Spotlights

A new ranking of 114 U.S. tax law professors with Google Scholar pages lists our Alan Auerbach (pictured) No. 2 and Dhammika Dharmapala No. 7. The list tallies the number of publications a scholar has been cited in by other scholars at least that same number of times. Auerbach is past president of the National […]

Our Henderson Center for Social Justice offers students lunchtime programs where professors who teach required main first-year courses — Criminal Law, Torts, Contracts, and Civil Procedure — discuss ways to interpret them through a social justice lens. Noting that new students can find the law’s hierarchy and structure at odds with social justice, these talks […]

With AI further accelerating the frantic pace of tech advancement, our B-CLE platform helps lawyers keep up with shifting issues, laws, and regulations while earning Continuing Legal Education credits. While quality training is mostly available only to those with hefty legal budgets, B-CLE is free to the whole legal community. Over 6,000 people from 53 […]

Professor Seth Davis has been appointed to a two-year term as a public member to the Administrative Conference of the United States. The independent federal agency identifies and promotes improvements in the fairness, efficiency, and adequacy of procedures federal agencies use to conduct regulatory programs, administer grants and benefits, protect the public interest, and perform […]

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, cites a governing system declining in effectiveness, democratic principles, and public confidence. He says our growing polarization is traced to the Constitution’s defects and judicial rulings that entrench minority rule rather than democracy — and that to avoid secession, […]

Three faculty members presented in Korea this week at the annual Seoul AI Policy Conference, and also met with alumni judges there. Professor Rebecca Wexler moderated a panel on AI standards in the administration of justice that included Criminal Law & Justice Center Executive Director Chesa Boudin, and Professor Pamela Samuelson (pictured) gave a keynote […]

Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic students drafted a report on how federal law enforcement agencies used digital evidence to investigate suspected crimes from protests after George Floyd’s murder. Analyzing over 100 warrant applications filed in the months after his death, the report touts docket transparency and shows how digital evidence is often used […]

Our Center for Law and Work, which confronts employment and labor issues affecting vulnerable worker populations, has a new Student Scholarship Series that enables students to write original pieces on topics shaping workers’ rights. The debut entry, by David Beglin ’24 (pictured), assesses a pending California Supreme Court case and argues for a functional rather […]

Minerva Melendrez ’26 recently won the Best Closing Argument award at the annual Contra Costa County District Attorney Office Prosecutor Academy. The five-day intensive training program enables rising 2Ls to learn from experienced prosecutors about strategies regarding what cases to pursue and how they proceed to jury trials. They also engage in practical courtroom exercises […]

Across the world, Berkeley Law alumni are shining in academia. This surge in placing grads in leading law schools and other top departments is evidenced by 15 of our own professors being alums, along with many research directors, legal writing teachers, and fellows. In particular, our Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program offers a proven path […]