April 13, 2022
Student volunteers include, clockwise, from left: Joe Martin, Patrick Micu, Megan Gregory, Rosamaria Cavalho, and Anastasia Gomez. As April’s national filing tax deadline grows closer, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF law students are doing their part to assist low-income taxpayers. From greeting clients, answering questions, and helping them fill out…
April 12, 2022
In this month’s Creative Commons on April 7, 2022, we created grounding tools in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Regular hosts, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and the Career Development Office (CDO), worked in collaboration with The Center for Advocacy,…
April 6, 2022
Nikayla Johnson participated in the California Scholars program at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF and plans to work as an advocate for youth in the future. Growing up in Oakland, there were two things that inspired Nikayla Johnson to go to law school—the first was when members of her…
April 5, 2022
Some law students got hands-on experience helping asylum seekers at the border during spring break. Seven Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF law students spent their spring break at the US-Mexico border, visiting shelters for migrants and assisted Haitian asylum seekers by sharing information about asylum laws and processing steps. The…
April 4, 2022
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF’ specialty programs are ranked highly nationwide. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF College of the Law continues to be recognized by its peers as having top-ranked programs in law – including its Dispute Resolution program, ranked 9th in the nation; Health Law at 12th in the nation, Tax…
March 29, 2022
Kathryn Cunningham, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF’ Sustainability Manager, adds a LEED sticker to one of the rooms at 333 Golden Gate Ave. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF is ramping up its sustainability efforts. So far, the law school has started energy and water conservation projects, waste reduction initiatives across campus, earned…
March 29, 2022
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Professor Scott Dodson Every 1L student in law school has to take a course on Civil Procedure. And many say it’s dense and complicated, and, for some students, even boring—unless it happens to be taught by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Professor Scott Dodson. Dodson, who was…
March 25, 2022
On March 17, 2022, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and the Career Development office (CDO) held a career panel for students entitled “Beyond Mediation: Careers in Dispute Resolution.” This panel highlighted a couple lesser well-known dispute resolution professions, giving students the…
March 23, 2022
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF OUTlaw has been recognized as the Law Student Association of the Year by the BALIF Foundation. BALIF is the nation’s oldest and largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBTQ+ persons in the legal field. Each year, the award is given to…
March 18, 2022
Professor Joan Williams, left, and Emtrain CEO Janine Yancey ’92, right. Want to lower incidences of bias and harassment in the workplace? It all starts with respect. Those were some of the findings of a research report conducted in partnership between the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF Center for…
March 17, 2022
Lilia Kazemi ’24, left, and Sharareh (Sheila) Zareng ’24, right, were chosen as Center for Business Law Scholars. Working with a start-up company, increasing diversity at companies, and advocating for clients are some of the goals of the new recipients of the Center for Business Law Scholarships. Â鶹ÊÓƵ…
March 14, 2022
Tax Law Professor Peter Maier There was a time when, if a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF student considered tax law as a concentration, that student would peruse the course catalog and see a class called Basic Income Tax. But if it had Peter K. Maier’s name…