UC Berkeley School of Law

A generous endowment from Professor Pamela Samuelson and her husband Robert Glushko, of the UC Berkeley Cognitive Science Program, will create Berkeley Law’s first chair for clinical faculty

Berkeley Law is thrilled to announce Professors Jennifer Chacón and Jonathan Glater will join our faculty this fall. Chacón is a constitutional law, immigration law, and criminal law and procedure expert; Glater’s work focuses on access to education and the effects of student debt. He is also a former NY Times journalist. Welcome to Berkeley https://bit.ly/3wq3O1t

If you're a non-finance professional looking to bolster your financial literacy, Corporate Finance Fundamentals is for you. Learn how to apply financial information analysis and corporate valuation in a variety of corporate settings and throughout the legal practice. The self-paced course is delivered online with optional virtual office hours and the next cohort opens July 12th. Register today! executive.law.berkeley.edu//corporate-finance-fundamentals/ #finance #training #legal #financialliteracy #financetraining #legalfinance

"I expect in about a year that the Supreme Court will overrule Roe v. Wade and end constitutional protection of abortion rights." Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, op-ed via The Sacramento Bee

The House should not rush an impeachment vote this week, argues Dean Chemerinsky #oped via Los Angeles Times. https://lat.ms/3qfxlYh

Dean Chemerinsky joins law deans in public statement on 2020 Election and events at the capitol. As legal educators and lawyers ourselves, we must redouble our efforts to restore faith in the rule of law and the ideals of the legal profession. https://www.law.berkeley.edu//dean-chemerinsky-joins-law-/

Berkeley Law students, faculty, staff, and alumni are working to fight racism and ensure justice and equality in our community, our nation, and the world. Visit the new #RacialJustice page on our website to learn about some of this crucial work and our community's commitment to anti-racism law.berkeley.edu/racial-justice/

"No form of government lasts forever. Democracies are there until they are not," says Dean Chemerinsky. "The guardrails for our democracy worked, but it could have been different. Lessons must be learned and steps taken before the next presidential election to make it even less likely in the future that the democratic process can be subverted." #oped via San Francisco Chronicle https://www.sfchronicle.com//How-to-prevent-future-assault

Berkeley Law faculty members Jonathan Simon, Daniel Farber, Alexa Koenig, john powell, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky share their views on the attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol

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

Dean Chemerinsky was honored at #AALS2021 with the Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Section on Pro Bono & Public Service Opportunities. He was also recently named president-elect of the AALS, which he has served in various capacities for decades. He will fulfill that role this year before taking over as president in 2022, becoming the fifth Berkeley Law dean to occupy that position.

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/