At Benefit Cosmetics, founded in San Francisco in 1976, students enjoyed bagels, beverages, and goodie bags full of the ...

As he approached graduation as a cadet in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in 2023, Ruan had a choice to make: ...

The Presidential Search Committee is composed of current and former trustees and, with input from the entire community and ...

University of San Francisco School of Law Dean Johanna Kalb was not the child who declared that she wanted to be a lawyer at the age of 5, nor the college student who was taking the LSAT during senior ...

Christine Young is an associate professor of rhetoric and language. Nervous about the November elections? Dreading the dinner-table conversation this Thanksgiving? Is it even possible to talk politics ...

Baker applied for the internship when she learned that her start date at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., where she had secured a job offer after completing a summer associate position in 2008, ...

CelebrateUSF is USF’s biggest weekend for alumni, families, and friends. This year 2,500 alumni, families, students, friends, and faculty attended a total of 24 events over four days. Taryn Moore '06 ...

As a third-year USF Law student, Omar Jabbour ‘00 gained real-world, hands-on experience in USF’s Criminal Law Clinic. He says that working alongside practicing attorneys was transformative because “I ...

Actress Viola Davis at the Silk Speaker Series. The 2024 edition of CelebrateUSF featured a crowd-drawing headliner for the weekend’s Silk Speaker Series event. EGOT winning actress Viola Davis ...

On October 10, the Barnett Chair Second Chance Summit brought together leaders and change-makers from across the criminal legal system to talk about resentencing, rehabilitation, and reentry. The full ...

For seven and half years from 1960 to April 4, 1968, I was privileged to serve Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a political advisor and subsequently as his personal lawyer and draft speech writer. With ...

Soon-to-be “Double Don” Kad Smith, BA ’13, JD ’25, traces his early passion for law, in part, back to watching a special on Johnny Cochran with his grandmother. Raised in Berkeley, Smith is now ...