College of Arts and Sciences News

CelebrateUSF is USF’s biggest weekend for alumni, families, and friends. This year 2,500 alumni, families, students, friends, and faculty attended a total of 24 events over four days.
 

When Nichelle Holmes ’10 took the oath of office on April 15, 2024, she joined more than 340 fellow USF law graduates who have served on the bench.

On October 10, the Barnett Chair Second Chance Summit brought together leaders and change-makers from across the criminal legal system to talk about resentencing, rehabilitation, and reentry.

In response to demand for training in artificial intelligence, USF is ramping up AI course offerings with the goal of employing computers in the service of humans and not the other way around.

Soon-to-be “Double Don” Kad Smith, BA ’13, JD ’25, traces his early passion for law, in part, back to watching a special on Johnny Cochran with his grandmother. Raised in Berkeley, Smith is now turning that childhood dream into reality as a dynamic student leader at USF Law.

On first examination, the cowboys and pioneers who established and personified the American West have nothing in common with the modern-day tech lawyers who populate today’s courtrooms. But delve a little deeper and the similarities start to appear, especially in the context of artificial intelligence and its rapid evolution in the American legal system.

University of San Francisco School of Law Dean Johanna Kalb was not the child who declared that she wanted to be a lawyer at the age of 5, nor the college student who was taking the LSAT during senior year, determined to go straight to law school upon graduating. She wants USF’s School of Law students to know this. “There is no one path to law school,” she said. “Life’s curveballs are what makes it interesting.”