About Us | Berkeley Law

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 2018-2019 BCLB Annual Bulletin.

BCLB Core Faculty:

Robert P. Bartlett III, Faculty Co-Director	Steven Davidoff Solomon, Faculty Co-Director
Frank Partnoy, Faculty Co-Director	Abhay Aneja, Professor of Law
Abbye Atkinson, Assistant Professor	Kenneth M. Ayotte, Professor of Law
Adam Badawi, Professor of Law	Kenneth Bamberger, Professor of Law
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
Rachel Stern, Assistant Professor	Molly Van Houweling, Professor of Law
Nancy E. Wallace, BerkeleyHaas Professor

BCLB Executive Advisory Board:

Allison Bennington, ValueAct Capital	Steven E. Bochner (’81), Wilson Sonsini
George S. Cary (’76), Cleary Gottlieb	Paul T. Clark (’80), Seward & Kissel
Darek DeFreece, U.C. Berkeley	Nancy Heinen (’82)
Michele Johnson, Latham & Watkins LLP	Stephen L. Johnson (’83), American Airlines
Kevin Kennedy (’91), Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	Kenton King (’87), Skadden
John W. Kuo (’88), Varian Medical Systems	Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz
Irene Liu, Checkr	Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
Noel Nellis (’66)	Stephen Oetgen, Golden Gate Capital
Leo J. Pircher (’57), Pircher, Nichols & Meeks	Richard K. Roeder (’73), Vance Street Capital
Joel Sanders (’82)	Steven Tonsfeldt (’87), Cooley
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	Emily Ekshian, Undergraduate Fellow
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	Mehak Sharma, Undergraduate Fellow
Danielle Santos, Research & Project Associate	Adam Sterling, Executive Director
Alessandra Suarez, Undergraduate Fellow	Delia Violante, Program Director

BCLB Scholars – Class of 2021:

Each year, BCLB works with the office of admissions to select admitted students interested in business law to be BCLB Scholars.

Troy Aguirre	Brian Burgoon
Beliard Domond	Danika Kritter
Shannon Lieu	Zach Meeker
Joshua Sedgwick	Rachel Wu
Sarah Yang	Zheng Zhou

Past BCLB Scholars