Professors Robert Merges, Pamela Samuelson and Peter Menell are among the 10 most-cited intellectual property and cyberlaw scholars from 2010 to 2014. Faculty co-directors of the law school’s Berkeley Center for Law […]
IP Trio Among Top Ten
Bard Honors Semel
Clinical Professor Elisabeth Semel, founding director of the Death Penalty Clinic, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bard College, her alma mater. Before joining Berkeley Law in 2001, Semel spent four […]
Swift Award Winners
Amy Utstein and Sharon Djemal have won Berkeley Law’s Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service. Utsein, who directs the Clinical Program, has strengthened student-faculty bonds and improved office management systems. […]
Student Regent Nominee
Paul Monge ’18 was nominated to serve as student regent on the UC Board of Regents, which will vote on his selection in July. He recently won the UC Berkeley […]
Groundwater Protection
A state law seeks to protect California’s groundwater supply by forming new agencies to manage this precious resource. But it doesn’t offer guidance on how the agencies should function. Berkeley […]
Commencement Speaker
National Basketball Players Association Exec. Dir. Michele Roberts ’80, the first woman to lead a U.S. professional sports union, spoke at commencement on May 13. Before leading the NBPA, Roberts was […]
Stopped, Fined, Arrested
A new East Bay Community Law Center report reveals stark racial and socioeconomic disparities in California driver’s license suspensions—and arrests—related to unpaid traffic fines and fees. The report notes how […]
Faculty Honor
Prof. Anne O’Connell is a recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teachers that incite intellectual curiosity, engage students thoroughly […]
2016 Soros Fellow
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program has selected Sharada Jambulapati ’18 as a 2016 fellow. Recipients are chosen based on their potential to make significant contributions […]
Global Privacy Leaders
The International Association of Privacy Professionals has awarded Ken Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan the 2016 Privacy Leadership Award for their book, Privacy on the Ground. The two professors are also […]