• Moving Ideas into Action in a Shifting Policy Landscape: A Symposium Marking Twenty Years of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment

    Berkeley Faculty Club Minor Ln, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join Berkeley Law's Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) for a symposium marking the research center's 20th anniversary. Berkeley Law established the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) in 2006 – a time when California was launching bold, world-leading policies to address climate and environmental issues. At the same time, the […]

  • Critical Foundations: Sociology of Law

    170 Law Building

    The criminal legal system we confront today is the product of nearly 1000 years of development during which new institutions, new powers, and new myths about crime and punishment have been installed in response to periodic crises originating in the political and economic conflicts of society. The result is a kind of carceral leviathan that […]

  • [BCLB] Leadership Lunch Talk with Robinhood

    Join the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and Berkeley Business Law Journal for a fireside chat and Q&A with Lucas Moskowitz, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Robinhood, moderated by Berkeley Law Professor Frank Partnoy. The Leadership Lunch Series offers students the opportunity to hear directly from leading professionals about their […]

  • Inside China’s Secret Prisons: Book Talk with Orville Schell and Adam Hochschild

    Booth Auditorium

    Join us for a book talk with Orville Schell in conversation with Adam Hochschild on China’s prison camps, their Soviet roots, and the threats to journalists who investigate them, hosted by the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law. RSVP HERE.  Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Vice President of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at […]

  • [BCLB] Meet the Firms: 1L Business Law Fair

    Berkeley Law West - Great Hall 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

    Curious about what a career in business law could look like or want to learn more about what different firms have to offer? Stop by the Berkeley Center for Law and Business 1L Business Law Fair to meet attorneys from leading law firms and connect with professionals working across a range of business law practices. […]

  • Critical Foundations: Critical Race Theory

    Great Hall at Berkeley Law West

    Join us for a conversation with Professor Osagie Obasogie and Savala Nolan about critical race theory. They'll discuss its basic tenets, its uses (and misuses) across the law, politics, and culture, and how students can engage the analytical tools of CRT to advance their social justice work in and beyond law school. Osagie K. Obasogie […]

  • Defending Our Rights, Fighting For Our Future: The ACLU’s Cecillia Wang

    David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join the Asian American Research Center at UC Berkeley for a rare, exclusive conversation between ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang ‘92 and author and cultural critic Jeff Chang ‘89. This year, Wang argued and won the landmark Supreme Court case defending birthright citizenship, Trump v. Barbara. She has spent more than two decades at […]

  • Reproductive Justice Interdisciplinary Workshop

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

    Please join us for the 4th annual Collaborative Learning Experience on Reproductive Justice, co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP), UC Berkeley Gender & Women’s Studies, the School of Social Welfare, and the Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice.  This learning event will bring together medical students, undergraduates, law students, social work students, […]

  • Book Talk: Global Racism – A Challenge for the World

    170 Law Building

    Join the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice in welcoming Professor Anna Spain Bradley (Distinguished MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law) to UC Berkeley Law. In this lunchtime conversation, Prof. Spain Bradley will discuss her […]

  • Lincoln and Presidential Power

    Berkeley Law West - Great Hall 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

    Come hear four legal experts discuss President Lincoln's extraordinary use of presidential power during the Civil War, with ties to the way this issue is being dated today. Speakers include Berkeley Law Professors Daniel Barber, the Co-Director of the Edley Center on Law & Democracy, and John Yoo, Faculty Director of the Public Law & […]

  • America at 250: Reimagining Who We Are

    Booth Auditorium

    As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, UC Berkeley invites the campus and the broader community to reflect on a defining question: What vision will guide America’s next 250 years? For two and a half centuries, the United States has been shaped by the aspirations of its founding and by continual debates over identity, […]

  • Defending Bodily Autonomy

    Warren Room (295 Simon Hall) 2745 Bancroft Ave, Berkeley, United States

    Join the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) for a conversation with Elizabeth Gill, Senior Attorney with the ACLU National LGBT & HIV Project. Gill will map the current […]

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