Spotlights

The new issue of Transcript, our biannual magazine, highlights Berkeley Law’s momentum with the hiring of eight stellar new professors and the launch or revitalization of four research centers tackling pivotal issues in criminal, private, Indigenous, and reproductive law and justice. Other stories profile impactful advocacy, remarkable students, innovative initiatives, and more. An accessible digital […]

Our “Borderlines” podcast released a special four-part series with International Human Rights Law Clinic Co-Directors Roxanna Altholz ’99 and Laurel Fletcher talking to leading advocates who visited their Human Rights Practice Workshop course. The episodes tackle corporate accountability, defending water protectors and Indigenous rights, gender parity in international representation, and U.N. mechanisms and anti-Black racism.

The new Drug Policy, Education, and Decriminalization (DECrim) Project is one of Berkeley Law’s 40 Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects. Students will examine evidentiary issues in the prosecution and criminalization of drug use across the U.S. while engaging in pro bono work under the supervision of lawyers at the Drug Policy Alliance, which works to advance […]

Our Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law released its 2022-2023 Annual Report, showcasing a busy year of programs, panels, and other international and comparative law endeavors with a special focus on career development trainings and workshops for students. Taking on urgent issues, the institute promotes, climate and energy justice, human rights, anti-corruption efforts, […]

Our Center for Law, Energy & the Environment is helping lead a project to create a Direct Air Capture facility to remove carbon dioxide in California’s Southern San Joaquin Valley. It’s part of a major Department of Energy program to develop hubs that capture and permanently store carbon dioxide nationwide in areas affected by the […]

Tai Milder ’09 is leading the California Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, created under a new law that aims to monitor gas price gouging and hold violators accountable. A veteran antitrust prosecutor, he has pursued justice against those seeking to harm consumers via price-fixing, bid-rigging, and bribery. Milder also worked at the California Department of […]

Suellen Perry ’99 was named one of four American Lawyers Alliance Law-Related Education Teachers of the Year. A legal studies and technical education instructor at Henderson High School in Texas, she crafted an innovative curriculum, created a mock court in her class, and coached the mock trial team. Last year’s Tex-Abota Champion of Civil Justice, […]

With Labor Day’s arrival, Berkeley Law students interested in employment law have ample options. Our Center for Law and Work confronts urgent issues vulnerable working populations face, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law is the top journal in its field, and the Workers’ Rights Clinic, Berkeley Law & Organizing Collective, and La Alianza […]

Civil rights icon Pauli Murray LL.M. ’45 will be memorialized on a special quarter through the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. A lawyer, writer, activist, and poet, Murray was valedictorian and the only woman in her Howard Law School class, the first Black person to earn a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, the first […]

“The Risks of Green Marketing,” written by Nestlé junior legal counsel Julia Archutowska LL.M. ’24, describes the perils of greenwashing — conveying a false impression or misleading information about a company’s products being environmentally friendly. As new regulations in Europe highlight sustainability marketing, Archutowska urges companies to “promise less and deliver more” and to ensure […]