Faculty & Staff

  • Evan Epstein

    Executive Director and Adjunct Professor of Law

    Evan Epstein is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Business Law and an Adjunct Professor at UC Law SF.
    A recognized corporate governance expert, Evan has advised founders, executives, directors, and investors for over 18 years in Silicon Valley and globally. He has been retained as an expert in corporate governance litigation in the U.S.
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  • Professor Abraham Cable

    Faculty Director

    Professor Abe Cable is the Faculty Director of the UC Hastings Center for Business Law. He joined the UC Hastings faculty in 2011. He graduated from the University of Puget Sound, BA History (1997), and Harvard Law School in 2000, where he served as an editor and member of the articles committee on the Harvard Law Review.
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  • Professor Jodi Short

    Affiliated Faculty

    Courses Fall ’18-Spring ’19
    Compliance
    Previous Experience
    Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
    Associate, Shea & Gardner
    Education
    Ph.D. Sociology, UC Berkeley
    M.A. Sociology, UC Berkeley
    J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
    B.A. History & Economics, Duke University
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  • Professor John Crawford

    Affiliated Faculty

    Courses Fall ’18 – Spring ’19
    Financial Regulation
    Securities Regulation
    Previous Experience
    Consultant, The Volker Alliance
    Law Clerk, Hon. John T. Noonan, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
    Associate, Davis Polk & Wardell
    Education
    J.D., Stanford Law School
    M.A. International Relations & Economics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
    B.A. Philosophy,
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  • Emily Strauss

    Associate Professor of Law

    Emily Strauss is an expert in securities regulation, banking, and business law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review, U.C. Irvine Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, and the Boston University Law Review, and has been cited in outlets such as Bloomberg and Reuters.

    Prior to teaching law,
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  • Flavia Naves

    Co-Director, CBL Roundtable on Financial Policy & Regulation

    Flavia Naves is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications.
    Flavia has decades of experience with legal and regulatory-facing roles at WorldPay, one of the largest payments processors in the world,
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