On Wednesday, September 21, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (left) and Professor of Law, Ethnic Studies, and African American Studies john a. powell (right) joined a panel of eminent UC Berkeley scholars for an episode in the Berkeley Conversations series. |
In the latest episode of Berkeley Conversations, an elite panel of scholars described a range of potential solutions, from measures to strengthen old-school local news media to government regulation of titans like Facebook and Twitter. But there’s a critical obstacle: Efforts to directly block disinformation could challenge core American values, such as free speech and freedom of the press.
That’s the challenge facing a troubled American democracy — and that was the crux of the provocative, and sometimes impassioned, online discussion. Watch the recording>>
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The new fall issue of Transcript, Berkeley Law’s magazine, has been sent to alumni and friends. It includes a stirring photo essay on students’ return to the law school, a feature about our broad efforts to gain equity within the criminal legal system, and stories on our three new professors, faculty appointed to state leadership posts, a Pulitzer-winning grad, our vital role in surging national initiatives, and more. Read more>>
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It’s been another busy year in Berkeley Law’s clinical program, which welcomed the largest class ever of incoming clinic students this fall. To meet this growing demand, plans are underway to expand the program with five new tenure-track faculty over the next five years as well as launching new clinics. View our Annual Report to learn how clinical students and faculty have continued to fight for the rights of the underrepresented, support groundbreaking legislation, and successfully challenge systemic discrimination. Read more>>
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Military service helped Tyler Baylis ’22 see the world differently, a shift that ultimately led him to Berkeley Law. When Baylis began law school, he wanted to work with veterans, who can struggle making the transition to civilian life. But there was nothing for him to join as a 1L. Baylis decided to change that, and founded Legal Obstacles Veterans Encounter (LOVE) with fellow students — and veterans — Matt Sardo ’23 and Blaine Manire ’23. Read more>>
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The Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism have launched the country’s first multidisciplinary investigative reporting course using open source intelligence at a university. Read more>>
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The Policy Advocacy Clinic recently received the Paul H. Chapman Gold Medal and $10,000 from the Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc. The clinic was honored for its legal work in abolishing juvenile legal system fines and fees in California and Nevada, and for the impact it has had in eliminating such fees in other states. Read more>>
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It is with a very heavy heart that we share the tragic news that Professor Lucinda Sikes passed away on Sunday, September 19. Our deepest sympathies are extended to her family on this terrible loss.
Lucinda had been a beloved professor at Berkeley Law for many years. She was the heart and soul of our legal writing program, and an invaluable member of our community. We will miss her terribly.
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Many of our faculty have authored leading casebooks and treatises in numerous areas of law. This is a way in which we teach students outside our own law school and even help to educate other professors and lawyers and judges about the law.
Every measure shows our faculty to be among the most frequently cited and the most respected in their fields. In fact, a recent study by professors at St. Thomas University College of Law found that Berkeley Law’s faculty is the sixth most frequently cited of all law schools in the United States. This brochure lists what our faculty members have written in the last year. Read more>>
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Professor Seth Davis recently joined an expanded team writing for “D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed,” a regular feature keeping tabs on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit published in the “Notice and Comment” blog, a joint venture from the Yale Journal on Regulation and the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Other authors include former D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith and several litigators.
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Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy has a recent op-ed in The Hill on long run class inequality. The op-ed argues that recent estimates of intergenerational mobility portend a potentially bleak future unless we do something about it. Read more>>
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East Bay Community Law Center Clinical Director & Berkeley Law Lecturer Seema N. Patel was awarded a competitive Chancellor’s Public Scholars Faculty Fellowship (academic year 2021-22), issued by the UC Berkeley American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program.
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Still Pursuing Justice: Distinguished Visiting Professor and civil rights icon Thelton E. Henderson ’62 was appointed to California’s Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code. The first Black lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Henderson was a U.S. District Court judge from 1980 to 2017, an assistant dean at Stanford Law School, and a law professor at Golden Gate. Berkeley Law’s social justice center is named in his honor.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that many of us live and it has also reinforced the value of old friends. Because we were unable to gather on campus, we have created class books for J.D. graduates in the 50th Reunion Class of 1971 and the 25th Reunion Class of 1996.
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Save the Date! California Bar Swearing-In Ceremony
Berkeley Law graduates who recently passed the California Bar Exam are invited to our annual Bar Swearing-In Ceremony. The event will take place in the afternoon on Tuesday, December 14 at International House. Graduates who would like to be sworn into the Bar must attend the event in person. Their guests can also attend in-person (proof of vaccination and masks will be required for all in-person attendees), or they can watch the ceremony via live stream. Registration information will be sent to graduates in the Class of 2021 and will be available on our alumni webpage in November. Please contact: alumni@law.berkeley.edu with any questions.
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Past Alumni Events
Exploring the Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On September 9, the Berkeley Law Los Angeles Alumni Chapter hosted a virtual discussion between Professor Amanda Tyler and the Honorable Marsha Berzon '73 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit about the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Watch the recording here>>
Because of COVID, Alumni Reunion was held virtually this year. If you were not able to attend, please enjoy these recordings:
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Amelia Miazad, director and senior research fellow of Berkeley Law's Business in Society Institute, says she envisions the Institute’s new partnership with Paul, Weiss bridging the gap between theoretical discussions about ESG and what’s actually happening within companies. Read more>>
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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is poised to reshape constitutional rights and protections in ways this nation has not seen in generations. Read more>>
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Professor Sarah Song appears on NPR’s Philosophy Talk podcast to discuss immigration and multiculturalism. Listen here>>
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Professor Eric Stover, faculty director of the Human Rights Center, discusses his mission to shed light on acts of barbarity — and bring the perpetrators to justice — in relation to massacres such as the Tulsa and Rwandan tragedies. Read more>>
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Virtual Enrichment Programs |
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Wednesday, November 10 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM PT
This one-hour webinar will feature Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation with Professor Abbye Atkinson. Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Atkinson will preview the major issues for the United States Supreme Court in 2022 and beyond. Attorneys participating in the live, one-hour webinars can earn one hour of Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit. Register here>>
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Berkeley Law Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute
November 2, 3, 4, 9, & 10 | 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PT
The Berkeley Law AI Institute is designed to help attorneys and other professionals navigate the evolving AI landscape and better serve their clients. Learn from a stellar group of the industry’s top leaders, legal practitioners, and educators, who will share their expertise on artificial intelligence, law, business, and policy while delving into the ways AI and machine learning are fundamentally changing the legal profession. Earn MCLE credit and a certificate of completion! Learn more and register>>
*Discounted tuition available for Berkeley Law alumni.
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Nurturing the Native Legal Community
Berkeley Law wasn’t Alyssa Kewenvoyouma’s initial top choice — until she came for a visit. After a slew of meetings (including with Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Kristin Theis-Alvarez, Professor Seth Davis, and two then-students of Native descent), Kewenvoyouma, who grew up in Arizona and is Hopi and Navajo, was hooked. “After witnessing the amazing work they had done to build a Native community, I knew I wanted to be a part of it,” she says. Read more>>
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Employment Opportunities at Berkeley Law |
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Associate Director of LL.M. Professional Development
Berkeley Law's Advanced Degree Programs is hiring for a new Associate Director of LL.M. Professional Development. The position would begin in January. See the job post on Linkedin>>
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