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 2019-2020 BCLB Annual Bulletin
Faculty Co-Directors:
Robert P. Bartlett III–finance and business law, venture capital, and private equity transactions
Frank Partnoy–law and finance, business associations, financial fraud, and securities litigation
Steven Davidoff Solomon–law and finance, corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets
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
Kenneth Bamberger— administrative law, regulation of technology, and corporate compliance
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
Amelia Miazad— corporate sustainability and corporate governance
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
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 Partners
Steven E. Bochner (’81), Wilson Sonsini
Wei Chen, Salesforce
Paul T. Clark (’80), Seward & Kissel
Darek DeFreece (’93), UC Berkeley
Alan Denenberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Nancy Heinen (’82)
Marie Ho Huber, eBay
Michele Johnson, Latham & Watkins
Stephen L. Johnson (’83), American Airlines
Kevin Kennedy (’91), Simpson Thacher
Karen King, Silver Lake
Kenton King (’87), Skadden
Ethan Klingsberg, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kyle Krpata, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz
John W. Kuo (’88), Charles River Laboratories
Jamie Leigh, Cooley
Bradford Lewis (JD ‘87), Informatica
Irene Liu, (‘o6), Checkr
Noel Nellis (’66)
Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
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), Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kristin Sverchek (‘04), Lyft
Richard Trachok, McDonald Carano
Steven Tonsfeldt (’87), Cooley
Ross Weiner, Qatalyst Partners
Mitchell S. Zuklie (’96), Orrick
In fond memory of:
Scott T. Carey (JD ‘61), In Memoriam
Leo Helzel (LLM ‘92), In Memoriam
BCLB Staff:
Matthew Cain, Senior Fellow
Sheridan Choi, Graduate Fellow
Alexandra Diamant, Program Coordinator
Jim Gilbert, Director, Executive Education
James Hicks, Academic Fellow
Lorena Marino-Almanza, Undergraduate Fellow
Gisselle Medina, Undergraduate Fellow
Danielle Santos, Research & Project Associate
Adam Sterling, Executive Director
Alessandra Suarez, Undergraduate Fellow
Delia Violante, Program Director
Lily Yang, Programs, Executive Education
BCLB Scholars – Class of 2023:
Each year, BCLB works with the office of admissions to select admitted students interested in business law to be BCLB Scholars.
Aaron Altman
Geoffrey Bacon
Kavya Dassri
Jaedyn Ellis
Miles Jasper
Lina Martinez
Alex Williams-Pratt
Victoria Rackohn
Jasmin Shaw
Colton Walker