Campus educators, including Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon, have produced a new explainer video on antisemitism and hope it will help combat ignorance of Jewish history, improve the discourse on issues related to Israel, and better the campus climate for Jewish and pro-Israel students
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky takes a look at Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., the first Supreme Court case to address the ability of schools to impose discipline for speech out of school and over social media
Professor Amanda Tyler discusses co-authoring Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says access to EV charging stations needs to become more widespread and reliable if we want to increase electric vehicle ownership
Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, discusses the clinic’s work to stop the federal Bureau of Prisons from reading emails incarcerated persons send to their attorneys
Heather Lewis, Clinic Supervising Attorney at the Environmental Law Clinic, describes ELC’s recent Public Utilities Commission filing that protests PG&E’s proposal to use polluting diesel power during public safety power shutoffs
Brandon V. Stracener, senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, explains what a potential recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom could look like
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the environmental justice demands of California leaders are gaining power politically, at both the state and federal level
Professors Dan Farber and Andrew Bradt discuss the Supreme Court’s resolution of Ford Motor Co. v. Mont. Eighth Judicial Dist. Ct., a product liability case that clears a hurdle for a group of idled climate lawsuits
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the federal government should set a national goal for offshore wind energy production in the U.S. and open up more areas for federal leasing
An op-ed in the Washington Post suggests every Democrat who fears filibuster reform should read Professor Jonathan Gould’s new paper on “structural biases” in constitutional design
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program, and Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher, at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, lay out a plan for California to develop an equitable, statewide strategy for transitioning to all-electric buildings
Professor Jonathan Gould appears on the Lawfare podcast to discuss constitutional norms, the unwritten rules that govern how actors in our political system behave
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says Vice President Kamala Harris, as presiding officer of the Senate, can — and should — declare the current Senate filibuster rule unconstitutional
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses whether Democrats should end a senator’s ability to block legislation by endless speechmaking so they can accomplish their agenda
Professor Jennifer M. Urban, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, has been appointed chair of the new California Privacy Protection Agency board, tasked with enforcing the state’s landmark privacy law
Professor Claudia Polsky, director of the Environmental Law Clinic, discusses the new ELC report, The Dark Side of the Sun: How PACE Financing Has Under-Delivered Green Benefits and Harmed Low-Income Homeowners
Professor Paul Schwartz says it is a violation of U.S. privacy statutes for people to pass TLOxp reports, which pull private information from a vast database of restricted information about individuals and businesses, on to news organizations
Professor Jennifer M. Urban, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, has been appointed chair of the new California Privacy Protection Agency board, tasked with enforcing the state’s landmark privacy law
Professor Jennifer M. Urban, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, is announced as the chair of the new California Privacy Protection Agency board, tasked with enforcing the state’s landmark privacy law
Professor Amanda Tyler discusses co-authoring Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says calls suggesting Justice Breyer step down are not receiving the same pushback seen when some legal scholars urged the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step down
Professor Amanda Tyler appears on NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue, her new book written with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Professor Ian Haney Lopez will serve on the advisory board of The Emancipator, one of the nation’s first antislavery newspapers of the 19th century, which is being revived as part of a new project to discuss and debate racial justice in the U.S. today
Professor Amanda Tyler discusses her new book, written with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her decades-long relationship with the justice, and Ginsburg’s final thoughts on her legacy and hopes for the future of women’s rights
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses a new analysis that says California must quickly ramp up permitting and building of solar, wind, battery storage and other technologies to meet its mandate of a 100% clean energy grid by 2045
Legal advisers to the International Criminal Court, including Alexa Koenig, director of the Human Rights Clinic, have sued to challenge the Trump administration’s sanctions on the court’s prosecutors for investigating Israel and U.S. actions in Afghanistan — sanctions that the Biden administration has left intact so far
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses Kern County’s approval of drilling for thousands of new wells despite opposition from farmers and activists
Jim Dempsey, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will have a hard time making a legal argument that social media companies have discriminatory policies that silence conservative voices
A group of former prosecutors and judges in Alabama this week joined a district attorney in seeking a new trial for Toforest Johnson, a Black man who has spent two decades on death row and is represented by the Death Penalty Clinic
Professor Catherine Fisk explains that the PRO Act applies only to rights to unionize and bargain collectively and says freelancers would have no competitive advantage from one state to another
Professor Tejas Narechania and Erik Stallman, associate director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, urge the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by internet service providers challenging California’s law requiring that ISPs follow net neutrality rules
Professor Sonia Katyal says existing whistleblower law is totally insufficient and essential to protect talented researchers from being effectively muzzled
Professor Daniel Farber says a suit by 14 Republican attorneys general accusing President Joe Biden of exceeding his powers in an executive order regarding climate change appears tenuous
Professor Eric Biber discusses politically viable steps President Biden can take to reach his ambitious goal of putting the nation on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050
