August 21, 2025
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law San Francisco is proud to announce that 3L Ron Kinan has been awarded the 2025 Francis E. McGovern Scholarship. The McGovern Scholarship honors the legacy of the late Professor Francis McGovern, a pioneer in the field of alternative…
August 21, 2025
Spirited debates between Rick Trachok of the Nevada Board of Bar Examiners and David Faigman of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law San Francisco led to a landmark study showing little correlation between bar exam performance and attorney competence. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF leaders co-authored a first-of-its-kind study showing bar exam scores…
August 21, 2025
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF welcomes new faculty members with expertise in environmental and land-use law, family law, bar preparation, and more. Six Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF professors and staff members are stepping into expanded roles to strengthen legal writing instruction and courtroom advocacy programs, support first-generation law students, and advance diversity,…
August 19, 2025
Ralph Richard Banks joins Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF as the 2025 Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor with the Center for Racial and Economic Justice. Ralph Richard Banks brings decades of expertise in constitutional law, family law, and racial justice to Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF as this year’s Wiley Manuel…
August 18, 2025
Dear Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Community, Welcome, and welcome back, to Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law San Francisco. I hope that you have had a safe, productive, and rewarding summer. This is my tenth welcome message to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law community since becoming dean in 2016. It seems that year-after-year I comment…
August 14, 2025
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF’s newest students mingle on the Quad during orientation, making the first connections in their lifelong professional network. Orientation helps students start their journey with confidence and get to know the students, faculty, and staff they’ll be interacting with over the next three years. …
August 13, 2025
Administrative and constitutional law scholar Jodi Short of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF offered expert analysis to federal judges weighing cases involving executive authority. Professor Jodi Short joined top legal scholars to submit briefs in two major federal court cases involving executive power. The cases challenge executive orders and actions…
August 12, 2025
At Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law San Francisco, students aiming for careers in tech don’t just study statutes and case law—they learn from the people who helped shape the legal and business strategies behind some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. Ernest Hammond, associate general counsel of AI Product at Meta,…
August 1, 2025
This summer, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law San Francisco students traveled across California and the nation to put their legal education into action—drafting energy legislation, helping adjudicate federal employment disputes, and representing tenants at risk of losing their housing. From rural legal aid offices to federal agencies in New York City, they…
July 31, 2025
Heather Varanini, professor of practice at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF, supports LEOP students with academic skills training and bar exam preparation. Professor of Practice Heather Varanini draws on personal experience and nearly a decade of work in academic skills training to support students in the Legal Education Opportunity Program…
July 14, 2025
A 2006 graduate of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF, Moira O’Neill returns to her alma mater with deep expertise in housing, climate, and land-use law and policy. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF alumna Moira O’Neill has joined the faculty in Fall 2025 to teach environmental, land-use, and property law. Her research has…
July 11, 2025
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF’s Professor Zachary Price shares expert analysis with national news organizations on timely constitutional issues, including presidential powers. Leading national news outlets regularly turn to Professor Zachary Price for insight on timely legal controversies involving constitutional limits and executive authority. He’s offered key analysis on high-profile…