The Berkeley Center for Law and Business and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business co-sponsored a cross-cutting gathering of leaders to address the evolving landscape of corporate responsibility and climate action.
Seth Frotman, Sam Levine, and Doha Mekki — former high-ranking members of the Biden Administration’s economic justice team — bring a broad range of expertise and decades of experience.
The former Policy Advocacy Clinic student and supervisor is continuing to make an impact while enrolled in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program and will start law school in 2026.
Professors Daniel A. Farber and Jonathan S. Gould — experts on presidential power, constitutional law, and the U.S. Congress, and co-faculty directors of the Edley Center on Law & Democracy — discuss the implications of some of Trump’s first actions.
As the policy director for Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, Paul Monge ’18 has a dizzying set of responsibilities managing the implementation of the mayor’s policy and legislative priorities.
UC Berkeley Law is the top public law school in the United States — and sixth in the world — according to Times Higher Education’s new rankings, and two recent studies of scholarly impact also place its faculty as the best among public institutions.
Criminal Law & Justice Center Executive Director Chesa Boudin and Professors Colleen V. Chien ’02, Andrea Roth, and Rebecca Wexler spoke at a recent webinar for lawyers across the state.
From writing amicus curiae briefs to overseeing student projects and organizations to courtroom work, these professors are extending the school’s influence far beyond its walls — and legal academia.
A packed pro bono plate and a top role at a journal deliver a law school experience that’s deeply connected to her passion for making systemic change, at the street level and in the academic realm.
Presented by the school’s Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, the event draws lawyers and activists in person and virtually to continue efforts to turn the revelations sparked by the #MeToo movement into systemic change.
The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology executive director spent a month at Tribhuvan University creating a blueprint for all of the country’s public law schools.
Ball, an East Bay native, will lead the new Social Enterprise Clinic, which begins this fall and will work as outside counsel for local businesses with a social or environmental mission.
From a Supreme Court justice’s visit and an innovative leadership initiative to impactful pro bono work and influential AI guidance, the school’s commitment to excellence, community, and public mission was on full display.
Professor Kenneth A. Bamberger wrote an amicus brief on behalf of a coalition of publishers, book sellers, and libraries in the upcoming Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v.Paxton case.
The painstaking task of creating research-quality electronic replicas of some of the center’s holdings will help foster a broader understanding of legal history and its evolution.
After a quarter century of pathbreaking international work, the Human Rights Clinic expands its domestic agenda, with Professor Roxanna Altholz ’99 at the helm.
Phillip Gomez ’23 and Cody Bowlay-Williams ’24 are working in UC Legal’s Office of the General Counsel and UC Berkeley’s Office of Legal Affairs over a full-year appointment.
A satellite launched in August by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has close ties to the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, from the project’s origin to groundbreaking methane emissions research for years to come.
Over two days in various settings, judges Karin Immergut ’87 and Kelli Evans give students prime insights and practical tips on pursuing clerkships, law school happiness, and career success.
The program has inspired and prepared nearly 800 East Bay public high school students from first-generation and marginalized backgrounds for higher education, fulfilling careers, community engagement, and leadership.
From a new, multipronged leadership initiative for students to our Human Rights Clinic’s hefty impact and growing domestic agenda, the latest Transcript issue is packed with examples of visionary work.
Across the legal landscape, our faculty, students, research centers, and executive and Continuing Legal Education platforms are meeting the challenges of AI head on.
A growing number of alums take on key positions in Alaska’s court system, public sector, and private practice, drawn to a collegial legal community that fosters early opportunities.
Mallika Kaur ’10 and Lindsay Harris ’09 co-edited How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching, which makes the case for engaging — and even encouraging — emotion in the classroom and the courtroom.
Litigating against fossil fuel companies and other polluters, Dunlavey has helped government entities, consumers, small businesses, workers, and homeowners recover over $16 billion while spurring changes in company practices.
The lineup is “a remarkable mix of classes covering topics relevant to practice areas old and new,” Professor and Associate Dean for J.D. Curriculum and Teaching Jonathan D. Glater says.
In under three years, inaugural Director Allison Schmitt ’15 has built the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s Life Sciences Law & Policy Center into a wide-ranging program for students, practitioners, and entrepreneurs alike.
Research based on work she began as a Princeton undergraduate was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal — a challenging task for a full-time student with a full pro bono plate.
Calling Berkeley Law “the most intellectually exciting community that I have been part of,” Chemerinsky describes the school’s core values and why he’s excited for the coming school year.
After receiving a Philip Frickey Fellowship, Hammond received funding to work on behalf of California’s largest tribe, which he calls “one of the greatest honors of my life.”
The retired Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has been a particularly stellar and extremely involved mentor in the program, which matches alums with incoming students over the summer before their 1L year.
It’s a school-record number of recipients in the highly competitive program, which welcomes recent law school graduates and newly admitted lawyers committed to a public service career.
Obasogie wants to bring the discredited theory out of hiding through a national conversation to confront the past and prevent its repetition in modern science.
Four Class of 2024 alums form the inaugural cohort of the Chris Larsen Justice Fellowship, which will fund their first year of public interest work on criminal justice issues.
They headline a deep public service commitment that this year saw students do nearly 28,000 pro bono hours and 91% of the graduating class engage in pro bono work.
Created by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the name, image, and likeness course offers free help to California student-athletes who are inking relatively low-value sponsorships.
Davis won the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, while Holmquist was recognized for “sustained excellence in teaching” with a Distinguished Teaching Award, given to five professors across the Berkeley campus this year.
3Ls Adriana Hardwicke and Maripau Paz and Harvard Law exchange student José Rodriguez drew on 30 moot sessions with classmates and faculty to best 31 other teams in the annual contest.
Zaidi balances her multiple passions — building a pipeline for Muslim Indian lawyers, her professional ambitions and advocacy, and a deep love of music — with pinpoint precision.
Students who participate in the Berkeley Law Alternative Service Trips (BLAST) say it’s an intense but invigorating experience, intellectually and personally — and this year was no exception.
Roth, a groundbreaking scholar of criminal law and evidence in an increasingly technology-driven world, is the first Barry Tarlow Chancellor’s Chair in Criminal Justice.
The Career Development Office partnered with the student-led Plaintiffs’ Law Association to host the event, which drew more than 60 students and 18 plaintiff-side firms from the Bay Area, Southern California, and beyond.
