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Next Webinar:
Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse
September 21, 2026 | 10:00 AM PT
Join BCLB’s Frank Partnoy at 10 a.m. PT on Monday, September 21 for a conversation with New Yorker staff writer Heidi Blake and Berkeley Law professor Andrea Roth about Heidi’s recent 40,000-word investigation of Andrew Tate, and subsequent events. Heidi is an award-winning journalist known for exposing global corruption and corporate wrongdoing. Andrea is the Barry Tarlow Chancellor’s Chair in Criminal Justice and is widely-cited for her groundbreaking research in criminal procedure and evidence. Andrew Tate is… well, you know who he is.
Substantive Readings
- Andrew Tate’s Empire of Exploitation (The New Yorker)
- Framework for Prosecutors to Strengthen Our National Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Involving Adult Victims (U.S. Department of Justice)
- Victim, Reconstructed: Sex Crimes Experts and the New Rape Paradigm (Illinois Law Review)
- Sex Trafficking: An Overview of Federal Criminal Law (Congressional Research Service)
Confirmed Speakers:

Heidi Blake, Investigative Reporter, The New Yorker

Andrea Roth, Professor of Law and Barry Tarlow Chancellor’s Chair in Criminal Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law
Moderator:

Frank Partnoy, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
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