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Health Policy & Law Affinity Group

September 21, 2021

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National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 17, 2021

Wednesday, September 15, 2021, marked the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, also known as Latinx Heritage Month. This month is a nationally recognized commemorative month that celebrates all the accomplishments and contributions of Americans of Latinx descent. As we celebrate this month here in the Library, we would like…

New Tech and Innovation Concentration Boots Up

September 9, 2021

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF students interested in shaking up the delivery of legal services may now pursue a concentration in Technology and Innovation in the Practice of Law. The offering represents the latest creation of LexLab, the school’s hub for collaboration among faculty, students, and alumni interested in legal tech…

Engaged Scholarship Q&A: Hadar Aviram

September 3, 2021

In our Engaged Scholarship series, we speak with members of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF faculty who are influential scholars, advocates, and thought leaders. Our first conversation is with Thomas Miller Professor of Law Hadar Aviram. Hadar Aviram is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is…

Center for Litigation and Courts Takes Flight

August 25, 2021

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF today officially launches its new Center for Litigation and Courts, a nonpartisan effort to expand knowledge of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and the courts. The impetus for creating the center was to fill a gap in the study of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and…

Accellion Data Breach

Check out the Library’s new Popular Fiction collection! Both print and eBooks available!

August 23, 2021

Need a break from law books?  Borrow a book from the library’s small, but growing Popular Fiction collection!  You’ll find the collection of 80+ titles in the Fourth Floor Reading Room, next to the popular magazines and newspapers.  The collection includes NY Times bestsellers such as The Last Thing He…

CGRS Director Karen Musalo Publishes LA Times Op-Ed On Afghan Refugee Crisis

August 20, 2021

Karen Musalo is a law professor and the founding director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF. The following op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 20, 2021. In the past week we have seen…

Ming Hsu Chen Joins Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF As Visiting Professor

August 18, 2021

Ming Hsu Chen—an expert on race, immigration, and citizenship—has joined the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF faculty as a visiting professor for the 2021-22 academic year. While at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF, she will teach Legislation and Administrative Regulation plus the seminar Citizenship and Equality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the fall semester and Constitutional…

Staff Member Lauren Lofton Wins Major DEI Award

August 18, 2021

In early March 2020, Lauren Lofton was at a conference in Tennessee, where the mood was dire. The state had just been devastated by 10 tornadoes. By the time Lofton arrived home in California, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF’s campus was moving into pandemic lockdown, where it would remain for more than…

Cathy Sakimura ’06 Receives National LGBTQ+ Bar’s Highest Honor

August 5, 2021

Just a year after the Supreme Court decided in favor of gay marriage, its justices decided in favor of gay families. In the latter case—decided in summary disposition—the Supreme Court overturned an Alabama decision to affirm the rights of nonbiological parents. Cathy Sakimura (’06), who represented the nonbiological parent…

We’re Conducting an Open-Rank Search for Three New Faculty Members

August 2, 2021

The University of California Hastings College of the Law (“Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law SF) in San Francisco is conducting an open-rank search to hire three entry-level, lateral tenure-track, or lateral tenured faculty members to begin the 2022-2023 academic year, i.e., July 1, 2022. We seek innovative and productive scholars and devoted…