December 12, 2018
On December 31, 2018, Bloomberg will retire its BNA Resource Center platform and transition all law school accounts to Bloomberg Law. All content found in the BNA Resource Centers has migrated to Bloomberg Law and is available through its Practice Centers. If you receive e-mail alerts from Bloomberg…
December 10, 2018
The faculty at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF has voted to grant tenure to three outstanding professors. Associate professors Alina Ball, a nationally-recognized expert within the transactional clinical community, Jared Ellias, an expert in the realm of bankruptcy law, and Zachary Price, an expert on constitutional structure, will officially be…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
December 6, 2018
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF hosted another successful event in Southern California as four distinguished judges from the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Lisa Hart Cole ‘80, David J. Cowan ‘88, Renee Korn ‘90, B. Scott Silverman ‘75, gathered as a panel of experts to discuss current issues in Civil Law, Probate…
Professor Carol Izumi won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 William Pincus Award for lifetime of outstanding service to clinical legal education. Professor Alina Ball won the AALS Clinical Section’s 2018 Shanara Gilbert Award as outstanding emerging clinician committed to teaching and achieving social justice and expanding…
November 27, 2018
Dear Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Community, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am writing with news and a few thoughts about the California Bar exam results from this past July. This year, the news is mixed: Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Class of 2018 continued a two-year trajectory of steadily improving…
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as promote the school’s thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers—the Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
November 8, 2018
Continuing the College’s winning streak after being named the top trial team program in the U.S. by the interscholastic law school trial competitions, the Hastings mock-trial team took home another first place at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA) Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, Nov. 3. “It feels…
November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul’s previous book, Unlikely Allies (Riverhead, 2009), featured an unassuming shopkeeper, a mysterious cross-dressing spy, and a famous French playwright who changed the course of the American Revolution. His newest book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Riverhead, 2018), focuses on a self-taught man who…
There are plenty of great places to grab a bite just a short walk from campus in the Tenderloin. That’s why each month, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF students and staffers sample a local eatery and share our review of it with the Hastings and Tenderloin communities. In October, we decided to…
October 26, 2018
The New York Times featured Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF alumna Julia Olson ’97 on October 23rd, noting that: “If all goes as planned, Ms. Olson will deliver her opening argument on Monday in a landmark federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of 21 plaintiffs, ages 11 to 22, who…
October 10, 2018
For the second consecutive year, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF College of the Law has been named the top trial team program in the U.S., according to the latest rankings of interscholastic law school trial competitions. AAJ National Champions Pablo Wudka-Robles, Maryam Ahmad, Jon Davidi, and Ellie Barczak “We are…