Spotlights

Berkeley Law Professor Pamela Samuelson recently gave the last of four distinguished campus lectures on the status and future of artificial intelligence, probing whether copyright law should protect AI-produced text and images. A noted copyright expert who called it the only area of current law “that could bring generative AI systems to their knees,” she addressed issues […]

Our popular annual mix of theater and law recently returned to the stage, this time in People v. The Weird Sisters. Actors from UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Center performed scenes from Macbeth, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law Professor Bernadette Meyler were prosecutor and defense counsel in a trial charging two crimes, […]

Lady Brenda Hale, a judicial pioneer who was the first woman president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, became Berkeley Law’s latest marquee guest. Before retiring in 2020, she issued landmark rulings in areas such as domestic violence, mental health, divorce, and custody, and broke new gender ground in several positions. You can […]

After asking the U.S. Attorney General to act, our Policy Advocacy Clinic and other advocacy groups celebrated a Department of Justice letter urging states and local courts to reduce criminal legal system fines and fees. Jeffrey Selbin, the clinic’s co-director, says lawmakers, agencies, and courts are “on notice that it’s time to stop trying to […]

Professor Saira Mohamed has been elected vice president of the American Society of International Law, which fosters study in the field as well as international relations based on law and justice. Eight of our students, ASIL fellows through the school’s Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, joined Mohamed at the organization’s recent annual […]

Jeremy Fogel, executive director of our Berkeley Judicial Institute, will receive the American College of Trial Lawyers’ Samuel E. Gates Litigation Award, given to a lawyer who epitomizes ethical conduct, integrity, collegiality, and professionalism. A former state and federal judge who led the Federal Judicial Center for seven years, Fogel guides the institute’s work promoting […]

The new issue of Transcript, our biannual magazine, has been published. To get a sense of Berkeley Law and its remarkable community, you can read the digital version or a PDF. The main features describe our Death Penalty Clinic’s profound impact on clients and students for over 20 years, and the influence of our exceptional […]

A new short documentary by UC Berkeley’s Journalism School confronts the issue of deporting veterans following criminal convictions, often stemming from mental health conditions related to their military service. It features 3L Matt Sardo (pictured) and 2L Eric Provost, both of whom advocate for deported service members in Berkeley Law’s Veterans Law Practicum. Read more […]

Berkeley Law professors john a. powell and Khiara M. Bridges were named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ annual list of 100 leaders, activists, and artists “committed to building regenerative and equitable communities.” A renowned civil rights and civil liberties expert, powell directs UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute. Bridges’ scholarship, published in […]

Our recent Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium probed the nexus of international law, accountability for mass atrocities, and journalism. The event addressed litigating, state responses to, and reporting on mass atrocities, with a keynote by Sevgil Musaieva, editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. It was hosted by the Berkeley Journal of International Law and co-sponsored by […]