Constitutional Law Archives

Would Prop. 1 allow abortions after fetal viability? Legal experts say no (10/31/2022)

David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law discusses the California’s Proposition 1.

Behind U.S. Supreme Court race cases, a contested push for ‘color blindness’ (10/28/2022)

University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo discusses The U.S. Supreme Court’s race related cases.

OpEd: Harvard president Abbott Lowell is laughing at us again (10/27/2022)

“Lowell claimed 1920s Jewish quota was intended to increase diversity by avoiding concentrations of Northeastern city dwellers,” writes David B. Oppenheimer, law professor at Berkeley Law and James N. Bierman, a former assistant dean of admissions at Harvard Law School and a lawyer in the District of Columbia. “As the Supreme Court plans to take up affirmative action, his policies are being cited in an effort to keep Black and Latino students out of Harvard.”

OpEd: Harvard’s cult of personality (10/26/2022)

“Either Harvard needs to take a hard look at cultural bias in its admissions process, or Asian applicants to Harvard need to spend less of their scarce time on academics and more on personality development,” writes Prasad Krishnamurthy, professor of law at U.C. Berkeley School of Law.

OpEd: Affirmative action programs work. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to end them anyway (10/26/2022)

“The long history of racial discrimination in America and current inequalities in educational opportunity make affirmative action essential,” writes Dean Chemerinsky. “Affirmative action works.”

Four justices vie to keep spots on ‘collegial’ California Supreme Court (10/25/2022)

David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law discusses the California Supreme Court.

Thomas? Kavanaugh? Roberts? Conservatives dominate Supreme Court but lack clear leader (10/25/2022)

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices and weighs in on who is the conservative wing’s true leader.

Newsom pledges to serve all 4 years in one and only 2022 gubernatorial debate (10/23/2022)

Dean Chemerinsky’s opinion on Propostion 1 is cited in an article on the California gubernatorial debate. UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told The Chronicle in September, “ I think that the clear intent is to protect current law, which protects abortions until viability. It does not create an absolute right to abortion; just as other rights in the state Constitution are not absolute.”

Pork, The Dormant Commerce Clause, and Legislating Morality (10/21/2022)

Dean Chemerinsky discusses whether the Interstate Commerce Clause restricts states from regulating in-state conduct that has a substantial impact on mostly out-of-state producers.

California Politics: What constitutional law experts say about the abortion ballot measure (10/14/2022)

Dean Chemerinsky discusses California’s Proposition 1, the ballot measure to add abortion rights directly into the state Constitution.

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