Spotlights

Our Startup Law Initiative and its benefits for students and clients was featured in a recent Daily Californian article. Under lawyer supervision, the project enables Berkeley Law students to give pro bono legal guidance to area startups founded by low-income, of color, and female-identifying entrepreneurs. Trainings help new businesses navigate tricky formation issues while students gain […]

Professor Andrew C. Baker and two co-authors won the Jensen Prize for best paper on corporate finance and organizations. Their paper studies a method used often to assess the impact of policy changes, explaining when and how it is biased. The authors say such biases will likely be relevant for research settings in finance, accounting, and […]

Professor Jonathan D. Glater was appointed to the California Civil Rights Council, which issues regulations that implement the state’s civil rights laws, conducts inquiries, and holds hearings. Glater, who joined the Berkeley Law faculty last year, teaches Criminal Law, Education Law and Policy, and Law in Media. A leading scholarly voice on the implications of rising […]

Professor and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director Deirdre Mulligan was named Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which she joined in February. Shaping U.S. policy in the field, Mulligan, former director of our Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, also helps the National AI […]

Led by Professor john a. powell, UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute created a new Racial Disparities Dashboard that tracks changes from 1970 to 2020 in the U.S. across 15 categories, from voting and poverty rates to life expectancy and median home value. Providing data and noting areas of progress and regress, the project examines gaps […]

Fatima Abbas ’11 was named director of the new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. As the National Congress of American Indians’ vice president of government relations, she played a key role in obtaining $22 billion of pandemic-related aid for tribal nations and entities. Abbas also worked as the Karuk […]

Professor Christopher Tomlins was awarded the Law & Society Association’s Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize, which honors empirical scholarship that contributed most effectively to advancing research in the field. Tomlins, a renowned legal historian, joins a long list of faculty from our Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program to win the award, including Frank Zimring, Lauren […]

Berkeley Law’s standing in the entertainment law field was touted recently by Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. The former included seven alums on its 2023 Best Music Lawyers list while the latter named four alums to its annual Top 100 Entertainment Lawyers list. The Hollywood Reporter also ranked Berkeley as the No. 4 law school for entertainment […]

Berkeley Law Professor Pamela Samuelson recently gave the last of four distinguished campus lectures on the status and future of artificial intelligence, probing whether copyright law should protect AI-produced text and images. A noted copyright expert who called it the only area of current law “that could bring generative AI systems to their knees,” she addressed issues […]

Our popular annual mix of theater and law recently returned to the stage, this time in People v. The Weird Sisters. Actors from UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Center performed scenes from Macbeth, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law Professor Bernadette Meyler were prosecutor and defense counsel in a trial charging two crimes, […]