Spotlights

A scathing report by the New Orleans Inspector General and a new lawsuit against the city’s judges rely heavily on a California Law Review article by Micah West ’13. Both […]

Before a packed audience, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer gave the keynote address at Berkeley Law’s Jorde Symposium Sept. 24. When interpreting U.S. law, Breyer said American judges must […]

The National Science Foundation has awarded Catherine Albiston, Victoria Plaut, and two colleagues $1.5 million for their study on the hiring of STEM faculty at research-intensive universities. They will analyze […]

She’s better known on campus as Berkeley Law’s associate dean of J.D. curriculum and teaching, but Professor Molly Van Houweling is also a champion cyclist. Van Houweling broke a women’s […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 […]

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 […]