Williams has parlayed working at Lord Tony’s in Sacramento to becoming editor in chief of the California Law Review, where he’s pushing to expand the journal’s accessibility and reach.
Desai, who wrote an article recently published in the Fashion & Law Journal, probes some of the compelling aspects, important nuances, and timely issues at the nexus of law and fashion.
The Career Development Office partnered with the student-led Plaintiffs’ Law Association to host the event, which drew more than 60 students and 18 plaintiff-side firms from the Bay Area, Southern California, and beyond.
Legal scholars from across the country unpacked recent decisions they say depart from historical precedent and jeopardize the rights of minorities and other vulnerable groups.
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.
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.
Over 500 people registered for the event, where lawyers, computer scientists, scholars, government officials, and criminal justice leaders probed the act’s early impact and future landscape.
Rogers, who has forged a stellar career in the reproductive justice movement, knows it’s a pivotal time in the fight to protect bodily autonomy — and is ready for it.
In an hour-long conversation with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Sotomayor described the Court’s challenges and culture and discussed clerkships, work-life balance, oral arguments, citizen engagement, and more.
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.
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.
The longtime advocate for democracy and human rights in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently serving as its ambassador to Germany, received the award at UC Berkeley’s winter commencement.
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.
The ‘Berkeley Speaks’ podcast features a recent panel with journalism dean Geeta Anand, UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman, and ACLU lawyer Emerson Sykes.
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.
The groundbreaking empirical research features interviews with 50 federal judges and teases out trends and potential new practices for hiring a wider mix of clerks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
