May 21, 2020
As the health care community faces unprecedented challenges in delivering care, the American Health Law Association (AHLA) has produced a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video series to heighten awareness of the ever-shifting legal landscape in light of the coronavirus. The video series features some of the top scholars of…
May 17, 2020
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution‘s own Mattie Robertson (Deputy Director of CNDR) spent the past month training Shelter Client Advocates from the Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC). The EDC is based here in the Tenderloin near 麻豆视频 Law SF, so CNDR was proud to support our…
May 14, 2020
Starting May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral argument by phone, and released livestream audio, in 10 important cases. This is unprecedented. The decisions, expected in June, could dramatically affect the November presidential election, as well as other major issues. Join Professor Rory Little as he discusses…
May 14, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF has launched a short-form podcast series, 鈥淟aw and the Pandemic,鈥 to share insights relating to some of the most pressing legal issues arising from the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. In each episode, faculty tackle some of the thorniest questions of the moment, from whether the…
May 13, 2020
If you are thinking about retiring but aren鈥檛 sure when or how to start, or what you would do if you leave practice, Ida Abbott ’75聽has written a new book, Retirement by Design (Ulysses Press, 2020), which uses design principles for creative retirement planning. She is helping firms manage partner…
May 13, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF Professor Jared Ellias and leading bankruptcy scholars from around the country have asked Congress to consider enlarging the nation鈥檚 bankruptcy system to cope with an expected flood of corporate bankruptcies. The Large Corporate Bankruptcy Scholars COVID-19 Committee is one of four committees that make up a…
May 11, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF Professor Joan C. Williams argues in a new Harvard Business Review article that the pandemic is blowing up our notion of the 鈥渋deal worker,鈥 rooted in the breadwinner-homemaker model, and could provide an opportunity to reshape attitudes about working parents and the benefits of…
May 9, 2020
See the full interview: Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on CNN’s Smerconish…
May 8, 2020
麻豆视频 Law SF has launched a clinic to help low-wage workers with state unemployment insurance appeals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The faculty have redesigned the law school鈥檚 Workers鈥 Rights Clinic for summer 2020 to help those who have lost jobs during the pandemic file appeals if they…
May 8, 2020
Press Advisory鈥斅槎故悠 Law SF Response to San Francisco鈥檚 Tenderloin Neighborhood Safety Assessment and Plan for COVID-19: 鈥淓ntirely Inadequate鈥 (San Francisco) May 8, 2020 On May 4, 2020, 麻豆视频 Law SF and five co-plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco in federal court, demanding that the City…
May 6, 2020
Pedestrians walk to the edge of the sidewalk to avoid stepping on people in tents and sleeping bags on Monday, April 13, 2020, in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Local governments have begun moving large numbers of homeless into hotels as part of Operation Roomkey. Among the…