Spotlights

2L Alyssa Meurer received a National Lawyers Guild Haywood Burns Fellowship, one of just five people so honored. She will work this summer with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area’s racial justice team to boost housing rights, end police brutality, and empower communities affected by the criminal penal system. […]

Judge Thelton E. Henderson ’62, a visiting professor and revered alum, provided remarks for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s recent 65th anniversary celebration. He discussed his memorable experiences as the division’s first Black attorney in the early 1960s, including working with Martin Luther King Jr. and others to protect voting rights in […]

Lauren Edelman ’86, a beloved Berkeley Law professor since 1996, passed away on Feb. 7. She held vital positions at the school, such as director of our Center for the Study of Law & Society and associate dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and won many awards for her seminal scholarship on employment law issues. […]

Irene Liu ’06 is our Executive Education Program’s first executive in residence. She will develop a webinar series on Berkeley Boosts, lead General Counsel Institute programs, and create other industry-focused thought leadership. The founder of Hypergrowth GC, Liu has successfully built and scaled tech companies to multi-billion dollar valuations through M&A deals, financings, and investments.

The East Bay Community Law Center, which trains over 100 Berkeley Law students each year in community lawyering and client-centered advocacy, serves low-income clients and advances justice in myriad ways. Its annual report describes broad work and policy wins in shielding youth from surveillance, protecting tenants and consumers, reforming civil assessments and immigration, and limiting […]

Berkeley Law alum Janani Ramachandran ’20 was recently sworn in as Oakland’s new City Council member for District 4. She is the youngest person ever elected to the Council and its first South Asian. Recently, she served as a commissioner on the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, and was a workers’ rights […]

Our Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and a group of legal scholars that includes Dean Chemerinsky and Jonathan D. Glater filed amicus briefs opposing challenges to President Biden’s student debt cancellation plan. The center’s brief says the respondent states lack standing to contest the plan, and the scholars’ brief argues that the relevant statute […]

Our Berkeley Center for Law and Business recently launched Canvas, a newsletter on the art world and its intersections with law, finance, technology, and culture. An academic research hub to educate students and others interested in the field, Canvas’ debut issue included insights from Professors Pamela Samuelson and Peter Menell on a U.S. Supreme Court […]

3L Hoda Katebi recalls losing friends and being bullied when she began wearing a hijab as a sixth-grader in Oklahoma. The Iranian-American writer and community organizer, who runs a clothing cooperative of refugee, immigrant, and working-class women of color, appears on the podcast Berkeley Voices to discuss the ongoing protests in Iran and her own activism. […]

Berkeley Law lecturer Henry Hecht (pictured) and star litigator Elizabeth Cabraser ’78 received Champions of Justice awards at the recent Equal Justice Society annual gala, which also served as a retirement party for EJS founding president and civil rights icon Eva Paterson ’75. Hecht and Cabraser were hailed for their wide-ranging efforts in support of fellowships, […]