Media Highlights

Professor Leti Volpp says clarifies a proposed bill would that would permit non-citizens who are authorized to work in the U.S. to become police officers in California

Professor Catherine Fisk explores the leverage workers and employers have when it comes to a return-to-the-office policy

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court’s holding in Thompson v. Clark was narrow and the justices only ruled that malicious prosecution claims did not require an affirmative indication of actual innocence

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, explains the benefits and challenges of a large amount of social media evidence

Dean Erwin Chemerinksy say Justice Jackson is not going to change anybody’s mind with regard to the abortion issue or the gun issue, but she’s the first justice in history to have ever been a public defender, she’s the first Black woman to ever serve on the court, and these things could really influence others

Professor Khiara Bridges debunks Facebook posts claiming California lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 7 days after birth

Professor Orin Kerr explores how the reshuffled Supreme Court might rule on surveillance and policing

Professor Catherine Fisk explains the lack of coverage gig workers and their families have when people are killed on the job and the cost-saving measures companies like Uber take to exclude their drivers from workers’ compensation

Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the increase in major warrants of arrest coming forward on the basis open source investigations and social media evidence

The Hollywood Reporter ranks Berkeley Law #4 on their Top Law Schools list, calling out of offerings in law and tech and our strength in intellectual property and privacy

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says John Eastman’s actions went beyond that of an attorney

Lecturer David Rosenfeld predicts Amazon will do everything they can to avoid a contract with workers at a Staten Island warehouse who voted to unionize

Professor Khiara M. Bridges explains the personal impact of the implication, when President Biden announced his intention to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, that there was no one qualified 

Professor Catherine Fisk, Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Work and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, compares labor organizers at Amazon’s Staten Island facility to General Motors organizers in 1944

Professor Pamela Samuelson is one of a dozen law professors who filed an amicus brief telling the Federal Circuit that a ‘dangerous’ split ruling from it to seal patent licensing information belonging to the private equity firm that is funding Uniloc’s legal war against Apple has flipped the legal system’s “presumption of access” in intellectual property cases

Professor Orin Kerr says someone can protest government policy by expressing your opinion against it, but that expression doesn’t give you a right to damage someone else’s property

HRC’s Lindsay Freeman, one of the authors of the Berkeley Protocol, discusses helping groups in Ukraine standardize their efforts and adapt and apply the protocol in this specific situation

Professor Katerina Linos and Professor Laura Fletcher weigh in on the powers and importance of how the ICC investigates war crimes allegations against Russia

LLM student Dmytro Tymoshchenko put his studies on hold due to the pandemic and is now living in Ukraine and volunteering with the civilian defense unit in Boryspil, about 20 miles outside of Kyiv

A report, “Systematic Suppression: Hungary’s Arts & Culture in Crisis,” by the Artistic Freedom Initiative, and created in partnership with Berkeley Law and Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, is highlighted

Professor Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the Berkeley Protocol on Open Source Investigations and why it’s important both for the press and for courts, that information is verified

Professor Charles Weisselberg says that senior citizens are “falling through the cracks” since the government agency have been undercounting the number of prisoners under its jurisdiction

Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of Berkeley Judicial Institute, says Judge Laurence Silberman’s suggestion that student protesters at a Yale event should be identified and potentially disqualified from federal clerkships raises the question of “whether a sitting federal judge should comment on a politically charged situation because of the possible perception of bias”

Lindsay Freeman, Law and Policy Director at the Human Rights Center, says that despite the good intentions of the volunteers helping authenticate images and videos of possible war crimes being committed in Ukraine, some may simply fall too far short of the burden of proof required to prosecute war crimes

Lecturer Shanin Specter is representing one of the families that did not sign on to that stipulation offered by Boeing and says that the families will be closely watching the Forkner trial because “they care deeply for accountability for the various wrongdoers”

Rachel Zuraw, Director of LL.M. Professional Development, explains the value in activities outside the classroom.

Professor Andrea Roth cautions that, if DNA consent forms use overly broad language that says the DNA can be used by law enforcement, some courts may not agree it’s a Fourth Amendment violation to search it for an unrelated investigation

Professor Jennifer M. Urban, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and chair of the California Privacy Protection Agency’s board, discusses the opportunity the agency has to protect privacy and  understand how that work interacts with all of the innovative technologies

Lecturer Ann Ravel says that Trump seems to have made the decision to run by claiming that he planned to be the 47th President instead of saying ‘if I run’  but is being careful to not officially announce that he is running so he can avoid filing a financial disclosure report

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky speaks on the new requirement that all graduating students must take at least one course on race and the law

Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment, and Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discuss how the two nations in the US-China joint declaration have the resources to develop and scale up the technologies to solve the global reliance on fossil fuels

Ken Alex, Director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, shares research being undertaken as well as actions California and subnational governments are taking to drastically reduce short-lived climate pollutants—like methane—from key industry sectors within the next decade

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court has said in numerous cases that freedom of travel is a fundamental right

Adam Sterling, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business, explains why the tech billionaire community is in California 

Professor Jonathan Simon comments on the recent Bay area burglary tourism and says that narratives like that of the South American theft groups are “like catnip” for law enforcement