Posts Tagged ‘hastings’
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Remember back in the day, back when construction workers spent 2008 pouring suspended slabs of steel-reinforced concrete to build the UC Hastings Garage just to the east of State Building in Civic Center (the one Arnold tried to sell to insiders last year, or something)? Things were looking grim.
But now things seem better, workwise. Here’s the lot just to the west of our State Building – it’s the new San Francisco PUC Building at 525 Golden Gate.
Big Blue, the Old Federal Building, will be harder to spot from Civic Center soon, that’s for sure…
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Busy as a beaver high above the Civic Center / Tenderloin / Little Saigon area…
Tags: buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, UC, university of california, workers
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
That way, you can booze it up without fear of arrest.
Beer on the Beach they call it, quite popular on those dreaded sunny days.
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As student Stacy H says:
“It’s law school – if you like it you’re doing something wrong. But there is free beer every other Thursday.”
Tags: 2011, bay area, beer, beer on the beach, california, drink, hastings, law, mcallister, San Francisco, school, street, tenderloin, thursdays, UC, uc hastings, uc tenderloin, university of california
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Never really noticed the UC Hastings College of Law parking garage after it got finished, but it seems to be doing all right. It’s got a four star Yelp rating so that’s not bad for a such a battle-scarred structure.
If they could fill up the first floor retail spaces facing Larkin then we’d be all set, huh?
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But the Vanishing Construction Workers of San Francisco who put this garage up have vanished once again. Oh well.
Tags: $100, Berkeley, book concern building, buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, tower, UC, university of california, workers, yelp
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Tens recently made a visit to the Richmond District and the resulting tripod shots can now be seen by all.
The Tumblr posts of his peregrinations are worthy of note, despite the absence of any MUNI raccoon shots.
Our Cliff House area. Better left:
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or right?
If only more students of Yelp-rated U.C. Tenderloin College of Law (Closer to the Courts, Closer to the Crime) were as productive…
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
What with all the other things going on in the bay area the past week, the long-planned Amnesty International USA 2010 West Regional Conference at UC Hastings Law School didn’t get much attention. But you couldn’t miss this large march and rally in support of dissident Aung San Suu Kyi that started off at Hastings and ended up at City Hall on Friday.
This is what it looked like. All the deets are below.
“SAN FRANCISCO – November 2 – Approximately 200 Amnesty International activists march and rally in solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Myanmar this Friday, November 5, starting at 5:30 p.m. Held on the eve of the historic November 7 elections in Myanmar, activists holding illuminated posters of Aung San Suu Kyi will call on the Myanmar authorities to release her and the 2,000-plus prisoners imprisoned for peaceful activism. The march will begin at the corner of McAllister and Hyde Streets at 5:30 p.m. and will end with a rally at the steps of San Francisco City Hall, with projected images of Aung San Suu Kyi as the backdrop.
The demonstration kicks off Amnesty International USA’s (AIUSA’s) annual regional human rights conference, which will continue on November 6 and 7 at UC Hastings College of Law. Speakers include several prominent Burmese human rights defenders , including: Toe Lwin, a youth leader for the National League for Democracy and a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Security Team; Nyunt Than of the Burmese American Democratic Alliance; Yasmin Vanya of the Burmese American Women’s Alliance; and Maung Maung Latt, an exiled Minister of Parliament. AIUSA Field Organizer Kalaya’an Mendoza will emcee. A Burmese drum troupe will perform traditional music at the event.
The military rulers of Myanmar have jailed thousands of people in their continuing efforts to crush all dissenting views. Most prominent of those detained is Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been the beacon of hope and change for nearly two decades in Myanmar. November 7, 2010, marks the first time the Myanmar government has held elections since 1990.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.8 million supporters, activists and volunteers who campaign for universal human rights from more than 150 countries. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.
What: Solidarity March and Rally for Aung San Suu Kyi and the People of Myanmar
Who: Amnesty International USA and Burmese human rights defenders
Where: U.C. Hastings (at the corner of Hyde and McAllister); march ends at the steps of San Francisco City Hall (1 Doctor Carlton B. Goodlett Place)
When: Friday, November 5, 2010, 5:30 p.m. Rally and program begin at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall.”
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
The chair of Morrison & Foerster, Keith Wetmore, hosted a reception down at 425 Market yesterday to mark the first day of Frank H. Wu serving as Chancellor and Dean at San Francisco’s University of California, Hastings College of Law. He’s just beginning his 63-event(!), eight-month tour to settle in at his stint at the oldest and largest law school in the West.
Here’s all you need to know.
A warm welcome back at MoFo, where Dean Wu worked as an associate back in the 1990′s:
Professor Leo Martinez passing the torch:
Conversing with recent grads Shin-Yu Wang and Jessica Leal at the alumni reception:
Will Frank regularly drive his BMW K1200 RS sport/touring motorcycle down from Sutro Heights to get to school, that is, when he’s not too busy writing?
We Can Only Hope.
Bon Courage, Frank H. Wu.
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Remember that whole thing with U.C. Hastings (the largest and oldest law school in the West) getting into it with the Christian Legal Society? Well, it’s over, with Hastings winning in a 5-4 decision.
(That means that there will be one less thing for incoming Dean Frank H. Wu to worry about when he takes over on July 1.)
Get all the deets, here and below, and see what the CLS has to say, after the jump, and oh, here’s a nice take already from fast-working Bob Egelko.
The flag of Victory, or something, flying above The Tower at 100 McAllister:
The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, et al., signifying an important win in the country’s highest court for the College’s policy on recognition of student organizations and for higher education generally.
In the ruling authored by Justice Ginsburg, the decision stated: “Compliance with Hastings’ all-comers policy, we conclude, is a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral condition on access to the student-organization forum.”
“We are very pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision. The College’s intent has always been to ensure the leadership, educational and social opportunities afforded by officially recognized student organizations are available to all students attending public institutions. The Court’s ruling validates our policy, which is rooted in equity and fairness,” said Leo Martinez, Acting Chancellor and Dean, Hastings College of the Law.
Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Breyer and Sotomayor joined. Justices Stevens and Kennedy joined the majority opinion in full and filed concurring opinions. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia and Thomas joined.
COURT’S DECISION: Available at http://www.supremecourt.gov/
BRIEFS: Available at http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/april2010.shtml
As promised, the Christians Speak, after the jump.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Three of these youts (possibly Academy of Art students) crossing Divisidero the other night got a lesson about NOPA courtesy of a fourth, who was in Sightsee M.C. mode.
First, WiFi-enabled and MacBook-heavy Cafe Abir got dismissed as the ”Hastings* Study Group.” And actually, the phrase ”The Future Lawyers of America” was bandied about.
And then the whole of the new North of Panhandle Area got dismissed as being “just like the suburbs.”
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Ouch. Kids these days…
*College of Law, University of California – the oldest, largest and fifth (or sixth) best law school in California.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The oldest and largest lawschool in the West will be getting a new leader as of July 1, 2010, when Howard University’s Frank H. Wu will become the dean at U.C. Hastings in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin.
Frank’s no stranger to the bay area, having taught at Stanfoo and also having worked for Mofo (that’s the nickname for San Francisco’s historic white-shoe law firm Morrison and Foerster, srsly) representing tenants against landlords pro bono back in the 1990′s.
Meet Frank Wu:
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Per SFGate:
“Wu, a Michigan native, has said he changed his career plans from architecture to law as a teenager in response to the racially motivated* murder of a young Chinese American man in Detroit in 1982.”
“First, he said the curriculum should be structured to ensure graduates have real-world legal skills when they leave, such as taking depositions, negotiating deals, and reading balance sheets.
Second, students should be prepared to work in a global economy that is driven by Pacific Rim nations. “The global economy is not the future. It’s here and now,” he said. “I see us recruiting students and placing them in Seoul and Saigon.”
Additionally, Wu said the school is too reliant on state funding and he intends to launch its first capital campaign.”
Bon courage, Frank Wu.
All the deets after the jump.
*How about partially racially-motivated instead? If you kill somebody with a baseball bat in San Francisco these days and then admit it to the cops, you’re going to do some hard time, no doubt. But back in the day if you and your stepson killed somebody with a baseball bat in Detroit, Michigan, well, you might have been able to walk with probation and a $30/week restitution plan. It all had to do with a runaway judge and some county prosecutors who made a plea bargain deal and then no-showed the sentencing hearing, and later on, some feds who got caught committing prosecutorial misconduct. Why do voters support mandatory minimum sentencing and three-strikes type laws in the aughts? Because of cases like that of Vincent Chin in the 1980′s. Just saying.
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
The thing about college administrators is that they love attention. So yesterday’s news of the somewhat ridiculous lawsuit fighting the non-discrimination policies for student clubs at the University of California, Hastings College of Law is nothing but a good thing for the oldest and largest law school west of the Mississippi.
If I were running the Christian Law Society (CLS), I wouldn’t ask my fellow students and/or the taxpayers to fund my little $250/year transportation fund, but that’s me. In any event, let’s expect the Supremes to smack down the CLS with finality next year, and thereby make this matter crystal clear for All. (I mean, they’re looking at this case for a reason, right?)
This was the scene last night, with the news vans parked betwixt the 200 McAllister Building and McAllister Tower (aka The Towers).
See you next year, when this all gets sorted out.
Fiat Justitia!
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