Berkeley Law’s pioneering clinic celebrates the milestone with a dynamic conference illuminating its wide-ranging work to advance the public interest in a fast-changing digital age.
Mermin, the founding director of the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, won the Vern Countryman Award, the top honor for consumer law attorneys.
2L Sonali Dhawan, 2L Kate Reeves, and 3L Sam Klein-Markman give powerful presentations about their work advocating for political prisoners, Indigenous territorial rights, and communities affected by industry-driven environmental harms.
In just its third semester, the clinic is delivering on the mission that fueled its creation: using data to support advocacy, policy, and social change in the human rights field.
After major success in the cage, Denarola has found a new battleground — antitrust law — to pursue holding companies accountable when they “take advantage of workers who have nowhere else to go.”
Host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Gadinis, whose new book chronicles how companies are writing the rules for AI, platform safety, and carbon accounting long before legislators arrive.
“So the potential room for storage is immense,” said Michael Kiparsky, director of Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. “The enticing question is: Is there a way to grab those flood flows before they flow out to sea, and hold them underground, and therefore expand our capacity?”
“Gov. Gavin Newsom has three options for California’s condemned inmates: do nothing, commute roughly half or attempt to commute them all. Each carries political and legal complications,” write David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law and Brandon V. Stracener.
