Berkeley Law

Direct Action Everywhere affiliated activists facing felony and misdemeanor charges for animal rescues are still under a gag order from the judge after calls to vacate the order from the ACLU and Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

UC Berkeley School of Law students are fostering their interest in public service work through campus’s Plaintiff Law Association, or PLA, in hopes of allowing students to see nonprivate practice and plaintiff work as one of many post-grad opportunities. 

Defendants Cassandra King, Wayne Hsiung, and Priya Sawhney have recently received adjusted charges and been issued a gag order by the court.

Civil rights activist and campus alum Pauli Murray will be memorialized on a special U.S. quarter starting early next year. 

Law institutions, specifically law enforcement, have undoubtedly impacted the lives of civilians and their civil rights and liberties. 

The United States has a constitutionally established federal system in which the Constitution, statutes and treaties are the supreme law of the land, according to Kathryn Abrams, Berkeley Law professor and faculty director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice. State law controls areas the federal law does not operate in.

The Daily Californian sat down with Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law since 2017, in order to gain insight into the recent Supreme Court rulings. 

The widespread use of generative artificial intelligence, or AI, is raising significant copyright concerns that could threaten the future and legality of this new technology, according to a recent study conducted by Berkeley Law professor Pamela Samuelson. 

Berkeley Law students in the Startup Law Initiative, or SLI, learn the law in action by partnering with Bay Area startups pro bono.

Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason: Impartial decisions lead to higher quality results. This lesson is a core part of a traditional legal education and ought to be applied to legal scholarship as well.