Spotlights

3Ls Emma Rodríguez and Remy Carreiro of our Ninth Circuit Practicum won two prisoner civil rights cases at the court (the opposing party may still request rehearing) from a change in Arizona’s restitution deduction policy. They argued that the cases were wrongly dismissed on statute of limitations grounds and that the Ninth Circuit cannot affirm […]

Awards continue to roll in for Professor Dylan Penningroth’s book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. It recently received two honors from the Organization of American Historians, one for best book of the year in American social history and one for best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or […]

Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLab) is a fast-growing hub for students who are interested in the field. Sponsored by our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the group offers many events such as talks by top experts, issue panels, and networking gatherings. Its students write briefing notes and opinion pieces, analyze foundational scholarship, and promote […]

Assistant Clinical Professor Stephanie Campos-Bui ’14, who co-directs our Policy Advocacy Clinic, won the 2024 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize from Foundations for Change. The award honors an emerging social change activist/scholar in California who bridges the academy and the community to transform the existing social landscape. Campos-Bui guides law and public policy students in addressing systemic […]

The latest issue of Transcript, Berkeley Law’s magazine, features the broad impact of expanded scholarships and our abundance of alumni excelling as educators. Other content includes a dynamic photo essay and stories about our leading work on key issues across the legal landscape, inspiring students, how alums enrich the student experience, and more. You can read […]

Professor Khiara M. Bridges, a leading scholar on race, class, and reproductive rights, was named this year’s Frank R. Lautenberg Award winner by the Rutgers School of Public Health and will serve as its graduation speaker. The school’s top award honors those who have made major contributions to public health through program development, advocacy, and […]

Human Rights Center Faculty Director Eric Stover won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. His work merges pioneering science and technology to hold to account perpetrators of atrocities and advance justice for their victims, including forensic investigations of mass graves. He also co-founded a group that won […]

Mike De Vries ’00 and fellow Kirkland & Ellis partner Adam Alper helped Samsung defeat the largest patent damages case in U.S. history, as a federal court rejected two infringement claims in the company’s semiconductor technology. The damages would have cleared the largest U.S. patent verdict by $1.5 billion. It was the seventh consecutive trial […]

With rising threats to voter rights and the democratic process, our Political and Election Empowerment Project helps nonprofits protect election integrity. Focused on oppressed communities, the group has engaged in varied work involving campaign finance laws, redistricting efforts to more fairly represent Asian American communities, electoral language access, and reforms for the voting process and […]

Over just five years, our Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice has established itself as a force in the field. After offering one conference and three courses in its first year, the center now offers about six conferences and 20 courses each year. Its latest annual report describes impactful work, programmatic growth, notable […]