Media Highlights

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explores whether the Supreme Court should be as transparent as counterparts in the other branches of the U.S. government.

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says the anti-abortion movement has organized around Roe v Wade, but very few people have read it

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the use of satellite imagery to capture war crimes evidence

Professor Orin Kerr says we’ve had Supreme Court leaks before, but this is a whole new order of magnitude of leak

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says even without an explicit constitutional amendment, access to abortion in California would be unlikely to change unless a pre-emptive federal law is passed by Congress

Oaklandside notes that Professor Khiara M. Bridges sounded the alarm in March over the impending loss of abortion protections, and how they would impact vulnerable people

Professor Orin Kerr’s tweets regarding the legal issues relating to the Supreme Court leak are cited

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky predicts that if Justice Alito’s reasoning from the leaked draft opinion is followed, then there is a large number of constitutional rights that are in jeopardy

Professor Orin Kerr says the leaking of the Supreme Court draft opinion is the most egregious violation of confidentiality for a staff member or employee of the court

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says a decision against abortion rights would come down hardest on people who do not have the ability or means to travel where an abortion would be available and the only source of optimism may be in the likelihood that the Supreme Court’s decision will sort of spur activism

David A. Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, says states like California “can use their constitutions to increase protections for reproductive liberty”

Lecturer Shanin Specter says leaving the definition of individual rights to each of 50 jurisdictions will create the un-United States and predicts it is likely to get worse from here

Dean Erwin Chermerinsky questions whether the intense secrecy surrounding every aspect of the Supreme Court’s work is a good thing

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky reflects on the LA riots and the anger that remains today because police excessive force, and racist policing continues

Professor Jonathan Simon says, despite recall efforts, San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin has done the things he said he would do

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says big corporations are perhaps not the ideal “poster child” for a cap-and-trade revenue recipient, they likely do deliver emission reductions

Professor Dan Farber says the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA is likely to curtail not just EPA’s ability to combat climate change but the government’s ability to protect the public from other threats, from financial fraud to public health

Professor Andrew Bradt says the results of the federal civil trial against opioid manufacturers underway in San Francisco will have ripple effects far beyond just the city

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the Elon Musk/Twitter deal is a fairly standard merger agreement

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, claims that local agencies tend to poorly plan infrastructure work and don’t have enough capacity to manage megaprojects. They also often use procurement methods that create a management bottleneck.

Professor Seth Davis discusses Oklahoma v McGirt’s relevance for disputes about taxation and civil regulatory authority

Ten percent of the seller’s commission from the auction of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal mementos will go to to fellowships offered by the Women of Berkeley Law

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says he believes mass rail transit will get the bulk of the ridership back to pre-pandemic levels.

A former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court wrote an op-ed urging the reexamination of the case of Toforest Johnson, a prisoner on Alabama’s death row long represented by the Death Penalty Clinic

A op-ed Dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote last summer regarding possible D.C. statehood is cited to answer a Washington Post reader’s question about the constitutionality of it

Professor Chuck Weisselberg explains his fears regarding the Supreme Court signaling it may shield police from civil lawsuits for failing to provide Miranda warnings to suspects, saying police could be given an incentive to pressure people who refuse to talk

Professor Frank Partnoy, with fellow Robert Bishop, filed a comment letter regarding the SEC’s recent proposal to halve the deadline for large investors to disclose their stakes in companies

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, says that the challenge on convicting war crimes through social media images will be on the admissibility, on convincing judges this is something they should be allowing or heavily weighing

HRC’s Berkeley Protocol is being used by Ukrainian groups to determine how best to document and preserve evidence, as well as ethical and legal guidance for gathering eyewitness accounts

Professor Robert Merges 2004 paper, A New Dynamism in the Public Domain, is mentioned in an article examining whether corporations are going to use IP law to profit from psychedelics

Professor David Oppenheimer discusses the Tesla racial discrimination case and says the judge wrote a very careful opinion that will make it hard for Tesla to appeal

Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, filed suit on behalf of a coalition of immigrant rights groups seeking information from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement about the agency’s Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, a so- called alternative to detention program that has ballooned during the Biden administration

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon explains the options the board at Twitter has in reaction to Elon Musk’s takeover offer

Lecturer Carla Shapreau, who has been working on the case of a Stradivarius violin stolen under the Nazis, is one of the thirty French and international speakers participating in the colloquium devoted to the spoliation of musical instruments in Europe, between 1933 and 1945