Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and tech-law expert James Dempsey assess the legal wrangling over the Trump administration’s attempted ban of the Chinese apps.
Governor Newsom signs a whopping seven bills that focus on protecting residents’ civil, financial, and environmental rights — all driven by Berkeley Law clinics and centers.
The executive director of Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Trepczynski discusses race hierarchy and its far-reaching implications.
Five Berkeley Law professors describe Ginsburg’s enormous influence and the colossal implications of rushing to confirm her replacement before the presidential election.
Berkeley Law professor and former dean Christopher Edley, Jr. joins three others in describing the historical and current factors impeding progress, and how to surmount them.
A change in leadership of Berkeley Law’s clinics arrives as the thriving program welcomes its biggest class of in-house students and solidifies plans to expand.
The in-house clinical program welcomed seven new hires — six teaching fellows and one supervising attorney, expanding the growing program’s outreach to marginalized communities and individuals.
Part of a livestreamed Berkeley Conversations event, professors john a. powell and Claudia Polsky ’96 describe why environmental harms disproportionately affect people of color.
The role brings a renewed focus on teaching for Hoofnagle, a renowned privacy expert and a faculty co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
Savala Trepczynski ’11, executive director of Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, says white people working to overcome their own fears and uncertainty is essential for bridging the racial divide.
In a new Yale Law Journal paper, Professor David Singh Grewal offers a timely blueprint for putting the themes of power, equality, and democracy at the center of legal scholarship.
Part of a Berkeley Conversations panel, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Bertrall Ross describe how the pandemic may alter the landscape before, during, and after Election Day.
Professors Catherine Albiston ’93 and Catherine Fisk ’86 explain how the lack of paid leave in the U.S. reflects a growing inequality among Americans stoked by the COVID-19 crisis.
Faculty members Stavros Gadinis and Amelia Miazad ’02 remain hopeful that companies will continue to value “doing well by doing good” through the coronavirus pandemic.
Two Berkeley Law clinics give immediate financial relief to vulnerable families by persuading California to stop collecting government debt during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former doctor and current Berkeley Law healthcare regulation authority George Horvath ’14 unpacks the technical, legal, and policy issues that led to paltry early testing in the U.S.
Led by a research center and a clinic, Berkeley Law’s students and faculty are leaping into action to help entrepreneurs weather the current economic storm.
A flurry of new work, including an amicus brief in a hot-button Supreme Court case, shows the depth and reach of Khiara M. Bridges’ intersectional scholarship.
The school’s wide-ranging efforts include its California Constitution Center co-sponsoring a summit that assesses current data, pipeline programs, and judicial clerkship hiring.
A distinguished group of international scholars, attorneys, and judges probed the lasting influence of Judge Noonan’s rich contributions to law, history, ethics, and religion.
Berkeley Law’s dean asserts that for racial discrimination claims in contracting to move forward, they need only show that race was plausibly a motivating factor in the defendant’s decision.
Ian Haney López lays out a research-based blueprint for building a new, multiracial political coalition to combat the use of race to divide the electorate.
The pioneering initiative, which provides timely training and flexible options, is the first of its kind to capture the intersection of law, business, and leadership.
