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A Washington Post analysis of Van Buren v United States highlights Professor Orin Kerr’s twitter deep dive into the case

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky calls the federal decision to overturn California’s assault weapons ban “an extreme gun rights reading of the Second Amendment”

Professor William Fernholz discusses the federal appeal court decision in the torture and asylum case of Elmer Rogel Lopez. Two graduating students, Rianna Hidalgo and Kelsey Miller, prepared the briefs and delivered the oral argument in this case

Professor Orin Kerr’s amicus brief is cited in explaining the Supreme Court’s decision in Van Buren v United States

Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon created the program with history Professor Ethan Katz and Berkeley Hillel Executive Director Adam Naftalin-Kelman.

Professor Orin Kerr’s amicus brief in Van Buren v. United States is highlighted in a story about the Supreme Court decision in the case

Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, discusses Governor Newsom’s written argument – which she co-wrote – calling the death penalty racist and discriminatory against Black and Latino defendants

Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, explains what the preliminary injunction against Bank of America means for victims of fraudulent activities on EDD debit cards

Lecturer Mallika Kaur explores how attorneys remain committed to work that affords few successes and often few forms of traditional validation, with Melissa Barbee, class of 2021, and public interest lawyer Taeva Shefler 

A recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regional director, Stacy brings public sector leadership, private practice success, and law school teaching experience to his new post.

Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, is interviewed about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the PBS documentary he co-produced about it, “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten”

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the history of and misunderstandings around Critical Race Theory

Lecturer Shanin Specter, says his father, the late Senator Arlen Specter, told him former President Donald Trump tried to intervene in the New England Patriots’ infamous 2008 Spygate scandal

Professor Andrea Roth appears on Legal Talk Today to discuss the 6th Amendment and virtual court

Lecturer Shanin Specter explains his firm’s successful vaccination and return-to-work policies

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes the Biden administration is making a serious mistake in placing the self-interest of the Justice Department ahead of the people’s right to know if former Atty. Gen. William Barr acted to cover up Donald Trump’s possible engagement in obstruction of justice

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the long-term success of a high speed rail system in California would hinge on whether cities can usher in dense urban development around transit stations

Professor Khiara M. Bridges separates facts from fiction regarding Critical Race Theory

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, appears on PBS NewsHour to discuss Myanmar’s military use of killings to terrorize the country, which was the focus of an open source investigation from the Human Rights Center and the Associated Press

An investigation by the Associated Press and the Human Rights Center finds that Myanmar’s junta is hiding, mutilating and cremating bodies to terrorize its citizens since the military takeover

Professor Orin Kerr explains the law of traffic stops on NPR’s Politics podcast

Savala Nolan, Executive Director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, reflects on the murder of George Floyd and says it falls to white people to understand what happened that day, and why it happened

The story of Berkeley Law’s forthcoming installation “A Time for Change,” contextualizing the removal of the name Boalt from our buildings, is explored in Law.com’s “Ahead of the Curve” column

For the death of George Floyd to have the power to advance racial justice, it falls to white people to understand what happened that day, and why it happened, Nolan says. 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is one of 36 constitutional experts who sent a letter telling congressional leaders they have the authority to make the nation’s capital the 51st state

The documentary, which airs May 31, unpacks the horrific events that killed at least 39 people and destroyed a thriving Black district — and how they were nearly erased from history.

Lecturer Shanin Specter explains his firm’s successful vaccination and return-to-work policies and advises other firms to follow suit

Professor Catherine Fisk says employment laws were developed with the annual flu in mind, not a global pandemic

A planned hallway display — tentatively titled “A Time for Change” — will provide context for how the role of the Boalt name on campus has evolved over time. 

A dozen Berkeley Law community members, including nine students, are honored for their exemplary efforts providing legal help. 

Dean Erwin Chemersinky cautions that the Supreme Court’s granting of review of a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy should frighten all who believe that women should have the right to reproductive autonomy

Brandon Stracener, senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, explains why the details and timing of the recall election matter

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses the timeline for expanding California’s high speed bullet train

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Melissa Murray, from NYU School of Law, outline how Justice Barrett’s presence has shifted the balance of the Supreme Court

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says Gov. Newsom’s failure to make any new commitments to the high-speed bullet train project in his latest budget proposal is “a pretty glaring omission”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court needs to provide broad protection for student speech but also make clear that schools can punish speech if it rises to the level of bullying and harassment

Professor Pamela Samuelsona is the lead drafter of amicus brief, joined by more than 60 law professors, supporting the Warhol Foundation’s petition for rehearing in light of the Google v Oracle decision

Professor Dan Farber says the Biden administration is unlikely to offer much in the way of concessions to a group of young Americans suing the federal government over actions they say contribute to climate change

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy argues that an expansion of the Treasury’s payment infrastructure for federal beneficiaries could provide a way to achieve both universal benefit distribution and universal bank access

Professor Tejas Narechania’s working paper, which finds that broadband providers offer slower service for the same price in areas where they lack competition, and proposes a model statute for rate regulation of a basic tier broadband service in areas without competition, is highlighted by The White House

From political upheaval and racial tensions to natural disasters and a global pandemic, the Class of 2021 overcame a daunting set of challenges.

Professor Frank Partnoy discusses fads – such as bitcoin, dogecoin and NFTs – and says we we might be surprised, when we look back at this time, at what turned out to be valuable, and what didn’t

Students, faculty, and alumni reflect on the remarkable life of Reynoso, the first Latinx justice on the California Supreme Court and a revered civil rights advocate.

Professor Emeritus Jesse Choper and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky agree that a proposal to allow paramedics, not just police, to order mental health holds raises no immediate civil liberties concerns 

Professor Chuck Weisselberg says the oldest and most vulnerable cohort of people within the federal prison system are at the mercy of the parole commission, an agency that’s been dying for decades

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses a new study he co-authored, which analyzed almost 10 million home loans and found blatant racial discrimination

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky urges Justice Breyer to retire and make way for a successor who would protect his Supreme Court legacy

Professor Kinch Hoekstra discusses the methodology of the history of political thought, the relationship between philosophy and history, the classical foundation of Western thought and the distinction between ancient and modern in Western philosophy

Professor Catherine Fisk discusses the PRO Act and says it would change is whether independent contractors have the right to form a union and bargain collectively

Her herculean efforts to help the law school make Zoom learning work earned her UC Berkeley’s new Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times award.