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Until The Cages Are Empty: Transgender Criminal Defense As A Necessary Tactic Of Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition, Lark Mulligan

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

This article is a practical guide in the fight to abolish the prison-industrial complex as well as institutionalized transphobia and cissexism. Focusing specifically on the practice area of criminal defense, this article proposes a model that must be replicated across jurisdictions wherever transgender people are criminalized. By instituting an interdisciplinary team approach that is non-hierarchical, strengths-based, trauma-informed, community focused, holistic, harm-reductionist, and abolitionist, practitioners will find their role in this movement as one of consensus building, knowledge sharing, community empowerment, institutional navigation, and access distribution. As discrimination and violence against trans people continues to rise, practitioners must learn to not …

After The “Partner Run”: The Dewey & Leboeuf Diaspora, Andrew Granato

UC Law Business Journal

“Partner runs”—mass, near-instantaneous departures of partners from distressed law firms—are a distinctive feature of the American legal profession, produced by an interaction of legal ethics rules, partnership governance, and bankruptcy law. A partner run means that even large and profitable law firms can abruptly liquidate. Given this fragility, it is urgent to learn: do partner runs and the governance law that enables them impose lasting harm on the legal profession by permanently damaging the careers of the lawyers caught in them?

This Article provides the first comprehensive empirical examination of this issue using the 2012 bankruptcy of Dewey & LeBoeuf, …

Academic Village Finance Authority - Open Session Book 03/12/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Book 03/12/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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When Constitutional Protection For Religious Liberty Gets Lost In Translation: A Case Study From Washington State, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Protecting religious liberty can present difficult challenges when religious liberty conflicts with laws prohibiting discrimination. Balancing religious liberty and nondiscrimination requires courts to accurately apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s complex First Amendment jurisprudence, including cases that address compelled speech, expressive association, and church autonomy. Amidst all the complexity, protection for religious liberty can get lost in translation. One important venue where protection can get lost in translation is in religious liberty cases decided by state supreme courts. The decisions of state supreme courts are especially significant because they provide the authoritative construction for state statutes and the state constitution. In …

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/19/2026, Uc Law Sf

2026 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Book 12/05/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Notice And Agenda 12/05/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 11/14/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Finance Committee Meeting - Notice And Agenda 11/14/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Book 10/27/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Uc Law Sf 2025 Long Range Campus Plan, Uc Law Sf

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Book 09/12/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 08/21/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Transcultural Courts, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

Although countries commonly divide their judicial systems along geographic and subject-matter divisions, the idea of creating specialized courts based on culture has not taken root. Instead, courts are generally transcultural. Functionally, the lack of culture-specific courts is surprising because cultural diversity within a population often creates legally significant distinctions. Focusing primarily on the U.S. judicial system, but incorporating attributes of other judicial systems where appropriate, this paper offers three explanations for why courts tend to eschew cultural specializations in favor of transculturality. It also hazards some opportunities for experimenting with cultural specializations in discrete areas of the law that most …

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book (6) 08/22/2024, Uc Law Sf

2024 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Draft_Uccollegeoflaw_Lrcp_Eir_Certificationhearings_082224, Uc Law Sf

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

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From Uc Hastings To Uc Law Sf: An Examination Of The Renaming Process And Analysis Of Institutional Identity, Oliver Cheng

UC Law Journal

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Daca’S Stratified Tracks For Economic Mobility And Lessons For Addressing Immigrants’ Long-Term Inequality, Els De Graauw, Shannon Gleeson

UC Law Journal

Since 2012, the politically tenuous Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided temporary deportation relief and work authorization to over eight hundred thirty-five thousand undocumented young people who fit certain criteria. This Essay draws on one hundred fifteen interviews with DACA applicants in California, New York, and Texas during the heyday of the program to better understand its impacts on recipients’ school and work experiences. We confirm many of the key benefits DACA status has provided to recipients, notably opening doors for them educationally and professionally.

However, our research also confirms DACA’s uneven impacts. Those without four-year college …

What Practitioners Can Do For Law Students And What Law Students Can Do For Practitioners, Shanin Specter

UC Law Journal

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Aligning United States Law With International Norms Would Remove Major Barriers To Protection In Gender Claims, Karen B. Musalo Prof.

Faculty Scholarship

The protection of women and girls fleeing gender-based harms has been controversial in the United States (US), with advances followed by setbacks. The US interpretation of particular social group and its nexus analysis, both of which diverge from guidance by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is the most significant barrier to protection. It has become almost impossible for women and girls to rely upon the particular social group ground because of current requirements that social groups not only be defined by immutable or fundamental characteristics, but also be socially distinct and have particularity. Establishing nexus is also …

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/22/2024, Uc Law Sf

2024 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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A Critical Race Theory Analysis: The Role Of Racialization, The White Racial Frame, And Institutional Power In California Eugenics Sterilizations, Nicole Sequeira Tashovski

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

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Mutiny For A Bounty, Emily Strauss, Joseph A. Grundfest

Faculty Scholarship

Experience teaches that attorneys may violate duties of confidentiality and trust to pursue personal gain. Multiple insider trading, embezzlement, and fraud prosecutions prove the point. The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 establishes a bounty regime whereby certain whistleblowers are eligible for awards of 10%–30% of Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) enforcement recoveries exceeding $1 million. Since its inception, this program has paid at least 207 whistleblowers more than $1 billion. The Commission’s bounty program thus may be a meaningful inducement to breach privilege.

The SEC asserts that its whistleblower authority preempts state law and that it can accept attorney–client privileged information. …

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Book 12/01/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Public Enforcement And Disability: A United States-South Korea Comparison, Joonghan (Joseph) Jo

UC Law Journal

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted with the hope that it would solve issues regarding discrimination against the disabled. However, the outcome fell short of its aspirations. Many people with disabilities still suffer from ongoing discrimination. This Note argues that the ADA’s heavy reliance on private enforcement is the main reason for this shortcoming. This Note analyzes the effectiveness of public enforcement in South Korea under the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities, Remedy Against Infringement of Their Rights (Korean Disability Discrimination Act. This Note then argues that civil law country-style public enforcement based …

Reviving The Greenbook In The Context Of Failure To Protect: Assessing Risk Of Harm In Domestic Violence Situations To Best Assist Battered Mothers And Their Children, Nikki Viavant

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

This paper examines the typical responses and approaches our child welfare agencies and juvenile courts take when handling dependency cases involving families experiencing domestic violence that fall under California Welfare and Institutions Code section 300(b). All too often, when a child is exposed to domestic violence, their mothers, survivors of the domestic abuse, are adjudged to have acted negligently for “failing to protect” their children adequately from domestic violence. Unfortunately, jumping rashly to this jurisdictional finding results in the removal of countless children from their battered yet otherwise fit mothers, and, in some instances, can ultimately lead to the termination …

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 11/09/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 11/09/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Meeting - Notice And Agenda 09/08/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.