The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the anchor of our top-ranked intellectual property law program, has launched a new online platform making 128 cutting-edge seminars from top experts available […]
Pioneering Platform
In the SCOTUS Fab Four
Anya Ku ’20 is one of four U.S. Supreme Court fellows chosen for the upcoming term. Assigned to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the judicial branch’s main […]
Law Book of the Year
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s 2021 book Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights has won the annual best book award from the American Society of […]
Campus Faculty Leader
Berkeley Law Professor Victoria Plaut will be UC Berkeley’s new vice provost for the faculty starting Aug. 15. A renowned scholar in the psychological science of diversity, she will oversee […]
Roe’s Cultural Impact
When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, Professor Emerita Kristin Luker says “it changed everything.” Co-founder of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, Luker, who has written books on […]
Mentorship Maven
Professor Calvin Morrill is one of two winners of this year’s Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award from the Law and Society Association. A longtime leader in graduate sociolegal studies, Morrill has […]
Online Accountability
Berkeley Law and three other campus schools created a database tracking all federal legislation on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects online platforms from civil liability based […]
Defendant Tech Support
Recent alumna and Cooley corporate associate Dana Yeo ’21 (pictured) has launched PDQuery, which connects lawyers who represent indigent criminal defendants with grad students, professional statisticians, and computer scientists for […]
Fighting for Equal Justice
Four recent alumni received a 2022 Equal Justice Works Fellowship, one of America’s most prestigious postgraduate fellowships. Darby Aono ’22 (pictured), Jennifer Holloway ’22, Tara Branine ’22, and Alexandra Zaretsky […]
Persuasive Patent Scholar
Professor Robert Merges recently received the PatCon Extraordinary Achievement Award for his contributions to scholarship about the patent system. The Patent Conference (PatCon) is the world’s largest annual gathering for […]