Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty at Berkeley Law have filed an amicus brief to offer their expertise to the Supreme Court in the Biden v. Nebraska case surrounding student loan forgiveness.

Berkeley Law is under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over the administration’s response to a bylaw banning Zionist speakers passed in August by the Law Students for Justice in Palestine, or LSJP, and several other law student organizations.

UC Berkeley Law Professor and Associate Dean of J.D. Curriculum and Teaching Andrew Bradt began his role as associate reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules Jan. 1.

U.S. News and World Report announced Monday that it will revamp its methodology for ranking law school programs starting in 2023-2024, after various law schools, including Berkeley Law, publicly rebuked the previous system and opted out.

UC Berkeley School of Law, alongside several other law schools, announced Nov. 17 that it would no longer be participating in the U.S. News & World Report, or USNWR, law school rankings due to a flawed ranking methodology.

The International Legal Forum, or ILF, along with Florida-based attorney Gabriel Groisman, claimed [UC Berkeley Law School] *Berkeley Law* is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a [Nov. 18] complaint *filed Nov. 18* over the decision to allow several campus student groups to enact bylaws banning Zionist speakers.

After more than two months of student and community action, the controversy over the bylaw adopted by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, or LSJP, and nine other law student organizations has escalated.

A doctor and former UCLA employee filed a class action lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California on Oct. 5 over his termination for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. 

Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky spoke about the Supreme Court in a livestreamed Campus Conversations event Monday.

Berkeley Law professor emeritus died in a hiking accident Sept 10. He served in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy/Legal Studies Program for 38 years.