Spotlights

Our Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice had a great start to its Published Justice Project. Most California Courts of Appeal opinions are “unpublished” and thus lack precedential effect. Reviewing thousands of opinions to find those that can guide consumer law, the center succeeded on eight of its 11 publication requests, creating over 150 […]

The Leadership Lunch Series, presented by our Berkeley Center for Law and Business, welcomes general counsel and executives from dynamic organizations. Available online from 12:45 to 1:15 pm PT, the talks will precede private Q&A sessions hosted by the Berkeley Business Law Journal for current students, faculty, and staff. The fall slate begins Aug. 30 […]

The number and acceptance of gay athletes at this year’s Olympics was a far cry from 1982, when decathlete Tom Waddell founded the Gay Olympics. As Professor Sonia Katyal explains in a Boston Globe essay, the U.S. Olympic Committee sued to stop him from using the term “Olympics” — and won — while allowing the […]

Our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, a driving force behind the school’s top-ranked intellectual property law program, has launched a new podcast. In “BCLT’s Expert Series,” Executive Director Wayne Stacy talks with top law and tech mavens about current cases and recent rulings on antitrust, cybersecurity and privacy, product development, brand protection, and more.

Marlenee Blas Pedral ’23 has been chosen as the UC Board of Regents’ student regent for 2022-23, with full participation and voting privileges when her one-year term starts next July. A first-generation college student, Pedral has a master’s degree in higher education and administration, was a Fulbright Fellow, and co-founded social mobility programs while working […]

Rising 2L Alicia Arrington has received a coveted Switzer Environmental Fellowship, which supports 20 graduate student leaders in social equity and environmental problem-solving. Environmental justice editor of Berkeley Law’s Ecology Law Quarterly and founder of its Free the Land Project, she will get a financial award and access to training on leadership and policy engagement.

LL.M. student Andreas Aditya Salim is one of 15 leaders of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance Youth Policy Advisory Council, which recently published the Global Blue New Deal, a detailed vision for confronting ocean decline. A lawyer driven to improve fishing and ocean management in Indonesia, Salim and his co-drafters culled and analyzed over 100 survey  […]

Incoming student Traelon Rodgers was selected to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s new Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, which gives full law school scholarships, training, and post-graduate fellowships to students who commit to working for at least eight years on civil rights in the South after getting their J.D.s. The 10 recipients, each born or raised in […]

Savala Nolan ’11, executive director of our Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, was an advisor on race issues to a podcast that won a prestigious Peabody Award. The Promise, from Nashville Public Radio, probes the challenges of an almost all Black and all poor elementary school and how the city’s education system creates […]

Professor Christopher Tomlins received the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, given annually to a nonfiction work of history, for In the Matter of Nat Turner. Called “a master class in the craft of history,” the book delves into Turner’s life and the tragic 1831 slave rebellion he led in Virginia. Read […]