If you told me after my sophomore year in college, that I would voluntarily sign up for a project in law school that required economic research, I would have thought you were crazy.
Daniel Lopez ’19: The barriers to decision-making
Cristina de la Paz LL.M. ’19: Clinic’s role in your legal education
Being away on your LL.M. may make you feel like you are getting rusty with the rudimentary “lawyer” work. Clinic is your way back, behind the computer, typing ferociously for your client.
ACRL Member of the Week: Jennifer K. Nelson
This interview is being reprinted with the permission of ARCL Insider. Jennifer K. Nelson is a reference librarian at The Robbins Collection, University of California Berkeley School of Law . Jennifer has been a member of ACRL for 14 years and is your ACRL member of the week for June 17, 2019. Describe yourself in […]
New and Returning Robbins Fellows
The Robbins Collection has three returning Fellows joining us in the summer and fall of 2019. Senior Fellow, Dr. David Johnston, will continue the research he began in spring 2019. Dr. Agnès Desmazières will also be returning to continue her research on the Catholic Church and canon law. To read more about Dr. Desmazières’s research […]
Interim Director Ted Mermin Weighs in on FCC Robocall Ruling on Bay Area News
Last week Interim Center Director Ted Mermin appeared in a KTVU Fox 2 news segment to comment on the recent FCC ruling permitting phone companies to use robocall-blocking technologies. While the ruling may lead to a reduction of such calls, Mermin also pointed out the law’s shortcomings, namely that it does not require companies to implement […]
UC Berkeley Establishes First Faculty Chair in Israel Studies
May 2, 2019 – Joining a select group of universities in the world with an endowed faculty chair in Israel Studies, the University of California, Berkeley today announced the creation of the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies. The chair is the university’s first in the field and will endow courses, research and programs […]
The 1-Year Report
The Center turns ONE today! Exactly a year ago, a brand-new entity took shape within the walls of Berkeley Law. Today, like many another one-year-old, it has begun to move around (visits to the even younger consumer law centers in West Virginia and Montana are in the offing) and to talk (and it has – […]
Kat Taylor Delivers Student Lunch Talk (Watch Video)
On April 3rd Kat Taylor came to Berkeley Law to speak with students about her work as C0-Founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a bank based in Oakland focused on offering fair financial services to low-income communities. A video of the talk and Q&A, organized by CAPS, can be viewed here on the Center’s YouTube […]
2019 Consumer Law Scholars Conference Photos
Photos from the inaugural Consumer Law Scholars Conference this February are available for viewing here! Thanks to the wonderful group of scholars, speakers, and attendees who made it such a success.
Center Files Brief in Ninth Circuit in Zabriskie v. Fannie Mae
In March the Center filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit in Zabriskie v. Federal National Mortgage Association, a case centering on the question of whether companies using automated consumer information software should be subject to regulation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In the Center’s brief, Interim Executive Director Ted Mermin and 2L […]