International Human Rights Law Clinic, 9/15/2022
Clinic Students Contribute to Complaint Urging the UN to Call for Abolition of U.S. Life Sentences
Clinic Students Provide Legal Support for Open Letter about Vietnam from Human Rights Activists to the UN
International Human Rights Law Clinic, 9/13/2022
Restitution Relief: PAC Supports Reform Efforts to Lift a Lifelong Burden
Berkeley Law, 08/24/2022
Co-Director Roxanna Altholz Quoted on NBC About Anastasio Hernández Rojas Case Against U.S.
NBC-7 San Diego, 8/16/22
Clinic Helps Family of Anastasio Hernández Rojas Take the Next Step in Landmark Human Rights Case Against U.S.
Alliance San Diego, 8/16/22
Flight Attendant Case Tests If State Labor Laws Trump FAA Rules
A California law requiring rest and meal breaks for workers has become a fierce battleground between airlines and flight attendants that may soon draw in the US Supreme Court.
Escalation of the Supreme Court’s leak probe puts clerks in a ‘no-win’ situation
In most other pockets of the federal government, a public employee’s decision to lawyer up in the face of an internal investigation would be a no-brainer. But for Supreme Court clerks now being asked to cooperate with new steps in the court’s leak probe, such a move could upend the trajectories of their careers.
Robbins Fellow Spotlight: David De Concilio
Among the innumerable disruptions of recent years the COVID-19 pandemic upended David De Concilio’s initial plan to use his Robbins Collection Fellowship to complete his thesis. Instead, De Concilio was awarded his joint PhD through the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy before his visit to UC Berkeley. […]
Director of Policy Initiatives Jennifer Urban Gives UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Lecture
Berkeley Law, 7/26/2022
The Statutes of Bologna’s Law School Exhibition Now Available
Our new exhibition, The Statutes of the University of Bologna, is now available online. It is based on a translation of the statutes by Robbins Collection Senior Reference Librarian Jennifer K. Nelson, as well as on material included in our earlier exhibition, The Medieval Law School. The Robbins Collection houses the Statuta universitatis bononiensis (Robbins […]