The rise of the imperial Supreme Court
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After more than eight years on Capitol Hill and a rewarding first year at UC Berkeley Law, Bosworth gained valuable Big Law experience this summer at Freshfields in Silicon Valley.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Altholz, director of the Human Rights Clinic, is one of three experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent and impartial investigation of Berta Cáceres’ 2016 assassination.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
After 19 years at the school, Schechter — also co-faculty director of the Pro Bono Program — talks about her history at UC Berkeley Law and why she loves what she does more than ever.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“Although the ultimate outcome in the courts is uncertain, the California Legislature should pass the bill,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinksy. “If nothing else, the law would be a forceful declaration by this state’s elected representatives that the practice of ICE agents operating in masks and without identification is wrong and must stop.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“It is terrible that our government is doing this, but it is unconscionable that the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure it could happen,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “The court exists to ensure that the Constitution and the laws of the United States are enforced, not to be a rubber stamp for the president.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Vlacos relishes confronting disability rights and other hot-button issues while working with the Civil Rights and Enforcement Section of the California Department of Justice in San Francisco.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Catherine Lhamon, executive director of UC Berkeley Law’sf Edley Center on Law and Democracy and former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education under the Biden administration, said her department was always pleading with Congress for more staff to handle the increasing caseloads. “There is no universe in which we would have needed fewer people,” said Lhamon.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
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“What makes this case different is how much it’s based on facts,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “It’s much harder for an appellate court to overturn a trial court finding of fact then it is with regard to legal conclusions.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
The gift from Bob and Colleen Haas honors the distinguished UC Berkeley alumnus and celebrates his name, legendary life’s work, and passion for molding a fairer and more just society.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“It’s absolutely nonsensical and completely irrational,” said Leti Volpp, professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. “States and localities that are not covered by these cases may be pressured by the federal government to deny birthright citizenship to children born in those jurisdictions.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Between an increasingly influential union and a new state housing agency, one of California’s biggest crises is getting a shakeup.| CalMatters
Have you wondered what career awaits you as a foreign-trained attorney with an LL.M. earned in the United States? An...| Nationaljurist
Tetiana Poudel relishes “contributing to something bigger than myself” to help her country defend itself against Russia, raising money and fueling venture capital efforts to provide supplies, equipment, and medication.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
UC Berkeley Law lecturer and cultural property scholar, Carla Shapreau discusses her pivotal role in recognizing the stolen Mendelssohn Stradivarius—comparing its historic family photos to recent images and providing critical provenance research that helped link the instrument to its wartime fate.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“We hope these principles remind us that what unites us as a country, our deeply held underlying values, is greater than what divides us,” write Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and J. Michael Luttig.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Alongside former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig and Drexel Law Professor Lisa Tucker, Chemerinsky created the nationwide effort to promote freedom, equality, and democracy through public education about the protections provided by the U.S. Constitution.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
At least two state bills and one federal bill aimed at holding ICE agents accountable have been introduced.| The Mercury News
Each year, I write a book for the American Bar Association about the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term. I look for a theme that explains many of the cases and use it for the title. My planned title for this year is October Term 2024: Taking Sides.| ABA Journal
“At a time when our country is so divided, I still optimistically hope that the court might play a moderating — and even unifying — role,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “That so clearly didn’t happen this year, as the conservative majority repeatedly chose sides.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.| www.law360.com
“Depending on how lower courts interpret it, the NEPA case may pose the greatest threat of a major change in the law,” University of California, Berkeley, law professor Daniel Farber said, referring to the court’s recent environmental rulings.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
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I. The Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate Host Mitch Jeserich gives his opinion of the so called “Big Beautiful Bill” currently in the Senate II. Supreme Court’s Undoing Universal Injunctions Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books on … Continued| KPFA
DeSantis’ use of such powers is not unprecedented.| Tampa Bay Times
“The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a grievous blow to separation of powers by holding that federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to halt unconstitutional actions by the president and the federal government,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
We caught up with Ramona Collins, a winner of the Distinguished Librarian Award, to talk about riding in a “love bubble” as part of the nonprofit AIDS/LifeCycle, her favorite part of being a librarian, and how she’s feeling as the finish line of her career draws closer.| UC Berkeley Library
After helping teach an environmental justice course Jamil went to law school himself, represented the American Bar Association at the United Nations Climate Summit, and is now a federal judicial clerk.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“It is stunning that the Ninth Circuit paid no attention to American history and how rare it is for a president to federalize a state’s national guard,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Professor Khiara M. Bridges joins NPR’s It’s Been A Minute to discuss the the case of Adriana Smith’s pregnancy in which after being declared brain dead, a Georgia hospital kept her on life support without her family’s consent because of the state’s abortion laws| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“Wagner has deftly leveraged information and communications technologies to cultivate and promote its global brand as ruthless mercenaries. Their Telegram network in particular, which depicts their conduct across the Sahel, serves as a proud public display of their brutality,” said Lindsay Freeman, director of the Technology, Law & Policy program at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Mark A. Bertelsen ’69, Monique E. Liburd ’08, and Maxine M. Chesney ’67 were honored along with Professor Daniel A. Farber.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Adriana Smith's shocking case shows the consequences of the state's restrictive abortion ban.| HuffPost
“We see AGs banding together, governors banding together, as advocates work on the ground,” said Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley’s law school. “That feels somewhat more hopeful — that people are thinking about a coordinated strategy.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
“The Supreme Court’s decision upholding a Tennessee ban on gender affirming care for transgender youth is a tragic abdication of the judiciary’s responsibility to protect minorities,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
This week, BAY MADE is thrilled to share a new series from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism that tries to make sense of the executive orders that continue to flood out of the Oval Office.| KALW
The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate America is moving in for the kill.| In These Times
