Media Highlights

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the current Supreme Court is a very conservative Court, even if we will only get glimpses of it this year

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act breaks no new legal ground, but has enormous practical significance in that it means that 21 million people will keep their health insurance coverage

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says critical race theory seeks to make real the promises of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Professor Khiara M. Bridges says bans on critical race theory in public schools are an “intentional misrepresentation” 

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says industrialized nations have a moral obligation to help less-developed countries deal with climate change, because these nations have emitted and continue to be the source of the largest share of greenhouse gas pollution

Professor Catherine Fisk says frivolous suits are the price we all pay for having legal rights and a court system to enforce them

Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, says facial recognition technology and analytics generally have been revolutionary because they’ve put an end to privacy by obscurity

Professor Peter Menell is one of four well-known copyright scholars who urged members of the influential American Law Institute to reject a proposed restatement of copyright law when the proposal comes up for a scheduled vote this week

Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says nature-based solutions to the warming of the planet, which harness the power of nature to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, hold significant promise but need more research and investment

A Washington Post analysis of Van Buren v United States highlights Professor Orin Kerr’s twitter deep dive into the case

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky calls the federal decision to overturn California’s assault weapons ban “an extreme gun rights reading of the Second Amendment”

Professor William Fernholz discusses the federal appeal court decision in the torture and asylum case of Elmer Rogel Lopez. Two graduating students, Rianna Hidalgo and Kelsey Miller, prepared the briefs and delivered the oral argument in this case

Professor Orin Kerr’s amicus brief is cited in explaining the Supreme Court’s decision in Van Buren v United States

Professor Orin Kerr’s amicus brief in Van Buren v. United States is highlighted in a story about the Supreme Court decision in the case

Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, discusses Governor Newsom’s written argument – which she co-wrote – calling the death penalty racist and discriminatory against Black and Latino defendants

Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, explains what the preliminary injunction against Bank of America means for victims of fraudulent activities on EDD debit cards

Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, is interviewed about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the PBS documentary he co-produced about it, “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten”

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the history of and misunderstandings around Critical Race Theory

Lecturer Shanin Specter explains his firm’s successful vaccination and return-to-work policies

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the long-term success of a high speed rail system in California would hinge on whether cities can usher in dense urban development around transit stations

Professor Khiara M. Bridges separates facts from fiction regarding Critical Race Theory

An investigation by the Associated Press and the Human Rights Center finds that Myanmar’s junta is hiding, mutilating and cremating bodies to terrorize its citizens since the military takeover

The story of Berkeley Law’s forthcoming installation “A Time for Change,” contextualizing the removal of the name Boalt from our buildings, is explored in Law.com’s “Ahead of the Curve” column

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is one of 36 constitutional experts who sent a letter telling congressional leaders they have the authority to make the nation’s capital the 51st state

Lecturer Shanin Specter explains his firm’s successful vaccination and return-to-work policies and advises other firms to follow suit

Professor Catherine Fisk says employment laws were developed with the annual flu in mind, not a global pandemic

Brandon Stracener, senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, explains why the details and timing of the recall election matter

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses the timeline for expanding California’s high speed bullet train

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Melissa Murray, from NYU School of Law, outline how Justice Barrett’s presence has shifted the balance of the Supreme Court

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says Gov. Newsom’s failure to make any new commitments to the high-speed bullet train project in his latest budget proposal is “a pretty glaring omission”

Professor Pamela Samuelsona is the lead drafter of amicus brief, joined by more than 60 law professors, supporting the Warhol Foundation’s petition for rehearing in light of the Google v Oracle decision

Professor Dan Farber says the Biden administration is unlikely to offer much in the way of concessions to a group of young Americans suing the federal government over actions they say contribute to climate change

Professor Tejas Narechania’s working paper, which finds that broadband providers offer slower service for the same price in areas where they lack competition, and proposes a model statute for rate regulation of a basic tier broadband service in areas without competition, is highlighted by The White House

Professor Frank Partnoy discusses fads – such as bitcoin, dogecoin and NFTs – and says we we might be surprised, when we look back at this time, at what turned out to be valuable, and what didn’t

Professor Emeritus Jesse Choper and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky agree that a proposal to allow paramedics, not just police, to order mental health holds raises no immediate civil liberties concerns 

Professor Chuck Weisselberg says the oldest and most vulnerable cohort of people within the federal prison system are at the mercy of the parole commission, an agency that’s been dying for decades

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses a new study he co-authored, which analyzed almost 10 million home loans and found blatant racial discrimination