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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky contemplates how the Supreme Court, with three justices appointed by Donald Trump, could anoint him to stay in the White House

Emily Bruce, Director of Equity and Inclusion, discusses ways students can cope with election anxiety

Professor Bertrall Ross appears on KQED’s Forum to discuss the role of the Electoral College and the ongoing debate over its relevance

Professor Chris Hoofnagle discusses CA Prop 24 and says the writing is on the wall that privacy law is coming

Professor Abhay Aneja’s paper, “No Credit For Time Served? Incarceration and Credit-Driven Crime Cycles”, is cited in a article examining the long term impact of court debts and incarceration

Professor Sarah Song says the notion of many voices being heard, and which voices prevail, is going to be an ongoing struggle even with the forces that 2020 has unleashed

Gov. Gavin Newsom partners with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic on a historic amicus brief about racial discrimination’s impact on how capital punishment is imposed in California. 

A message that emphasizes common interest in economic fairness across all races is essential to neutralize racially divisive messages, the Berkeley Law scholar and author says. 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky weighs in on whether Supreme Court term limits are possible under the constitution

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes of his concern for what it will mean to have a Supreme Court majority that embraces the values of the far right of the Republican Party and is far more conservative than the electorate

EBCLC’s Clinical Supervisors Seema Rupani and Hewot Shankute write there is a real appetite for progressive reforms that will increase stable, decent, affordable housing for years to come

Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explain the unprecedented court filing that asserts the state’s death penalty law is applied in a racist manner against African Americans

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains what the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett will mean for upcoming cases on the Supreme Court docket

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains the key issues and history of the Electoral College

 Professor Robert Bartlett discusses the disparate impact of COVID-19 on small businesses

During her one-year assignment at UC Legal, Tiongson strives to honor the legacy of Christopher Patti, UC Berkeley’s former chief campus counsel.

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy weighs in on Google’s likely defense in a suit filed by Android users alleging an app monopoly

Lecturer Mallika Kaur, as part of her ongoing series exploring managing trauma and the demands of lawyering, speaks to Berkeley Law alum Taina Gomez, Solano County DPD about self care, the culture that compounds trauma for clients and lawyers of color and what it means to be committed to social justice as a child of immigrants. 

Professor Amanda Tyler’s upcoming book, authored with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, entitled Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, is a review of Ginsburg’s legal legacy, filtered through her memories and perspective

The Washington, D.C. Attorney General has filed a lawsuit in parallel to a civil suit, represented by lecturer Shanin Specter, against the Washington Hebrew Congregation in relation to child sexual abuse of preschoolers

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky asks if we really want our rights to be determined by the understandings of centuries ago?

Professor Bertrall Ross appears on NPR’s On Point podcast to discuss the integrity of the votes cast by America’s 538 electors

Savala Trepczynski, Executive Director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, explain how defunding the police protects black women and says we should spend money on helping people, not hurting them

Berkeley Law professor and prominent tax expert Mark Gergen dissects recent revelations about the president’s tax returns.

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says local races have huge long-term implications on land use and how communities adapt to a changing climate

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky breaks down Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission – what it meant for the couple and what it means for couples moving forward

Professor Andrea Roth discusses CA Prop 20, saying putting more money into collecting DNA is a a zero-sum game

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears on The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss affirmative action as an issue in the presidential race 

Professor Khiara Bridges discusses white supremacy and how scholars and activists talk about racism

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says a shift towards states’ rights could lead to a new era of progressive legislation

A special slate of one-credit classes is helping first-year students and professors get to know one another during an unprecedented semester.

Professor Catherine Fisk explains why qualified immunity creates a too high a bar for victims of police violence

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says Judge Amy Coney Barrett has gone further than other SCOTUS candidates in refusing to answer questions

Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and tech-law expert James Dempsey assess the legal wrangling over the Trump administration’s attempted ban of the Chinese apps.

Professor David Singh Grewal, with Joshua P. Zoffer, explains why court reform for the sake of democracy becomes all the more urgent when faced by the prospect of a minoritarian majority on the Supreme Court

Professor Bertrall Ross discusses the mechanisms by which a majorly conservative U.S. Supreme Court would affect the sociopolitical landscape of the country

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes Democrats must use the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings as an opportunity to convey how much President Trump and the Republicans will undermine the rights of all Americans by putting Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court

Lecturer Shanin Specter appears on the Court Radio Show to discuss tort issues related to COVID-19

Lecturer Shanin Specter discusses the president’s civil liability for Covid transmission

The joint UC Berkeley/Americorps initiative sends recent graduates to work in farm and forest communities across California to build resilience and mitigate climate change.

Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, offers consumers tips on the complicated business of getting out of gym memberships

Professor Chris Hoofnagle discusses Prop 24 and says an opt-out system may not be perfect, but it is the only workable approach

Professor Pamela Samuelson predicts the usual right-left splits won’t apply in Google v Oracle

Professor Tejas Narechania says Google v Oracle poses two big questions for the Supreme Court

Professor Catherine Fisk says OSHA may feel themselves powerless to protect West Wing workers from exposure to the virus by the president

Lecturer Mallika Kaur asks what “defund the police” means in terms of response to domestic violence incidents, currently the single largest category of calls received by police?

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says conservatives on the Supreme Court are moving strongly toward creating a right of people to exercise their religious freedom to discriminate against others

Governor Newsom signs a whopping seven bills that focus on protecting residents’ civil, financial, and environmental rights — all driven by Berkeley Law clinics and centers.

Professor Orin Kerr predicts Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court will bring a considerable and rapid shift to the right