More than half of the UC Davis School of Law Class of 2016 received the Law School's Public Service Certificate as the King Hall community gathered for the 2016 Public Service Graduation on April 21.
UC Davis School of Law has the fifth most diverse faculty and fifth best environment for minority students, according to rankings published in Princeton Review's "The Best 173 Law Schools, 2016 Edition." A summary of the rankings may be viewed on the TaxProf Blog.
UC President Janet Napolitano has announced a first-of-its-kind systemwide fellowship program aimed at helping students at UC Davis School of Law and other UC law schools pursue careers in public interest law.
UC Davis School of Law is introducing a new program that will expand externship opportunities for King Hall students and aim to increase the number of graduates employed in government and policy work in California's capital.
Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye '84 was honored with the inaugural Distinguished Alumna Award, Professor Peter Lee received the Distinguished Teaching Award, and UC Davis School of Law was presented with a special resolution from the California Legislature at "Celebrating King Hall," a special 50th anniversary event held March 10 at the UC Davis ARC ballroom.
For the third straight year, UC Davis School of Law's standing in the U.S. News & World Report rankings improved as King Hall rose to 30th among the more than 200 American Bar Association-approved law schools rated.
On March 9, King Hall hosted a discussion of "Authorship and the Promise of Digital Dissemination," an event co-sponsored by UC Davis School of Law with Davis Humanities Institute, the Institute for the Social Sciences, and the Center for Science and Innovation Studies Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project.
UC Davis School of Law has established the Student Wellness Initiative to help ensure that students maintain wellness as they work to reach their potential as individuals and legal professionals.
