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 […]
Punitive Welfare Policies
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 […]
Leveling the Clouds
When fielding requests for data stored outside the country, should U.S. cloud companies face a heavier compliance burden than their foreign counterparts? Paul Schwartz says no. His new article notes the perils of […]
Tracking Fast Traders
Robert Bartlett and Justin McCrary counter a common theory of stock market abuse that high-speed traders are gouging investors, as touted in Michael Lewis’ bestseller Flash Boys. Their new study […]
Helping a Veteran
Thanks to Allen Huang ’15 and Leon Kotlyar ’15, Veterans Law Practicum client Albert Suarez will receive full medical benefits retroactive to 2007. The VA had denied Suarez benefits for […]
ABA Honors Mayerson ’77
Berkeley Law’s Arlene Mayerson ’77 will receive the ABA’s Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights. Directing attorney at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund since 1981, she has […]
Professor Simon Honored
Professor Jonathan Simon has received an honorary doctorate degree from the Université catholique de Louvain. The award recognizes Simon’s storied career as an analyst of the role of crime and […]
‘Happy Birthday’ Set Free
Victors in a long legal battle, Donahue Fitzgerald partners Andrew MacKay ’98 and Daniel Schacht ’08 have freed the world’s most-played song, “Happy Birthday to You,” from copyright. Warner/Chappell Music, […]
IP Trio Among Top Ten
Professors Robert Merges, Pamela Samuelson and Peter Menell are among the 10 most-cited intellectual property and cyberlaw scholars from 2010 to 2014. Faculty co-directors of the law school’s Berkeley Center for Law […]
Bard Honors Semel
Clinical Professor Elisabeth Semel, founding director of the Death Penalty Clinic, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bard College, her alma mater. Before joining Berkeley Law in 2001, Semel spent four […]