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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 09/08/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Campus Housing Finance Authority Board Of Directors Meeting - Open Session Packet 08/24/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Packet 08/24/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Governmental And Semi-Governmental Federal Charitable Entities, Ellen P. Aprill

UC Law Journal

The standard view of the relationship between government and the nonprofit charitable sector treats them as separate and distinct. But they are not. Numerous federal agencies have statutory authority to receive tax-deductible charitable deductions. Their ability to do so, however, undermines the oversight accomplished through the constitutionally mandated appropriations process. Congress has also created many nonprofit tax-exempt organizations. These entities enjoy flexibility as to fundraising, investment, and spending that government agencies lack. However, they avoid the accountability that various federal statutes impose on government agencies, on the one hand, and that state nonprofit laws accomplish for private nonprofit organizations, on …

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 06/09/2023, Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Long Range Campus Plan Update And 201 Golden Gate Avenue Mixed-Use Project Environmental Impact Report Scoping Meeting, Uc Law Sf

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

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Uc Law Sf Long Range Campus Plan 2023 Update: For A Sustainable And Resilient Academic Village, Uc Law Sf

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

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Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Packet 05/11/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Packet 05/11/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

The Ethics Gap: Mdl Leadership Versus The Attorney-Client Relationship, Lauren E. Godshall

UC Law Journal

Mass torts cases take up a massive swath of the nation’s federal court docket yet are governed by little to no substantive procedural laws. Instead, a host of regular practices for multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) management have emerged through repetition. One such practice is the selection of a plaintiff steering committee (“PSC”): a small group of experienced plaintiffs’ attorneys that control and direct the litigation from initiation through settlement or other resolution. The PSC is extremely important—determining which experts to use, which injuries to focus on, and so forth. Yet there are no set rules dictating PSC management of the litigation, …

Class Actions’ Ethical “Kiss”: The Class Action Lawyer’S Client Is The Class, Eli Wald

UC Law Journal

The legal ethics of class actions is a mess, with many lingering, unresolved questions and conflicting answers. The culprit is a fundamental lack of agreement regarding the identity of the client, without which it is impossible to consistently resolve concerns about conflicts of interest and determine the scope of lawyers’ duties of competence and communication to the class, class representative, and class members. This Essay offers a simple solution to this disagreement: the class lawyer represents the class as an entity, not the class representatives and members, who are constituents of the class client. While conceptually simple, treating the class …

Complex Litigation Funding: Ethical Problem Or Ethical Solution?, W. Bradley Wendel, Joshua P. Davis

UC Law Journal

Commentators have worried that third-party funding, particularly in complex litigation, may give rise to ethical concerns. In this Essay, we explore an alternative possibility: third-party funding may solve ethical problems rather than cause them.

We explain why third-party funding can comply with the letter and spirit of the relevant ethical rules and why whether it causes or cures ethical problems depends on the setting. We note that if third-party funding agreements are properly structured—protecting, for example, lawyers’ independent judgment—they should not pose ethical problems. On the contrary, in some contexts third-party litigation funding may ameliorate tensions between clients and counsel. …

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Notice And Agenda 03/02/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 03/02/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Notice And Agenda 02/09/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Packet 02/09/2023, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Lost In The Fire: Reflections On The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial, Alina Ball

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The Tulsa Race Massacre centennial, occurring on the heels of the Movement for Black Lives and its historic national spotlight on racial inequity, provides a rare moment to be reflective about how transactional lawyering can advance racial and economic justice. This Essay examines the Greenwood District to not only explain the continuing economic disenfranchisement of people of color, but also provide transactional lawyers a case study through which they can critically examine their efforts to move beyond the rhetoric of economic development to rooting out racial violence and oppression that threatens not merely minority-owned businesses, but the lives of people …

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Packet 11/17/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Special Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 10/25/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Special Meeting - Notice And Agenda 10/25/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 09/09/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Packet 08/25/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Special Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 07/27/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Of Robolawyers And Robojudges, Joshua P. Davis

UC Law Journal

Artificial intelligence (AI) may someday play various roles in litigation, particularly complex litigation. It may be able to provide strategic advice, advocate through legal briefs and in court, help judges assess class action settlements, and propose or impose compromises. It may even write judicial opinions and decide cases. For it to perform those litigation tasks, however, would require two breakthroughs: one involving a form of instrumental reasoning that we might loosely call common sense or more precisely call abduction and the other involving a form of reasoning that we will label purposive, that is, the formation of ends or objectives. …

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Packet 05/19/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Regulating Marginalized Labor, Mary Hoopes

UC Law Journal

Farmworkers are one of many vulnerable groups who exist largely in the shadows of the law. While there is a relatively robust regulatory framework that ostensibly governs the conditions under which they work, it is highly fragmented and seldom enforced. One agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has emerged as an important exception, adopting innovative strategies to secure substantial settlements and a wide range of injunctive relief. Decades before contemporary movements on behalf of low-wage workers of color began, the EEOC was mounting an initiative to bring farmworkers into the core of Title VII’s protections and jurisprudence. Drawing upon …

Board Of Directors Quarterly Meeting - Open Session Packet 03/10/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Packet 02/17/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Dispute Resolution Commercial Transactions Along The Belt And Road: Creating Fair And Consistent Judgments, Sara Zokaei

UC Law Journal

For over forty years, China has promulgated national policies of opening-up and cooperation with other nations. Over the past eight years, China has been expanding its efforts to uphold these policy goals via the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global infrastructure project. With this increase in international economic activity and commercial transactions, China has recognized the need for judicial reform to better serve the legal needs of foreign parties. Given China’s preference for peaceful cooperation, arbitration, and mediation, reform was necessary to cater to the needs of foreign parties who prefer litigation.

In parallel with the Belt and Road Initiative, …

Practical Considerations In Starting And Operating An Academic Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, Minoj Viswanathan, Amy Spivey

Faculty Scholarship

Low-income taxpayer clinics (“LITCs”) provide legal assistance to underserved clients with active federal tax controversies, conduct educational outreach to low-income and English-as-a-second-language taxpayers, and work to ensure the fairness and integrity of the tax system. Despite the availability of IRS grant funding for LITCs and the alignment of LITC goals with the core values that underlie clinical legal education, a relatively small percentage of U.S. law schools currently operates an LITC. Moreover, many law school LITCs have closed within the past ten years, demonstrating that, even if started, academic LITCs are challenging to sustain. This Article incorporates the authors’ experiences …