Spotlights

A new book by alumna Heather McGhee ’09, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, is creating major buzz. Blending interviews, personal stories, […]

Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center met an unprecedented year with unrelenting energy. The center’s new annual report describes its far-reaching, wide-ranging work on human trafficking in the Bay Area, police practices […]

Professors Steven Davidoff Solomon, Frank Partnoy, and Robert Bartlett were among six Berkeley Center for Law and Business experts who recently explored the financial market controversy around GameStop, Robinhood, and short-selling. In a […]

The International Human Rights Law Clinic filed testimony from three former Department of Homeland Security officials who point to a cover-up in a major case before the Inter-American Commission on […]

A film on the pivotal life of Pauli Murray LL.M. ’45, by the Oscar-nominated filmmakers of “RBG,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 31. “My Name Is Pauli Murray” […]

A new documentary on the late Harry Pregerson ’50 was released Jan. 26 on Vimeo and Amazon. “9th Circuit Cowboy,” by two-time Academy Award winner Terry Sanders, tells the inspiring […]

Four members of our Human Rights Center, including Executive Director Alexa Koenig ’13, will teach an 8-week course on methods of open source investigations. The first formal School of Journalism-HRC […]

Fernando Aenlle-Rocha ’86 was confirmed as a U.S. District Court judge (Central District of California). A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge since 2017, Aenlle-Rocha spent 12 years as a […]

Faculty member Joy Milligan received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Administrative Law. A Berkeley Law assistant professor since 2017, Milligan was recognized […]

UC Berkeley is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the UC Regents’ decision to admit women on equal terms with men. The 150W History Project, a trove of online content about […]