Susan Gluss

After his plans to deliver a pro-Israel speech at UC Berkeley were put on hold, renowned civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz confirmed Monday that he had received a personal invitation to speak on campus from UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

When Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited campus Thursday, she walked off the stage and into the crowd, answering questions, shaking hands and giving hugs to audience members. Sotomayor said she doesn’t like sitting still.

On Friday, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and UC President Janet Napolitano defended the executive vice chancellor and provost’s appointment to the UC Berkeley School of Law faculty, in light of questions regarding a possible conflict of interest.

UC Berkeley School of Law students received an email Wednesday warning them of possible disruptions to financial aid disbursements due to a major outage of the Berkeley Financial System, or BFS, and its ancillary systems.

California’s 1996 affirmative action ban cut black admission rates to UC Berkeley and UCLA law schools by half when accounting for applicants who are deterred by the ban, according to a recent study.

UC Berkeley students, alumni and a group of lawyers in the Bay Area initiated an online petition last week to rescind UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo’s recent faculty chair endowment.

Five UC Berkeley law faculty, including John Yoo, were announced as UC Berkeley School of Law endowed faculty chairs last week.

Starting this summer, Berkeley Law will be offering its first interactive online course specifically aimed at an international audience of both current law students and practicing attorneys.

UC Berkeley Law School employee Wilda L. White filed a lawsuit last week against her supervisor Mary Louise Frampton for alleged falsification of her 2011 performance evaluation and for attempted fraud.