With the climate for judges becoming increasingly fraught, Hiramoto prioritizes her passions as a jurist: pursuing justice in her courtroom while paving the way for new generations of judges, lawyers, and students.
From Silicon Valley startups to established corporate pillars, alums in high-level legal roles are propelling meaningful change in areas such as electric vehicles, finance, consumer goods, and social media.
Atkinson, whose scholarship examines consumer law through the lens of economic inequality, is enjoying the chance to work more closely with her colleagues, particularly junior faculty.
In Berkeley Law’s mentorship series, lecturer Talha Syed and Zara Tayebjee ’26 discuss office hours, the Socratic Method, and how a half-hour conversation about a pen helped shape a student’s intellectual path.
The school’s strong run of faculty hiring under Dean Erwin Chemerinsky continues with Harawa, a criminal procedure expert who arrives in January, and legal historian Hall.
Working for the Office of Legal Counsel in the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Pantoja gains perspective and confidence while helping protect public health and the environment.
“In the face of liability for their role in the devastating wildfires, California utility companies are pushing to change the law,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “They are doing so while pretending that their concern is helping those who suffer great losses.”
“No one’s talking really about speculation, although if you create the market, that will happen, right? You create the market, inevitably people will use it to bet on these prices,” said Professor Frank Partnoy.
Professor Pamela Samuelson, a copyright law professor at University of California, Berkeley, described that process to Inc. as a form of “format shifting.” “It didn’t multiply the number of copies of the work in existence so not an infringement,” Samuelson said.
