Newsletter

  • Q&A with Professor Jared Ellias | Spring 2022

    Faculty Director, UC Hastings Center for Business Law

    Q: You recently worked with a group of bankruptcy scholars who filed an amicus brief in the J&J “LTL Management” bankruptcy.  What made you interested in getting involved?
    A:  So, some background: J&J is facing a ton of lawsuits arising out of allegations that its talc-based baby powder caused harms to a lot of people. 
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  • Note from the Executive Director

    CBL Newsletter | Spring 2022

    The start of this decade has been challenging. First, COVID-19 and its resulting economic fallout has caused significant hardship. As of this writing, there have been over 474 million reported cases globally, including over 6M deaths (approaching 1M in the US alone). The Economist has estimated that the actual death toll is over 20M people.
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  • UC Hastings Center for Business Law | Newsletter Fall 2021

    October 2021

    You can read the full newsletter in the following link: CBL Newsletter Fall 2021.
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  • Q&A with Manuel P. Alvarez ’07

    Director of CBL Roundtable on Financial Policy & Regulation

    What is the mission and vision behind the new CBL Roundtable on Financial Policy & Regulation? 

    The goal of this Roundtable is to promote dialogue and thought-leadership around the evolving regulatory frameworks for new financial products and services. The technological trends of the last decade have pushed financial services further away from localized “brick &
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  • Note from the Executive Director

    CBL Newsletter Fall 2021

    We are finally back to in-person classes this Fall 2021 semester. It’s exciting to be back, and at the Center for Business Law we look forward to engaging with leading scholars, business leaders, practitioners, regulators and students to explore some of the latest business trends from Silicon Valley and beyond.
    This Fall, the Center has expanded with three new advisory board members plus a director for our new CBL Roundtable on Financial Policy &
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  • UC Hastings Center for Business Law | Newsletter Spring 2021

    May 2021

    You can check out the full newsletter in the following link: CBL Newsletter Spring 2021
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  • Note from the Executive Director – CBL Newsletter Spring 2021

    After over a year in COVID-19 lockdown, we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. As of this writing, more than 1.18 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, with about 247 million vaccinations in the US (~44% of population) and 72% of SF residents over 16 receiving at least one dose.
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  • UC Hastings Center for Business Law | Newsletter Fall 2020

    You can check out the full newsletter in the following link:
    CBL Newsletter Fall 2020
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  • Note from the Executive Director – CBL Newsletter Fall 2020

    In a year like no other in recent memory, the UC Hastings’ Center for Business Law is continuing to lay its foundations to become the leading business law center in San Francisco. There is currently a lot of soul searching within the business community around the question of corporate purpose. In this context,
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  • Q&A with Scott James on CBL Scholars Program

    Scott James, Co-Chair of the CBL Advisory Board and General Counsel of DCVC
    Q: What is the mission and vision behind the CBL Scholars Program?
    A: This year has forced all of us to confront a number of painful realities, including how little progress American society has made in providing greater economic opportunity to people who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities,
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