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This August, UC College of the Law completed the second phase of its Academic Village with 656 units of new student housing in downtown San Francisco. What’s unique is that

An anonymous poster campaign calling out judges who dropped charges against people accused of selling fentanyl is getting strong pushback from San Francisco legal professionals.  “This is just wildly inappropriate,” said Kirk Jenkins, Senior Counsel at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. “You could cause violence against judges.”

The proposal by the accrediting arm of the American Bar Association comes in the wake of multiple incidents of law school students shouting down speakers. Law schools may soon be required to adopt written free speech policies under a proposal being considered by the American Bar Association. The potential changes come after, but are not a direct consequence of, multiple high-profile incidents of student disruptions of speakers at law schools prompted widespread debates about free speech, academi...

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As Trinity College in Ireland, takes steps to expunge the name Berkeley from its central library, do officials at UC Berkeley have plans to change?

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San Francisco’s Tenderloin could see an ‘academic village’ with 1,000 units of housing in the beleaguered neighborhood

The University of California Hastings College of the Law will now be rebranded as University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.

/PRNewswire/ -- Chancellor & Dean David Faigman has formally announced that as of January 1, 2023, the former UC Hastings College of the Law has a new...