Teaching Fellow Heather Lewis on a California Public Utilities Commission decision about developing microgrids in communities of color and low-income communities, Legal Planet, 6/26/20
Clinic Celebrates Progress Towards an Equitable Microgrid Policy
New podcast looks at Israel and Jewish identity in ‘Age of Covid’
Interested in how a plague of locusts impacted Jews and Arabs in Palestine under Ottoman rule in 1915? Or how Haredi communities in Israel today have chafed against government edicts during the Covid-19 pandemic? Or why massive, expensive fortified barriers, like the U.S.-Mexico border wall and the West Bank barrier in Israel, continue to proliferate all over the world?
Alyssa Cheung M.P.P. ’21: Microgrids Will Save Lives and Green the Golden State
If the state wants to truly protect its most vulnerable, and also meet its ambitious climate goals, the state and its and electric utilities must ensure that microgrids benefit disadvantaged communities as quickly as possible.
Sarae Snyder ’21: PG&E’s Power Shut-Offs Exacerbate Existing Inequities
As utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric continue to power society with failing infrastructure due to decades of mismanagement, Public Safety Power Shutoffswill continue to be the reality during California’s fire seasons for the foreseeable future.
Lawyers Can’t Visit Clients in Prison, So Quit Monitoring Their Emails
Los Angeles Times, 6/22/20
Trapped: Most States Let Courts Fine Teenagers. The Debt is Taking Down Their Whole Families.
Slate, 6/22/2020
Clinical Supervising Attorney Roger Lin Discusses Environmental Justice on KPFA’s “Rude Awakening”
“Rude Awakening,” KPFA (7/12 interview starts at 21:20)
Clinic Advocates for the Health of Low-Income Communities and Communities of Color
Environmental Law Clinic, 6/12/20
Co-Director Roxanna Altholz Discusses Work on “Berkeley Law Conversations: Race & Policing” Panel
Berkeley Law, 6/8/20
Letter to the Community on the Samuelson Clinic’s Commitment to Racial Justice
Samuelson Clinic, 6/5/20