The Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB) is Berkeley Law’s hub for rigorous, relevant, and empirically-based research, education, and programming on the interrelationships of the law, business, and the economy. Our areas of focus include venture capital and entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions. BCLB’s marquee initiatives include Business in Society Institute, Executive Education at Berkeley Law, Startup@BerkeleyLaw, and the Women in Business Law Initiative.
Click here to see the 2022-2023 BCLB Annual Bulletin
BCLB Core Faculty:
Abhay Aneja— law and economics, law of democracy, social inequality, and criminal justice
Abbye Atkinson— consumer debt/credit law and economic inequality
Kenneth M. Ayotte— bankruptcy law, corporate finance, and law and economics
Adam Badawi— business law, shareholder litigation, and debt finance
Andrew Baker — corporate finance and securities law
Kenneth Bamberger— administrative law, regulation of technology, and corporate compliance
Robert P. Bartlett III–finance and business law, venture capital, and private equity transactions
Mark Brilliant— history and American studies
Richard Buxbaum— corporate law and international law
Robert Cooter— intellectual property law and economics
Aaron Edlin— antitrust, business law, and contract theory
Stavros Gadinis— financial regulation, antitrust and competition policy, law and development, and distributive justice
Jonah Gelbach— law and economics, civil procedure, evidence, securities litigation
Sonia Katyal— intellectual property, advertising, and technology
Prasad Krishnamurthy— financial regulation, antitrust and competition policy, law and development, and distributive justice
Katerina Linos— international law, comparative law, and European Union law
Adair Morse— consumer finance, venture finance, impact investing, FinTech, and corruption
Manisha Padi— law and economics and consumer financial contracts
Panos N. Patatoukas— micro and macro interdisciplinary capital markets research
Victoria Plaut— law and psychology and inclusion and diversity in tech
Daniel Rubinfeld— antitrust, federalism, public economics, state and local finance, economics of litigation, and applied econometrics
Rachel Stern— legal profession, authoritarian legality, political science, social change and globalization, environmental regulation
Molly Van Houweling— intellectual property law and open licensing
Frank Partnoy–law and finance, business associations, financial fraud, and securities litigation
Nancy E. Wallace— mortgage contracting, pricing, securitization, and market structures, underwriting energy efficiency in commercial mortgages, and the valuation of executive stock options.
BCLB Executive Advisory Board:
Allison Bennington (’85), PJT Camberview Partners
Steven E. Bochner (JD ’81), Wilson Sonsini
Wei Chen, Salesforce
Paul T. Clark (JD ’80), Seward & Kissel
Darek DeFreece (’93), UC Berkeley
Alan Denenberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Nancy Heinen (JD ’82)
Marie Oh Huber, eBay
Michele Johnson, Latham & Watkins
Stephen L. Johnson (JD/MBA ’83), American Airlines
Karen King, Silver Lake
Kenton King (JD ’87), Skadden
Ethan Klingsberg, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kyle Krpata, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John W. Kuo (JD ’88)
Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz
Jamie Leigh, Cooley
Bradford Lewis (JD ‘87), Informatica
Irene Liu, (JD ‘o6), Hopin
Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
Noel Nellis (JD ’66)
Stephen Oetgen, Golden Gate Capital
Brian Patterson, Gunderson Dettmer
Leo J. Pircher (JD ’57)
Richard K. Roeder (JD ’73), Vance Street Capital
Joel Sanders (JD ’82), Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kristin Sverchek (‘04), Lyft
Steven Tonsfeldt (JD ’87), Cooley
Richard Trachok, McDonald Carano
Ross Weiner, Code Advisors
Shawn Williams, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
Mitchell S. Zuklie (JD ’96), Orrick
In fond memory of:
Scott T. Carey (JD ‘61), In Memoriam
Leo Helzel (LLM ‘92), In Memoriam
BCLB Staff:
Abigail Appel, Graduate Fellow
Matthew Cain, Senior Fellow
Alexandra Diamant, Marketing & Client Relations Specialist, Executive Education
Lenique Frazier, Program Coordinator
Jim Gilbert, Executive Director, Executive Education
Rose Hinson, Undergraduate Fellow
Jessica Liu, Undergraduate Fellow
Angeli Patel, Executive Director
Danielle Santos, Research & Project Associate
Adam Sterling, Assistant Dean for Executive Education and Revenue Generation
Delia Violante, Associate Director
Lily Yang, Assistant Director, Executive Education
BCLB Scholars – Class of 2025:
Each year, BCLB works with the office of admissions to select admitted students interested in business law to be BCLB Scholars.
Shahmeer Ahmad
Marit Bjornlund
Curtis Gile
Harshini Malli
Jessie Rong
Joe Ross
Joseph Woodward