Constitutional Law

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses ethics at the Supreme Court.

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the impact Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has had on the Supreme Court.

“The court opened the door to arguments like Whole Foods’,” said University of California at Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk. “I expect we will see a lot more.”

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and a 1st Amendment scholar, said it would be easy to cast the decision as another conservative panel ruling against guns, but the decision really wasn’t about guns, but speech — and the decision was “consistent with Supreme Court decisions with regard to commercial speech.”

“The challenge is to find ways to combat the spread of false information that can harm public safety without jeopardizing freedom of expression,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “The government identifying false speech and notifying social media companies is a sensible way to address this problem.”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes about the recent Supreme Court decisions that are leading to a great deal of litigation.

“The law on this is unclear, because it is a new issue,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “The students being minors does make the legal questions more difficult, but even as minors they have privacy rights.”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky comments on Vivek Ramaswamy’s proposal to amend the Constitution to take away rights to vote.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky analyzes the Georgia indictments.

“If Trump is convicted in federal or state court of the crimes with which he has been charged, he should be deemed ineligible to run for president,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “Even if he is not convicted, there is a compelling case that the Constitution bars him from ever holding office again.”