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, Art, Law, and Finance Project, and the Women in Business Law Initiative.
Click here to see the 2024-2025 BCLB Annual Bulletin
(You can view past BCLB annual bulletins here.)
Leadership:
BCLB Core Faculty:
|
Abhay Aneja— law and economics, law of democracy, social inequality, and criminal justice |
Katerina Linos— international law, comparative law, and European Union law
|
|
Kenneth M. Ayotte— bankruptcy law, corporate finance, and law and economics
|
Adair Morse— consumer finance, venture finance, impact investing, FinTech, and corruption
|
|
Adam Badawi— business law, shareholder litigation, and debt finance
|
Manisha Padi— law and economics and consumer financial contracts
|
|
Andrew Baker — corporate finance and securities law
|
Frank Partnoy–law and finance, business associations, financial fraud, and securities litigation
|
|
Kenneth Bamberger— administrative law, regulation of technology, and corporate compliance
|
Panos N. Patatoukas— micro and macro interdisciplinary capital markets research
|
|
Richard Buxbaum— corporate law and international law
|
Victoria Plaut— law and psychology and inclusion and diversity in tech
|
|
Dhammika Dharmapala— corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, tax law and policy
|
Daniel Rubinfeld— antitrust, federalism, public economics, state and local finance, and applied econometrics
|
|
Aaron Edlin— antitrust, business law, and contract theory
|
Veronica Aoki Santarosa— banking and financial regulation, law and economics, legal history
|
|
Ofer Eldar— business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics
|
Rachel Stern— legal profession, authoritarian legality, political science, environmental regulation
|
|
Jonah Gelbach— law and economics, civil procedure, evidence, securities litigation
|
Molly Van Houweling— intellectual property law and open licensing
|
|
Sonia Katyal— intellectual property, advertising, and technology
|
Nancy E. Wallace— mortgage contracting, securitization, and market structures, valuation of executive stock options
|
|
Prasad Krishnamurthy— financial regulation, antitrust and competition policy, law and development, and distributive justice
|
|
In fond memory of:
Robert Cooter (Ph.D ‘75), Professor of Law, In Memoriam
BCLB Executive Advisory Board:
Bruce Andrews, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Scott Baker, Reed Smith
Allison Bennington (’85), PJT Camberview Partners
Steven E. Bochner (JD ’81), Wilson Sonsini
Wei Chen, Inflobox
Paul T. Clark (JD ’80), Seward & Kissel
Darek DeFreece (’93), UC Berkeley Space Center
Alan Denenberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Michelle Greene, Long Term Stock Exchange
Nancy Heinen (JD ’82), former Apple, Inc.
Marie Oh Huber, former 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), Mirion Technologies, Inc.
Scott Kupor, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Jamie Leigh, Cooley
Bradford Lewis (JD ‘87), Informatica
Irene Liu, (JD ’06), Hypergrowth GC
Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
Noel Nellis (JD ’66), Orrick
Stephen Oetgen, Smoky Mountain Advisory Co.
Brian Patterson, Latham & Watkins
Leo J. Pircher (JD ’57), Pircher Nichols & Meeks
Richard K. Roeder (JD ’73), Vance Street Capital
Joel Sanders (JD ’82), former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kristin Sverchek (‘04), Kodiak
Steven Tonsfeldt (JD ’87), Cooley
Richard Trachok, McDonald Carano
Ross Weiner, AXOM Partners
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
Lenique Frazier,
Delia ViolanteAdditional Staff:
Yahaira Balderas, Undergraduate Fellow
Irene Li, Graduate Fellow
Valerie Giselle Rayo, Undergraduate Fellow
Alexis Rico, Undergraduate Fellow
Joanne Zhao, Undergraduate Fellow