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Lecturer Mallika Kaur, as part of her ongoing series exploring managing trauma and the demands of lawyering, speaks to critical race theorist and feminist legal scholar Angela P. Harris about challenging homogeneity of the profession and academy;  the genius and struggle of women scholars; emotional intelligence for strong lawyering; the trap of “diversity” without power-sharing; and the potential of Juneteenth, 2020

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UC Chancellor Howard Gillman, co-authors of a new book titled The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State, argue the Supreme Court’s majority is using the religion clause to strike down hard-fought advances in civil rights

Professor Ian Haney Lopez, with Tory Gavito, writes that President Trump’s competitiveness among Latinos is real and suggests Joe Biden’s key to reaching Latino voters is to link racism and class conflict

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that the Trump administration’s attack on critical race theory is profoundly anti-intellectual and wrong 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says comments on the arrest of journalist Josie Huang and says a reporter on a public sidewalk observing what’s going on is constitutionally protected

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses his new book, “The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State,” and how the Supreme Court’s First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change in the years ahead

Professor Orin Kerr’s work, and his 2011 paper titled, “Why Courts Should Not Quantify Probable Cause” are cited in this Bloomberg Opinion column 

California law deans, including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, urge the California Supreme Court to drop remote proctoring for the fall bar exam and eliminate limits on materials students may consult during the two-day online test

Berkeley Law professor and former dean Christopher Edley, Jr. joins three others in describing the historical and current factors impeding progress, and how to surmount them.

The Environmental Law Clinic fights toxic chemicals in federal court and at the State House.

Where there’s money, scams are sure to follow — and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception.

Three Berkeley Law graduates at the National Center for Youth Law play key roles in a court ruling ordering the release of detained children in federal immigration custody. 

“Right now we’re asking ourselves what it will take to change the systems that have purposefully disenfranchised people of color.”

A look at the flow of lawyers moving from BigLaw to public interest work cites “Making Public Interest Lawyers,” a large-scale study looking at law careers authored by Professor Catherine Albiston, along with Scott Cummings and Rick Abel of UCLA Law

An examination of oil spills, chemical dispersants and related lawsuits against the EPA, including the suit filed by Claudia Polsky and the Environmental Law Clinic

Editors-in-chief of two top-ranked Berkeley Law journals describe new challenges and opportunities to sustain excellence and build community. 

The Human Rights Center’s Investigations Lab contributed to this in depth report on the situation in Portland

Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, says his colleagues on the bench face a couple of “unique challenges” when it comes to evaluating their own temperament

The work of Innocence Project co-founder and special counsel Barry Scheck, (class of ’74) lands Berkeley Law on the list 

Professor Catherine Fisk says union protections make it difficult to charge police officers with crimes

Professor Kenneth Ayotte discusses the tricky, no-win business of valuation during bankruptcy

Professor Jonathan Simon says a combination of a new state law and the current police reform climate may have swayed the Alameda DA to prosecute the case of a police officer who fatally shot Steven Taylor at a Walmart store in April 

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy writes that a permanent payroll tax credit is a necessary step toward guaranteeing a living wage for all Americans

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that while it should be the role of the federal courts and the Supreme Court to protect the right to vote, the five conservative Supreme Court justices have strongly indicated that the solutions are not to come from federal courts

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says President Trump’s latest attempt to cut funding for “anarchist jurisdictions” is “clearly unconstitutional”

A federal lawsuit and proposed state legislation show the breadth of the clinic’s advocacy work. 

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, appears on Forum to discuss the Trump administration’s environmental record and its impact

Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, says Californians facing a financial cliff or targeted by predatory financial products “are going to find that someone’s got their back” 

Professor Catherine Fisk weighs in as San Francisco passes an emergency ordinance that temporarily bars employers from taking adverse action against employees and job applicants who tested positive for Covid-19 or who are or were isolating due to Covid-19 symptoms or exposure

Professor Malcolm Feeley discusses the political history of ‘Law and Order’ 

Berkeley Law students with young children praise the school’s leadership and Student Parents Group for providing much-needed support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that the Supreme Court’s dealings with issues concerning COVID-19 and the election process have made clear that it does not want the federal courts changing the rules of an election, even when necessary to protect the right to vote in a pandemic

Dr. Rohini Haar, Human Rights Center Research Fellow, discusses “less lethal weapons” used to disperse crowds and the serious, sometimes deadly, injuries they can cause

A change in leadership of Berkeley Law’s clinics arrives as the thriving program welcomes its biggest class of in-house students and solidifies plans to expand.

The LA Times Editorial Board calls for the passing of AB 3070, a bill that addresses discrimination in jury selection, and points to Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic’s report, “Whitewashing the Jury Box” to support the need for action

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the importance of The Hatch Act, as members of the Trump administration are called out for potentially violating it

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the United States’ forcing TikTok to sell itself is “really unprecedented” 

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that the RNC events at the White House are blatant violations of The Hatch Act – the most recent of so many instances of Trump flouting federal laws and the norms of the office

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses key lessons the legal profession can learn from attempts to administer the July bar exam and how the pandemic presents a chance to rethink how law school graduates will take the test in the future

Samson Lim ’21 turns adversity and physical hardship into a transformed perspective and remarkable success.

Jim Dempsey, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, says TikTok’s lawsuit against the Trump administration faces an uphill fight, but the company may be successful with a due process argument

Berkeley Law student Rodolfo Aquino ’22 savors his summer experience as a judicial extern at California’s highest court.

Savala Trepczynski, Executive Director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, writes that people of color have had a golden rule that said be twice as good and calls for white folks to adopt a version of this rule for themselves and their anti-racist work: be twice as kind

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains why the coronavirus makes California’s ‘student borrower bill of rights’ essential

On the first day of an all-remote learning semester, students and faculty experienced a milestone like no other. 

The in-house clinical program welcomed seven new hires — six teaching fellows and one supervising attorney, expanding the growing program’s outreach to marginalized communities and individuals.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains why John Eastman’s theory that Kamala Harris may not be eligibile to be Vice President are wrong under the language of the 14th Amendment and under Supreme Court precedent

Professor Jonathan Simon explains why this moment in time resents a unique opportunity to reduce prison overcrowding by making reforms, particularly by releasing women who could safely be released