Racial Justice - Berkeley Law

Conversations

2022 Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture Video

‘More Just’ Podcast: Why Critical Race Theory Matters

Race & Legal Education Video

Racial Justice Lawyers Audio

Student Journals & Voices

Indi Garcia ’22: Living and Breathing ‘The Abolitionist Philosophy’

Berkeley La Raza Law Journal

Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy

Berkeley Technology Law Journal: Race & Technology Law Symposium

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Community

Law Students of African Descent

La Alianza – Law Students of Latin American Descent

Native American Law Students Association

Asian Pacific American Law Student Association

Fellowships, Faculty & Curricular Highlights

Faculty Approves Race and Law Course Requirement

Thelton E. Henderson Racial Justice Fellowship

Race and Law Certificate

Latinx Value Added: Cruz Reynoso Fellowship Enriches Legal Profession

Event Spotlights

Democracy Summit Offers Students a Glimpse of Advocacy as Citizens, Candidates, and Activists

Third Annual BTLJ-CMTL-BCLT Race & Technology Law Symposium

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Faculty Scholarship & Writings

Jonathan D. Glater: Pandemic Possibilities: Rethinking Measures of Merit

Khiara M. Bridges: Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality

john a. powell: The Law and Significance of Plessy

Leti Volpp: Migrant Justice Now

Featured Stories

Timely Business-Related Offerings Among Berkeley Law’s Deep Reservoir of New Courses
A whopping 18 courses are available to Berkeley Law students for the first time this semester, including 3 focused on emerging areas in the corporate sector.
Professor Khiara M. Bridges Pens Harvard Law Review Foreword on ‘Race in the Roberts Court’
The current U.S. Supreme Court majority, Bridges argues, only remedies racism against people of color when it encounters something that resembles the pre-civil rights era, from poll taxes to eugenics.
Professor Osagie K. Obasogie Confronts the Intersection of Race, Law, and Public Health
Obasogie and UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor Darlene Francis hold a casual but frank conversation about how their field can improve.
New Book by Professor Kathryn Abrams Explores the Activism of Arizona’s Undocumented Immigrants
The book project was an intellectual as well as a physical journey for Abrams, who needed to add new skills to her research toolbox to pull it off.
Faculty, Students Help Bring U.S. Law Enforcement Killing to International Stage for First Time
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently considered the 2010 fatal beating of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, thanks to years of work from the International Human Rights Law Clinic.

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In the News

Criminal justice panel says California should pay restitution to victims, ban some traffic stops
Topics: Criminal Law Topic, Public Mission Topic, Racial Justice Topic
“We know that the vast majority of people in pretrial detention in California are people of color, particularly Black and brown individuals,” said Rachel Wallace, clinical supervisor at UC Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic. “And so we know that this is not only an economic issue, but a racial justice issue as well.”
OpEd: Affirmative action programs work. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to end them anyway
Topics: Constitutional Law Topic, Racial Justice Topic
“The long history of racial discrimination in America and current inequalities in educational opportunity make affirmative action essential,” writes Dean Chemerinsky. “Affirmative action works.”
OpEd: California racial bias sentencing bill needs one crucial change
Topics: Criminal Law Topic, Racial Justice Topic
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes The California Legislature should strengthen the Racial Justice Act, passed two years ago to discourage racial bias in sentencing. He says a bill on the Senate floor would do just that, but it still needs work.
‘Everyone who is vulnerable in some way’ will bear the brunt if court overturns Roe, specialists say
Topics: Criminal Law Topic, Racial Justice Topic
Professor Khiara M. Bridges, one of the authors of an amicus brief in the Dobbs case, says the burden of restricted abortion access will fall heaviest on Black women and expects, if abortion is criminalized and states begin prosecuting people who terminate pregnancies, poor people of color will be arrested and convicted at higher rates than their white counterparts

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Get Involved With Centers, Clinics & Pro Bono

Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture

Our Clinics

Student-Led Pro Bono Projects

Trailblazers

Annie Coker ’29: Berkeley Law’s First Black Woman Graduate

Legendary Activist Pauli Murray LL.M. ’45

The Legacy of John Robinson Wilkins, Berkeley Law’s First Black Professor

Social Justice Champion: Judge Thelton Henderson ’62

A Trailblazing Legacy: Justice Cruz Reynoso ’58

Native American Scholar and Activist: Joseph Myers ’75

Other Campus Resources

Othering & Belonging Institute

Center for Race & Gender

Timeline: Black Americans and the Law

UC Berkeley Racial Justice in America Series

Graduate Division Anti-Racism Initiatives

Berkeley Diversity: Becoming an Anti-Racist Campus

Division of Student Affairs: Black Lives Matter