Berkeley Law professors are prolific, insightful scholars with broad and significant influence felt well beyond the school’s walls through their research, legal advocacy, policymaking and commentary.
New Research
Highlighting Labor Law Advances
In a new policy brief for the Roosevelt Institute think tank, Professor Diana S. Reddy looks at recent innovations by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which has created policies responsive to economic and institutional realities without the statutory reform many scholars and experts thought would be required to do so.Reforming Rikers
In a new mini-issue of the public affairs magazine Vital City about the ongoing crisis at New York City’s Rikers Island jail, Professor Emeritus Malcolm Feeley and Van Swearingen ’01 analyze the history of efforts to reform prisons and its lessons for today. “From Plantation Prisons to the Modern Era” draws insights from the efforts by judges and special masters to dismantle Southern prisons originally modeled on plantations and mandate changes in California, Feeley and Swearingen propose the jurist handling the Rikers case appoint a receiver to take over.Another Triumph for Dagan
What makes private law private? What is its domain, and the values it promotes? In a new book, Professor Hanoch Dagan and co-author Avihay Dorfman build on years of their scholarship to lay out a new approach to understanding some of society’s most important touchstones. Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law argues that private law should, and to a significant degree already does, abide by two fundamental commitments: reciprocal respect for self-determination and substantive equality.Laurels for the Miller Institute
The Honorable G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law has been selected from more than 100 nominees as a winner of one of the East Bay Chapter of the United Nations Association’s 19th Annual Global Citizen Awards. Professors Laurel Fletcher and Katerina Linos, the institute’s co-directors, and administrator Toni Mendicino will receive the honor at the association’s U.N. Day celebration on Nov. 3.Analyzing the Impact of the ‘Anti-Regulation Quartet’
In a new essay in the Harvard Law Review’s blog, Professor Elena Chachko explores the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term on internationally informed agency action — the many regulations that incorporate international standards, implement U.S. international commitments, or reflect foreign policy interests.
