Legal Pathways: Exploring Careers in Litigation, Corporate Law, and Tech Transaction/Regulatory

100 Law Building

A must-attend event for 1L students interested in shaping their legal careers. Discover the diverse opportunities in these dynamic fields through a panel discussion and Q&A with students who have completed summer associate positions in various practice groups at major law firms. Gain valuable knowledge to help chart your course in the ever-evolving legal landscape!

Criminalizing Dissent? Evaluating the Threat That Lawfare Poses to Civil Liberties and Our Democratic Norms

Booth Auditorium

Throughout the world, concerns have emerged within democratic countries that the rule of law is being undermined and weaponized as a tool by leaders against their political opponents. While that debate has been particularly pronounced in the United States in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, it has also been present in other countries […]

Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) 1L/New Student Happy Hour

Free House 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Come meet other students interested in Consumer Protection at Free House! On October 17th at 5pm, The Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society is hosting a happy hour (appetizers provided) to connect consumer students! Please RSVP here.  Additionally, come chat with us about how you can join the board as a new student rep!  Want to […]

BJCL x DAB Movie Night

100 Law Building

Come watch a criminal defense movie with the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law and the Defenders at Berkeley! Please RSVP here for food.

Understanding the Implications of Project 2025 for Energy and the Environment

Virtual (Zoom)

Join us for a webinar featuring CLEE Faculty Director, Daniel Farber, and CLEE Project Climate Director, Ken Alex, as they delve into the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which outlines plans to use the federal government as a vehicle for the transformation of American life and policy. CLEE’s distillation of the energy and environmental aspects of […]

Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: David Enoch, Oxford University

141 Law Building & Virtual

Against Public Reason I argue that public-reason (PR) political philosophy should be rejected.  The reasons given in support of this conclusion address PR from a broader philosophical perspective than is common in this literature. In particular, I use here a general discussion of idealization in meta-normative theory (put forward in my "Why Idealize?") to shed light […]

[CDO] 1L Resume Workshop

105 Law Building

Your resume got you into law school but now it needs to get you an interview! The CDO will help you get your resume ready for the legal industry and for the application season! Bring your laptop so you can work on your resume in real time. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP on this […]

Event Series Mindful Monday

Mindful Monday

Morrison Foerster Room, 298 Simon

Join us in the Morrison Foerster Room (298 Simon) for a conversation on mindfulness. Mindful Monday is a space for anyone in the law school community who is interested and open-minded about the benefits mindfulness can bring. These can include an improved ability to cope with stress, faster and more complete recovery from stressful events, […]

CSLS Speaker Series: “Colonizing Liberia: The Constitution of American Empire Before the Insular Cases”

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

Featuring Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong. Over the 20th century, a variety of scholarship has explored aspects of “American imperialism” or “American empire” as the United States progressively spread its influence across the globe. Analysis continues today of the varied territorial regimes through which the U.S. exerted sovereignty, including the many […]

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