School of Law News

The Honorable Benjamin T. Reyes II ’92 served as commencement speaker at the 2025 USF law school graduation. He delivered a clear charge to graduates: use your law degree to pursue justice, serve others, and protect the truth.

Salvador D. Aceves ’83, EdD ’95 has been selected as the first lay person and first Latino to be president of the University of San Francisco.

As a young paralegal just out of college, Jessie Peterson JD ’21 never would have predicted she’d take center stage the day San Francisco welcomed its first new mayor since 2018.

Before stepping into the world of taxation, Will Norling MLST ‘22 owned and operated cafes and food trucks in San Francisco. The long hours and physical demands were tough, especially as he thought about starting and raising a family.

On January 31, experts in human rights, policy, and international law gathered in USF’s McLaren Conference Center for the 2025 Law Review Symposium, “Navigating Boundaries: Legal Perspectives on Migration.”

As an undergraduate accounting major, Julia Siewit JD ‘21 LLM ‘22 discovered a passion for the field of taxation. Years later, that interest became the foundation for her career in tax law, and Siewit earned both a JD and an LLM in Taxation from USF School of Law.

Jonathan Harriman ‘07 is on a mission to change how young people view the legal profession. For more than 15 years, he has volunteered with Balboa High School’s Law Academy, working to dispel myths and educate students about what it means to be a lawyer.

Here are 2024’s most read USF News stories, starting with the No. 1 article.

Meet 16 new faculty members who joined USF this fall.

On November 15, 2024, USF Law, in collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), hosted a daylong event examining the evolution of name, image, and likeness (NIL) laws for student-athletes. USF Law Dean Johanna Kalb welcomed attendees and reflected on the “revolutionary” changes to NCAA policy and the implications for “college athletics, for schools, for the athletes themselves, and for the fans who support them.”