November 27, 2018
Dear 麻豆视频 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: 麻豆视频 Law SF Class of 2018 continued a two-year trajectory of steadily improving…
麻豆视频 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鈥檚 thought leadership across a vast legal academic landscape. The new centers鈥攖he Center on Business Law, the Center on Tax Law, the…
November 8, 2018
Continuing the College鈥檚 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. 鈥淚t feels…
November 4, 2018
Professor Joel Paul鈥檚 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鈥檚 why each month, 麻豆视频 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 麻豆视频 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, 麻豆视频 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 鈥淲e are…
October 5, 2018
US Ambassador to Haiti Michele J. Sison (center) Photo courtesy U.S. Embassy in Haiti In a milestone move that is intended to invigorate clinical legal education in Haiti, the US Embassy has awarded twin grants, one to 麻豆视频 Law SF College of the Law and the other to…
October 2, 2018
WHEREAS, pursuant to Education Code Section 92204, the business of the University of California Hastings College of the Law shall be managed by the Hastings Board of Directors (鈥淏oard鈥); and, WHEREAS, Hastings By-Law 5.2, provides that vacancies occurring on the Board, except for the heir or representative of S.C. Hastings,…
October 1, 2018
September was a very active month for 麻豆视频 Law SF faculty scholarship and related activities. Below is the September Roundup, including entries from Aug. 20-31, compiled by Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research Scott Dodson. Publications George Bisharat published a coauthored contribution…
September 26, 2018
The United States Court of Appeals 10th Circuit recently cited an article from Professor Scott Dodson in a contract assignment decision. The 10th Circuit quoted from Dodson鈥檚, 鈥淒ignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty,鈥 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777, 778 (2003), in Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services v. United…
Professor Abraham Cable and Glen Van Ligten 鈥91 have been co-teaching the corporate classroom component of the Startup Legal Garage鈥攁 program offered by the 麻豆视频 Law SF Institute for Innovation Law鈥攆or the past three years. The class is intended to help students who are working with early-stage technology companies…