The landscape includes renowned faculty, lecturers with vast experience in the field, a surging research center, and a top journal that recently held its 50th anniversary symposium.
The Spring 2026 Transcript also features a photo essay sharing the motivations of student and alumni pro bono leaders, a 2L’s push to preserve the stories of military veterans, and much more.
Combining a full-time field work placement with a weekly seminar, the immersive semester-long program illuminates how federal statutes, regulations, and policies are made, interpreted, and applied in the nation’s capital.
His research shows how diversity’s values have long been widely embraced by leaders in the military, business, education, and the law, and how it has benefited organizations and society.
The pragmatic course illuminates the economics and structure of large law firms, the substance of their different practice areas, and how best to succeed in them.
The tax law expert just published a book outlining a plan for fairer taxation at the federal level and is involved with an effort to put a billionaire tax on the ballot in California.
Blockchain & Law at Berkeley and AI @ Berkeley Law both help students learn about timely issues from industry leaders and offer valuable programs, career insights, and networking opportunities.
Presented by the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, the two-day conference featured leading experts addressing new legal developments and the main factors driving recent regression.
Over more than 15 years in higher education administration, Askins has thrived in dynamic, cutting-edge environments. The chance to bring that to the law school, he says, was a huge draw.
Amid an increasingly urgent climate crisis, Dan Adler, Craig Segall, and Alexis Pelosi ’00 bring deep expertise to boost the center’s capacity to deliver effective and equitable policy solutions.
An intuitive problem solver, the senior counsel provides practical and solution-oriented legal advice to the company’s business teams and executives on a wide range of issues.
Across the legal landscape, the school’s commitment to excellence, community, public mission, and leadership — as well as its entrepreneurial spirit and determined pursuit of justice — was on full display.
As the head of legal at Orange, Inc., Ueda relishes helping expand the increasingly popular Japanese art form of comics and graphic storytelling — and connecting people across cultures.
The group brings diverse expertise in data science, immigration, and criminal, family, and transactional law, expanding the program’s reach and bolstering its mission to advance racial, economic, and social justice.
At a recent panel event, Samuelson said a growing number of plaintiffs claim that developers are illegally making copies of copyrighted works when developing the foundation models underpinning GenAI systems.
Stromsheim, whose meandering path from nursing in Norway to law in Berkeley led to a successful career as a bankruptcy attorney, also gave $500,000 to the university’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
The content includes featuring our seven new professors, our alumni’s huge impact in the entertainment industry, and new students’ varied motivations for choosing law school — and Berkeley.
One of the youngest students to graduate from UC Berkeley Law, Cheung created a LinkedIn group for the school’s LL.M. alumni and earned all three available certificates of specialization.
Isnard’s Spaceadvocat firm helps private space-industry startups navigate the international regulatory thicket — and he regularly taps into his UC Berkeley Law directory for consults.
Law Students for Climate Accountability aims to amplify the legal industry’s roles and responsibilities in the current climate crisis — and to help advance a meaningful transition.
From a new AI program for LL.M. Executive Track students to specialties in business, environmental, and tech law, students can choose from a hefty slate of certificate programs.
Amid growing climate concerns, the gift from entrepreneur Chris Larsen launches a broad effort led by our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment that will tap expertise across multiple sectors.
Co-president of UC Berkeley Law’s Plaintiffs’ Law Association, Ochoa gained prime experience this summer working at the plaintiff-side employment firm Bryan Schwartz Law, P.C., in Oakland.
A legal manager at Kaizen Gaming, which is based in Greece and operates in over 20 countries, Anagnostopoulou savors taking on the challenges of a fast-changing industry.
After more than eight years on Capitol Hill and a rewarding first year at UC Berkeley Law, Bosworth gained valuable Big Law experience this summer at Freshfields in Silicon Valley.
Tetiana Poudel relishes “contributing to something bigger than myself” to help her country defend itself against Russia, raising money and fueling venture capital efforts to provide supplies, equipment, and medication.
Eager to help develop “workable tools for navigating real-world, cross-border issues,” Kang is getting a close view of hot-button trade issues affecting businesses across myriad industries.
The school revives its annual Celebration of Faculty Books, highlighting a sampling of books published by faculty members since 2022 and offering a glimpse into their collective importance.
Mohebbizadeh, who’s also pursuing an MBA at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, won the recent hackathon for law students alongside friends from the University of Chicago and Georgetown Law.
As an NPR general counsel extern, Chung delves into myriad legal issues to advance free, creative, and safe expression — from antitrust AI to data privacy and intellectual property.
The Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law’s co-editor-in-chief helped plan and moderate the PLAY Conference, a fruitful collaboration between UC Berkeley Law and the university’s Haas School of Business.
The Berkeley Center for Law and Business and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business co-sponsored a cross-cutting gathering of leaders to address the evolving landscape of corporate responsibility and climate action.
After influencing India’s response to deceptive “dark patterns,” Doshi elevates her tech law career arc through prime opportunities for hands-on fellowship and externship experience at UC Berkeley Law.
Conferring with world business leaders in Switzerland, Patel emphasized the law’s importance in ensuring sound corporate oversight, fostering trust in private transactions, and creating accountability for all stakeholders.
From a Supreme Court justice’s visit and an innovative leadership initiative to impactful pro bono work and influential AI guidance, the school’s commitment to excellence, community, and public mission was on full display.
“I think we have, by a not insubstantial margin, the deepest and best bench of empirical legal researchers in the country,” Professor Andrew C. Baker says.
Initially planning a public sector career, the Super Lawyer Rising Star says Berkeley’s top business law program sparked her interest in “exploring a different path.”
Confronting the gender gap in corporate workplaces, the initiative helps participants develop networks and career strategy through visits to major companies, events with top firms, and myriad workshops.
The highly competitive program provides full scholarships, living expenses, a laptop, round-trip flights — and a platform for African students to “carry forward the aspirations of our continent.”
An all-star roster of legal department leaders at major organizations — from Microsoft and the San Francisco Giants to Instacart to Asana — offers students valuable insights on in-house lawyering.
Bashirat Atata ’24 leads a pioneering nonprofit in Nigeria that advances tech law education and offers wide-ranging pro bono legal services to early-stage companies.
A longtime priority for Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, the multilayered project underscores how leadership skills permeate all sectors and all levels of legal work.
From a new, multipronged leadership initiative for students to our Human Rights Clinic’s hefty impact and growing domestic agenda, the latest Transcript issue is packed with examples of visionary work.
Litigating against fossil fuel companies and other polluters, Dunlavey has helped government entities, consumers, small businesses, workers, and homeowners recover over $16 billion while spurring changes in company practices.
In under three years, inaugural Director Allison Schmitt ’15 has built the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s Life Sciences Law & Policy Center into a wide-ranging program for students, practitioners, and entrepreneurs alike.
Flourishing in a career that sprang from playing video games with her brothers, Dinh has channeled fascination with product and design decisions into becoming a fast-rising intellectual property attorney.
She has worked on contract matters, litigation, real estate law, pharmaceutical law, and privacy law, attended a seven-hour mediation, and responded to a customer complaint filed with an attorney general.
