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Dean Chemerinsky, Prof. Elisabeth Semel, and students from the Death Penalty Clinic helped draft an amicus brief filed earlier this week on behalf of California Governor Gavin Newsom focused on race and the death penalty in California. https://bit.ly/3kK1P2k

Join us on Friday, October 30 at 3pm PT for the next #BerkeleyConversations event, Critical Race Theory and the 2020 Election, presented the Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture. This roundtable discussion will consider how the racial uprising in the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, on-going police violence and social unrest, a possible shift in race-consciousness among White voters, the selection of Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and the battle to replace Justice Ginsburg may impact the election and our democracy more broadly. In addition, the panelists will engage President Trump’s attempt to cancel Critical Race Theory and anti-racism initiatives.

A new article by Professor David Singh Grewal shows a troubling upward trend of "Minoritarian Judges" that do not represent the majority of voters. Read the article via California Law Review: www.californialawreview.org/counter-majoritarian-minoritar/

The spring 2021 clinic application deadline has been extended to Monday, November 2 at noon. All clinics accept applications from 2Ls and 3Ls, and the Environmental Law Clinic is accepting applications from 1Ls. Info and apply https://bit.ly/37U5MxE

The day after the most consequential election in recent history, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky will host a panel discussion of the implications of the presidential election for various aspects of law featuring Berkeley Law faculty experts. Panelists: Khiara Bridges, Professor of Law... Dan Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law Jonathan Gould, Assistant Professor of Law Bertrall Ross, Chancellor’s Professor of Law Andrea Roth, Professor of Law Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice See more

Dean Chemerinsky and Death Penalty Clinic Director Elisabeth Semel, who are serving as Gov Gavin Newsom's lawyers on an amicus brief filed Monday in a capital case before the California Supreme Court, explain the unprecedented court filing that asserts the state’s death penalty law is applied in a racist manner against African Americans via San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com//Newson-California-district-a/