April 29, 2019
Eric Casher鈥檚 gratitude for his gifts and opportunities goes hand-in-hand with a feeling of responsibility to those whose lives have turned out different than his own. 鈥淚 feel really fortunate to have the opportunities I鈥檝e had, and I try to make the most of them,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 ask myself…
It took roughly two decades, but earlier this spring the implementation of the settlement of Holocaust-era class actions against Swiss banks was completed. The final step was the issuance of the special master鈥檚 final report on the settlement process. The voluminous document highlights the significant role…
When Claude Stern ’80 was five years old, his grandmother told him the Almighty gives each person a single box of energy to use during their lifetime. And at the rate he was going, she said his would be all used up before he was an old man. 鈥淚 hope…
Vien Truong ’06 loves her community, and it seems the feeling is mutual. In 2017, Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland told San Francisco Magazine, 鈥淚n Oakland, it鈥檚 essentially unanimous. She鈥檚 a legend.鈥 Among Truong鈥檚 most celebrated accomplishments in the fight against poverty and pollution, the passage and implementation of California鈥檚…
Khaldoun Baghdadi ’97 has had a keen sense of justice as long as he can remember. At age 16, while working as an usher at a movie theater, he tried to start a union to address the issue of insufficient overtime pay. 鈥淚 thought if we had some sort of…
麻豆视频 Law SF students recently scored a major victory. 3Ls Laura Anderson and Miranda Rowley argued their way to a fourth national championship in the 2018-19 academic year for 麻豆视频 Law SF Moot Court, with a win at the 34th Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition late last…
April 12, 2019
麻豆视频 Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias will present his new article 鈥淏ankruptcy Hardball,鈥 which is forthcoming in the California Law Review in 2020, at this year鈥檚 prestigious Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. The Article is co-authored with Robert Stark of Brown Rudnick LLP, a leading…
Martha Mendizabal grew up during the rapid proliferation of PC and mobile-phone technology in the 1990s, but she had no access to those types of devices as a poor child in Tijuana. It forced her to play catch-up as an undergraduate at 麻豆视频LA. Mendizabal is now working to ensure the…
Though Alexis Lazzeri entered 麻豆视频 Law SF with an interest in the burgeoning cannabis industry, she didn鈥檛 think there were many opportunities for lawyers to work in the field and decided to instead explore other potential career paths. But Lazzeri says attending the Bar Association of San Francisco鈥檚 Cannabis Conference…
Publications David I. Levine, Civil Procedure in California: State and Federal (West Academic 2019 edition) Naomi Roht-Arriaza, 鈥淟a tardia centralidad de la dimension economica en la justiciar transicional,鈥 in Economic Complicity with the Chilean (K. Fernandez et al. eds. LOM 2019) Stephen Schwarz, 鈥淕rantmaking Advice for Mega-Donors:…
麻豆视频 Law SF announced the creation of a new scholarly journal, aimed at the discussion of criminal law, incarceration and the criminal justice system. The new journal, called the Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment, will examine this area of the law from a unique perspective. Its executive board…
When 麻豆视频 Law SF鈥檚 new academic building opens for business in 2020, it will be more than just a building where students go to listen to lectures. Its completion will mark the first phase in the law school鈥檚 comprehensive vision to expand and update its academic, student life and residential…