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295.51 sec. 001 - Social Enterprise Clinic (Spring 2026)
Instructor: Alina Ball (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
Instructor: Jeremy Chen (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 4
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Course End: May 13, 2026
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 9
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 30
As of: 02/19 02:45 AM
The Social Enterprise Clinic is a transactional law clinic that requires students to critically examine issues of racial and economic justice to achieve their entity client goals. The Clinic serves as outside corporate counsel for social enterprise businesses—for-profit and nonprofit companies that use market-based strategies to address social and environmental issues. The Clinic is geared to students who are interested in exploring the potential power and limitations of market-based methods and thinking critically about the relationships between law, business, and racial equity. The Clinic advises social enterprise clients on a variety of corporate governance, regulatory compliance, contract drafting and analysis, corporate structure, and entity formation matters. Students work collaboratively with social enterprise clients to help them minimize risks and avoid pitfalls as they achieve their social impact goals and implement their theory of change.
Admission to the Social Enterprise Clinic is by separate application through the Clinical Program portal. Students can access the Clinical Program portal when applications open via this website: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/apply-to-the-clinics/ under the section "Access the Clinical Program Application." For the Spring semester, the application will be open on November 4, and the application will close on November 12.
Students must enroll in both the seminar and the companion clinical component.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Requirements Satisfaction:
Work in the clinic may satisfy Option 2 of the J.D. writing requirement with instructor approval. In order to satisfy Option 2, clinic students must complete a paper or series of written work that comprises 30 or more pages. Students who wish to satisfy the writing requirement must get instructor approval and submit their draft for comment and revision.
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Exam Notes: (None) Series of papers or assignments throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Clinics
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Business Law
Consumer Law & Economic Justice
Race and Law
Social Justice and Public Interest
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