Lecturer Tess Bridgeman says that by tech companies taking action against Russian disinformation, it will allow more accurate reporting of the invasion to be seen by a wider audience
Professor Amanda Tyler, who was a Supreme Court clerk with Judge Katanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s choice to replace Justice Breyer, says she is meticulous in her approach to the law
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky applauds President Biden’s choice of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court and says, in the world of law, credentials don’t get better than hers
Lecturer Shanin Specter filed a lawsuit on behalf of a passenger of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, which crashed in 2019, and wants to add Boeing executives as defendants, saying “none of them has been held accountable”
Rebecca Golbert, Executive Director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, writes about her personal grief over the situation in Ukraine
Research and reporting from an innovative collaboration between the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism resulted in this podcast from Reveal exploring how Texas has gone after Roe v. Wade
A Sacramento Bee editorial suggesting President Biden select Judge Leondra Kruger for the Supreme Court cites a recent study of her record from the California Constitution Center
Professor Orin Kerr discusses the conundrum for the Supreme Court concerning Justice Thomas’ wife’s political actions and says that, while there are no clear-cut rules outlining when justices need to recuse themselves, there are appearance concerns
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky expresses that if the lower court ruling is allowed to stand, judges would be given extensive power to micromanage enrollment at every public school in California
Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute, says that by adding solar panel canopies over some of the utility’s Ceres Main Canal “you’re taking something that’s already been altered by human activity and doubling up on the benefits it provides”
David A. Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, describes Justice Leondra Kruger as a median justice based on the fact she has taken an even distribution of liberal and conservative positions
Professor Ian Haney Lopez appears on the Daily Kos podcast to discuss the Race-Class narrative and says that we need to build cross-racial and cross-class solidarity
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the White House’s new environmental colorblind strategy and says that the Supreme Court is very hostile to any attempt to use race as a basis for giving benefits
Professor Jonathan Simon comments on recent overhaul of the agreement that made the District Attorney’s Office the lead investigator into potential officer brutality and says that he doesn’t see a record of failure or betrayal by the District Attorney’s Office that is extreme enough to justify “tearing up the whole document, rather than asking for specific changes”
Lecturer Mallika Kaur highlights the life of Justice Ajit Singh Bains, one of India’s finest jurists and human rights defenders, who recently passed away
Louise Bedsworth, Director of the Land Use Program at the Center for Law Energy & the Environment and senior advisor to the California China Climate Institute, discusses what steps California has taken to help halt climate change which will make life better for Californians, but also create a model for the rest of the world.
Professor Holly Doremus comments that the current blueprint for updating California’s system of water laws is meant to move the system in the right direction
Ken Alex, Director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, said it is encouraging to see two of the world’s largest ports, Los Angeles and Shanghai, work collaboratively to accelerate the transition to zero-emission fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Professor Amanda Tyler says the Supreme Court’s order in an Alabama voting rights case sanctions – at least in the short term during a very important election cycle — what appears to be egregious vote dilution rulings
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment’s Climate Project, discusses Joe Biden’s guidelines for how states should spend $5 billion in new infrastructure and says fast charges are key
Professor Frank Zimring says that the number of fatal shootings is unsurprising and that policy enacted now may take years to make a statistically significant difference
Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, talks to BBC Radio about open-source investigators’ work to find the truth behind news events
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday to reinstate a congressional district map drawn by the Alabama Legislature serves as an effort by the conservative justices to help Republicans in the midterms
Savala Nolan, Executive Director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, writes that very often, white people and their efforts disappoint her and says if we want cooperative, connective transformation it’s time to increase the heat
A 2016 report by the East Bay Community Law Center that found Black drivers in San Francisco accounted for “48.7% of arrests for a ‘failure to appear/pay’ traffic court warrant,” despite making up just under 6% of the population at the time
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says California Supreme Court Justice Kruger is brilliant and has impeccable credentials as a potential Supreme Court candidate.
Professor Tejas Narechania explains a new act, passed by the FCC that will require broadband companies provide easy-to-read information about their services to improve transparency
David A. Carrillo, Executive Director of the California Constitution Center, says the California Supreme Court’s ability to reach consensus is its “superpower”
California Constitution Center Executive Director David Carrillo and Senior Research Fellow Brandon V. Stracener explore the judicial record of California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger based on an analysis by the California Constitution Center of every opinion and vote by Kruger in her time on California’s high court
Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, discusses California Supreme Court Justice Kruger as a potential Supreme Court candidate and says she is an independent thinker
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is one of 16 law professors who have filed amicus briefs supporting dismissal of a controversial bankruptcy case involving thousands of talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and says there are “serious constitutional issues”
Lecturer Shanin Specter says he is optimistic that judges are listening to calls for changes to common benefit fees and judicial management will modify by streamlining the MDL process
A recent brief authored by Professor Catherine Fisk and 3L Amy Reavis observes that powerful global corporations like McDonald’s control the prices, quality, hours, and other operations, and the franchisee has no way to increase profits other than cutting labor costs
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says Justice Kruger has stellar credentials and would add diversity to the court, not only as a Black woman but as a state supreme court justice and someone from the West Coast
Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, notes the ACLU’s decision to use tracking technology was made by the ACLU’s fundraising and advocacy team, not its legal department, which often does not work in tandem
