May 7, 2024
Maya Galicia-Canto 鈥20, Micah Lesch ’25, and Hilary Slauson ’25 spent their summers working with domestic violence survivors, immigrants, and lawmakers in California and Washington D.C. Donors make the work possible by providing funding for grants that allow students to work in otherwise unpaid summer internships that serve…
May 30, 2022
After a two year hiatus, this year’s Public Interest Celebration took place on May 20, 2022 on the UC Law SF campus, with some attending virtually. Faculty, staff, students, and their friends and family, joined together to recognize students who made tremendous impacts on the community through their work in…
April 7, 2021
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing travel, UC Law SF students continued their work to help people seeking asylum. For the past three years, students have gone to T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a facility outside Austin, Texas, where people awaiting decisions on their immigration status are detained. This spring,…
February 12, 2021
UC Law SF congratulates Mieke Eoyang, Class of 2002, on her recent appointment as deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. Mieke Eyoang ’02, featured in the 2019 UC Law SF magazine Eoyang will lead the Department of Defense鈥檚 cyberspace policy and strategy,…
August 31, 2020
UC Law SF has a rich legacy of sending its graduates to positions on the state bench, from the trial courts to the California Supreme Court. Four alumni joined those ranks Aug. 28 when Gov. Gavin Newsom聽announced their appointment to seats on the California Superior Court. Karen Moskowitz 鈥83 of…
August 11, 2020
UC Law SF students have access to a rich array of pro bono opportunities: professional work, such as helping clients through clinics and providing legal counsel at a homeless shelter with the Bar Association of San Francisco, as well as non-legal volunteer services, such as serving food at St. Anthony鈥檚…
July 29, 2020
UC Law SF has a legacy of training students for public-interest careers. To support that effort, the college awards deserving graduates with the Nancy Stuart Public Interest Award to help fund their bar preparation studies. The $4,000 award, for students committed to careers devoted to closing the access-to-justice gap for…
Nearly 20 alums from UC Law SF College of the Law are among a group of more than 170 general counsels and corporate lawyers who signed an open letter urging the legal industry to commit to improving diversity and inclusion in new partner classes. The letter includes signatures from Leah…
Jeanette Acosta 鈥16 demonstrated her fighting spirit in both her professional and personal life. Detailing her chemotherapy routine in a story she wrote for the health website mindbodygreen, she likened each session to a round in a boxing match. 鈥淲e are stronger than we think,鈥 Jeanette concluded. 鈥淚f you are…
August 16, 2018
Each year, Equal Justice Works selects a class of passionate, public interest lawyers who have designed innovative projects in conjunction with nonprofit legal services organizations to respond to unmet legal needs in their communities. Equal Justice Works Fellows have represented thousands of adults, children, and families in need throughout…
Part litigator and part policy guru, the counselor on international law is an outside expert who serves in the U.S. State Department鈥檚 Office of the Legal Adviser (L), typically with expertise in litigation involving international and foreign relations law. When UC Law SF Professor Chim猫ne Keitner assumed that position…
July 26, 2018
Rising 2L Alex Sauerwein strengthened his commitment to advocating for environmental issues this summer as a legal clerk at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. His work was primarily focused on various environmental justice issues in the San Joaquin Valley (the Valley), like reducing air pollution, improving water…