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Inter Alia | Alumni Newsletter | July 2025

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Mark A. Bertelsen ’69 received the Citation Award, Professor Daniel A. Farber got the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award, Monique E. Liburd ’08 was honored with the Young Alumni Award, and Senior District Judge Maxine M. Chesney ’67 was presented with the Judge D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen Public Service Award. Photos by Jim Block

‘This Powerful Engine’: Annual Alumni Award Winners Reflect on How UC Berkeley Law Shaped Them

Professor Daniel A. Farber received the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award, Monique E. Liburd ’08 was honored with the Young Alumni Award, and Senior District Judge Maxine M. Chesney ’67 was presented with the Judge D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen Public Service Award.  Read more>>

What's New?

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Leads National Pro-Constitutional Democracy Project ‘We Hold These Truths’

Alongside former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig and Drexel Law Professor Lisa Tucker, Chemerinsky created the nationwide effort to promote freedom, equality, and democracy through public education about the protections provided by the U.S. Constitution. Read more>>

Teacher Becomes the Student: Chance Encounter With UC Berkeley Law Puts Kamran Jamil ’23 on a Rewarding Path

After helping teach an environmental justice course Jamil went to law school himself, represented the American Bar Association at the United Nations Climate Summit, and is now a federal judicial clerk. Read more>>

Student Summer Work Series: Alex Kang ’27 Brings a Global Perspective to the U.S. Court of International Trade

Eager to help develop “workable tools for navigating real-world, cross-border issues,” Kang is getting a close view of hot-button trade issues affecting businesses across myriad industries. Read more>>

Study from Student-Led Group Exposes Scope of Laws Targeting Unhoused People in California

The report from UC Berkeley Law’s student-led Homelessness Service Project analyzes the impact of a crackdown on California’s unhoused population since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision last summer. Read more>>

Spotting Pollution from Space Webinar

Wednesday, Jul 16, 12:30 pm PT. The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) is hosting a webinar featuring researchers from UCLA, Stanford, and Berkeley Law discussing how public officials are using satellites to detect methane as detailed in a recent CLEE report. Register here>>

Los Angeles 2025 Summer Gathering 

Wednesday, July 23, 6:00-8:00 pm PT, Los Angeles. The Los Angeles alumni chapter of Berkeley Law invites alumni to welcome our new 1Ls and meet rising 2Ls and 3Ls working locally. The event will also feature a panel discussion among prominent alumni in the region. Many thanks to Jennifer Romano '97 and Crowell for generously hosting this gathering of our community and to Judge Bryant Yang '07 for organizing an exciting panel. Appetizers and beverages will be provided. Register here>>

Chicago 2025 Summer Gathering 

Wednesday, July 23, 5:30-7:30 pm CT, Chicago. The Chicago alumni chapter of Berkeley Law invites alumni to welcome our new 1Ls and meet rising 2Ls and 3Ls working locally. Many thanks to Sarah Weiss '10 and Jenner & Block for generously hosting this gathering of our community. Appetizers and beverages will be provided. Register here>>

Silicon Valley 2025 Summer Gathering 

Tuesday, July 29, 6:00-8:00 pm PT, San Jose. The Silicon Valley alumni chapter invites graduates to welcome our new 1Ls and meet rising 2Ls and 3Ls working locally. Many thanks to Jim McManis '67 and McManis Faulkner for generously hosting this gathering of our community. Appetizers and beverages will be provided. Register here>>

San Francisco 2025 Summer Gathering 

Thursday, July 31, 6:00-8:00 pm PT, San Francisco. The SF alumni chapter invites graduates to welcome our new 1Ls and meet rising 2Ls and 3Ls working locally. Many thanks to Brian McDonald '02 and Jones Day for generously hosting this gathering of our community. Appetizers and beverages will be provided. Register here>>

Law Faculty Pre-Recruitment Workshop

Thursday, August 7, 10:00am-3:30pm, Berkeley Law. The Law School invites lawyers interested in full time law teaching to attend this one-day workshop. Invited panelists from Bay Area law schools will explain different pathways into doctrinal teaching, clinical teaching, and legal research and writing teaching; provide guidance on legal scholarship and demystify the hiring process; and share insights on law school pedagogy. Register here>>

Alumni Reunion Weekend 2025

Friday, September 26 - Saturday, September 27. Registration is open! This year, we will celebrate those who graduated in class years ending in ‘0’ and ‘5’, though all alumni are welcome. Please email reunion@law.berkeley.edu with any questions. Register here>>

Applied AI Bootcamp for Lawyers

November 5-6, Berkeley. AI is changing the practice of law. Are you keeping up? Join us for a two-day, in-person skills workshop designed specifically for practicing lawyers and legal professionals seeking hands-on training in emerging AI tools and strategies. This is a practical skills accelerator for practicing attorneys to incorporate AI-augmentation into real legal work product. Registration opens on July 1 and CLE will be available. Learn more>>

Volunteer Opportunities

Become a 1L Alumni Guide

J.D. alumni! Please consider becoming an Alumni Guide. These volunteers connect with an incoming 1L student in late July or August to welcome them to the Berkeley Law community and answer any questions they may have as they start law school. They then check in with their student in early October to hear about their first six weeks at Berkeley Law and have a final check-in in January, as they start their second semester. Meetings are held via Zoom or phone. The total time commitment is 30 minutes per meeting. Register here>>

LinkedIn Alumni Group

If you'd like to continue networking with UC Berkeley Law alumni, please join our private alumni group on LinkedIn.

Media Highlights

UC Berkeley Law Alumni Save on All Paid Executive Education Programs.

UC Berkeley Boosts

Coffee Break with Irene Liu, a Berkeley Boosts free webinar series, features interviews with influential leaders on impactful events in their careers, lives, and organizations. The current season continues on July 30 with guest Tom Lue, VP, Frontier AI Global Affairs at Google DeepMind. Watch live for MCLE credit. See all Coffee Breaks>>

UC Berkeley Law AI Institute

Join us on campus or via livestream from September 9 to 11. Gain insights from experts and innovators from OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, SoftBank, Morrison Foerster, Freshfields, and more. Learn to provide more effective legal counsel on AI-related matters, make informed business decisions, and understand the ethical dilemmas and risks that characterize AI adoption. Earn MCLE (including Technology in the Practice of Law) and a Certificate of Completion! Register here>>

Generative AI for the Legal Profession

Taught by Wei Chen, a seasoned general counsel with extensive experience in AI applications, this skills-based course explores generative AI's role in legal practice through lectures, use cases, and interactive exercises in prompt engineering. Register before September to join the last two live “jam” sessions. Learn more>>