Careers In Antitrust: Defense Side with Gibson Dunn

100 Law Building

Join us for Part 2 of our careers in antitrust series. We are so excited to invite attorneys from Gibson Dunn to come speak about defense side careers in antitrust and their career paths out of law school in room 100. RSVP here. 

Understanding the Law and Political Economy of Immigration and Guest Worker Visa Programs

140 Law Building

As immigration remains a focal point in the 2024 presidential election and the use of guest worker visa programs exponentially increases, we invite you to join us for an insightful discussion with our guest speaker, Daniel Costa. This discussion will cover important topics, including the effects of Trump’s policies and COVID-19 on immigration, the accuracy […]

Archiving Memory in Law: 40 Years After the 1984 Sikh Massacres

141 Law Building

2024 marks 40 years since the Indian Army’s siege and massacres across Punjab in June 1984, and the anti-Sikh genocide that spread across India that November. The deadliest decade for Punjab and Sikhs ensued, with enforced disappearances, secret prisons, suspension of habeas corpus, and terror. Since then, the Sikh community, lawyers, human rights investigators, and […]

Critical Foundations: Queer Theory with Professor Russell Robinson

170 Law Building

This talk will explain what queer theory is and consider how it intersects with race, racism, and anti-racist activism. Professor Robinson will draw on Cathy J. Cohen's foundational article Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? to examine how queer theory and politics engage or fail to engage race and racism. […]

Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) Fall Chai Social

Steinhart Courtyard

To provide some relief from midterms and all that's happening at school, we will be hosting our mid-semester chai social on Thursday, Oct. 3 from 5:30pm-7:00pm at Steinhart Courtyard. Come enjoy some chai and snacks from Elaichi while catching up with your MLSA buddies, and pray Maghrib with us after the sun sets! Please RSVP here […]

[LPE] Happy Hour at Freehouse

Freehouse 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Come join LPE at Berkeley Law for a happy hour across the street at Freehouse - appetizers on us! Please RSVP here.

Animal Law Mixer

Raleigh's 2438 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

Want to meet other people who are down with animal liberation and also like to have fun together? Come chill with us at Raleighs! We will chat and hang out, and go to bar review after (optional). Event is open to people in ALDF, ALA, and just anyone interested in animal advocacy & high quality […]

Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Leif Nelson, University of California, Berkeley

141 Law Building

Transparency, Replicability, and Integrity This workshop is based on a series of blog posts co-authored by Leif Nelson.  About Leif Nelson: Leif Nelson is the Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business Administration & Marketing, a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Berkeley Haas. About the Workshop: A workshop for presenting […]

[LPE] Organizing, Law School, and Social Change

130 Law Building

Students at Berkeley Law often come in wanting to effect some kind of change in the world: defending communities against state violence, preserving our planet’s habitability for human life, and on and on. But today’s legal education generally omits something we think is necessary to effecting that change: organizing. Come join Law and Political Economy […]

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