May 8, 2020
UC Law SF has launched a clinic to help low-wage workers with state unemployment insurance appeals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The faculty have redesigned the law school’s Workers’ Rights Clinic for summer 2020 to help those who have lost jobs during the pandemic file appeals if they…
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…
October 5, 2018
US Ambassador to Haiti Michele J. Sison (center) Photo courtesy U.S. Embassy in Haiti In a milestone move that is intended to invigorate clinical legal education in Haiti, the US Embassy has awarded twin grants, one to UC Law SF College of the Law and the other to…
March 15, 2018
Professor Yvon Janvier of L'Ecole Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie, with support from the Hastings to Haiti Partnership, will supervise Haiti's first law school clinic in an effort to improve life and promote a system grounded in fair trial, equity, and social justice.