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.
Faculty Co-Directors:
Robert P. Bartlett III
Steven Davidoff Solomon
Frank Partnoy
BCLB Core Faculty:
Abhay Aneja, Professor of Law
Abbye Atkinson, Assistant Professor of Law
Kenneth M. Ayotte, Professor of Law
Adam Badawi, Professor of Law
Kenneth Bamberger, Professor of Law
Barbara Bliss, Professor of Finance
Mark Brilliant, Associate Professor, Department of History and Program in American Studies
Richard Buxbaum, Professor of International Law
Robert Cooter, Professor of Law
Aaron Edlin, Professor of Law and Economics
Stavros Gadinis, Professor of Law
Jonah Gelbach, Professor of Law
Sonia Katyal, Professor of Law
Prasad Krishnamurthy, Professor of Law
Katerina Linos, Professor of Law
Adair Morse, BerkeleyHaas Professor
Manisha Padi, Professor of Law
Panos N. Patatoukas, BerkeleyHaas Professor
Victoria Plaut, Professor of Law and Social Science
Daniel Rubinfeld, Professor of Law
Nancy E. Wallace, BerkeleyHaas Professor
Molly Van Houweling, Professor of Law
BCLB Executive Advisory Board:
Allison Bennington (’85), Value Capital
Steven E. Bochner (’81), Wilson Sonsini
George S. Cary (’76), Cleary Gottlieb
Wei Chen, Salesforce
Paul T. Clark (’80), Seward & Kissel
Darek DeFreece (’93), UC Berkeley
Alan Denenberg, Davis Polk
Nancy Heinen (’82)
Michele Johnson, Latham & Watkins LLP
Stephen L. Johnson (’83), American Airlines
Kevin Kennedy (’91), Simpson Thacher
Karen King, Silver Lake
Kenton King (’87), Skadden
Kyle Krpata, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
John W. Kuo (’88), Varian Medical System
Ethan Klingsberg, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz
Jamie Leigh, Cooley LLP
Irene Liu, Checkr
Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
Noel Nellis (’66)
Stephen Oetgen, Golden Gate Capital
Brian Patterson, Gunderson Dettmer
Leo J. Pircher (’57), Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
Richard K. Roeder (’73), Vance Street Capital
Joel Sanders (’82)
Steven Tonsfeldt (’87), Cooley LLP
Rick Trachok, McDonald Carano
Ross Weiner, Qatalyst Partners
Mitchell S. Zuklie (’96), Orrick
In fond memory:
Leo Helzel (’92)
Scott T. Carey (’61)
BCLB Staff:
Gabriella Allaf, Undergraduate Fellow
Matthew Cain, Senior Fellow
Alexandra Diamant, Program Coordinator
Jim Gilbert, Director, Executive Education
James Hicks, Academic Fellow
Deborah Kang, Director, Startup@BerkeleyLaw
Tracy Magaña, Undergraduate Fellow
Lorena Marino-Almanza, Undergraduate Fellow
Amelia Miazad, Director, Business in Society Institute
Hannah Rawdin, Graduate Fellow
Gisselle Medina-Reyes, Undergraduate Fellow
Danielle Santos, Research & Project Associate
Mehak Sharma, Undergraduate Fellow
Adam Sterling, Executive Director
Alessandra Suarez, Undergraduate Fellow
Delia Violante, Program Director
BCLB Scholars – Class of 2022:
Each year, BCLB works with the office of admissions to select admitted students interested in business law to be BCLB Scholars.
Sara Brown
Bruneil Chamaki
David Cooperstein
Tessa DeJong
Marc Francis
Anthony Grisafi
Alyssa Kewenvoyouma
Anne Luquette
Mina Matsumoto
Lauren Swerdloff