February 20, 2020
Hastings Students for Immigrants鈥 Rights (HSIR) is sending eight law students to Taylor, Texas, in March to support women asylum seekers who are incarcerated at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. This year鈥檚 trip builds on the work of two previous trips to family detention centers. Three students went to…
February 18, 2020
Left to rights: 2020 ALMA President Anna Pletcher, Catalina Lozano and Marin Superior Court Judge Sheila Lichtblau (courtesy photo) Longtime adjunct professor and civil rights fighter Catalina Lozano 鈥81 has been awarded the Unity Award by The Minority Bar Coalition, a network of over 40 diverse bar associations…
February 17, 2020
Francis McGovern, portrait at Duke Law 麻豆视频 Law SF and the national litigation community is mourning the sudden death of Visiting Professor Francis McGovern, following a fall at his home in Marin. He was 75, and to many, completely irreplaceable. Professor McGovern taught each spring semester at 麻豆视频…
February 14, 2020
Professor Frank H. Wu William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor Frank H. Wu has been awarded the 2020 John Hope Franklin Award for his longtime contributions to higher education and diversity. Franklin, an American historian best known for his 1947 work聽From Slavery to Freedom, was awarded the聽Presidential Medal…
February 13, 2020
L to R: Paige Shatola 1L, Leisa Boswell 1L, Skyler Sugimoto ’17, Katie Hekstra 1L, and Thomas Maloney 1L The 麻豆视频 Law SF Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Team had a very successful weekend at the American Bar Association Representation in Mediation Competition, where Leisa Boswell and Paige…
February 13, 2020
Professor Hadar Aviram Professor Hadar Aviram has won the 麻豆视频 Law SF Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. The annual award from the Foundation Board of Trustees recognizes demonstrated scholarly production. And with three books in the last five years, Aviram hits the mark. Aviram is…
February 12, 2020
Photo credit: Atterberry The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has appointed John W. Busterud 鈥81 as Regional Administrator for Region 9. He will oversee federal environmental protection efforts in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the U.S. territories in the Pacific, and 148 federally recognized tribes. 鈥淛ohn Busterud鈥檚 extensive background…
February 11, 2020
Americans have ranked health care as one of the issues most important to them. In early 2020, the nonpartisan Law & Medicine Initiative at the 麻豆视频 Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i)聽issued a presidential advisory memo to the presidential campaigns and has updated it…
February 11, 2020
Date: 聽 February 2020* To: 聽聽聽聽聽 2020 Presidential Campaigns From: 聽Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Innovation (C4i) Health care policy is one of the most pressing issues facing Americans today. According to a January 2020 Gallup poll, 81% of Americans cited…
January 24, 2020
Criminal Procedure Scholar and Public Defender Jonathan Abel Joins 麻豆视频 Law SF Faculty Professor Jon Abel Public defender and criminal procedure scholar Jonathan Abel will join the 麻豆视频 Law SF faculty as a tenure-track associate professor on July 1. He will teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure…
January 18, 2020
Hallinan, a distinctive and often divisive figure in San Francisco politics, died Jan. 17, 2020. He was 83. Terence Hallinan, 2003, Photo by Nancy Wong San Francisco is known for its iconic political figures, but it was always hard to beat Terence 鈥淜ayo鈥 Hallinan 鈥64, who died…
January 5, 2020
Class of 2019 pass rate jumps by 20 points over July 2018, following adoption of innovative teaching methods 鈥淲e teach differently now,鈥 Ratner said. 鈥淔rom the student vantage point, it鈥檚 much more high touch than the traditional Langdellian model of legal education.” -Academic Dean Morris Ratner…