CSLS Speaker Series: “Cash Bail Reform and Community Wellbeing”

Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Featuring Jessica Simes, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University. Nearly 500,000 legally innocent people are currently in pretrial detention in the U.S., comprising more than half of the overall jail […]

International Conflict Feminism book talk with Prof. Vasuki Nesiah

297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Professor Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) discusses her new book, International Conflict Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) in conversation with Professor Laurel E. Fletcher. Professor Nesiah teaches human rights, legal and […]

Election Law in 2024: Professor Emily Zhang

132 Law Building

Join APALSA for the next event in its Election Law series. This is a moderated Q&A with Berkeley Law professor and election law scholar Emily Zhang about her experience working […]

Critical Foundations: Sociology of Law with Professor Jonathan Simon

134 Law Building

Law and Political Economy (LPE) is a critical framework that unpacks the way purportedly neutral legal rules shape economic power, disguise the political and ideological choices that create/uphold inequality, and […]

[CDO] PI/PS Career, Internship, and Pro Bono Fair

Heyman Terrace & West Courtyard

Come meet public interest and public sector (PI/PS) attorneys from almost 90 Bay Area (& beyond!) organizations and agencies at the Heyman Terrace and West Courtyard. The PI/PS Career, Internship, and Pro Bono Fair is an opportunity for students to talk with organizations about summer employment, academic year placements, pro bono work, and other career […]

Lunch Talk: Akwe Amosu on Building Transnational Solidarity

141 Law Building

The Berkeley Law extended community is warmly invited to a lunch talk featuring Ms. Akwe Amosu, program director of The Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights, in conversation […]

CSLS Speaker Series: “What People Get Wrong about the Right to Vote”

Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Featuring Emily Zhang, Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law. Voters make mistakes. They don’t bring the right ID to the polling place. They register to vote after the registration deadline. […]

Critical Foundations: Ableism and the Law

134 Law Building

Ableism is a system of assigning values to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. It has deep roots in […]

Let Kids Read! Fighting Book Bans with Dan Novack

110 Law Building

Please join Mass Media at Berkeley Law and the Henderson Center for Social Justice for a conversation with Dan Novack — Vice President, Associate General Counsel of Penguin Random House — regarding his […]

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