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
Mark Cohen, Senior Fellow and Director of BCLT’s Asia IP Project, explains how China’s increased penalties for trade secret theft could be used to target foreign businesses operating in the country
Professor Sonia K. Katyal, with UCLA professor Angela R. Riley and UC-Berkeley doctoral candidate Rachel Lim, writes remedying the harms of the past will require more than simply changing a name or a logo, but it is a first step toward ensuring that racial stereotypes are retired to the annals of history
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes absentee ballots and voting by mail increase participation without any evidence of fraud and laws should facilitate, not limit, these efforts to increase voting
Professor Peter Menell filed an amicus brief in American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings, LLC, the closely-watched Section 101 patent eligibility case involving driveshaft automotive technology
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the idea of delivering gasoline to motorists sends a bad message
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program, and research fellow Katie Segal, from the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, write California is well positioned to help the United States meet President Biden’s nationwide carbon neutrality goal
Dr. Rohini Haar discusses a new report by the Human Rights Center and Geneva-based Insecurity Insight, which identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year
Dr. Rohini Haar discusses a new report by the Human Rights Center and Geneva-based Insecurity Insight, which identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year
Professor Jennifer M. Urban, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and clinic students Jennifer A. Hewitt and Blaine Valencia discuss their work on behalf of Public.Resource.Org to advocate for California to clarify that its civil and criminal jury instructions are in the public domain
California Constitution Center Executive Director David Carrillo, with Darien Shanske, predicts the power of local voters to impose taxes on themselves by majority vote using the initiative power might be here to stay
Professor Orin Kerr joins the Washington Post’s Cybersecurity Network, a group of high-level digital security experts from across government, the private sector, and security research community to vote in surveys on the most pressing issues in the field
Professor Jonathan Gould explains the role of the Senate parliamentarian in deciding whether Democrats can squeeze a federal minimum-wage hike into a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package using the budget reconciliation process
Professor Khiara M. Bridges is featured in the Netflix documentary Amend: the Fight for America, particularly in episode 4, which examines the fight for women’s voting rights
California Constitution Center Executive Director David Carrillo and Senior Research Fellow Stephen M. Duvernay write the US and CA Supreme Courts are moving in opposite directions – but not in the way you might think
Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky encourage Congress can keep faith with the First Amendment by preventing social media platforms from discriminating
Professor Jonathan Simon discusses the CRISIS Act and says Governor Newsom’s desire to appear progressive has arguably outweighed his appetite to champion and enact legislation that reflects those values
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains why, if former president Trump violated the law, he should be indicted and prosecuted and writes no one, especially not the president, can be above the law
Brandon V. Stracener, senior research fellow at California Constitution Center, discusses California’s Emergency Services Act, what powers it gives the governor and the State Legislature’s ability to be a check on those powers
Professor Laurel Fletcher, Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, interviews the former high commissioner of Sri Lanka, who served from 2008 to 2014, about the role of her office in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka in the final stages of the war and since that time, and her views on what the council should do at its upcoming session
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes, in the case of former president Trump, our courts failed and the message to future presidents, and even other litigants, is just to protract litigation and sometimes it will go away
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky urges Democrats to look at how the Republicans reshaped the federal judiciary under former president Trump and take the opportunity to do the same
Lecturer Mallika Kaur interviews Clinical Professor Ty Alper, Associate Director of Death Penalty Clinic, about representing clients on death row, being hyper-aware of racial privilege and training next gen lawyers,
Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, urges U.S. and state policy makers to seize the opportunity to plan for a more sustainable, domestic electric vehicle supply chain
The Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies announces a $10 million gift and renaming as the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley
Professor John Yoo, with Scott Atlas of the Hoover Institute, says lockdowns interfere with the constitutional rights to free speech and religion and the economic liberty of owners and workers
Lecturer Mallika Kaur says the fight of the farmers in India is, at the heart of it, a fight against big monopolies owning everything we need to survive with dignity: medication, transportation, education, and food
