February 25, 2022
When she was growing up, Debra Bogaards ‘81 remembers her family’s Friday night Shabbat dinners included donating to a favorite charity each week. The Jewish idea of Tzedakah, a Hebrew word that is used to refer to charity or philanthropy, stuck with her as she grew up. She said, “It…
February 25, 2022
Students in 鶹Ƶ Law SF’s First Gen program celebrate the program’s kickoff in February. 鶹Ƶ Law SF kicked off its First Generation Program – which celebrates and supports law students who are the first in their families to go to college and now attend law…
February 4, 2022
Stop by the library to borrow the latest additions to our Popular Fiction collection: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham Anthem by Noah Hawley Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho How High We Go…
Evergreening is a strategy used by pharmaceutical companies to extend the life of their drug patents and monopoly periods by obtaining additional protections, often based on minor modifications. This searchable drug patent database reports patent extensions by pharmaceutical companies from 2005 to 2018 on brand-name drugs, listed in the…
February 1, 2022
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) says goodbye to it’s longtime Director. Emerita Clinical Professor, and now former Director of CNDR, Sheila Purcell retired on January 31, 2022, after almost 10 years leading the Center and teaching at 鶹Ƶ Law SF. Professor Purcell took over in…
February 1, 2022
“Whenever there is a blockbuster drug, there are disputes about who owns it, who owns variations of it, who owns it for how long, and in what context,” Professor Robin Feldman told CNBC News in their story about COVID vaccines and how patent disputes…
February 1, 2022
Join us in celebrating Black History Month! Read a biography on Thurgood Marshall or an account of the origins and legacy of MLK’s “I have a Dream” speech. For more in-depth research, check out the library’s Racial Justice Research Guide. The guide connects law students and…
January 26, 2022
Professor Heather Field posted How the Pandemic Flipped My Perspective on Flipping the Tax Law Classroom (forthcoming in Pittsburgh Tax Review) on SSRN.
January 25, 2022
As historian Matthew Guariglia researches his latest book about the history of race, policing, and surveillance, he is struck by how little has changed in more than a hundred years. “While all the technology policy use has changed, what we ask the technology to do has not…
January 21, 2022
Professor Heather Field Presented Taxpayer Choices, Itemized Deductions, and the Relationship between the Federal & State Tax Systems, at an SMU Dedman School of Law Faculty Forum.
January 20, 2022
LexLab at 鶹Ƶ Law SF, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five…
January 18, 2022
Black Californians constitute 6.5% of California’s total population but make up nearly 40% of its homeless population. This disparity exists in San Francisco and it exists in Santa Cruz. It’s an issue in Chico, as it is in Los Angeles. Brandon Greene, affiliated scholar at 鶹Ƶ Law SF’ Center for…