At Berkeley Law, research is part of our DNA. As a public law school, our mission compels us to tackle the thorniest problems facing society.
Our school hosts more than a dozen research centers and initiatives where faculty and researchers seek solutions to wide-ranging challenges: Developing business strategies to combat global warming. Safeguarding intellectual property in the global economy. Enabling access to high-quality education for all children. They are producing new knowledge, shaping legislation, educating judges, advising government officials, and partnering with people across every sector of society to deliver results.
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Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy
BCLBE is the hub of Berkeley Law's cutting edge research and teaching on the impact of law on business and the United States' and global economies.
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Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
The BCLT promotes the understanding and guides the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology.
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Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
CLEE is a research center whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary environmental law and policy research and to translate that research into pragmatic solutions.
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Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Established in 1999, the Henderson Center produces and fosters creative scholarship that examines the law through a lens of social justice, and works in partnership with communities to provide education to the general public.
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Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy
The Warren Institute produces research, policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on civil rights, education, criminal justice, family and economic security, immigration and healthcare issues facing California and the nation.
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The Center for the Study of Law and Society
The Center for the Study of Law and Society fosters empirical research and theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions, legal processes, legal change, and the social consequences of law.
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California Constitution Center
The California Constitution Center is the first and only center at any law school devoted exclusively to studying the constitution and high court of the state of California.
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Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice
The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice is dedicated to broadening the conversation on reproductive rights and choices through legal scholarship, teaching and conferences, and by bolstering law and policy advocacy efforts.
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Human Rights Center
The Human Rights Center promotes human rights and international justice worldwide and trains the next generation of human rights researchers and advocates.
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Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society
The institute develops opportunities for research, programming, visiting scholars, colloquia and classes to strengthen academic inquiry and discourse related to Jewish and Israeli topics across the Berkeley campus.
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The Institute for Legal Research
The Institute for Legal Research serves as a center for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service. In recent years, the institute focused on the fields of criminal justice, family law, constitutional law and history, Japanese and comparative law, environmental law and policy, and ocean law and policy.
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Kadish Center for Morality, Law & Public Affairs
The Kadish Center seeks to promote research and reflection on moral philosophical issues in law and public life, with special concern for the substantive aspects of criminal law.
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Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy & Public Finance
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The Honorable G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
The Miller Institute supports populations overlooked or unprotected by existing legal infrastructure, with a global focus on climate and energy justice, corruption, rule of law and human rights.