July 18, 2022
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF law students Sasha Madani J.D. ’23, Rebecca Siegel, J.D. ’22, and Christoph Keese LL.M. ’22, pitched tech startup ideas to a panel of experts at LexLab’s DemoDay competition in April 2022. For the last five years, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF LexLab has…
July 14, 2022
Desiree Robedeaux ’23 is doing public-interest work this summer after winning a prestigious Equal Justice Works fellowship. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF law student Desiree Robedeaux ’23 is spending her summer helping people with disabilities prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfire disasters. She won a prestigious fellowship from…
July 14, 2022
The Asian Law & Society Association (ALSA), the Japanese Association of the Sociology of Law (JASL), and CRN33 of the Law & Society Association jointly organized a panel to celebrate CEALS Senior Director Setsuo Miyazawa. Professor Miyazawa was the recipient of both the Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award and the Legacy…
July 11, 2022
A new study by the Center for WorkLife Law finds bias likely makes it harder for women and people of color to rank highly on a prestigious wealth advisors list. An influential list that many people use to pick who will manage their money appears to favor white…
July 8, 2022
Professor Hiro Aragaki, the incoming Director of The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF, has been invited to participate in a webinar co-sponsored by the Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC) and the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) as part of THAC International ADR Week…
July 7, 2022
Karissa Provenza ’22 is using her law degree to help reduce long prison sentences and improve access to education thanks to two post-graduate fellowship awards. This summer, Karissa Provenza ’22 is putting her new Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF law degree to work at the nonprofit For…
July 5, 2022
What are Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF faculty members reading this summer and why? Whether for knowledge or for fun, faculty members share their summer book picks below. Professor Alice Armitage Alice Armitage – Professor and Director of Applied Innovation, LexLab I’m reading Benjamin…
June 30, 2022
Ezekiel Gorrocino and Katie Scull are this year’s recipients of the 3L Excellence in Tax Writing Scholarship. This $5,000 scholarship is sponsored by the Fung Family Tax Law Scholarship Fund, a program generously funded by Jennifer Fung ’18 and Adrian Fung to support and retain tax law concentrators at Â鶹ÊÓƵ…
June 30, 2022
Rosamaria Cavalho ’22 will work with the Transgender Law Center in Oakland, California, helping LGBTQ asylum seekers and immigrants. Rosamaria Cavalho ’22 said she wanted to attend law school so she could support low-income, immigrant communities, like the one in which she was raised. Cavalho, who grew up…
June 28, 2022
Four nationally-renowned scholars – with expertise in areas ranging from restorative justice to pharmaceutical law – are joining the faculty at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF College of the Law as Professors of Law this fall. The new professors are Hiro Aragaki, who specializes in alternative dispute resolution; Ming Hsu Chen, an…
June 25, 2022
Dear Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF community, Today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating on many levels. I, too, feel the pain and shock I see in the faces of colleagues who, though bracing for the blow based on a leaked draft of the opinion, still…
June 24, 2022
Jennifer Oliva Professor Jennifer Oliva Oliva is a nationally-recognized health law scholar who serves as Senior Scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown Law and on the National Pain Advocacy Center’s Science and Policy Advisory Council. She was most recently the Associate…