March 24, 2021
The Center for Business Law has launched a new scholarship program aimed at giving students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to flourish in the world of business law. The CBL Scholars Program provides full tuition plus mentorship and support from the alumni and law firms who brought the idea…
March 19, 2021
As technology revolutionizes the legal industry鈥攁 trend that has gathered steam during the pandemic鈥攁n innovative UC Law SF collaboration is connecting students with Silicon Valley companies at the forefront. Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Alice Armitage offers 鈥淏uilding a Legal Tech Startup,鈥 a course in which upper-level students…
March 10, 2021
A proposal for protecting the belongings and dignity of people who are homeless, developed by seven UC Law SF students, has reached the finals of a statewide contest. After being ranked among the top 8% of 354 entries in the University of California鈥檚 Big Ideas Contest, the team is…
November 10, 2020
UC Law SF鈥 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group, in partnership with the聽Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ), hosted an event on Oct. 16 featuring Adjunct Professor and CREJ Affiliated Scholar聽T. Anansi Wilson. Wilson presented two papers, 鈥淔urtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being鈥 and 鈥…
鈥淲ork hard and be your authentic self.鈥 That short, simple sentence echoed in the ears of UC Law SF College of the Law鈥檚 2018 graduating class. The inspirational line was delivered by Clinical Professor Mai Linh Spencer, whose commitment to teaching and inspiring students has been recognized with the…
An enthralled crowd watched on from the tables in the Louis Brown Mayer auditorium at UC Law SF as actors traded lines and shared powerful oral histories of the Tenderloin neighborhood. The documentary-style production was a free performance of CuttingBall Theater鈥檚 鈥淭he Tenderloin,鈥 originally performed in 2012. CuttingBall, which typically…
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.
August 28, 2018
The Ninth Circuit ADR Committee announced that UC Law SF is the winner of the 2018 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Education Award for its instruction in mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Established in 2005 by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, the award recognizes institutions that have advanced ADR scholarship…