Spotlights

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 […]

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 […]

Lady Brenda Hale, a judicial pioneer who was the first woman president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, became Berkeley Law’s latest marquee guest. Before retiring in 2020, […]

After asking the U.S. Attorney General to act, our Policy Advocacy Clinic and other advocacy groups celebrated a Department of Justice letter urging states and local courts to reduce criminal […]

Professor Saira Mohamed has been elected vice president of the American Society of International Law, which fosters study in the field as well as international relations based on law and […]

Jeremy Fogel, executive director of our Berkeley Judicial Institute, will receive the American College of Trial Lawyers’ Samuel E. Gates Litigation Award, given to a lawyer who epitomizes ethical conduct, […]

The new issue of Transcript, our biannual magazine, has been published. To get a sense of Berkeley Law and its remarkable community, you can read the digital version or a […]

A new short documentary by UC Berkeley’s Journalism School confronts the issue of deporting veterans following criminal convictions, often stemming from mental health conditions related to their military service. It […]

Berkeley Law professors john a. powell and Khiara M. Bridges were named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ annual list of 100 leaders, activists, and artists “committed to […]

Our recent Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium probed the nexus of international law, accountability for mass atrocities, and journalism. The event addressed litigating, state responses to, and reporting on mass atrocities, […]