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Members of the incoming JD Class of 2029 take the oath of professionalism during Convocation as they start their journeys at UC Law San Francisco.<\/p>\n
More than 600 new students are joining UC Law SF this fall across its JD, master\u2019s and international exchange programs.
\nThe JD Class of 2029 includes 460 students, with 17% first-generation college students.
\nThe new class includes a submarine sailor, recording artist and urban beekeeper, among students from a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds.<\/p>\n
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A new academic year is here, and UC Law San Francisco is welcoming more than 600 new students to campus as they begin the next chapter of their educational and professional journeys.<\/p>\n
The JD Class of 2029 includes 460 students, with 17% who are the first in their families to attend college and 62% who identify as female or non-binary. Their ages range from their 20s to their 50s, and they arrive at UC Law SF with a remarkable range of experiences.<\/p>\n
The new class includes a nonprofit founder, submarine sailor, recording artist, composer, urban beekeeper, combat medic, engineer, scientist, sailing instructor, social worker, former journalists, teachers and parents. Each brings a different perspective to the classroom \u2014 and a unique story of what led them to law school.<\/p>\n
They are joined by some 700 returning second- and third-year JD students, as well as 150 students in the master\u2019s and international exchange programs. UC Law SF\u2019s master\u2019s degree and certificate programs include the Master of Laws<\/a> (LLM) for international lawyers, Master of Legal Studies<\/a> (MLS), Certificate of Legal Studies<\/a> (CLS), and Master of Science in Health Policy and Law<\/a> (HPL). The master\u2019s and international students come from a wide range of fields, including health care, government, technology, business, journalism and the arts.<\/p>\n Together, they make up a community with an extraordinary breadth of backgrounds, interests and experiences \u2014 all coming together at UC Law SF to learn, connect and prepare for what comes next.<\/p>\n For the Class of 2029, the journey begins now. Welcome to UC Law SF!<\/p>\n See photos below from the activities that kicked off the new academic year.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Nearly 600 students from UC Law SF and other higher education institutions will call the Academe at 198 home this year. Nicole Pawlak, a 1L from San Diego, is one of 326 UC Law SF students living in the Academe.<\/p>\n Vice chair of the UC Law SF Board of Directors Andrew Houston \u201907 speaks to incoming JD students in the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) at orientation, sharing\u00a0advice on navigating the demands of law school and a legal career. \u201cDon\u2019t rush the process,\u201d he says. \u201cBe patient with yourselves because as you\u2019re learning, you\u2019re going to continue to grow in this profession.\u201d Houston, a LEOP alumnus, is principal campus counsel at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the incoming JD Class of 2029 take the oath of professionalism during Convocation as they start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-433335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Nicole-Pawlak-move-in-day-300x225.jpg\")
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