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Labor Days: Berkeley Law Solidifies Its Work Law Epicenter Status With Major Programs Featuring Top Experts
Three conferences in three days bring leading scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and students to explore the rapidly changing field.
‘Voices Carry’: Human Rights Center Researchers on the Impacts of Large Language Models
The recent report focuses on how the use of large language models — the foundation of generative AI — are affecting the fields of law, journalism, and education.
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How Berkeley Law Helped Anthony Shallat LL.M. ’25 Move From Advising on AI to Building a Better Version of It
Shallat credits the LL.M. Program’s AI Law and Regulation Certificate for his new role as product subject matter expert at Ironclad, which helps businesses manage each stage of the contracting process.
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Power in Partnership: 2L Mackenzie Van Valkenburgh’s Environmental Justice Work Fueled by Effective Team Efforts
A Center for Law, Energy & the Environment merit scholar, Van Valkenburgh holds several leadership roles at Berkeley Law and is the lead author of a new research paper on wastewater pollution along the California coastline.
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Building a Foundation on Common Ground: 2L Andrea Arcia and 3L Melissa Cortes Empower Each Other’s Journeys
Both Latinas from the East Coast, Arcia and Cortes forge a strong connection rooted in shared ambitions, navigating unfamiliar terrain, and pursuing a profession where people who look like them remain underrepresented.
New Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Student Fellows Program Aims to Create ‘True Thought Leaders’
The inaugural cohort of fellows comes from a wide range of disciplines, and students are already posting their pieces on the Berkeley Law Life Sciences Forum.
New Corporate Strategy in the Age of AI and Geopolitics Course Puts LL.M. Students at the Cutting Edge
The class featured guest appearances from leading practitioners and thinkers with a focus on how CEOs, chief legal officers, and corporate boards are responding to AI’s disruptive potential.

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Whites Only: The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.
(09/23/2026)
Topics: Constitutional Law Topic, Election Law Topic
Today, “intent is a get-out-of-jail-free card,” says Professor Bertrall Ross—just as it was for the Colfax killers.
Opinion: The court’s coming climate-change case and the very confused doctrine of preemption
(09/22/2026)
Topics: Constitutional Law Topic
“On the first day of the October 2026 Term, the court will hear Suncor Energy, Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, which poses the issue of whether suits under state law against energy companies for their role in causing climate change are preempted, or superseded, by federal law,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinksy. “Preemption issues constantly come to the Supreme Court. Yet it is difficult to find a pattern in the court’s handling of them.”
Corporate Ordering | How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict
(09/22/2026)
Topics: Business/Corporate Law Topic
Stavros Gadinis, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and author of Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss how companies make rules, AI governance at leading companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, corporate decision-making, monitoring and accountability, the role of the general counsel, and how boards can navigate social and technological conflict.

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Labor Days: Berkeley Law Solidifies Its Work Law Epicenter Status With Major Programs Featuring Top Experts

‘Voices Carry’: Human Rights Center Researchers on the Impacts of Large Language Models

How Berkeley Law Helped Anthony Shallat LL.M. ’25 Move From Advising on AI to Building a Better Version of It

Building a Foundation on Common Ground: 2L Andrea Arcia and 3L Melissa Cortes Empower Each Other’s Journeys

New Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Student Fellows Program Aims to Create ‘True Thought Leaders’

New Corporate Strategy in the Age of AI and Geopolitics Course Puts LL.M. Students at the Cutting Edge

Journalist Resources

CONTACT

Media Highlights

Whites Only: The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.

Opinion: The court’s coming climate-change case and the very confused doctrine of preemption

Corporate Ordering | How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict