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…
January 2, 2020
Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet Numerous 麻豆视频 Law SF professors are presenting this week at the Association of American Law Schools鈥 (AALS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on panels addressing some of the most innovative techniques in legal education and cutting-edge policy issues. The participants:…
January 2, 2020
Dear Hastings Community, David Faigman New Year鈥檚 is a time of reflection and resolution. Since becoming Chancellor and Dean, I have taken the opportunity of each new year to reflect on the successes of the past year and to set forth my resolutions for the year ahead, often…
December 17, 2019
鈥淟aurie Zimet was one of the first people to engage with me in an explicit and rigorous way about what it means to be an effective teacher.鈥 Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet 麻豆视频 Law SF Director of Academic Support Laurie Zimet has been honored by the…
December 15, 2019
Helping renters keep their homes is key to maintaining the fabric of a neighborhood. An innovative housing clinic in the Lower Polk District of San Francisco designed to prevent homelessness has won the prestigious Downtown Achievement Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association (IDA). And partial thanks goes to…
December 12, 2019
The journal staff will host a symposium on 鈥減rogressive prosecution鈥 Feb. 7, 2020, featuring, among other speakers, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The editors and staff of the Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment. 麻豆视频 Law SF adds a tenth title to its suite of…
December 6, 2019
2013 JACQUELINE TOKOS LENTZ passed away on July 25, 2018. She worked for several years as a U.S. congressional aide in the 10th Congressional District and practiced political law as an attorney with the law firm of Nielsen Merksamer in San Rafael. 1989 WILLIAM (BILL) MITCHELL ANDREWS passed away at…