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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor John Yoo weigh in on whether President Trump could and should pardon himself

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, appears on The Morning Report to discuss Covid-19’s potential long term impact on traffic, public transportation and how Californians get from point A to point B

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the city of San Diego’s disputed greenhouse-gas emissions numbers look suspect

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the federal appeals court decision allowing information requests by congressional oversight panels without the approval of majority members

Lecturer Shanin Specter says San Francisco needs a prosecutor who is as tough on drug dealers as on police officers

Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, discusses judicial stress and anxiety during the pandemic

 Lecturer Carla Shapreau discusses the theft of a rare 18th century violin

Lecturer Shanin Specter says a proposal to change the way Pennsylvania voters elect state Supreme Court justices and appellate court judges violates the law and the state constitution

Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, says Bank of America may be liable for fraudulent activities on EDD debit cards

Forecasting what to expect on climate and environmental policy during the first 100 days of the Biden administration and beyond.   

Swift, an evidence scholar, was the fifth woman professor hired at the School of Law and a key part of developing the clinical program.

The gifted teacher and born reformer (class of 1976) was the fourth woman professor hired at the School of Law.

Research and analysis of the Emergency Services Act by California Constitution Center fellows Stephen Duvernay and Brandon Stracener is cited as San Bernardino County asks California Supreme Court to overturn Governor Newsom’s stay-at-home order

Professor Sonia Katyal says existing whistleblower law is totally insufficient and essential to address issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and civil rights

Lecturer Shanin Specter discusses the paralysis in the court system in relation to catastrophic injury cases

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky offers advice to President-elect Biden on handling the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes

Serving more than 125 students from 14 countries, the course probed the many ways in which the pandemic has undermined equality across the world.

Lecturer Shanin Specter successfully had a lawsuit remanded and gave the court-ordered attorneys fees to a case-related charity

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says there is no clear answer to the question of whether President Trump can pardon himself, but there is a strong argument that such a pardon would not and should not be constitutional

Lecturer Mallika Kaur explores the farmers’ protests in India and says women’s participation challenges the narrative that the protest is only about angry men, dangerous and entirely unwilling to listen to reason

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes the LA Superior Court ruling to enjoin a ban on outdoor dining ignores a fundamental constitutional principle: Government regulation of business is allowed as long as it is reasonable

Professor Pamela Samuelson outlines how lawmakers and platforms can tackle the growing problem, and what a new Congress and administration might do.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says mask mandates do not violate anyone’s constitutional rights and it’s a shame health issues have become politicized 

Professor John Yoo urges progressives to see the value of the Electoral College

Professor Sonia Katyal, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the gamble companies are taking when they consider brand value vs. reputation, as the Supreme Court overturns a key provision of the Lanham Act, allowing trademarking of disparaging names

Lecturer Mallika Kaur discusses the unprecedented farmers protests in India and the solidarity protests across CA

The founder of No One Left Offline says “the internet is the new electricity — without it, you’re in the dark.”

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, explains the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations which offers guidance on how social media evidence can be used in international criminal proceedings

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains why the SCOTUS decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Cuomo is hugely important and what it tells us about the new court

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses President Trump’s numerous court cases and the instances when he has been checked, or not, by the courts

Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, says the Trump DOJ is exploiting executions for political reasons

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court’s differing decisions regarding large religious gatherings during the pandemic are a result of the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says Biden’s Justice Department won’t be working against litigants in climate cases as the Trump administration did

Lecturer Shanin Specter weighs in as Pennsylvania plans to begin in-person civil trials again

Professor Orin Kerr discusses the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and more clarity about what the law means is needed

A three-year effort by the Human Rights Center and the U.N. Human Rights Office advances the use of digital information to pursue justice against atrocities.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says an exodus of federal judges considering retirement will depend on which party controls the Senate

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that the Supreme Court’s decision to bar New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from putting restrictions on religious gatherings is the indicative of the impact Justice Amy Coney Barrett will have on the court

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes we should loudly condemn those who have enabled President Trump’s false claims of election fraud by their words and by their silence

Professor Orin Kerr explains pros and cons of virtual SCOTUS arguments

Professor Taeku Lee discusses his recent survey of Asian American voters in Georgia that found 41 percent voted for the first time in this election

Lecturer Shanin Specter appeared on ALI’s Reasonably Speaking podcast to explore multidistrict litigation

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the total, second most among all law schools, “so reflects our public mission and commitment to public service.”

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to crush workers, especially the lowest earners, the Center for Law and Work puts them in the spotlight.

“The Fire and the Forgotten” will air on PBS in May, on the centennial of what’s known as one of the worst incidents in American history of racial violence against Black people.

Kuraj teams up with Professor Daniel Farber to assess the vital implications of gene editing for environmental purposes.

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy writes that President-elect Biden may have the opportunity to solve the nation’s $1.6 trillion student debt problem