The unique two-event welcomed experts in business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector to discuss ways corporations can propel a more sustainability-focused economy.
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.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk joined the center to officially launch the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, the world’s first international guidance in this area.
Experts from the museum, auction house, legal, and academic world describe triumphs and challenges surrounding an estimated 600,000-plus works the Nazis stole between 1933 and 1945.
She works to connect citizens with lawyers for free consultation and representation, increases legal literacy, raises legal awareness in young women and girls, and co-hosts a national television show highlighting legal options.
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.
Panelists from four continents discuss new developments and persistent challenges at an eye-opening conference presented by the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law.
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.
The program helps broaden the school’s international connections as well as the influence of its faculty on the legal and scholarly communities around the world, Professor Laurent Mayali says.
After breaking her legs while trying to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power, she continues to advocate for women’s rights and media freedom.
A world-renowned scholar, Dagan will guide the center’s work investigating how we define our property, contract, and tort rights — and how that defines us as a society.
The 280 students in this year’s cohort “bring their passion and unique perspectives to the Berkeley Law community,” Senior Director of Admissions and Recruiting Anya Grossmann says.
Keenly aware of threats to the rule of law worldwide, Piotr Hofmański discussed the court’s role in helping safeguard fundamental rights during a recent talk at Berkeley Law.
Li discusses how Netflix is surging into the video game market, the benefits and challenges of working as a general counsel, and how best to approach law school.
Over five days in Jordan, center staff and the International Center for Transitional Justice taught a 49-member delegation how to navigate digital open source investigations of human rights violations.
Committed to strengthening the intersection of law and media, Patel-Martin brings vast international experience and abundant energy to help serve that goal at Berkeley Law.
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.
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.
She’ll spend the fall semester in Germany working on a project about failure of international human rights law to adequately address the treatment of soldiers by their states.
Thomas von Danwitz gives Berkeley Law’s annual Irving G. Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law, takes part in a panel on data privacy, and visits our “Borderlines” podcast.
As Ukrainian law enforcement officials and NGOs prepare for war crimes trials, their efforts to collect evidence are guided by digital-age legal standards developed at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center.
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.
Selected to discuss their work at the recent event in Miami, where the vast majority of presenters were faculty scholars, “is a big deal,” says Professor Katerina Linos.
Members of the school’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and its California-China Climate Institute meet with key leaders and drive solutions to pressing issues.
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.
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.
The new offerings include Environmental Justice and Health Equity, Environmental Justice and Advocacy in California, and Environmental Health Law Through Film.
The faculty director of Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center continues to help people worldwide search for an answer to the agonizing question, Where is my child?
Now a visiting scholar with Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, Qazizada is part of a unique program that brings threatened Afghan scholars to the Bay Area.
Participants in the executive education course Corporate Finance Fundamentals describe its far-reaching benefits and praise the school’s collaboration with Ukrainian Global University.
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.
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.
Renowned panelists, including former Fox News hosts Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky, offer guidance for litigators, advisors, investigators, and HR professionals.
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.
The Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism have launched the country’s first investigative reporting course using open source intelligence (OSINT) at a university.
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.
Among the Berkeley Law students who enjoyed rewarding summer work, Diarra found a great fit at Accountability Counsel, which helps communities harmed by internationally financed projects.
Chancellor Carol Christ, hailing the Berkeley Law professor’s work and commitment to truth, reform, and justice, says Zimring “embodies the very best” of the university.
Students Shabna Ummer-Hashim, Anais Jansen-Fernandez, and Caroline Haber exemplify the Berkeley Law program’s international diversity and professional success.
Field Placement Program quartet gains international law skills while serving as student legal advisors for Afghanistan, Sudan, the Bahamas, and the Marshall Islands.
The gift will enable Berkeley Law’s renamed Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies to expand the many ways it engages students, faculty, and the broader community.
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.
Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and tech-law expert James Dempsey assess the legal wrangling over the Trump administration’s attempted ban of the Chinese apps.
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program student Cristina Violante wins the American Bar Foundation Graduate Student Competition from the international journal Law & Social Inquiry.
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.
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court follows a sustained effort by the UC communities to support the legal rights and human needs of DACA recipients.
Three Berkeley Law graduates at the National Center for Youth Law play key roles in a court ruling ordering the release of detained children in federal immigration custody.
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.
Professors Catherine Albiston ’93 and Catherine Fisk ’86 explain how the lack of paid leave in the U.S. reflects a growing inequality among Americans stoked by the COVID-19 crisis.
Former doctor and current Berkeley Law healthcare regulation authority George Horvath ’14 unpacks the technical, legal, and policy issues that led to paltry early testing in the U.S.
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, a towering figure in privacy policy, shares key challenges and promising triumphs with a packed crowd of Berkeley Law students.
Part theater and part mock trial, the unique Feb. 16 performance at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley flows from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
A Fulbright Scholar and longtime children’s advocate, Day sees a huge opportunity to advance her work through Berkeley Law’s LL.M. thesis track program.
A distinguished group of international scholars, attorneys, and judges probed the lasting influence of Judge Noonan’s rich contributions to law, history, ethics, and religion.
Zimring, a pioneering scholar in the study of violent crime for half a century, shares the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology with UC Berkeley Ph.D. Philip Cook.
Berkeley Law will co-house the university’s new California-China Climate Institute, a major initiative to propel greater climate action via joint research, training, and dialogue.
Adrian Kinsella (J.D. ’15, LL.M. ’19) celebrates the journey that took him from Afghanistan to Berkeley Law, and now Sacramento, helping many along the way.
The International Human Rights Law Clinic and Human Rights Center fight injustice through litigation, policy suggestions, advocacy, research, and science-based investigations.
Berkeley and Korean law scholars tackled issues of national security, constitutional law and the environment at an inaugural workshop last month that may set the stage for closer collaboration.
Six years ago, Eric Stover, Alexa Koenig and Victor Peskin teamed up to try to understand why so many states ignore their legal obligations to arrest and try war crimes suspects.
