Professor Robert Cooter recently won the Ronald H. Coase Medal for advancing economic understanding of law and related areas of public policy and regulation. Bestowed every other year by the […]
Medal-Worthy Work
An Enduring Legacy
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 […]
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 […]