May 11, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF Professor Joan C. Williams argues in a new Harvard Business Review article that the pandemic is blowing up our notion of the 鈥渋deal worker,鈥 rooted in the breadwinner-homemaker model, and could provide an opportunity to reshape attitudes about working parents and the benefits of…
May 9, 2020
See the full interview: Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on CNN’s Smerconish…
May 8, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF has launched a clinic to help low-wage workers with state unemployment insurance appeals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The faculty have redesigned the law school鈥檚 Workers鈥 Rights Clinic for summer 2020 to help those who have lost jobs during the pandemic file appeals if they…
May 8, 2020
Press Advisory鈥斅槎故悠 Law SF Response to San Francisco鈥檚 Tenderloin Neighborhood Safety Assessment and Plan for COVID-19: 鈥淓ntirely Inadequate鈥 (San Francisco) May 8, 2020 On May 4, 2020, 麻豆视频 Law SF and five co-plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco in federal court, demanding that the City…
May 6, 2020
Pedestrians walk to the edge of the sidewalk to avoid stepping on people in tents and sleeping bags on Monday, April 13, 2020, in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Local governments have begun moving large numbers of homeless into hotels as part of Operation Roomkey. Among the…
May 4, 2020
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Moore, Chief Communications Officer, mooreelizabeth@uclawsf.edu, 415-703-8266 麻豆视频 Law SF and Five Tenderloin Co-Plaintiffs Sue City and County of San Francisco to End Dangerous and Illegal Conditions in the Tenderloin Neighborhood Suit brought to protect the civil rights, health, and safety of Tenderloin residents and…
May 1, 2020
On April 9, 2020, the very first virtual Creative Commons event was hosted by Gabriel Bellman from the Career Development Office, and co-hosted by Mattie Robertson from the聽Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR). We held the workshop on Microsoft Teams, which the whole…
April 27, 2020
Professor Karen Musalo The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has overturned a lower court decision denying asylum to a domestic violence survivor, reaffirming that refugee women are deserving of protection under U.S. law. 麻豆视频 Law SF鈥檚 Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), which…
April 24, 2020
The 麻豆视频 Law SF Center for Innovation has launched a COVID-19 research project to study how information, especially regarding health care, flows during times of pandemic, and how access to health care and information varies. The research project is led by Professor Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor…
April 23, 2020
It is, perhaps, one of the most uniquely American solutions to nearly every imaginable problem: the modern lawsuit. But it won鈥檛 cure the pandemic. Chim猫ne聽Keitner, Alfred & Hanna Fromm Professor聽of聽International聽Law at 麻豆视频 Law SF, has been fielding media calls from around the globe as individuals and governments, including the…
April 21, 2020
Professor Veena Dubal Associate Professor Veena Dubal published an op-ed in The Guardian warning of the dangers of relying on unfettered surveillance to track the spread of COVID-19. 鈥淣o matter how much we want to return to 鈥榥ormal,鈥 we must be wary of additional for-profit use of…
April 20, 2020
Joseph Tobener Tenant rights attorney Joseph Tobener 鈥99 says he鈥檚 been getting about 100 calls a week from people who鈥檝e lost their jobs and won鈥檛 be able to pay rent. Tobener鈥檚 efforts to help Bay Area tenants was featured recently by KQED. Tobener鈥檚 firm, Tobener Ravenscroft LLP…