August 7, 2018
A large black sign with white lettering hangs on the wall of Professor Alina Ball鈥檚 office. It doesn鈥檛 mince words, and it doesn鈥檛 pull punches: Work Hard, Be Kind. The maxim caught Ball鈥檚 eye one day after work, on her walk to BART. Feeling that it articulated something essential…
August 7, 2018
Federal appellate clerkships are among the most coveted opportunities for newly minted lawyers, with only a small percentage of candidates accepted. This year, two remarkable students, 3Ls Nina Gliozzo and Alyxandra Vernon, have secured highly competitive clerkships at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals headquartered in San Francisco. 鈥淎lyx and…
August 7, 2018
Professor Evan Lee鈥檚 scholarly article for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, entitled 鈥淲hy California鈥檚 Second-Degree Felony-Murder Rule is Now Void for Vagueness,鈥 was cited by Ninth Circuit Judge Ronald M. Gould in his opinion in the case of Henry v. Spearman. The matter involved a California state prisoner鈥檚…
August 7, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg referenced Professor Scott Dodson鈥檚 amicus brief during oral argument in the case of Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Serv. of Chicago. The matter was before the Court on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to resolve the question:聽 Does…
Augie Rakow 鈥07 was a partner representing startups at Orrick when a Facebook post changed his career. In January 2017, he saw that Justin Kan, an entrepreneur who had sold his live-streaming video company Twitch.tv to Amazon for nearly $1 billion, had posted a poll about the cost of venture…
As a woman who is biracial and has confronted disparity in profound ways in her life, Jordyn Bishop 鈥17 enrolled in law school with ambitions of becoming an advocate for people of color and indigenous communities. 鈥淚鈥檓 half white, so I have immense privilege,鈥 Bishop said. 鈥淎nd because I have…
August 3, 2018
The only thing certain about the future of the law is uncertainty. I graduated law school in 1986. The most popular computer at that time was the Macintosh 128. It was a marvel. My iPhone, however, is more than 100 times faster, has over 1,000 times the memory, and is…
August 3, 2018
Host Cyrus Farivar from ARS Technica kicked off the live event on Gig Economy 101 by asking Professor Veena Dubal, 鈥淚 came to this bar in a Lyft, should I feel guilty about that?鈥 Thus began the more than hour-long interview of Professor Dubal where she 鈥渄elivered鈥 on educating…
July 31, 2018
Professor Shanin Specter appeared on CNN, with host Michael Smerconish, to discuss the legal ramifications of the tape of Michael Cohen speaking with then-candidate Trump about making a payment to a Playmate. 鈥淚t is a new level. It鈥檚 shocking that the President would suggest that his former lawyer…
July 31, 2018
Congratulations to the rising 2L winners of Distinguished Student Scholarships:聽 Victoria B. Ayeni, Leigha M. Beckman, Chelsea Blocklin, Kayla D. Bowen, Deborah Brundy, Michael K. Costello, Karlens Direny, Alisha M. Eastep, Abigail L. Ellerman, Katherine J. Grainger, Faye Hipsman, Emilie Jones, Andrew Klair, Kurtis Knapp, Michael A. Kostukovsky, Kristina…
Rising 2L Constanza 鈥淐onnie鈥 Ortiz talks about her experience at 麻豆视频 Law SF and her experience at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jos茅, Costa Rica in the following Q&A: Where are you from? Miami, Florida. What inspired you go to law school? I aspired to get…
July 26, 2018
Rising 2L Alex Sauerwein strengthened his commitment to advocating for environmental issues this summer as a legal clerk at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. His work was primarily focused on various environmental justice issues in the San Joaquin Valley (the Valley), like reducing air pollution, improving water…