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
Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the use of social media evidence to create a narrative as one piece of the evidentiary puzzle ahead of the impeachment trial of former president Trump
Data published by the Policy Advocacy Clinic showing the high cost of collecting juvenile fees is cited as Oregon considers a bill to end juvenile fines and fees
Judge Jeremy Fogel, Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, discusses the increasing number of federal judges who are taking senior status
Professor Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, discusses new evidence of a cover-up by US Customs & Border Patrol in the case of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas’s killing by federal agents
Professor Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, discusses new evidence of a cover-up by US Customs & Border Patrol in the case of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas’s killing by federal agents
Professor Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, discusses evidence of a “shadow investigation” that has emerged in the case of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas’s killing by federal agents
Professor Stephen Sugarman says San Francisco’s lawsuit against the school district is a first step toward a plan, but it’s still contingent on the union agreeing to send teachers back to the classroom
Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses conservative states’ introducing bills banning abortion on the grounds of race, sex or the diagnosis of a fetal abnormality, with the aim to push a case before the Supreme Court
Lecturer Shanin Specter applauds the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approval of a settlement with Met-Ed, a FirstEnergy Corp. electricity provider, in the death of 31-year-old man
PBS announces a documentary premiering in May about the Tulsa Race Massacre, known as the deadliest incident of racial violence in American history, featuring Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Taylor v. Riojas is a rare instance in which the high court rejected a claim of qualified immunity and made clear that no case on point is required in order to hold a government officer liable
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, with Ngozi Nezianya, counsel at Protect Democracy, writes the violence on Jan. 6 should not be used as an excuse to thwart lawful assemblies and protests in Florida, or in any other state
Professor Christopher Kutz reviews Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? and explains why a public, widely accessible merit-based system such as the University of California is our best hope
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky thinks Donald Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani could be successfully prosecuted for inciting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by supporters of the former president
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, with Miriam Aroni Krinsky, encourages the courts to reject a legal challenge that attempts to derail Los Angeles D.A. George Gascón’s criminal justice reforms
Ted Mermin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, hopes the Legislature will come back together and extend the reach of rent moratorium relief
Brandon V. Stracener, senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, says anti-maskers protesters who believe the ADA and federal law protect them are wrong
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Burt Neuborne write that, in order for President Biden to get anything done, Democrats must find a way to limit the Republicans’ use of the filibuster
Professor Robert Merges discusses the complexities of international patent law, as part of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and Beijing’s Tsinghua University’s Conference on Transnational IP Litigation
Lecturer Shanin Specter says law firms dropping controversial clients should tread lightly to avoid sending message of disloyalty to existing and potential clients
Professor Khiara M. Bridges says the myth of a salt-retention gene causing hypertension in Black people has been perpetuated by researchers not looking at factors such as environmental injustices and inaccessibility of health care
Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, lays out what the Biden administration could do for the environment, particularly in California
Data from CLEE’s “Reversing Environmental Rollbacks” project was used to help create the Washington Post’s webpage tracking the Biden administration’s environmental actions
Professor Aaron Edlin says power isn’t a violation of antitrust law, even though big tech companies’ actions over the past week reinforce just how much power they have
The Human Rights Center’s Investigations Lab worked with the Associated Press to monitor any potential attacks as well as misinformation related to the inauguration
Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, explains some immediate steps President Biden can take to undo Trump environmental policies
Lecturer Neil Wertlieb after reviewing public court documents suggests that Girardi Keese used the Ponzi scheme, where he’s using money from basically subsequent cases to fund his and his firm’s obligations on prior cases
Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses the process of rolling back Trump climate policies and the database, “Reversing Environmental Rollbacks,” CLEE compiled
Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says when it comes to climate change we are facing a ticking clock, as President Biden looks to rollback policies the Trump administration put in place
Professor Orin Kerr says in order to prosecute social media companies for the riots at the Capitol, there would need to be evidence of a clear intention to assist in the violence
Professor Catherine Crump, Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, says law enforcement should not use facial recognition technology widely until racial disparities are fixed
Professor Jonathan Simon says Californians who witnessed the failures of mass incarceration need to remind the public of the unacceptable human and financial costs of going backward
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says giving social media firms the power to permanently ban politicians could have serious ramifications for the future of free speech on the internet
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says laws outlawing militias are constitutional so long as they carefully define what is a militia and what conduct is prohibited
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says Twitter and Facebook are within their rights to remove posts by President Trump that rise to the level of incitement, but that outright bans by the communication platforms are a step too far and set a dangerous precedent
