School of Law News

Throughout her legal career, alumna Doris Cheng ‘98 has made it her mission to amplify more voices from under-represented groups. Earlier this month, Cheng donated $100,000 to USF Law in support of her mission.

Mary Jane Theis becomes USF Law’s highest-ranking jurist.

Meet four USF Law alumni who bring clean power to the people.

Professor Bill Ong Hing says his newly published book, “Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System”(Beacon Press 2023), is different from his prior ones. Less academic and thoroughly personal, Hing wrote an emotional reflection on his decades of experience with the American immigration legal system.

Time Out, the arts and culture magazine published around the world, has named USF’s neighborhood among the coolest on the planet.
 

University of San Francisco School of Law alumnus Vern Norviel ‘85, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has been at the forefront of a pro bono initiative aimed at safeguarding the endangered horseshoe crabs. 

In June 2024, when Susan Freiwald returns to the faculty after six years as dean of the University of San Francisco School of Law, she will leave the institution — and its students — on a firmer foundation than the day she stepped into office.

This fall, 31 new faculty members joined USF. Learn more about them.

“Maybe this prison cell isn’t just a cell. Maybe it’s a university.”

Leon Benson described the awakening he had in prison to more than 100 people at the University of San Francisco School of Law Barnett Lecture on Sept. 21.

While the public conversation about the future of technology grows increasingly anxious, Jada Smith is actively optimistic. The third-year University of San Francisco Law student says she wants to “debunk the idea that Web3 is just about making money, and show that it is a way to improve the quality of life for every single person.”