Constitutional Law

The court is making decisions based on the GOP platform, not the Constitution, says Professor Khiara M. Bridges.

Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the Trump indictment.

“Officials targeted with a recall, the most personal of the direct democracy devices, are unsurprisingly unhappy about having to defend against it,” write Joshua Spivak and David Carrillo of Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center. “But voters should not be fooled when their targets complain about risks to democracy.”

Professor Kathryn Abrams writes about the defeat of Ohio’s abortion vote and Republicans implementation of other strategies to oppose pro-abortion citizen initiatives.

UC Berkeley law professor Orin Kerr explains how Fourth Amendment jurisprudence applies to a digital age.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes about what the SCOTUS decision to eliminate affirmative action means for California schools.

Professor Orin Kerr writes about Fourth Amendment limits on the government’s power to order Internet providers to run off copies of people’s online accounts and save them for possible later government access.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes about unanswered questions following the Supreme Court rulings on labor and employment law.

“I think it’s going to lead to a great deal of litigation and will take a lot of time to clarify the standard,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law.

“As schools strive to have a diverse student body after the court’s decision, much can be learned from the experience of states where affirmative action already had been eliminated,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.