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.
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.
Top scholars from around the world describe her massive impact on digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw, and information policy, and her enormous influence on colleagues in those fields.
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.
In their new book, Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in our Online Lives, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros draw lessons from experts and the center’s own work to protect students’ mental health.
Brandy Doyle ’22 and Haley Broughton ’23 are working in both UC Legal’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC) and UC Berkeley’s Office of Legal Affairs during their year-long fellowship.
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Morgan Christen and U.S. District Court of Massachusetts Judge Angel Kelley share their insights during Berkeley Law’s 10th annual Judges-in-Residence program.
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.
A dozen were ranked among the best in the nation in a new set of quadrennial national rankings from the Washington & Lee Law Journal, with eight in the top 10.
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.
A full crowd hears about the push to strengthen unions and the surging labor movement from Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, chief officer of the 2.1 million-member California Labor Federation.
The technology is “the hot topic in the national law librarian community right now,” says Librarian Kristie Chamorro, who researched and created a webpage on the topic and is working on an AI guide for students.
David McCraw, the paper’s lead newsroom lawyer, talks with Berkeley Law students about protecting journalists’ safety, freedom of the press, and the growing concern of disinformation online.
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.
Before the Movement explores how Black people worked within the laws of property, contracts, and more to assert their rights — even while other parts of the legal system offered discrimination, hostility, and violence.
With an eye on aligning student enthusiasm with some of Berkeley Law’s strongest offerings, the Admissions Office is repackaging some gift aid into a new set of scholarships.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Yost ’98 and his husband Paul Brody launch the Sacramento Briefing Series to help our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment bring quality research to California policymakers.
From intellectual property adapting to AI creations to emerging concerns in corporate law and reproductive justice efforts, Berkeley Law brings students to the forefront of timely topics.
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.
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.
“The quality of any educational institution is largely determined by the quality of its faculty and we simply could not have had a better year in our hiring,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says.
The twin economic tremors of the pandemic and recent bank failures have helped raise his public profile and influence through op-eds, media coverage, and service on two state commissions.
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.
Working at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Davis has taken on several projects to help low-income clients, address police misconduct, and provide social service assistance.
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.
