Professors Taeku Lee, Bertrall Ross, Ian Haney López, Kathryn Abrams, and Abhay Aneja weigh in during a livestreamed Berkeley Conversations event moderated by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
As corporations scramble to send the right message to their customers, a self-guided class for professionals bolsters Berkeley Law’s growing suite of courses bridging corporate law and social and environmental justice.
Students in the Human Rights Center’s Investigations Lab scour digital content, leading to an Amnesty International report that documented 125 incidents of excessive force against protesters over 10 days.
Oscar Sarabia Roman ’21, Emma Nicholls ’21, and Gaby Bermudez ’22 honor the work of iconic Judge Thelton Henderson ’62 by advocating for marginalized people of color.
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.
While students, faculty, and staff are scattered around the world, Berkeley Law has brought them together through a variety of online events—many focused on the pandemic and the implications of the death of George Floyd.
An eye-opening report from Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic shows that racial discrimination is a deeply ingrained part of jury selection in California.
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.
A research fellow at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, Haar has analyzed the impact of rubber bullets, tear gas, and others weapons used during protests.
Savala Trepczynski ’11, executive director of Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, says white people working to overcome their own fears and uncertainty is essential for bridging the racial divide.
In a new Yale Law Journal paper, Professor David Singh Grewal offers a timely blueprint for putting the themes of power, equality, and democracy at the center of legal scholarship.
From price-gouging on essentials to outright theft, students in Berkeley Law’s Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society have been uncovering fraud and swindles all over the country—and fighting back.
Part of a Berkeley Conversations panel, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Bertrall Ross describe how the pandemic may alter the landscape before, during, and after Election Day.
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.
Seven Latinx Berkeley Law students receive fellowship to pursue public interest internships and judicial externships—and to help diversify the legal profession.
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.
Faculty members Stavros Gadinis and Amelia Miazad ’02 remain hopeful that companies will continue to value “doing well by doing good” through the coronavirus pandemic.
As the COVID-19 crisis grips the region, the center’s staffers are finding new angles for advocacy—and seizing the chance to shape the post-coronavirus landscape.
Two Berkeley Law clinics give immediate financial relief to vulnerable families by persuading California to stop collecting government debt during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Led by a research center and a clinic, Berkeley Law’s students and faculty are leaping into action to help entrepreneurs weather the current economic storm.
Through a new partnership, the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice is taking student-led interest groups to law schools around the country.
A flurry of new work, including an amicus brief in a hot-button Supreme Court case, shows the depth and reach of Khiara M. Bridges’ intersectional scholarship.
Given to just three graduating law students each year, the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship develops top indigent defense lawyers through rigorous training and strong support.
The denaming—the outcome of a nearly three-year process—is the first time a Berkeley facility’s name has been eliminated due to its namesake’s character or actions.
Fueled by her love of mentoring and eagerness to diversify the legal profession, Grayce Zelphin ’11 is Berkeley Law’s first director of judicial clerkships.
A recent conference probes how consumer protection law can alleviate mounting criminal legal debt fueled by the expanding privatization of our jail and prison systems.
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.
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic students urges the court to reject Georgia’s bid to claim copyright in its official annotated legal code.
Faculty, researchers, and students are influencing state regulatory and governmental changes that address climate change and help disadvantaged communities.
Berkeley Law’s dean asserts that for racial discrimination claims in contracting to move forward, they need only show that race was plausibly a motivating factor in the defendant’s decision.
The clinic is monitoring enforcement of a law that bars California counties from charging fees to parents and guardians of youth in the juvenile legal system.
Ginsburg and Kay were longtime friends, co-authors of the nation’s first sex-based discrimination casebook, and fellow trailblazers for gender equality in law.
Ian Haney López lays out a research-based blueprint for building a new, multiracial political coalition to combat the use of race to divide the electorate.
First-year law student Blake Danser wants to help low-income communities, like the one he grew up in, and share his experience of what it’s like to be transgender and a veteran.
