Faculty & Staff

  • Evan Epstein

    Affiliated Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law

    Evan Epstein is an Affiliated Scholar and an Adjunct Professor at UC Law SF. He served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Business Law between 2020 and 2026.
    A recognized corporate governance expert, Evan has advised founders, executives, directors, and investors for over 20 years in Silicon Valley and globally.
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  • Emily Strauss

    Affiliated Faculty

    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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  • Professor Abraham Cable

    Faculty Director

    Professor Abe Cable joined the UC Law SF 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. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Law SF,
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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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