Faculty Events

Our faculty events are an opportunity for professors here at UC Law SF and across the country, to share their projects and papers and create a space for community and academic discussion.

Please see the schedule for Spring 2023 below and check back as pages are updated with paper, video and registration links.

For any questions, please contact Faculty Events Manager Cynthia Diaz at diazcynthia@uclawsf.edu

Joan C. Williams: Your Company Could Be Making Year-By-Year Progress on Diversity and Inclusion

April 13 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UC Law SF Foundation Chair and Director of Center for WorkLife Law Joan C. Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools to interrupt bias that is continually transmitted through formal business systems.

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Celebrating Distinguished Professor Ugo Mattei’s Transition to Sullivan Professor Status

September 7, 2022 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Celebrate Professor Ugo Mattei’s Transition to Sullivan Status with a one-hour lecture summarizing the arc of his scholarship with a deeper dive into a current area of research/interest, followed by Q&A.

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Chimène Keitner, Can the US Prosecute a Foreign State?”

January 17 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Chimène Keitner as she presents, “Can the US Prosecute a Foreign State?”

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Harry Sunderland ’61 Chairholder Lecture by Dave Owen, “Energy Exits and Equities”

January 31 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Dave Owen. Professor Owen will be giving the Harry Sunderland ’61 Chairholder Lecture. 

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Joel Paul Book Talk

February 2 @ 12:30 pm1:30 pm

UC Law SF Constitutional Law Professor Joel Richard Paul discusses his new book, INDIVISIBLE: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism. The third book in Paul’s popular history series, INDIVISIBLE tells the story of one of the greatest orators and statesmen of the 19th century.

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Thomas Miller ’73 Chairholder Lecture by Hadar Aviram, “Fester: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster”

February 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Hadar Aviram. Professor Aviram will be giving the Thomas Miller ’73 Chairholder Lecture

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A Conversation with Paul Belonick on His Book, Restraint, Conflict, And The Fall Of The Roman Empire

March 16 @ 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Please join us on Thursday, March 16th for a special event. Professor Paul Belonick will be discussing his new book, Restraint, Conflict, And The Fall Of The Roman Empire, with Professor Reuel Schiller.

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Jon Abel,

Faculty Colloquium Series: Jon Abel, “Felon-In-Possession of a Firearm: A State-Court Perspective on the Federalization of Crime”

April 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm 

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Jon Abel This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Adnan Zulfiqar, “Collective Duties, Cohesion and the Edges of Empire in Medieval Islamic Law”

February 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Adnan Zulfiqar from Rutgers Law School. This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Shirley Lin, “Work Law as Privatized Public Law”

March 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Shirley Lin from Brooklyn Law. This talk will be on Zoom.

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Saule Omarova, “Banking and Antitrust”

March 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Saule Omarova from Cornell Law School. This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Sean Bland. “A Public Health and Community Centered Approach to the Criminalization of Infectious Diseases”

March 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Sean Bland from Santa Clara University School of Law. This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Emanuele Menegatti, “Searching for Digital Sustainability: From the Right to Work to the Right to a Decent Income”

April 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm 

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Emanuele Menegatti from the University of Bologna. This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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Faculty Colloquium Series: Alex Platt, “The Lost History of Mandatory Disclosure”

April 18 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm 

Please join us for our Faculty Colloquium Series with Professor Alex Platt from the University of Kansas School of Law. This talk will be in person in the Deb Colloquium Room (room 501 in Building 333).

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