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.”
Coached by alums Patrick Johnson ’19 and James Perry ’11, 3Ls William Clark, Melissa Molloy, and Angela Ma and 2L Rachel Talkington bested 15 teams from law schools around the country.
After a quarter century of pathbreaking international work, the Human Rights Clinic expands its domestic agenda, with Professor Roxanna Altholz ’99 at the helm.
The program has inspired and prepared nearly 800 East Bay public high school students from first-generation and marginalized backgrounds for higher education, fulfilling careers, community engagement, and leadership.
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.
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.
Research based on work she began as a Princeton undergraduate was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal — a challenging task for a full-time student with a full pro bono plate.
Calling Berkeley Law “the most intellectually exciting community that I have been part of,” Chemerinsky describes the school’s core values and why he’s excited for the coming school year.
Each year the Berkeley Law clinic welcomes up to three UC Berkeley undergrads, who immerse themselves in weekly classes and environmental projects with law students.
It’s a school-record number of recipients in the highly competitive program, which welcomes recent law school graduates and newly admitted lawyers committed to a public service career.
Gaining valuable trial-prep experience in patent litigation at Morrison Foerster in San Francisco, Murphy finds an ideal fit at the intersection of law, science, and technology.
Four Class of 2024 alums form the inaugural cohort of the Chris Larsen Justice Fellowship, which will fund their first year of public interest work on criminal justice issues.
They headline a deep public service commitment that this year saw students do nearly 28,000 pro bono hours and 91% of the graduating class engage in pro bono work.
Davis won the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, while Holmquist was recognized for “sustained excellence in teaching” with a Distinguished Teaching Award, given to five professors across the Berkeley campus this year.
A new report co-authored by students in the school’s Veterans Law Practicum describes vexing bureaucratic hurdles to obtaining medical care, disability benefits, and other life-changing services.
The Berkeley Law Board of Advocates Tech & IP Team won its regional and took runner-up honors among 76 overall teams in the National Patent Application Drafting Competition.
3Ls Adriana Hardwicke and Maripau Paz and Harvard Law exchange student José Rodriguez drew on 30 moot sessions with classmates and faculty to best 31 other teams in the annual contest.
Zaidi balances her multiple passions — building a pipeline for Muslim Indian lawyers, her professional ambitions and advocacy, and a deep love of music — with pinpoint precision.
A natural resource specialist before law school, Lewis says Berkeley Law has expanded her skills, tools, and motivation to protect vulnerable ecosystems and communities.
Students who participate in the Berkeley Law Alternative Service Trips (BLAST) say it’s an intense but invigorating experience, intellectually and personally — and this year was no exception.
3Ls and Salzburg Cutler Fellows Heidi Kong, Sophie Lombardo, Paloma Palmer, and Angela Chen spent two packed days in Washington, D.C., exploring global issues, presenting their work, and building connections.
Working with the ACLU of Northern California, the group spent hundreds of hours reviewing thousands of geofence warrants issued from January 2018 to August 2021 to figure out where police used them and who was affected.
The two-year program in Washington, D.C., awarded annually to just three 3Ls from hundreds of applicants, develops skilled and dedicated indigent defense counsel through rigorous training.
With policy inaction and a Supreme Court setback, Gwen Iannone ’24 and Grace Geurin-Henley ’25 help students pivot to international law to pursue justice and reform.
From helping to write a tribe’s constitution to providing free training worldwide on digital investigations of human rights violations to propelling crypto industry reform, the school had quite a year.
Prosecutors from across the country recently gathered at Berkeley Law for the first-ever national conference on how to effectively prosecute police officers accused of using excessive force.
At the center’s annual fellowship conference, students describe their wide-ranging efforts assisting human rights organizations around the world and the inspiration behind it.
Claudia Liss-Schultz ’25 and Kayvon Seif-Naraghi ’25 each gain key skills, confidence, and a $2,500 prize for producing the best briefs in their 1L class.
With the U.S. now a patchwork of state systems with immense variety and harsh consequences for those in restrictive states, the center ramps back up to develop strategic initiatives.
Providing tuition, fees, academic support, and mentoring for remarkable first-generation students like Alleyah Caesar ’24, the program has become a vital part of the school’s landscape.
Boyd has relished an eye-opening summer working for Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.
She describes her unique summer, made possible through the Law in Tech Diversity Collaborative, working at both Hewlett Packard Enterprises and Sidley Austin.
Rising 3Ls Chloe Pan and Zabdi Salazar are expanding engagement and making changes, including how students join the journal and the way articles are selected and edited.
Alumni connections led Tam to a partnership run by to the Jessica Vapnek ’91, faculty director of the International Development Law Center at UC College of the Law, San Francisco.
Recent Ninth Circuit Practicum students Claire Weintraub and Natalie Kaliss capped their law school careers arguing before a judicial panel that their client deserves asylum and protection.
Hollis works to connect Law Students of African Descent students with alumni and faculty mentors, and is a mentor herself for fellows with the Startup Law Initiative.
Students worked with Bay Area Afghan evacuees, under the supervision of attorneys from Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay, to help them submit their asylum applications.
Honored at the annual public interest and pro bono graduation ceremony, the recipients exemplify Berkeley Law’s far-reaching work to help disadvantaged people and communities.
Presented by Military Veterans at Berkeley Law, the event raised awareness of concerning issues and bolstered connections between veteran students and alumni and their supporters.
From co-leading our business law journal and Catholic affinity group to helping renters secure key housing rights, Whitthorne has made the most of his Berkeley Law experience.
Expert leaders dedicated to top-rate client representation and student training help the clinic become a national leader in serving people facing capital punishment.
Antonio Ingram II ’14, Allina Amuchie ’13, Tyler Garvey ’14, and Shanita Farris ’16 credit the student group for pivotal support, networking, and community.
Violent videos should be viewed with care, says Alexa Koenig, a faculty expert on psychological trauma and resiliency at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center.
Privacy experts Catherine Crump and Rebecca Wexler take on key posts with the White House Domestic Policy Council and White House Office of Science Technology Policy, respectively.
A whopping 18 courses are available to Berkeley Law students for the first time this semester, including 3 focused on emerging areas in the corporate sector.
The changes will enable more public interest-minded graduates to access the program, receive increased funding, and spend less of their own money on student loan expenses.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently considered the 2010 fatal beating of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, thanks to years of work from the International Human Rights Law Clinic.
They’re working with an alliance of legal aid organizations, immigration law experts, a former judge, and affected veterans, under the supervision of Lecturer Rose Carmen Goldberg.
With a long track record of working to protect election integrity, Wayment has elevated her advocacy for a more representative democracy while at Berkeley Law.
The student group Arts & Innovation Representation kicks off the platform with episodes addressing music sampling, international restitution, and COVID-19’s impact on live theater.
Eight visiting law school teams embrace the adrenaline ride of getting their case packet just 45 minutes before each round starts and careening through speedy mock trials.
The Policy Advocacy Clinic is tackling restitution, a financial charge which saddles people with lifelong debt, adding to its nationwide work eliminating juvenile legal system fees and fines.
Wu’s externship with a U.S. district court’s patent program enriches her understanding of technology and intellectual property issues and enlightens her career path.
Key research by Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic is helping courts and state legislatures tackle racial discrimination in jury selection across the country.
IHRLC co-directors Roxanna Altholz and Laurel E. Fletcher and clinical students help the Fundación Para la Justicia file a criminal complaint against the Mexican attorney general’s office for illegal surveillance, among other assistance.
Sewit Beraki, Brandon Dailey, and Kavya Dasari finish atop 50 teams at The Negotiation Challenge, a prestigious annual event for top law and business schools worldwide.
Samuelson Clinic student Jennifer Sun ’23 and supervising attorney Megan Graham argue for more public access to surveillance records requests in Minnesota federal court.
A Berkeley Law student-led project details the legal mechanisms used by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s regime to exert increasing control over the arts.
Graduating with pro bono honors for her work with the Post-Conviction Advocacy Project, Garcia strives to understand the root causes of why people commit certain crimes.
Deputy director of Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic, Campos-Bui is honored for her impactful work on the effects of criminal legal system fees and fines.
In his four-plus years, Berkeley Law has expanded its financial aid, faculty ranks, clinical offerings, student diversity, and expenditures for students pursuing public interest careers.
Professors Katerina Linos, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Abbye Atkinson, Elisabeth Semel, Laurel E. Fletcher, and Jeffrey Selbin are honored for their contributions to scholarship and legal education.
Given annually to a recent Berkeley Law graduate, the fellowship at UC Legal offers valuable experience in issues faced by public and nonprofit entities.
Berkeley Law’s flourishing program welcomes eight supervising attorneys and three teaching fellows to help expand project capacity and learning opportunities.
Led by Afghan refugees who are also alumnae, the initiative will help Afghans seeking to leave the country and preserve evidence of human rights abuses committed by the Taliban.
Holmquist’s far-reaching impact at Berkeley Law includes expanding academic support, practical legal training, curricular flexibility, and diversity and inclusion.
McGurk relishes helping Blend, a digital lending platform that simplifies applications for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts, streamline financial services for consumers.
The gift, from Professor Pamela Samuelson and her husband, Robert Glushko, creates the Robert Glushko Clinical Professor of Practice in Technology Law.
Six determined groups of students participated in this year’s Berkeley Law Alternative Service Trips, working with grassroots groups from Appalachia to Hawai’i.
The Education Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley Law’s East Bay Community Law Center provided key legal counsel to assist the Black Organizing Project’s determined, successful effort.
A longtime leader in Berkeley Law’s tech-law clinic and center, Urban will help the innovative agency protect consumers’ privacy rights over their personal information.
Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic prods California courts to remove copyright restrictions from the state’s jury instructions.
A $250,000 gift from Orrick and the family of its chair Mitch Zuklie ’96 unlocks a $1 million anonymous gift to help expand the Environmental Law Clinic’s impact and reach.
Members of the student-led Political and Election Empowerment Project worked to ensure underrepresented populations don’t get watered down in this year’s redistricting, and also put in volunteer time at the polls.
Field Placement Program quartet gains international law skills while serving as student legal advisors for Afghanistan, Sudan, the Bahamas, and the Marshall Islands.
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.
Gov. Gavin Newsom partners with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic on a historic amicus brief about racial discrimination’s impact on how capital punishment is imposed in California.
Governor Newsom signs a whopping seven bills that focus on protecting residents’ civil, financial, and environmental rights — all driven by Berkeley Law clinics and centers.
Berkeley Law students with young children praise the school’s leadership and Student Parents Group for providing much-needed support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A change in leadership of Berkeley Law’s clinics arrives as the thriving program welcomes its biggest class of in-house students and solidifies plans to expand.
The in-house clinical program welcomed seven new hires — six teaching fellows and one supervising attorney, expanding the growing program’s outreach to marginalized communities and individuals.
Research by the Policy Advocacy Clinic spurs Orange County’s decision to end collection and discharge $18.5 million in fees charged to families with children in the juvenile system before 2018.
Students in the Human Rights Center’s Investigations Lab scour digital content, leading to an Amnesty International report that documented 125 incidents of excessive force against protesters over 10 days.
Oscar Sarabia Roman ’21, Emma Nicholls ’21, and Gaby Bermudez ’22 honor the work of iconic Judge Thelton Henderson ’62 by advocating for marginalized people of color.
Three International Human Rights Law Clinic students helped draft a complaint with the United Nations on behalf of a British citizen tortured by Sri Lankan officials in 2016.
An eye-opening report from Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic shows that racial discrimination is a deeply ingrained part of jury selection in California.
Kiki Tapiero ’20 and Alex Copper ’20 win Berkeley Law’s Pro Bono Champion award while Safa Ansari-Bayegan ’20 and Miguel Soto receive its Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service.
As the COVID-19 crisis grips the region, the center’s staffers are finding new angles for advocacy—and seizing the chance to shape the post-coronavirus landscape.
Two Berkeley Law clinics give immediate financial relief to vulnerable families by persuading California to stop collecting government debt during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After working on his case for 2½ years, Alex Copper ’20 and Sydney Royer ’20 from Berkeley Law’s Post-Conviction Advocacy Project help a San Quentin prisoner gain his release.
Led by a research center and a clinic, Berkeley Law’s students and faculty are leaping into action to help entrepreneurs weather the current economic storm.
Through a new partnership, the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice is taking student-led interest groups to law schools around the country.
A flurry of new work, including an amicus brief in a hot-button Supreme Court case, shows the depth and reach of Khiara M. Bridges’ intersectional scholarship.
Hannah Braidman ’21, Daina Goldenberg ’20, Alex Lyons ’20, and Paul von Autenried ’20 best more than 50 other law school teams at the ABA Student Trial Advocacy Competition in labor and employment law.
Given to just three graduating law students each year, the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship develops top indigent defense lawyers through rigorous training and strong support.
As technology transforms how criminal cases are prosecuted, the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic helps defense attorneys scrutinize the evidence presented against their clients.
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic students urges the court to reject Georgia’s bid to claim copyright in its official annotated legal code.
Faculty, researchers, and students are influencing state regulatory and governmental changes that address climate change and help disadvantaged communities.
The clinic is monitoring enforcement of a law that bars California counties from charging fees to parents and guardians of youth in the juvenile legal system.
Ginsburg and Kay were longtime friends, co-authors of the nation’s first sex-based discrimination casebook, and fellow trailblazers for gender equality in law.
Thanks to the initiative of two Policy Advocacy Clinic students, Nevada families will no longer have to pay thousands of dollars for everything from food to a public defender when they have a child in the juvenile delinquency system.
The collaborative program, with students from five UC law schools, offers an immersive semester working at a government agency, nonprofit, or advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.
The International Human Rights Law Clinic and Human Rights Center fight injustice through litigation, policy suggestions, advocacy, research, and science-based investigations.
Filed by the East Bay Community Law Center and four partner organizations, the suit also addresses other harmful policing practices on public housing property.
A Berkeley Law clinic’s yearlong effort prods the South’s first court to stop charging administrative fees to families of youth in the juvenile system.
Led by Professor Victoria Plaut, the lab highlights the implications of incorporating diversity and inclusion in businesses, legal institutions, and schools.
The International Human Rights Law Clinic says the World Bank’s internal watchdog does not have the authority to enforce its own social and environmental policies.
“The Berkeley Effect” suggests that small actions can cause large, resonating effects. Here are just some of the ways that the Berkeley Law community helps make the world a better place.
A new report highlights the flaws in the “welfare family cap,” a policy that denies additional cash aid for babies born into families already receiving financial assistance.
Internships and classes at Berkeley Law offer meaningful experience and integrate a legal curriculum with life skills and leadership development activities.
What started as a before-school enrichment program evolved into a meaningful connection between Berkeley Law and one of its neighboring public elementary schools.
Signed by 14 Berkeley Law organizations, the Fisher v. University of Texas brief cautions against eliminating race and ethnicity as admission considerations.
Law students are increasingly hungry to work with clients as early as possible. While such opportunities are rare at most law schools until students reach their second year, at Berkeley Law—thanks to the school’s Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects—they can dive in almost immediately.
The program, Startup@BerkeleyLaw, offers students and others access to top experts, timely courses, and dynamic projects on emerging legal issues for startups.
The Henderson Center sponsored 10 current Berkeley Law students to attend the #Law4BlackLives conference hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights on July 31, 2015 in New York, Hear the students share their experiences Sept 17, 12:45 p.m. in 132 Law Building. Event details are here. To reserve a lunch, please RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/pp2b4zs.
The Henderson Center sponsored 10 current Berkeley Law students to attend the #Law4BlackLives conference hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights on July 31, 2015 in New York, Hear the students share their experiences Sept 17, 12:45 p.m. in 132 Law Building. Event details are 