Constitutional Law

“In striking down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program, the Supreme Court ignored one of the most basic principles of law: When the text of a law is clear, it must be followed unless it is unconstitutional,” writes Dean Erwin Chemeninsky.

Professor Daniel Farber writes about what the SCOTUS affirmative action ruling means for California.

“The term will be most remembered for the decisions of the last couple of days that moved the law in a dramatically conservative direction,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley Law School, referring to the affirmative action, web designer and student loans rulings.

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions.

“Public schools in California — and in other states like Washington and Michigan — where affirmative action has been eliminated, must now be leaders and show how to achieve diversity without engaging in affirmative action,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinksy.

“I think that had the cards been dealt some other way, it very well could have come out a different way for me had I gone to Harvard, UNC, or the University of Texas at Austin for law school, because these schools do use race-conscience admissions,” said Traelon Rodgers, a third year law student at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Dean Erwin Chemerinksy discusses how this session’s Supreme Court rulings on voting rights have broken with recent trends.

“A state government should not be able to sue the federal government just because it disagrees with a federal policy, writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

“Why don’t the Supreme Court justices understand that they would benefit greatly from an ethics code and an independent office to assess their ethical issues?,” writes Dean Chemerinsky.