Previous Slide Next Slide A Who鈥檚 Who list of state tax law experts, students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered on Thursday, Feb. 28 to formally welcome UC Law SF鈥檚 Center on Tax Law during the center鈥檚 inaugural reception. Attendees gathered at…
Publications Hadar Aviram, 鈥淏ook Review,鈥 53 Law & Society Review 313 (2019) Ben Depoorter, 鈥淭he Promises and Pitfalls of a Copyright Small Claims Process,鈥 33 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 711 (2019) Ben Depoorter, 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of 3D Napster?,鈥 Journal of Science & Technology Law…
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…
February 1, 2019
Publications Richard A. Boswell, 鈥淏ook Review: The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education,鈥 67 Journal of Legal Education 1081 (2018). Thomas Greaney, 鈥淭he New Merger Wave: Does the 鈥榁ertical Good鈥 Maxim Apply?,鈥 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Jan. 10, 2019)…
The five-block walk up Leavenworth Street between McAllister and O鈥橣arrell streets in the Tenderloin neighborhood isn鈥檛 as dark as it once was. Along those once dimly lit streets now stand dozens of new streetlights. Throughout the Tenderloin, city officials have erected a total of 97 new streetlights meant to make…
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 10, 2018
The faculty at UC Law SF has voted to grant tenure to three outstanding professors. Associate professors Alina Ball, a nationally-recognized expert within the transactional clinical community, Jared Ellias, an expert in the realm of bankruptcy law, and Zachary Price, an expert on constitutional structure, will officially be…
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.
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section鈥檚 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section鈥檚 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…
UC Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school鈥檚 thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers鈥攖he Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul鈥檚 previous book, Unlikely Allies (Riverhead, 2009), featured an unassuming shopkeeper, a mysterious cross-dressing spy, and a famous French playwright who changed the course of the American Revolution. His newest book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Riverhead, 2018), focuses on a self-taught man who…
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…