Spotlights

Lecturer Rose Carmen Goldberg received a California Department of Veterans Affairs Women Veterans Advocates Award for her work on behalf of military sexual assault survivors. A California deputy attorney general, Goldberg teaches courses within Berkeley Law’s Veterans Law Practicum. Her work at the DA’s Office focuses on service members and veterans, students with disabilities, and […]

Our New Business Community Law Clinic got a $290,000 grant from Wells Fargo to expand its free legal assistance to small area businesses. The clinic, which helps over 300 such businesses a year (most owned by people of color and women), will offer more consultations and legal webinars in English and Spanish on issues such […]

Law students Robert Fairbanks, Joseph Kingerski, and Mckenzie Robinson helped a four-person UC Berkeley team win the Most Creative Policy Response Award at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. Acting as a mock cybersecurity task force briefing the National Security Council on a breach affecting U.S. systems, they were honored for nuanced and viable […]

Professor Andrea Roth has been elected to the American Law Institute, a leading independent nonprofit that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve U.S. law. A noted criminal law expert, Roth was also appointed to chair the Legal Task Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Organization of Scientific Area Committees […]

With the top-ranked intellectual property law program for 18 years running, Berkeley Law again provided robust offerings this year. The annual bulletin from our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology highlights 50+ courses, 9 conferences, and 20+ other expert-level events taking place. Three faculty directors are among the field’s five most-cited scholars, and over 40 […]

Louise Bedsworth, Land Use Program director and California-China Climate Institute senior advisor at our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, is one of 26 commissioners of California 100. The new initiative aims to craft an innovative, sustainable, and equitable strategy for the state’s next century with research and policy efforts that commissioners will test […]

A new podcast created to bring the law school trial advocacy community closer together is co-hosted by Spencer Pahlke ’07 (pictured), Berkeley Law’s trial advocacy director. Pahlke, a partner at Walkup Melodia in San Francisco, launched Unscripted Direct with UCLA Law Trial Advocacy Director Justin Bernstein. The first season, which will have 14 episodes, is […]

Berkeley Law has its largest-ever class of clinic students: 170 working with 47 supervisors in 14 clinics. They pursue social justice by providing direct legal services, litigating key issues, advancing policy advocacy, and conducting research. To meet this growing demand, the program will add five clinical tenure-track faculty and launch new clinics over the next […]

Wai Wai Nu, a 2018 graduate of our LL.M. Program, received this year’s City of Athens Democracy Award. A leading advocate for the Rohingya, long persecuted in Myanmar, Nu was a political prisoner there for seven years. She is the founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network, a diverse coalition that works to […]

Alumna Clothilde Hewlett ’79 has been named commissioner at the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which protects consumers and services to businesses engaged in financial transactions. The Cal Alumni Association’s chief legal officer and executive director, she also was a partner at two law firms and undersecretary of the California State and Consumer Services […]