The class featured guest appearances from leading practitioners and thinkers with a focus on how CEOs, chief legal officers, and corporate boards are responding to AI’s disruptive potential.
Before law school, 1Ls Kamryn Yanchick and Aidan Lin-Tostado were already turning advocacy into action. As Berkeley Law Public Interest Scholars, they’re now building on that work while preparing for careers in public service.
With the climate for judges becoming increasingly fraught, Hiramoto prioritizes her passions as a jurist: pursuing justice in her courtroom while paving the way for new generations of judges, lawyers, and students.
From Silicon Valley startups to established corporate pillars, alums in high-level legal roles are propelling meaningful change in areas such as electric vehicles, finance, consumer goods, and social media.
Atkinson, whose scholarship examines consumer law through the lens of economic inequality, is enjoying the chance to work more closely with her colleagues, particularly junior faculty.
In Berkeley Law’s mentorship series, lecturer Talha Syed and Zara Tayebjee ’26 discuss office hours, the Socratic Method, and how a half-hour conversation about a pen helped shape a student’s intellectual path.
“We’ve never seen the extent of corruption that we’re witnessing with regard to this president and this administration,” Chemerinsky said at the Edley Center on Law & Democracy’s symposium. “In this context, it’s so important that state and local governments can step up and continue to step up to fight back.”
“Roberts is usually with the conservatives on this,” said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, of the court’s interpretation of what’s called “standing.” “But he was willing to accept an aesthetic injury – which always has been regarded as sufficient for standing – while the conservative justices were not. Ultimately it means that even if the president’s actions as to the ballroom are unconstitutional, no one will have standing to sue to challenge them.”
“I’m not opposed to license plate readers,” writes Professor Catherine Crump. “Used well, they can help solve crimes and improve public safety by flagging stolen cars or vehicles associated with people wanted for felonies. But they’re also vulnerable to abuse.”
