Spotlights

3L Hoda Katebi recalls losing friends and being bullied when she began wearing a hijab as a sixth-grader in Oklahoma. The Iranian-American writer and community organizer, who runs a clothing cooperative of refugee, immigrant, and working-class women of color, appears on the podcast Berkeley Voices to discuss the ongoing protests in Iran and her own activism. […]

Berkeley Law lecturer Henry Hecht (pictured) and star litigator Elizabeth Cabraser ’78 received Champions of Justice awards at the recent Equal Justice Society annual gala, which also served as a retirement party for EJS founding president and civil rights icon Eva Paterson ’75. Hecht and Cabraser were hailed for their wide-ranging efforts in support of fellowships, […]

Our Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice is a key driver of Berkeley Law’s standing as a major leader in the field. The center’s annual report tracks a wide range of achievements over the past year, from court victories and faculty growth to programmatic developments and major media recognition, including hosting the first-ever national […]

Steven Feldstein ’04 won the University of Louisville’s annual Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The $100,000 prize honors the work in his 2021 book on how digital technology fuels political repression. A Carnegie Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program senior fellow, Feldstein showed how governments use internet shutdowns, facial recognition, and other tools to […]

Hazim Alwazir LL.M. ’22 was one of two people chosen as a Rhodes Scholar for the Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region. The first Rhodes Scholar in law from the region, Alwazir,a Palestinian from Gaza, will strive to boost understanding of how digital rights, economic growth, and societal norms interact. The prestigious scholarship is an […]

Our student group Arts and Innovation Representation provided vital research in a new Artistic Freedom Initiative report on artistic censorship and suppression in Poland that has already garnered international media coverage. The report, which aims to boost protections for Poland’s artists and cultural workers through actionable policy recommendations, follows a similarly jarring report on these […]

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has received the Ronald M. George Public Lawyer of the Year Award, given by the California Lawyers Association to a well-regarded practitioner with high ethical standards who provides outstanding service to the public. Chemerinsky, president of the Association of American Law Schools, was hailed for his work illuminating how the Constitution and […]

Samantha Hamilton ’20 was selected as The New York Times’ 2022-23 First Amendment Fellow. Working with the paper’s newsroom and litigation teams, she will cover issues relating to the Freedom of Information Act, libel, copyright, court access, and other litigation matters. Hamilton previously worked as a fellow at the civil rights law firm Loevy & […]

Pro Bono Program Director Deborah Schlosberg has won the Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono & Access to Justice’s Emerging Leader Award. In her five years, she has helped students excel in pro bono work (over 90% take part) and expanded outlets to do so, leading major growth of our Student-Initiated Legal […]

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the hub of our No. 1-ranked intellectual property law program, recently released its Annual Bulletin. The publication highlights the center’s growing work towards three main goals: Supporting original research in key areas of IP & tech law, making access to legal training available to everyone, and building the community […]