Press Highlights

Louise Bedsworth, Director of the Land Use Program at the Center for Law Energy & the Environment and senior advisor to the California China Climate Institute, explores three important facts about our changing climate this summer of cascading climate disasters has put in stark relief 

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, explains why President Biden’s proposal to waive all IP rights related to COVID-19 is “toothless virtue-signaling at best — and dangerous economic capitulation at worst”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky suggests the Supreme Court justices stop acting like “partisan hacks” if they don’t want to be perceived that way

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses ways to push companies to change in accordance with shareholder goals of socially responsible investing

Professor Frank Zimring looks back at the age of Attica and says incarceration is a larger part of American life in 2021 than it was in 1970

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the failure of Trump’s so-called China Initiative

Lecturer Mallika Kaur explores how might managers in the legal profession can redefine their leadership styles to listen and plan for primary and secondary trauma responses—in themselves and others – during an interview with Monika Kalra Varma

Professor Christopher Kutz reviews Hélène Landemore’s new book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, and its exploration of representative democracy

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky urges Californians to recognize the need to reform the recall process

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says the Texas abortion law was only successful because it had a receptive audience in the Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit and was designed to evade judicial review

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says President Xi Jinping is in effect “weaponising the judiciary” to defend China’s interests abroad

Professor Orin Kerr discusses a pair of federal lawsuits claiming chalking tires is a violation of drivers’ Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures

Professor Chris Hoofnagle, Faculty Director at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, views the Apple/Epic decision as a major victory for app developers, but is worried that the greater freedom to post in-app links will weaken privacy and security, as Apple has warned

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the new Texas abortion law and says it makes it ill-advised for physicians to counsel their patients about their constitutional rights

David Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, appears on NPR’s A1 to discuss the California recall election

Lecturer Shanin Specter discusses whether liability waivers mean giving up the right to sue even if operators are at fault

Professor Jonathan Glater weighs in the pause in student loans and how it showed us a world without student loan debt

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas abortion law opens the door to insidious copycat laws that could be used to attack other constitutional rights

Professor Khiara M. Bridges dispels the myth is that critical race theory is being taught in K-12 classrooms across the country

Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, discusses a lawsuit filed by a member of the city’s privacy advisory commission accusing police of violating multiple city and state laws

Professor Khiara M. Bridges appears on the SF Chronicle’s Fifth & Mission podcast to discuss the new law in Texas that outlaws abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and the impact it will have on California

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Texas abortion law bans effectively abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy and cannot be reconciled with Roe

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the landmark decision by the Supreme Court NOT to put the Texas abortion restriction law on hold

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears on KFI’s Bill Handel show to discuss the new abortion law in Texas, what it means for women in Texas, and how it  impact rulings like Roe v. Wade

Lecturer Jim Dempsey discusses the Juniper breach and says big lesson from the whole ordeal is that the government cannot control its vulnerabilities

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky warns that if the Texas abortion law is upheld, other states could authorize private lawsuits to undermine any right they opposed

Professor Khiara M. Bridges appears on NPR’s Code Switch podcast to explain what moral panics reveal about the ongoing freakout over critical race theory in schools

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy explains the costs of an individual’s decision to remain unvaccinated on children, disadvantaged communities, people in poorer countries, vaccinated individuals and funders and patients of the health care system

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains why matter what happens in the recall election on Sept. 14, the recall system prescribed by the California Constitution makes no sense and needs to be fixed

Professor Catherine Fisk discusses a California bill that would give farmworkers more ways to vote in union elections

Dr. Rohini Haar, Human Rights Center Research Fellow, with Nick Robinson, senior legal adviser at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, writes it’s up to California to lead the way in support of a coherent national policy on less lethal weapons — their manufacture, procurement and use — that better protects protesters and the public

David Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, discusses the issues related to the Emergency Services Act, potentially created by Gov. Newsom failing to win the recall election

Lecturer Rick Trachok says due to the omission of the MBE portion of the bar exam, Nevada Bar Study needs participation of current Nevada lawyers to test if the MBE portions predicts lawyering effectiveness 

Zulaikha Aziz, co-director of the Afghanistan Project, says the wealth of skills and expertise that has already fled Afghanistan is staggering

Professor Orin Kerr says police ordinarily need a warrant to enter a home without consent, but there is Supreme Court precedent that holds that officers can also enter a home if they have an “objectively reasonable basis for believing an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury”

Savala Nolan appears on KQED’d Forum to discuss new book, Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body

Professor Daniel Farber says the physical and legal infrastructure of the West is geared toward a certain climate regime and, at great expense and effort, dams, canals, and irrigation systems have been carefully engineered for a climate that no longer exists

Professor Jennifer Chacon appears on the Immigration Nerds podcast to discuss the history of policing immigrants through the CJS and exploring better alternatives to managing migration

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the lawsuit filed by capitol police officers against former President Trump and members of far-right groups alleging they conspired to use violence on January 6th to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election

Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, discusses the clinic’s work and the beneficial experience of clinic work for students, whether their goals are to work in public interest or the private sector

Professor Pamela Samuelson appears on the Techdirt podcast to discuss the Oracle/Google case and what impact the landmark case has on copyright and interoperability

The New York Times reviews dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s new book, Presumed Guilty

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy, with Emma Elizabeth Gonzalez, directing attorney at the Public Law Center in Orange County, explains why justice in debt-collection cases is one-sided and says the state should guarantee the right to a lawyer

Professor Catherine Fisk says the fight over Prop 22 isn’t over – after consideration by the state court of appeals, it will eventually be decided by the California Supreme Court

Professor Catherine Fisk says the next fight over Prop 22 will be about whether it will remain in place or if companies’ exemption will be rescinded while the appeal process plays out

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears on KQED’S Forum to discuss his new book Presumed Guilty, the judicial doctrines that enable illegal police behavior and how to reform them

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky suggests voters bring a lawsuit, ideally directly in the California Supreme Court, where justices could declare unconstitutional the method of choosing a successor if the governor is recalled

David Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, explains the history of recall elections in California and the Legislature can take steps to pare down the replacement ballot

Lecturer Shanin Specter discusses his firm’s decision to require Covid booster shots and their continuing efforts to lead in terms of vaccination in the workplace

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says he expects more lawmakers to take a tougher line on Chinese tech firms operating in America as Beijing’s crackdown continues