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1L Layla Yousef Gains a Transformative Experience at the United Nations in Geneva
1L Layla Yousef spent a week helping the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and was named assistant to the chair of its Working Group on Communications and Inquiries. Layla will also represent Berkeley Law as a Miller-ASIL Fellow at ASIL's 2025 Annual Meeting in DC.Talk on Youth, Protest and Power: Emerging Global Narratives in Human Rights Advocacy, with Irũngũ Houghton of Amnesty Kenya
Youth led mass protests are significantly challenging state legitimacy in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Kenya. Amnesty International Kenya’s Executive Director Irũngũ Houghton explores how current events are reshaping the right to expression, assembly and association globally.Professor Fletcher Honored for Outstanding International Law Work
Laurel E. Fletcher, Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law and Miller Co-Faculty Director, received the 2025 Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award, given to a distinguished scholar or practitioner for outstanding contributions to international law.Paging Checks and Balances: International Expert Outlines National Security Risks From Growing Executive Branch Power
Former U.S. Department of State legal adviser meets with UC Berkeley Law students to discuss the dangers posed by an expanding institutional imbalance in American foreign affairs.Professor Linos Featured on Voices Carry Podcast
Voices Carry host Gwyneth Shaw talks with UC Berkeley Law Professors Katerina Linos and Elena Chachko about their new paper in the William & Mary Law Review, “Emergency Powers for Good.”
Borderlines Podcast
Borderlines is a Berkeley Law podcast hosted by Katerina Linos, Heyman Professor of International Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Miller Institute. Katerina has spent 15 years researching how nations make war with one another. But she has also seen how countries work together to build global institutions. In each episode, Professor Linos invites experts to discuss cutting edge issues in international law.
Latest episode:
European Union Court of Justice Series: Interview with Judge Constantinos Lycourgos
Special Series: European Union Court of Justice Profiles
In this special Borderlines project, host Katerina Linos, Heyman Professor of International Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and guest co-host Mark Pollack, Freaney Professor of Political Science and Law at Temple University, launch a unique interview series featuring Judges and Advocates General serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.