170 Law Building

Join us at our first meeting of the year on Wednesday 9/6 from 1-2pm in Room 170! Come to learn about upcoming events, membership requirements, and board openings. We'll also talk about course offerings, research opportunities, and different paths in privacy law. All new and returning members are encouraged to attend, especially if you're considering applying for an open board position. We'll also be serving lunch, so be sure to come on time! RSVP here by Sunday, September 3 to secure…

Come learn about what a career in public international law can look like! This will be a conversation with Monica Jacobsen ’11 from the U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser. For questions, please contact Lucy Benz Rogers. Please RSVP here (link) so we can get an accurate food order estimate.    

Join APALSA on September 13th at 1:00 pm in Room 170 to hear about our panelists' law school experiences and their tips for surviving 1L! Please RSVP since lunch will be provided at the event.

Join the Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law (JMEIL) and the Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) for our first joint general body meeting of the semester. Learn how to get involved with the journal and build community with members of the MLSA. Lunch will be served! Please RSVP here.

Join us on Wednesday, September 27th from 12:50 to 2 pm for our first general body meeting! It will be in room 170.  We'll discuss our goals for the upcoming year, give some info on our yearly trip to Palestine, and talk about the bylaw!  Palestinian food will be provided. Please RSVP here.

Join Professor Bill Fernholz for a true break from mid-semester stress. This quick and simple introduction to mindfulness practice aims to give you a few tools for dealing with anxieties and regrets. Law school produces too much of both! Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsored by Student Services. Offered as part of Mental Health Awareness & Wellness Week.

Military and Veterans at Berkeley Law are excited to host The Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard, Rear Admiral Richard E. Batson, for a conversation about his mission as the Coast Guard's commanding attorney, the Coast Guard's statutory mission, recent accession changes, and the differences about practicing within our nation's military versus in the civilian sector.

Mandatory Voluntourism training for BLAST participants. Dinner will be provided. Please fill out this RSVP form to help us order enough food! Training will be on November 8, from 5:45pm-7:00pm in room 170.  Feel free to reach out to blast@berkeley.edu if you have any questions or concerns!

Curious about how technology transactions work? Join WiTL on Wednesday, November 15th from 1 - 2 PM in Room 170 for a unique opportunity to learn directly from practicing attorneys at Morrison Foerster, Wilson Sonsini, and Cooley. Gain insightful advice and learn the ins and outs of tech trans work! RSVP here

Welcome back! Come join us for WOCC+’s January GBM. We will talk about board elections, our welcome back event, PI office hours, and our upcoming big law panel/happy hour. Lunch will be served. RSVP here by Jan. 16 at 5 PM: bit.ly/WOCCJanGBM

ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism. It was founded in 2007–2008 with the belief that investigative journalism is critical to democracy. Investigative journalism requires time and resources, and in this current media climate, many newsrooms can no longer afford to take on this kind of deep-dive reporting. Join MMaBL as we learn more about investigative reporting that holds government, military, and public agencies to account from an expert panel of ProPublica journalists T. Christian Miller and…

Learn about the various pathways you can take after law school to protect consumers and work towards economic justice! Please RSVP here.

Join PLA for a lunch panel with three plaintiff-side civil rights practitioners: Annie Sloan (Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Civil Rights Fellow at Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger); Neel Lalchandani (Partner at Brown Goldstein & Levy); and Arthur Bryant (Partner at Bailey Glasser and former Chairman of Public Justice).  Our panelists will discuss their pathways to doing civil rights litigation and highlight representative cases on matters involving wrongful incarceration, police misconduct, Title IX, and employment discrimination.   RSVP for lunch here. 

Have you ever wondered how plaintiff-side litigators evaluate potential cases? Hear from Roman Silberfeld, Partner at Robins Kaplan and Allison Chock, Director at Omni Bridgeway Management, a global leader in litigation finance.  We will discuss the process of evaluating a case – including what factors plaintiff-side litigators and litigation funders take into account when making this decision – using real-world examples from our panelists experience. Lunch will be provided at 12:45pm. Please RSVP here.  

Ever wondered what it takes to become a law professor? Join First Generation Professionals for lunch and a conversation with Berkeley Law professors, who will reflect on their experiences breaking into the notoriously opaque world of legal academia. The panelists will be Professor Syed, Professor Katyal, and Professor Narechania. Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please RSVP so that we can order enough food for everyone!

Alianza, LSAD, APALSA, and PLA invite you to join a panel with local, POC plaintiffs'-side attorneys. Food provided. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/1vaqbZqD8AqpvqNN8 Our Panel:  Hoda Katebi is an Iranian-American writer, community organizer, and lawyer. She is a national lead with Believers Bail Out, a bail fund using Zakat to bail Muslims out of pre-trial and immigration incarceration; a strategist and advisor for Dissenters, a youth-led anti-war movement with chapters across the country; and is currently building a $6M abolitionist community center--63rd…

Join us for a conversation with Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of the Legal Accountability Project, and Professor Urmila Taylor! The discussion will center around how transparency in the clerkship system can diversify and improve the process to clerking. Hope to see you there! RSVP here for food. 

Join us on Monday March 18th from 12:50 - 2:00 PM in room 170 to listen to a panel of 3Ls discuss their experiences navigating the public interest post-grad job search and share advice/guidance. Lunch is provided! Please fill out the RSVP form.

Wondering what all the fuss about fintech, blockchain and ai means for real people? Christina Tetreault, Deputy Commissioner Financial Technology Innovation at the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation - California’s top financial regulator - will be here to answer all your questions, and separate the real potential from the garden-variety ponzi scheme. RSVP here.  

Join the Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) at 12:50p in room 170 to hear from practitioners who have taken on the big banks in the fight to hold Wall Street accountable. Panelists include lawyers from Gibbs Law Group, Bradley Bernstein Sands, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Lunch will be provided. RSVP here!

Cyber operations are an integral part of contemporary international relations. From the infamous Stuxnet computer worm, to election meddling, to the worldwide economic consequences of the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware, to the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, state-sponsored cyber activities are challenging the international rules-based order. International law, as the cornerstone of international peace and security, also applies to these activities. Yet, important questions remain regarding the interpretation and application of this legal framework, which was mostly developed years before…