Spotlights

Our Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice is a key driver of Berkeley Law’s standing as a major leader in the field. The center’s annual report tracks a wide range of achievements over the past year, from court victories and faculty growth to programmatic developments and major media recognition, including hosting the first-ever national […]

Steven Feldstein ’04 won the University of Louisville’s annual Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The $100,000 prize honors the work in his 2021 book on how digital technology fuels political repression. A Carnegie Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program senior fellow, Feldstein showed how governments use internet shutdowns, facial recognition, and other tools to […]

Hazim Alwazir LL.M. ’22 was one of two people chosen as a Rhodes Scholar for the Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region. The first Rhodes Scholar in law from the region, Alwazir,a Palestinian from Gaza, will strive to boost understanding of how digital rights, economic growth, and societal norms interact. The prestigious scholarship is an […]

Our student group Arts and Innovation Representation provided vital research in a new Artistic Freedom Initiative report on artistic censorship and suppression in Poland that has already garnered international media coverage. The report, which aims to boost protections for Poland’s artists and cultural workers through actionable policy recommendations, follows a similarly jarring report on these […]

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has received the Ronald M. George Public Lawyer of the Year Award, given by the California Lawyers Association to a well-regarded practitioner with high ethical standards who provides outstanding service to the public. Chemerinsky, president of the Association of American Law Schools, was hailed for his work illuminating how the Constitution and […]

Samantha Hamilton ’20 was selected as The New York Times’ 2022-23 First Amendment Fellow. Working with the paper’s newsroom and litigation teams, she will cover issues relating to the Freedom of Information Act, libel, copyright, court access, and other litigation matters. Hamilton previously worked as a fellow at the civil rights law firm Loevy & […]

Pro Bono Program Director Deborah Schlosberg has won the Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono & Access to Justice’s Emerging Leader Award. In her five years, she has helped students excel in pro bono work (over 90% take part) and expanded outlets to do so, leading major growth of our Student-Initiated Legal […]

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the hub of our No. 1-ranked intellectual property law program, recently released its Annual Bulletin. The publication highlights the center’s growing work towards three main goals: Supporting original research in key areas of IP & tech law, making access to legal training available to everyone, and building the community […]

Nine of our professors are among the 75 most-cited law professors with Google Scholar pages in a new study that factors in both number of publications and how often those works are cited by others. Berkeley Law faculty on the list include Alan Auerbach (pictured), Robert Cooter, Daniel Farber, Orin Kerr, Jonathan Simon, Pamela Samuelson, John Yoo, and […]

Professor Sonia Katyal and co-author Charles Graves won multiple honors for “From Trade Secrecy to Seclusion,” which probes how trade secrecy laws have grown to thwart public disclosure of information in ways that raise big public policy questions. They won Arizona State University’s first Law Science and Innovation/IP Program Prize, and Jotwell named their paper […]