According to data from reform states, juvenile courts no longer charge youth and families more than $61 million in fees each year, and they have discharged a staggering $783 million in debt.
The $500,000 commitment from Ruth Bell ’67 and her husband Joseph Bell aims to expand the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment’s impact in guiding California policymakers on vital issues.
Bhargava, who helped develop an AI-powered learning platform in India, and LL.M. classmate Anže Erbežnik aim to streamline criminal proceedings and improve efficiency in bilingual legal environments.
Professors Khiara M. Bridges, Colleen V. Chien ’02, and Dhammika Dharmapala, and Assistant Professor Manisha Padi were recognized for their scholarly and teaching accomplishments.
Valentine parlays pivotal hands-on experience gained at Berkeley Law into a rewarding internship with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Immigration Defense Unit.
Investigation co-led by Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center documents 412 incidents of misuse and 203 injuries across 16 U.S. cities from June 2025 through May 2026.
“In terms of a civil penalty from a company to journalists, this is unprecedented on an order of magnitude,” said Vincent Joralemon, a director at UC Berkeley Law and a former corporate lawyer.
“It’s really unclear right now whether the United States has legal authority to do this, to issue these permits,” said UC Berkeley law school professor Holly Doremus, co-director of the school’s Law of the Sea Institute.
“No library can buy every book. It always has to make choices,” Chemerinsky said, but a library that chooses to acquire only books that support the current presidential administration would clearly violate the Constitution. “Where is the line to be drawn?”
