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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky suggests that President Biden pick a Supreme Court Justice who might put together coalitions for progressive results

Professor Amanda Tyler appears on MSNBC’s The Last word to examine the qualifications of President Biden’s potential nominees to the Supreme Court

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday to reinstate a congressional district map drawn by the Alabama Legislature serves as an effort by the conservative justices to help Republicans in the midterms

Professor Emeritus Daniel Rubinfeld predicts the Frontier/Spirit airline merger will go through, despite antitrust concerns

Professor Catherine Fisk discusses a potential racial harassment suit against Tesla

Savala Nolan, Executive Director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, writes that very often, white people and their efforts disappoint her and says if we want cooperative, connective transformation it’s time to increase the heat

A 2016 report by the East Bay Community Law Center that found Black drivers in San Francisco accounted for “48.7% of arrests for a ‘failure to appear/pay’ traffic court warrant,” despite making up just under 6% of the population at the time

Professor Amanda Tyler discusses the reasons Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be an excellent Supreme Court Justice

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says California Supreme Court Justice Kruger is brilliant and has impeccable credentials as a potential Supreme Court candidate.

Professor Tejas Narechania explains a new act, passed by the FCC that will require broadband companies  provide easy-to-read information about their services to improve transparency

David A. Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, says the California Supreme Court’s ability to reach consensus is its “superpower”

California Constitution Center Executive Director David Carrillo and Senior Research Fellow Brandon V. Stracener explore the judicial record of California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger based on an analysis by the California Constitution Center of every opinion and vote by Kruger in her time on California’s high court

Faculty member Henry Hecht uses a pragmatic approach — and a strong network with Berkeley Law grads — to help students maximize their skills.

Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, discusses California Supreme Court Justice Kruger as a potential Supreme Court candidate and says she is an independent thinker 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is one of 16 law professors who have filed amicus briefs supporting dismissal of a controversial bankruptcy case involving thousands of talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and says there are “serious constitutional issues”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains the reasons why Justice Breyer is a model for all who sit on a judicial bench

Lecturer Shanin Specter says he is optimistic that judges are listening to calls for changes to common benefit fees and judicial management will modify by streamlining the MDL process

A recent brief authored by Professor Catherine Fisk and 3L Amy Reavis observes that powerful global corporations like McDonald’s control the prices, quality, hours, and other operations, and the franchisee has no way to increase profits other than cutting labor costs

Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, explains the impact Covid-related stress has had on judges

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says Justice Kruger has stellar credentials and would add diversity to the court, not only as a Black woman but as a state supreme court justice and someone from the West Coast

Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, notes the ACLU’s decision to use tracking technology was made by the ACLU’s fundraising and advocacy team, not its legal department, which often does not work in tandem

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says recent free speech controversies at law schools reflect the times we are living in

Renowned panelists, including former Fox News hosts Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky, offer guidance for litigators, advisors, investigators, and HR professionals.

Professor Tejas Narechania joins the Strict Scrutiny podcast for a retrospective on Justice Breyer

Professor Daniel Farber says that the new justice should be able to work with other justices on the court but also have the ability to write strong dissents and appeal to the public sense of what the court has done

Professor Frank Partnoy says synthetic shares can exist because the same shares are often lent out to multiple short sellers at once, creating the impression that there are more shares than there really are

Professor Sonia Katyal, published in June in the Georgetown Law Journal, is cited for explaining that corporate and government actors have pushed to transform the law of trade secrecy into one of the most — if not the most — powerful tools to ensure concealment of information

Lecturer Ann Ravel says former president Trump is already getting close to the blurry line between candidate and non-candidate

Professor Tejas Narechania says Justice Breyer brings a level of sophistication and engagement to the Supreme Court’s intellectual property cases that will be missed

Professor Andrew Bradt says it’s unlikely that a federal rules committee is going to make major changes to common benefit fees in multidistrict litigation

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains the hurdles to getting the ERA ratified as a constitutional amendment 

Professor Daniel Farber comments that Justice Stephen Breyer’s  “contribution has taken the form of low-key concurrences and dissents” in the subject of environmental law

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

Professor Amanda Tyler discusses speculation that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Leondra Kruger could be the nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.

Professor Claudia Polsky, Director of the Environmental Law Clinic, comments on the clinic’s work to address toxic PFAS chemicals in America’s drinking water, describing them as “equal opportunity poisons.” 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky speaks to Justice Stephen Breyer’s legacy

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says California Supreme Court Associate Justice Leondra Kruger has had a stellar career and would be easily confirmable as a Supreme Court Justice

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky comments that there are times when the stewards of our system, like Justice Breyer, must put the good of an institution they love, and of the country they love, above their own interests 

Professor Kenneth Ayotte is one of a group of bankruptcy law professors weigh in on Johnson & Johnson’s use of the bankruptcy system to settle lawsuits alleging that its talc products cause cancer, calling the strategy a “serious abuse” and accused J&J of attempting to “deprive innocent talc victims of their day in court.

Professor Chris Hoofnagle, Faculty Director at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, discusses that in quantum computing, one of the greatest risks of a short-term failure scenario is whether we are willing to recognize it

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky was named the most influential person in American legal education by National Jurist

An under-the-radar Berkeley Law division plays a crucial role in California’s decennial process.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses two cases about affirmative action involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina and says that the removal of the affirmative action program would allow the effects of historic discrimination in admissions

Professor Khiara M. Bridges appears on the GOOP podcast in which she explains that the Supreme Court could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade and what this decision could mean for women’s constitutional rights

Adam Sterling, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business, says the “in-house counsel” tag implies “outsider” status

Lecturer Mallika Kaur comments that immigration attorneys continue advocating for traumatized clients while juggling challenges of a system that is often re-traumatizing

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment’s Climate Project, was featured on ABC 10 San Diego discussing CLEE’s rail transit report, Getting Back on Track

Professor Pamela Samuelson, with Harvard’s Rebecca Tushnet, filed an amicus brief in Green et al. v. U.S. DOJ arguing that the provisions “disregard and override traditional mechanisms within the Copyright Act that struck the balance between copyright protection and First Amendment interests

Professor Kenneth Ayotte says the private equity consortium that controlled Warrior Met’s finances had a clear interest in a fast bankruptcy process that would largely benefit their own bottom lines, not the interests of the workers