Spotlights

Over just five years, our Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice has established itself as a force in the field. After offering one conference and three courses in its first year, the center now offers about six conferences and 20 courses each year. Its latest annual report describes impactful work, programmatic growth, notable […]

Our Advanced Degree Programs office recently hosted a three-part series for LL.M. students and local LL.M. alumni called Generative AI & the Practice of Law. Led by Berkeley Law librarian Kristie Chamorro, the sessions probed various international implications of artificial intelligence in legal practice. Read more about her work compiling and regularly updating key AI […]

Professors Katerina Linos and Elena Chachko are teaching a unique Colloquium on Law and Geopolitics this semester with noted guests presenting cutting-edge research in a workshop format. Open to Berkeley Law students, campus, and the wider community, the course confronts human rights, global governance of emerging technologies, law and security, international trade, the law of […]

The top-ranked student journal in its field, our Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law tackles worker classifications, labor disputes, workplace discrimination, and other timely topics in scholarly articles, student comments and case notes, essays, and book reviews. It has a large and active alumni network, and recently co-hosted an event on unionizing legal workplaces […]

Professor Saira Mohamed is one of seven scholars picked to teach B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students from Ukraine this week in a program created soon after Russia’s 2022 invasion. The free, online Invisible University for Ukraine, for those whose studies were affected by the war, has a weeklong in-person session in Hungary for 36 selected […]

Berkeley Law Visiting Professor Thelton Henderson ’62 is one of 10 people named to this year’s California Hall of Fame class. The first Black lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, he worked to protect voting rights in the South with Martin Luther King Jr. and others before taking leadership roles in public […]

In the face of mounting climate concerns at home and worldwide, our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment provides vital research, training, education, and engagement with policymakers and affected communities. The center’s 2023 Snapshot describes its prolific work producing reports, programs, and events over the past year, and their pursuit of equitable solutions to urgent […]

Our Human Rights Center helped produce a new report about the killings of 13 Indigenous leaders and land defenders in Brazil from 2019 to 2022. Working with the nonprofit Cultural Survival, student researchers used online open source information to document each killing and track environmental erosion of Indigenous territories over time. Read more about the report […]

A federal court recently upheld regulations issued by California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation that protect small businesses from predatory sales-based financiers. Our Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice filed an amicus brief supporting the regulations, and just filed another for a federal student loan program that has led to student debts being […]

Professor Sonia Katyal has been named to the annual Women in AI Ethics’ “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” list. The recipients were hailed for making impactful contributions to crafting a responsible and diverse future for artificial intelligence. Katyal’s award-winning work includes a recent paper on how the dynamic between AI and gender is highly […]