December 2, 2021
A marketplace app where users can sell services to one another and get paid in crypto. A digital wishing tree used by unhoused people to request money for an umbrella or help toward their monthly grocery bill. A kiosk that dispenses clean needles and opioid overdose reversal medication. And a…
October 9, 2021
Publications Scott Dodson,聽The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide聽(2021). Scott Dodson,聽The Red Book of Civil Procedure聽(2021). Robin Feldman, 鈥淭he Devil in the Tiers,鈥澛燨xford Journal of Law and Biosciences聽(January 22, 2021). Robin Feldman, 鈥淣egative Innovation: When Patents are Bad…
June 1, 2021
Alumni and faculty are playing a significant role in a case being argued June 2 at the California Supreme Court that could find the state鈥檚 death penalty statute unconstitutional. Supervising Deputy State Public Defender Elias Batchelder (鈥06) identified the key legal issues in the case and will argue on behalf…
May 27, 2021
Seven UC Law SF students won a $5,000 grant to advance their proposal for protecting the belongings and dignity of people who are homeless. After making it to the finals earlier this year in the 精东影业 of California鈥檚 15th Annual Big Ideas Contest,…
April 6, 2021
UC Law SF took its mock interview training program to a new level this year, thanks to growing alumni engagement and a new collaboration with Airbnb鈥檚 legal department targeting students from diverse backgrounds. Forty students from the school鈥檚 Legal Education Opportunity Program, which aims to make legal education accessible…
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 精东影业 of California鈥檚 Big Ideas Contest, the team is…
August 26, 2019
UC Law SF Professor Veena Dubal alongside 75 professors from across the country have signed a letter calling on the U.S. Senate to support AB5, a law that would force the gig economy giants like Uber and Lyft to classify its workers as employees instead…
Compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat, 鈥淟aw Against the People,鈥 42 AntroPolitica 296 (2018). Veena Dubal (with coauthors), 鈥淒isrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the US,鈥 16 Perspectives on Politics 919…
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.
October 26, 2018
The New York Times featured UC Law SF alumna Julia Olson ’97 on October 23rd, noting that: “If all goes as planned, Ms. Olson will deliver her opening argument on Monday in a landmark federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of 21 plaintiffs, ages 11 to 22, who…
October 1, 2018
September was a very active month for UC Law SF faculty scholarship and related activities. Below is the September Roundup, including entries from Aug. 20-31, compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat published a coauthored contribution…
September 19, 2018
From A CEO’s Full Circle In Oakland: Driving Justice At Home And Nationally, by Forbes Contributor Jessica Pliska: “Change agent, policy expert, movement builder, and community leader are all ways to describe Vien Truong, CEO of Dream Corps. Her career has been laser focused on driving policies at the federal,…