al. eds. Cambridge 2019) Ben Depoorter, 鈥淲hen the Remedy is the Wrong: Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age,鈥 66 UCLA Law Review 400 (2019) Ben Depoorter, 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of 3D Printing?,鈥 25 B.U.
It took roughly two decades, but earlier this spring the implementation of the settlement of Holocaust-era class actions against Swiss banks was completed. The final step was the issuance of the special master鈥檚 final report on the settlement process. The voluminous document highlights the significant role…
April 12, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias will present his new article 鈥淏ankruptcy Hardball,鈥 which is forthcoming in the California Law Review in 2020, at this year鈥檚 prestigious Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. The Article is co-authored with Robert Stark of Brown Rudnick LLP, a leading…
Though Alexis Lazzeri entered UC Law SF with an interest in the burgeoning cannabis industry, she didn鈥檛 think there were many opportunities for lawyers to work in the field and decided to instead explore other potential career paths. But Lazzeri says attending the Bar Association of San Francisco鈥檚 Cannabis Conference…