The former San Francisco district attorney calls his new role "a perfect fit."

Critical Race Theory scholar Professor Khiara M. Bridges dispels some of the commonly repeated untruths about CRT.

Message from Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Berkeley Law will not participate in the US News rankings.

College officials may fear being perceived as taking sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict, but it is wrong to confuse condemning antisemitism with ignoring the plight of the Palestinians.

The author, professor, and iconic criminal justice reform advocate will speak at the school's May 21 commencement.

At a recent event, colleagues and students talked about how Sugarman has left an indelible mark over nearly half a century on the Berkeley Law faculty.

President Biden will today issue an executive order forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the...

On October 21, 2019, Berkeley Law welcomed Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States for the inaugural Herma Hill Kay M...

The students are joined by the prosecutor in the man's trial, former Attorney General Bill Baxley and others in asking for a new trial.

Thursday: It’s a rare move within the University of California. Also: The latest on a high-profile housing bill.

She even shared a lesson from the mother of her late husband, Martin Ginsburg — words...

From: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Date: Friday, June 26, 2020 Dear Law School Community, I apologize for the length of this message, but I wanted to share with you the decisions that have been made...

Privacy experts Catherine Crump and Rebecca Wexler named senior policy advisors.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Photo courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States) The death on Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme...

If the court won’t fix its ethics mess, Congress should.

Professor Emerita Eleanor Swift — a pathbreaking Evidence scholar and passionate mentor — died Sept. 20, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky announced.

CAPTIONS COMING SOONLivestream recording of a conversation with Elie Mystal (Above the Law, More Perfect) and Ken White (Partner at Brown, White & Osborn LLP...

The $1 million gift endows a clinical professor at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. 

His research examines how law and medicine are not apolitical, but rather deeply influenced by the nation’s long history of racial injustice. 

The Supreme Court should take meaningful steps to restore credibility and public trust and strengthen our democracy's foundations.

Chacón and Glater further bolster a faculty on the rise, with nearly two dozen hires in recent years. 

How the Berkeley Law community is staying connected long-distance. 

Professors Katerina Linos, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Abbye Atkinson, Elisabeth Semel, Laurel E. Fletcher, and Jeffrey Selbin are honored. 

Federal agents can protect federal buildings, but don't have the authority to police the streets.

The honor from the American Constitution Society recognizes an early-career academic who shares Ginsburg’s passion for justice. 

California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Commencement Ceremony on May 11, 2012http://www.law...

If Republicans insist on replacing Ginsburg before a new president is in place, Democrats should vow to expand the court should they win the Senate and White House.

“We had an extraordinary year,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says of the six new faculty hires.

On January 4, 2023, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined AALS President Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation about her life, career, and thoughts a...

Four senior and four junior scholars continue a transformational run of hiring.

The rebellion of Dulla Bhatti is a reminder of the region’s long history of agrarian protest – and its fight for justice.

Many of the former clerks, now in private practice, on the bench themselves or teaching in law school, shared their memories of the justice.

Misleading news reports created the false impression that pro-Israel voices are being silenced here. It’s just not true.

Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg both became famous in legal circles as pioneering advocates long before becoming justices, and later helped anchor the Supreme Court’s liberal wing of their...

Berkeley Law alum Janani Ramachandran ’20 was recently sworn in as Oakland’s new City Council member for District 4. She is the youngest person ever elected to the Council and its first South Asian....

Professor Andrea Roth has been elected to the American Law Institute, a leading independent nonprofit that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve U.S. law. A noted...

Thanks to the initiative of two Policy Advocacy Clinic students, Nevada families will no longer have to pay thousands of dollars for everything from food to a public defender when they have a child...

Kristen Holmquist’s contributions to Berkeley Law “impossible to overstate.” 

The principles provide concrete guidance for city staff to better protect residents’ personal information.

A three-year effort by the Human Rights Center and the U.N. Human Rights Office advances the use of digital information to pursue justice against atrocities.