Spotlights

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 […]

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 […]

The latest issue of Transcript, Berkeley Law’s magazine, has been published. Read the digital version here, or the PDF here. With human rights in peril worldwide, the cover feature describes […]

Professor Emeritus and law and society expert Malcolm Feeley will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association’s Law & Courts Section. A longtime prominent faculty […]

Berkeley Law’s robust Clinical Program provides legal services to low-income communities and trains students to promote social justice through law. It has eight community-based and six in-house clinics, and plans […]

David A. Carrillo, who has three degrees from Berkeley Law and leads its California Constitution Center, has been elected chair of the California Law Revision Commission. A member since 2019, […]

A new report by our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment offers policy solutions to hurdle barriers to heat pump retrofits in California buildings. The state aims to deploy […]

Hannah Flanery ’19 and Pedro Viramontes ’18, lawyers at the East Bay Community Law Center’s Housing Practice, helped a Berkeley tenant win a recent unanimous verdict in an eviction action brought […]

Alumna and best-selling author Heather McGhee ’09 has launched “The Sum of Us,” which presents uplifting stories of people working together across racial lines to improve their communities. Chair of […]

Protecting and advancing global human rights has become even tougher than usual over the past year, from the jarring resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. […]