Spotlights

Incoming student Traelon Rodgers was selected to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s new Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, which gives full law school scholarships, training, and post-graduate fellowships to students who commit […]

Savala Nolan ’11, executive director of our Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, was an advisor on race issues to a podcast that won a prestigious Peabody Award. The […]

Professor Christopher Tomlins received the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, given annually to a nonfiction work of history, for In the Matter of Nat Turner. Called […]

Sweden’s Queen Silvia awarded Professor Franklin Zimring the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the field’s top international award, in an online ceremony June 15. Zimring and co-winner Philip Cook were hailed […]

The Hollywood Reporter ranked Berkeley Law the fourth-best school for entertainment law and named seven alumni to its annual top 100 power lawyer list. The dynamic deal-makers, high-stakes litigators, and […]

Professor Rachel Stern (pictured), Ph.D. student Tobias Smith, and Legal Studies grad Raika Kim received Law and Society Association awards. Stern won the Article Prize for a paper co-written with […]

Jina Kim ’21 (left) and Mattie Armstrong ’21 have received coveted two-year Equal Justice Works fellowships. Armstrong will work to prevent the detention and deportation of immigrants who have criminal […]

A report by our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment questions a common premise about what slows wastewater management innovation to keep up with climate change, aging infrastructure, and population growth. The […]

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy was appointed to the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s new debt collection advisory committee. The committee’s only academic, Krishnamurthy will help shield consumers on the heels of a 2020 state law expanding […]