Tech tools to track protesters accused of interfering with ICE
LA protests fuel California drive to hide data from Trump
Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project: “Globalizing the Protection of Cultural Heritage” at IMT Lucca
The Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project will participate in “Globalizing the Protection of Cultural Heritage” at IMT Lucca, June 23-26, with Professor Sonia Katyal presenting her work “The Spectrum of Digital Repatriation” and Delia Violante presenting the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project.
Robbins Collection Annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity: What’s God Playing At? Law as Performance
In celebration of 16 years of fruitful collaboration between the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Robbins Collection and Research Center, the 2025 Robbins Collection […]
Canvas, Issue 19
This month, we cover policy upheaval as the Trump administration halted grants and proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as mixed signals with the art market and analysis on international law for the return of cultural property.
A Changing Landscape in the Return of Cultural Property: Is a New Customary Rule in the Making?
Giulia Picci, Senior Fellow at the Art, Law, and Finance Project and PhD Researcher at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, examines whether new customary international law is emerging to facilitate the return of wrongfully removed cultural property.
Takings, Private Property & World Cultural Heritage
Anne-Marie Carstens, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law, examines Octagon Earthworks, a 2,000-year-old indigenous site, to highlight the tension between private property rights and the World Heritage Convention’s requirements for cultural “authenticity” and “integrity”, and questions about using eminent domain for aesthetic and cultural heritage purposes.
2025 International Law Certificate Awardees
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 International Law Certificate honorees! These outstanding students earned the International Law Certificate by taking the foundational course plus an additional nine units and writing a major research paper.
Center for Indigenous Law & Justice Names Merri Lopez-Keifer Its New Executive Director
With vast experience serving California Native Nations, Lopez-Keifer aims to integrate her legal expertise, community engagement, and strategic planning to build on UC Berkeley Law’s growing commitment to Native issues.
Human rights body finds border agents’ actions in San Ysidro death ‘constituted acts of torture’
Altholz said the commission’s decision “is more than a condemnation,” but rather “a blueprint for structural reform and a call for the U.S. government to align its laws and policies with basic principles of human rights and dignity.”