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David Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, with Joshua Spivak, advises voters and elected officials to consider the different options for potential recall reform and take a hard look to make sure they do not make the system worse

A working paper by the International Human Rights Law Clinic synthesizes 40 years of research and public information and finds a San Francisco police department historically mired in deep racism and violence

Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute, says corporate commitments to being water positive “are good and important on paper”, but there’s much more companies can be doing

Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, says from its inception, in this country, the death penalty and racism were inseparable

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears on the ABA Journal’s Modern Law Library podcast to discuss why the Supreme Court did not address police powers during the first century of its existence; why the Warren Court was an aberration when it came to curtailing police powers; and what his experience was like when he investigated the Los Angeles Police Department’s notorious Rampart Division in 2000

Professor Amanda Tyler talks to Law and History Review about her book, Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union which she coauthored with the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses the how the challenges experienced by the California high speed rail project could impact other projects nationwide

Elected to a three-year term by her fellow judges in February, Donoghue discusses the court’s role in shaping international law.

Accomplished lawyers Linda Tam ’00, Margaret Wu ’96, and Urmila Taylor boost an already formidable legal writing teaching corps.

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says although the federal government regulates offshore operations, the state can take action onshore to protect human health and wildlife

Professor Jonathan Simon says that we shouldn’t trust the conviction rate too much, highlighting that the conviction rate fails to capture how well the district attorney is protecting justice as a whole in the community

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says TX SB8 was designed to cause chaos, and the plaintiffs are just participating in the chaos

Lecturer Jai R. Massari led regulatory advice for financial services firm Galaxy Digital as it acquired crypto custodian BitGo for $1.2 billion — the crypto sector’s first $1 billion-plus deal — earning her a spot as one of Law360’s 2021 Fintech MVPs.

Amelia Miazad, founding Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Business in Society Institute, discusses the Institute’s new partnership with Paul, Weiss and says it will help share our research with the practitioner community

Amelia Miazad, founding Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Business in Society Institute, says she envisions the Institute’s new partnership with Paul, Weiss bridging the gap between theoretical discussions about ESG and what’s actually happening within companies

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is poised to reshape constitutional rights and protections in ways this nation has not seen in generation

Professor David Oppenheimer, Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law,  says he believes the decision in Diaz v. Tesla case is the largest verdict in an individual race discrimination in employment case

A new report from Berkeley Law’s Civil Justice Research Initiative outlines the decline of the nation’s civil jury system — and offers research-based solutions.

Professor Sarah Song appears on NPR’s Philosophy Talk podcast to discuss immigration and multiculturalism 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes it’s not a coincidence that so many justices are speaking publicly about the court, its reputation, and its processes

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said colleagues should boycott panels where John Eastman is speaking

Professor Amelia Miazad and Dave Curran, executive director of Paul, Weiss’ new ESG and Law Institute (with which the Business in Society Institute is the inaugural academic partner), write legal teams can’t wait for legal education to catch up – they need to hire people now who have ESG knowledge and skills

A trio of students with military experience are stepping up to help the large community of veterans in the Bay Area. 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears on ABC7’s Facebook live “Getting Answers” to discuss what can be done about disinformation (begins at 13:20)

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy explains what economists call the “Great Gatsby curve” and offers ways to avoid a dystopian future with wide and permanent economic inequality

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga: the pending Supreme Court case dealing with the use of law enforcement surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the state secrets privilege defense

Professor David Oppenheimer, Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, explains why racial-discrimination suits like the one Owen Diaz is bringing to trial against Tesla, usually don’t make it to trial

Professor Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses his mission to shed light on acts of barbarity—and bringing the perpetrators to justice— in relation to massacres such as the Tulsa and Rwandan tragedies

A white paper written by Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic students Tyler Takemoto and Ari Chivukula says most cities give police broad latitude to use surveillance tech during “exigent circumstances”, creating loopholes in citizen oversight

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses a United States Magistrate judge’s decision ordering Facebook to disclose content in order to assess “responsibility for genocide” against the Rohingya before the International Court of Justice

The Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism have launched the country’s first investigative reporting course using open source intelligence (OSINT) at a university.

Professor Orin Kerr says the judge’s opinion in Republic of the Gambia v. Facebook highlights the need for higher courts and Congress to update the 35-year-old Stored Communications Act

Stephanie Campos-Bui, Clinical Supervising Attorney in the Policy Advocacy Clinic, explains why juvenile court fines and fees are bad practice, as PAC and a coalition of prominent youth advocacy groups launch Debt Free Justice, a national campaign to abolish court-imposed fines and fees

Lecturer Rose Carmen Goldberg writes about her experience putting her father to rest.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Burt Neuborne suggest abortion providers call Texas’ bluff and say it’s time for every Texas abortion provider to demand antiabortionists show their cards

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses the SEC’s investigation of Activision Blizzard Inc. and says the agency was targeting the executives to get to the bottom of what Activision Blizzard’s leadership knew internally about allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination

A discussion of debate amongst judges concerning multidistrict litigation – and who gets leadership appointments in them – was a highlight in a webinar hosted by the Civil Justice Research Initiative

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses Laporta v. the City of Chicago – the case before the Supreme Court that could lead to police reform by showing cities that it is in their own financial interest to crack down on problem officers, before those officers act off duty in ways that could cost taxpayers millions

Stephen Johnson ’83, American Airlines’ executive vice president of corporate affairs, talks to Berkeley Law students about turning turmoil into innovation. 

Lecturer Shanin Specter discusses his clients’ case against B. Braun which alleges toxic emissions from a company plant caused neighbors to develop sometimes fatal cancer cases

Louise Bedsworth, Director of the Land Use Program at the Center for Law Energy & the Environment and senior advisor to the California China Climate Institute, explores three important facts about our changing climate this summer of cascading climate disasters has put in stark relief 

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, explains why President Biden’s proposal to waive all IP rights related to COVID-19 is “toothless virtue-signaling at best — and dangerous economic capitulation at worst”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky suggests the Supreme Court justices stop acting like “partisan hacks” if they don’t want to be perceived that way

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses ways to push companies to change in accordance with shareholder goals of socially responsible investing

Professor Frank Zimring looks back at the age of Attica and says incarceration is a larger part of American life in 2021 than it was in 1970

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the failure of Trump’s so-called China Initiative

Lecturer Mallika Kaur explores how might managers in the legal profession can redefine their leadership styles to listen and plan for primary and secondary trauma responses—in themselves and others – during an interview with Monika Kalra Varma

Professor Christopher Kutz reviews Hélène Landemore’s new book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, and its exploration of representative democracy

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky urges Californians to recognize the need to reform the recall process