The first novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ’09 is drawing rave reviews. Set in her native New Orleans, A Kind of Freedom follows three generations of an African-American family, while probing racial […]
A Kind of Freedom
Luxembourg Peace Prize
Steven Druker ’72 has won the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Environmental Peace. Founding executive director of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity, Druker is an internationally renowned advocate for more governmental transparency […]
Be the Change
The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice has launched Be the Change, a podcast hosted by Director Savala Trepczynski ’11. In the latest episode, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky describes growing up […]
Advancing Racial Justice
Purvi Shah ’06 has received a 2017 Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellowship, which supports emerging racial justice leaders. One of seven applicants chosen from over 1,000, Shah co-founded Law4BlackLives, […]
Glass Ceiling
Justice Goodwin Liu, a former Berkeley Law professor, has co-authored a study on the dearth of Asian American judges. Although they comprise 10 percent of graduates in top U.S. law […]
Aiding the Mentally Ill
Jackie Aranda ’15 is savoring victory. The alum helped the Southern Poverty Law Center win a class action suit, which found that Alabama prisoners receive constitutionally inadequate mental-health care. Aranda […]
Ingram ’14 Nabs Fulbright
Antonio Ingram ’14 is the first Berkeley Law graduate to receive a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship, which launched in 2012. Currently clerking for a federal judge in Louisiana, Ingram will […]
Rising Criminology Star
The American Society of Criminology has awarded Keramet Reiter ’10 with the Ruth Cavan Young Scholar Award for stellar contributions to the field. An assistant professor at UC Irvine, Reiter […]
Edelman’s Book Honored
Lauren Edelman has won major awards for her new book on workplace discrimination, including the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Law Section; and the George […]
Justice Cites Bradt’s Brief
SCOTUS struck down a Calif. ruling that had allowed out-of-state plaintiffs to sue Bristol-Myers Squibb for injuries from its drug Plavix. Justice Sotomayor dissented from the 8-1 decision, citing an […]