Our Golden Age: American Judaism, In Transition Join the Robbins Collection and Research Center and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies on Wednesday, April 3 in […]
Upcoming: 2024 Robbins Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
Robbins Visiting Professor: Hannah Buxbaum
The Robbins Collection and Berkeley Law welcomed Hannah Buxbaum as a Robbins Distinguished Visiting Professor in Spring 2024, where she taught an insightful course on Comparative Civil Litigation. “We focused […]
Robbins Visiting Professor: Lena Salaymeh
Former Robbins Postdoctoral and Associate Research Fellow Lena Salaymeh returned to UC Berkeley Law as a Robbins Visiting Professor for the Spring 2024 semester where she taught a popular course […]
Fab Five: Standout Students and Professor Chosen for Coveted International Law Program
3Ls and Salzburg Cutler Fellows Heidi Kong, Sophie Lombardo, Paloma Palmer, and Angela Chen spent two packed days in Washington, D.C., exploring global issues, presenting their work, and building connections.
PAC Partners in Washington on Undoing the Injustice of Juvenile Fee and Fines
The Spokesman-Review, 03/02/2024
Thanks to clinic work, U.N. human rights advisors conclude Chemours and DuPont knew about risks but kept making toxic PFAS chemicals
A U.N. human rights panel calls on the U.N. Environment Assembly to take on “forever chemicals” at a meeting in Nairobi, citing a North Carolina PFAS plant as an example of environmental negligence, Inside Climate News, 2/26/24
U.N. experts say DuPont and Chemours generated extensive contamination with toxic “forever chemicals” in North Carolina
American chemical companies DuPont and Chemours have discharged toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the local environment, disregarding the rights and wellbeing of residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, say U.N. experts.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2/21/24
Following clinic complaint, U.N. Human Rights Council experts call out Chemours and DuPont for U.S. PFAS contamination
The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a press statement calling out American chemical companies, Chemours and DuPont, for “disregarding the rights and wellbeing” of residents in North Carolina, who have been unknowingly exposed to extreme levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for decades.
Environmental Law Clinic, 2/21/24
Regulating Technology Through Copyright Law: A Comparative Perspective
Berkeley Law Professor, Pamela Samuelson, underscores the provisions of the EU’s Directive on Copyright for the Digital Single Market (DSM) and questions whether the new rules will have the desired effect.
Going “Beyond” Mere Transformation: Warhol and Reconciliation of the Derivative Work Right and Fair Use
Peter Menell, Berkeley Law Professor, analyzes the meaning and implications of the recent Supreme Court watershed fair use decision in Warhol v. Goldsmith.