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A new study conducted by researchers from the UC Berkeley Haas Institute and School of Law shows that money-lending FinTech algorithms may discriminate against African Americans and Latinx.
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UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky announced Tuesday his recommendation to eliminate the Boalt name from the school’s 1950 wing, affiliated organizations and activities, in an effort to distance the law school from John Boalt’s racist statements.
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Ty Alper, Ka’Dijah Brown and Julie Sinai all secured seats on the board of Berkeley Unified School District as of press time at 2:02 a.m.
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President Donald Trump said in an interview with Axios on Monday that he plans to alter the birthright citizenship law, a law that states that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, for children of noncitizens born on U.S. soil.
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UC Berkeley School of Law was included in a list of the top music law schools of 2018, released by Billboard on Monday.
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UC Berkeley’s Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program celebrated its 50th anniversary Thursday with a panel on past human rights violations in the United States, connecting history to current events.
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How many sex discrimination and harassment complaints against the University of California does it take for the UC Board of Regents to understand that it has a very serious problem on its hands and take action? I am a longtime plaintiffs civil rights and employment attorney in Oakland and a
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It has been more than 2 ½ years since a committee was first formed at UC Berkeley to review building names that have roots in racist and oppressive histories. So far, not a single name has changed. People of color at UC Berkeley continue to study, work and teach in
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In the spring of 2017, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said it was brought to his attention that John Boalt — after whom the building wing is named because of a donation from his wife, Elizabeth Boalt — was a leading advocate of the Chinese exclusion policy. In his text “The Chinese Question,” John Boalt presented negative views about Black people, Native Americans and Chinese people, according to a document released Monday by Chemerinsky.
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Composed of nearly 300 members, LavenderCal regularly hosts social activities for campus LGBTQ+ and allied staff and faculty.
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