Spotlights

Stephen Sugarman, a beloved professor at Berkeley Law since 1972, died Dec. 26 after a four-year battle with kidney cancer. A prolific scholar and influential figure in education, tort, and […]

Alameda County’s largest free legal services provider, our East Bay Community Law Center served over 4,000 people last year. Its new annual report notes how the center helped 98% of housing […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]