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The program will offer professional mentoring for new lawyers who want to launch a solo or small-firm practice that serves the modest-means community.

The group includes Maritza Perez ’15, who will promote better educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Latino youth.

Richard Rothstein, one of the brief’s main authors, hails the Court’s ruling to invalidate race-neutral policies that nevertheless have a discriminatory impact.

A longtime Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, Polsky is crafting an ambitious yet practical agenda for the clinic’s launch.

Students Marco Portillo and Jagriti Singh, who fractured her knee in the disaster, helped bring together classmates and the local Nepali community.

Adam Sterling returns to Berkeley Law with a track record of impressive results in law, entrepreneurship, and public service.

Joshua Cohen, Sonia Katyal, and Dylan C. Penningroth bring exuberance and wide-ranging expertise to their new teaching positions.

With faculty members Robert Merges and Jim Dempsey, Choudhry engages alumni, promotes the LL.M. program, and helps broaden technology law initiatives.

Berkeley Law’s Transcript magazine spotlights 2014 graduates Emily Gladden, Anisha Gupta, and Chris Lau, who work at The Bronx Defenders and also live together.

Led by Professor Robert Merges and patent lawyer Vern Norviel, a practice project and tandem seminar provides coveted experience with emerging tech companies.

The new issue of the law school’s Transcript magazine includes a revealing Q&A with Jim Dempsey, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

The new report, Not Just a Ferguson Problem, documents the devastating effect of escalating traffic fees and penalties on poor communities.

Feature articles on a bumper crop of alumni judges and top-ranked tech-law program highlight Berkeley Law’s pillars of service, access, innovation, and globalization.

Bryant Yang ’07 helps win release of a prisoner sentenced to life without parole under two new laws that reflect a changed approach to juvenile justice.

Organized this year by Berkeley Law’s Chris Hoofnagle, the annual event will take a close look at some of the most pressing issues in privacy today.

A record 125 students from 47 countries arrived in May for their first summer at Berkeley Law, joining returning students who will earn Master of Laws degrees.

The former foster child and newly-minted Berkeley Law graduate will focus on improving the recruitment and training of foster care providers.

Before an enthusiastic crowd, commencement speakers inspire and challenge graduates to use their degrees to promote equality and preserve civil liberties.

The International Human Rights Law Clinic’s 2015 Summer Fellowship will fund the students’ advocacy work on immigrant and restaurant workers’ rights.

Co-organized by the law school’s Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, the event sheds light on how Nuremberg shaped future human rights tribunals.

A new report on DREAMers at UC Berkeley calls for expanded aid for these students whose families often live below the federal poverty level.

Ludwig and runner-up Scott Wallace ’15 are honored for their tireless work ethic, deft legal skills, and keen sense of judgment.

Students travel to Istanbul and Ankara to interview politicians, jurists and advocates for on-the-ground research on current issues in Turkey.

Easha Anand ’14 and Greg Miller ’12, who will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Antonin Scalia, headline the latest list.