Spotlights

Mentorship Conference

Seeking career advice? The Korea Law Center will co-host a mentorship conference on Oct. 29. Leaders in law, business and other fields will provide timely insights and networking opportunities for […]

Human Rights Lab

The Human Rights Center is piloting the world’s first university-based investigations lab using open sources to document crimes against humanity. The center and its international partners are training students to […]

Top Scholars

Berkeley Law ranks fourth among U.S. law schools for the highest percentage of most-cited tenured faculty between 2010 and 2014. A study by a University of Chicago law professor shows that 34 […]

Privacy Primers

Privacy concerns are emerging quickly in the digital age. In new videos, Catherine Crump, Chris Hoofnagle and Paul Schwartz offer insights into issues such as the erosion of privacy on […]

Tenant Protection

What began as a student paper by Phil Hernandez ’16 will be state law January 1. Signed by Gov. Brown, the bill keeps tenant records private unless landlords win an […]

Colombia’s Drug War

A front-page New York Times story quotes Roxanna Altholz, who represents the family of a man murdered by Colombian drug-lord Hernán Giraldo Serna. He and fellow war criminals massacred people in […]

Juvenile Justice

A New York Times editorial on punitive court fees and fines charged to juveniles, many of whom come from poor families, hails a report by Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic. The report exposed these […]

A Call To Honor Endo

During World War II, four Japanese Americans fought the internment of 100,000 residents in a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Of them, only Mitsuye Endo hasn’t received a Presidential […]

Punitive Welfare Policies

A new paper by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice outlines the punitive effects of Welfare Family Caps. These policies limit cash aid for babies born into families already […]

RURAL HOMELESSNESS

Berkeley Law’s extraordinary new class of first-year students includes Zachariah Oquenda ’19, a Truman Scholar and former homeless teen. In a new article, Oquenda describes the struggles his family endured […]