Spotlights

Our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment is helping lead a project to create a Direct Air Capture facility to remove carbon dioxide in California’s Southern San Joaquin Valley. It’s part of a major Department of Energy program to develop hubs that capture and permanently store carbon dioxide nationwide in areas affected by the […]

Tai Milder ’09 is leading the California Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, created under a new law that aims to monitor gas price gouging and hold violators accountable. A veteran antitrust prosecutor, he has pursued justice against those seeking to harm consumers via price-fixing, bid-rigging, and bribery. Milder also worked at the California Department of […]

Suellen Perry ’99 was named one of four American Lawyers Alliance Law-Related Education Teachers of the Year. A legal studies and technical education instructor at Henderson High School in Texas, she crafted an innovative curriculum, created a mock court in her class, and coached the mock trial team. Last year’s Tex-Abota Champion of Civil Justice, […]

With Labor Day’s arrival, Berkeley Law students interested in employment law have ample options. Our Center for Law and Work confronts urgent issues vulnerable working populations face, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law is the top journal in its field, and the Workers’ Rights Clinic, Berkeley Law & Organizing Collective, and La Alianza […]

Civil rights icon Pauli Murray LL.M. ’45 will be memorialized on a special quarter through the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. A lawyer, writer, activist, and poet, Murray was valedictorian and the only woman in her Howard Law School class, the first Black person to earn a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, the first […]

“The Risks of Green Marketing,” written by Nestlé junior legal counsel Julia Archutowska LL.M. ’24, describes the perils of greenwashing — conveying a false impression or misleading information about a company’s products being environmentally friendly. As new regulations in Europe highlight sustainability marketing, Archutowska urges companies to “promise less and deliver more” and to ensure […]

Marice Ashe ’93, a pioneer of the still-emerging public health law movement, was named the Women of Berkeley Law’s Teacher of the Year. Founder and former CEO of ChangeLab Solutions, which aims to attain healthier communities for all through equitable policies and laws, Ashe teaches a Public Health Law class for J.D. and M.P.H. students […]

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, which fuels our leading intellectual property law program for both students and practicing lawyers, is offering sessions from its successful IP & Tech Month initiative for free online. Offered à la carte, these year-in-review recordings led by 70-plus top experts are tailored to specific practice and interest areas from five main […]

Professor Russell K. Robinson was elected to the American Law Institute, which enlists top scholars to clarify and improve the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes. Focusing on anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, media and entertainment law, and law and psychology, Robinson, a public and private sector lawyer before entering academia, is the faculty director […]

Our Startup Law Initiative and its benefits for students and clients was featured in a recent Daily Californian article. Under lawyer supervision, the project enables Berkeley Law students to give pro bono legal guidance to area startups founded by low-income, of color, and female-identifying entrepreneurs. Trainings help new businesses navigate tricky formation issues while students gain […]