The New Yorker recently profiled the remarkable life of Pauli Murray (LL.M. ’45). An orphan at 13, she became a leading activist, lawyer, labor organizer, and the first black female […]
An Enduring Legacy
Commencement 2017
Congratulations to Berkeley Law Class of 2017! Graduates celebrated at a Greek Theatre ceremony on 5/12, along with families, friends, and the law school community. Guest speaker Lt. Gov. Gavin […]
Law Students Honored
Berkeley Law’s International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) recently received a Chancellor’s Award for Public Service. Part of the school’s Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects, IRAP won the Student Group-Civic Engagement category […]
Faculty Service Award
David Lieberman is one of just two winners of the 2017 Berkeley Faculty Service Award, which honors a UC Academic Senate Berkeley Division member for outstanding service to the campus […]
Raiding the Corporation
The Atlantic magazine’s latest issue heralds the “corporate-raiding adventure” of Berkeley Law’s Steven Davidoff Solomon and his USD colleague Frank Partnoy. Mimicking activist hedge funds, the co-authors invested in a […]
Antitrust Winner
Professor Daniel Rubinfeld won a 2017 Antitrust Writing Award from Concurrences, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to national and European Union competition laws. Chosen by a jury of practitioners, enforcers, and scholars, […]
Chancellor’s Award
Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie has received the Chancellor’s Outstanding Service Award, which honors exceptional work by UC staff. Alaji-Sabrie is a member of Berkeley Law’s Faculty Support Unit, the administrative coordinator of […]
First 100 Days
UC scholars will assess the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency at a campus symposium on April 21. They will discuss the impact of administration policies and the legal questions surrounding its […]
High Honor for Roth
Andrea Roth has won the Prytanean Faculty Award, a $25,000 grant awarded annually to an outstanding woman junior faculty member at UC Berkeley. Each year since 1986, the Prytanean Alumnae organization […]
Thapar ’94 on the Move
The President has nominated U.S. District Court Judge Amul Thapar ’94 to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thapar, the first South Asian Article III judge, is also on Trump’s […]