School of Law News

This summer, Professor Duane Rudolph joined the USF Law faculty, teaching Remedies and Torts.

After 33 years as a member of the USF Law faculty, de la Vega retired this summer.

On May 20, the USF Law community came together to celebrate the graduation of the Class of 2023.

Chair Emeritus of the board and alumnus Stephen Hamill ’78 and wife Janice have pledged one million dollars to the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Mohammed Amin Mamnoon, a USF School of Law visiting scholar from Afghanistan, spoke to 25 students, faculty, and staff members March 28 and described the downfall of democracy in Afghanistan in August 2021.

Leon Benson spent more than half his life — 25 years — in an Indiana state prison. Eleven years in solitary confinement.

The road to graduating law school for Katiuska Pimentel JD ’23 has been filled with financial hardships and family losses, and that has fueled her commitment to use her USF law degree to support others.

The 2023 Law Review Symposium, titled The Future of Prosecution, brought together panels of distinguished experts to discuss the role of the prosecutor.

As labor and employment law Professor Maria Linda Ontiveros considers retirement in May, she points to her Mexican grandparents, Houston-born parents, and icons including farmworker advocates Dolores Huerta and Monica Ramirez as seminal influences leading her to hone in on immigrant workers' rights.

The ink is barely dry on paperwork to ensconce the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center within USF, and founder Professor Michele Neitz’s Spring 2023 class on Blockchain Technology and the Law is already at capacity, with 8 students on a waitlist.