This year’s honors went to John Burris ’73, Professor Peter S. Menell, Lillian Hardy ’06, and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Nicole Berner ’95, with a special accolade for Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Taught by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Executive Director Wayne Stacy — a former Big Law litigator and U.S. Patent Office leader — the course will focus on enhancing legal skills without lowering the threshold for human judgment and input.
A leader of multiple Berkeley Law student organizations, Dasgupta is enjoying her “crash course in the world of international law-making and diplomacy.”
Jerath and her co-founder incorporated lessons from over 25,000 billable hours to craft a virtual program for law students and new associates “to take the knowledge, skills, and understanding junior corporate lawyers usually spend years piecing together and teach it all upfront.”
Working with a feminist organization in Georgia and the Equality Law Clinic at the Free University of Brussels, the group wrote a brief on behalf of a woman who had been charged with defamation after accusing her supervisor of sexual harassment.
Swift’s brilliance and grace inspired the alum, who wishes to remain anonymous, to donate $250,000 to start the fund. He hopes other alumni join him in paying tribute to Swift, who died in 2023 after a legendary career.
Named one of the nation’s 100 most influential corporate governance leaders, Dobrygowski describes the motivations driving both his pioneering work and his new book.
“Sometimes well-intentioned laws are unconstitutional,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “That is the case for a bill that recently passed the California Assembly to prevent children under the age of 16 from opening social media accounts.”
“California no longer has a death chamber,” said Elisabeth Semel, a UC Berkeley law professor and founding director of the law school’s Death Penalty Clinic, which provides legal representation for condemned prisoners. “It has been 20 years since the last execution. There are a host of logistical and legal issues that the state will have to confront administratively and in the courts before executions can resume.”
