After major success in the cage, Denarola has found a new battleground — antitrust law — to pursue holding companies accountable when they “take advantage of workers who have nowhere else to go.”
Host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Gadinis, whose new book chronicles how companies are writing the rules for AI, platform safety, and carbon accounting long before legislators arrive.
The latest edition of Berkeley Law’s biannual magazine chronicles an array of exceptional programs, innovative projects, and inspiring achievements from faculty, students, alumni, and staff.
Nielsen leads the organization’s push to serve the public good through high-quality empirical research of legal institutions, legal education, and the legal profession.
The recent report focuses on how the use of large language models — the foundation of generative AI — are affecting the fields of law, journalism, and education.
The inaugural cohort of fellows comes from a wide range of disciplines, and students are already posting their pieces on the Berkeley Law Life Sciences Forum.
Before law school, 1Ls Kamryn Yanchick and Aidan Lin-Tostado were already turning advocacy into action. As Berkeley Law Public Interest Scholars, they’re now building on that work while preparing for careers in public service.
With the climate for judges becoming increasingly fraught, Hiramoto prioritizes her passions as a jurist: pursuing justice in her courtroom while paving the way for new generations of judges, lawyers, and students.
Atkinson, whose scholarship examines consumer law through the lens of economic inequality, is enjoying the chance to work more closely with her colleagues, particularly junior faculty.
The school’s strong run of faculty hiring under Dean Erwin Chemerinsky continues with Harawa, a criminal procedure expert who arrives in January, and legal historian Hall.
According to data from reform states, juvenile courts no longer charge youth and families more than $61 million in fees each year, and they have discharged a staggering $783 million in debt.
The $500,000 commitment from Ruth Bell ’67 and her husband Joseph Bell aims to expand the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment’s impact in guiding California policymakers on vital issues.
Professors Khiara M. Bridges, Colleen V. Chien ’02, and Dhammika Dharmapala, and Assistant Professor Manisha Padi were recognized for their scholarly and teaching accomplishments.
Valentine parlays pivotal hands-on experience gained at Berkeley Law into a rewarding internship with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Immigration Defense Unit.
With the rule of law under unprecedented pressure, they’re standing up in courtrooms, classrooms, lecture halls, the media, and internationally to fight for justice.
For Veena Dubal, mentorship from Catherine “KT” Albiston meant more than academic guidance. It meant permission to pivot, confidence to keep going, and a model for scholarship grounded in care and public purpose.
Taught by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Executive Director Wayne Stacy — a former Big Law litigator and U.S. Patent Office leader — the course will focus on enhancing legal skills without lowering the threshold for human judgment and input.
Working with a feminist organization in Georgia and the Equality Law Clinic at the Free University of Brussels, the group wrote a brief on behalf of a woman who had been charged with defamation after accusing her supervisor of sexual harassment.
Swift’s brilliance and grace inspired the alum, who wishes to remain anonymous, to donate $250,000 to start the fund. He hopes other alumni join him in paying tribute to Swift, who died in 2023 after a legendary career.
The school’s newest graduates are clerking for the supreme courts of five states this fall — Alaska, California, Hawaiʻi, New Jersey, and Nevada — as well as intermediate courts of appeal in Alaska and Hawaiʻi and state superior courts in Alaska and California.
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.
Sophia Wang, Toni Mendicino, and Amina Kirby are recognized for leading immigration rights advocacy, amplifying Berkeley Law’s international law work, and advancing technical innovations in the school’s classrooms and event spaces.
Quick start and tenacious defense help Berkeley stay undefeated in the annual Order on the Court basketball game with a 70-46 win fueled by spirited cheerleaders, stellar halftime performers, and hundreds of raucous fans.
The changing climate’s growing impact is acting as a powerful threat multiplier — exacerbating violence, exclusion, discrimination, and weak state protection and spurring migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Faculty, students, staff, and alumni call Chemerinsky uniquely positioned to lead Berkeley Law’s role in protecting the rule of law, chart an ambitious course for its future, and solidify its long-term financial footing.
Housers at Berkeley and the California Housing Initiative strive to achieve more affordable housing opportunities across the state and help train a new generation of advocates.
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.
While small towns are a less common path for most Berkeley alums, “the divide between cities and rural areas isn’t as big as we sometimes think it is,” Edwards says.
Recent rankings place Berkeley Law as the top public law school in the United States, and studies analyzing scholarly impact also place the school’s faculty among the best at public institutions.
As industry defendants increasingly push state judges to adopt strict standing limits modeled on federal standards, the center’s Open Door Project is helping Californians keep their access to the state’s courts.
The gift establishes the Zieff-Leitner Public Interest Fellowship, which will allow a graduating 3L student to spend their first year in practice with a nonprofit organization — at a starting salary of $80,000, significantly more than existing fellowships.
Stood up on a quick timetable, the project fits perfectly into the Criminal Law & Justice Center’s work at the intersection of immigration detention and the criminal justice system.
Song, a political scientist, started a three-year term as associate dean for the school’s Ph.D. program and an undergraduate major with more than 400 students last fall.
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.
Human Rights Clinic Director Roxanna Altholz ’99 relied on support from the law school as she and two other international law experts probed the 2016 murder of the Honduran environmental activist.
Stephanie Alvarez, Evelyn Correa, Rosie Rios, and Alejandro Castañeda Zúñiga worked with migrant-focused groups through the program, which earns students academic credit for doing supervised legal work at a nonprofit or government agency.
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.
Mohamed, an expert in international law, criminal law, and human rights, analyzes what’s happened, what could come next, and how governments and institutions outside the U.S. could and might respond.
The New Orleans gathering brought laurels for Field Placement Program Director Sue Schechter, Clinical Professor and Environmental Law Clinic Director Claudia Polsky ’96, Instructional & Educational Technology Librarian Kristie Chamorro, 3L Virginia Frausto-Elizarraraz, and the late Professor Philip Frickey.
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.
Carrillo, who runs the nonpartisan academic research center devoted to studying the state’s constitution and Supreme Court, has just become editor-in-chief of the book-length annual scholarly volume published by the California Supreme Court Historical Society and joined the society’s board of directors.
As each hot new idea or gadget has grabbed funders and headlines — from broadband to AI — Narechania has kept his eye on striking a balance between innovation and accessibility.
“My role has always been to push the envelope” on gaining civil rights for people with disabilities, says Mayerson, who has taught at Berkeley Law since 1988.
The program’s first crop of graduates are already making an impact, advising tech firms, governments, and nongovernmental organizations on responsible AI policy.
