Berkeley Law professors are prolific, insightful scholars with broad and significant influence felt well beyond the school’s walls through their research, legal advocacy, policymaking and commentary.
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Davis Elected to American Law Institute
Professor Seth Davis was recently elected to the American Law Institute, joining 27 of his current or retired Berkeley Law colleagues who are members of the prestigious group. Three alumni — Stanford Law School Professor Easha Anand ’14, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Professor Sam Kamin J.D. ’96, Ph.D. ’00, and Girard Sharp partner Sarah London ’09 — were also among the 49 new members.Intellectual Property Influence
An article by Professor Pamela Samuelson has been selected as one of the best intellectual property papers of 2025 and will be included in the next edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, published annually by Thomson Reuters. “Justification for Fair Uses,” published in 2025 in the Wisconsin Law Review, is the seventh of her articles to be recognized this way.Decoding the ‘New Emergency Law’
In a new post for the Yale Journal on Regulation’s “Notice & Comment” blog, Professor Elena Chachko argues that Learning Resources v. Trump is about far more than just whether the president has the authority to impose tariffs. Previewing a forthcoming paper, Chachko writes the case is part of what she calls the “new emergency law” — an emerging body of cases in which courts are more willing to scrutinize executive reliance on broad emergency statutes.International Influence
A Harvard International Law Journal article written by Professor Katerina Linos and two co-authors has been named one of two winners of the best article award given by the International Law and Social Science Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. “The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law,” written with Columbia Professor Anu Bradford and University of Chicago Dean Adam Chilton, reassesses long-held conventional wisdom about the relationship between countries’ antitrust laws and their economic growth. They find that, on average, such laws have little to no effect on economic development — but they have improved growth in countries that adopted them without external incentives.‘Governance by Design’ for AI
“Recentering Public Values In AI Governance: Examples From The Biden Administration,” a new Berkeley Technology Law Journal article by Berkeley Law Professor Kenneth A. Bamberger and UC Berkeley School of Information Professor Deirdre Mulligan analyzes the Biden-Harris administration’s AI policies through a “governance by design” framework they developed.
