Anne Joseph O’Connell has won the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section Annual Scholarship Award for “Bureaucracy at the Boundary,” chosen as the best administrative law paper published last year. […]
Professor O’Connell Does It Again
Green-Collar Communities Clinic
Berkeley Law’s Green-Collar Communities Clinic (GC3) played a key role in pushing through AB 816, a new California bill that helps facilitate the creation of worker-run businesses. The law removes […]
The Next American Ninja Warrior?
A national television audience will see Sean Darling-Hammond ’14 compete in the finals of “American Ninja Warrior” Aug. 31 on NBC. Darling-Hammond, a clerk for Maryland federal judge Charles Day, […]
Disability Rights Advocates Tap Smith ’05
Disability Rights Advocates recently named Mary-Lee Smith ’05 co-director of litigation. A two-time California Lawyer Magazine “Attorney of the Year,” Smith has worked at the national nonprofit for 10 years. […]
Alum Named Pakistan’s Chief Justice
Jawwad Khawaja (LL.M. ’75) has been appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan. A Supreme Court justice since 2009, Khawaja spent eight years on Pakistan’s Lahore High Court before resigning in protest—the […]
Taking Aim at Mass Incarceration
Assistant Professor Andrea Roth lauds President Obama for recently commuting the prison sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders, but she says reformers should also pay close attention to the increase […]
Award-Winning Effort on Antitrust
An article by Stephen Maurer and his former Berkeley Law colleague, the late Suzanne Scotchmer, won an American Antitrust Institute Jerry S. Cohen Award. “The Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Lost […]
Authors Alliance Builds Momentum
Two major foundations have awarded grants to Authors Alliance, a nonprofit formed last year by Berkeley Law Professors Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling. The organization, which provides legal tools […]
Film Screening: “Life After Life”
Raised in a world of drugs, violence, and trauma, three males went to prison before becoming adults—with sentences that could have kept them there for life. A new film, which […]
New LL.M. Public Law Certificate
The accomplished group of 125 lawyers who recently joined Berkeley Law’s Professional Track LL.M. program can now obtain a new Certificate of Specialization in Public Law & Regulation. The offering […]