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Jun 12
Can parents opt out of school curriculum for religious reasons? youtube.com/shorts/BlmAvOP9u…
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Jun 12
This year’s Alumni Award honors went to John Burris ’73, Professor Peter S. Menell, Lillian Hardy ’06, and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Nicole Berner ’95, with a special accolade for Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: bit.ly/49Y7AoR #BerkeleyLaw #BerkeleyLawAlumni
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Jun 11
In her last semester before graduating, Zara Tayebjee ’26 conducted revealing, rapid-fire interviews with Berkeley Law faculty members for the new video series “Behind the Work.” bit.ly/3SzWb8A #BerkeleyLaw
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Jun 11
"When judges act badly, even in their private lives, it reflects badly on everyone else," says Jeremy Fogel, executive director of @BklyJudicial, to @KUOW: bit.ly/4v3Y3op #BerkeleyLaw
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Jun 11
"In the years since the University of California abandoned using the SAT to help pick which students it would accept, it has enrolled the most diverse classes in its history." —Opinion by Associate Dean and Professor Jonathan D. Glater via @sfchronicle: bit.ly/4aD2zC7
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Jun 10
An article by Professor @PamelaSamuelson has been selected as one of the best intellectual property papers of 2025 and will be included in the next edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, published annually by @thomsonreuters: bit.ly/4uMe2a5 #BerkeleyLaw
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Jun 10
"Sometimes well-intentioned laws are unconstitutional. That is the case for a bill that recently passed the California Assembly to prevent children under the age of 16 from opening social media accounts."
— Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky via @sacbee_news: bit.ly/4vAVcTW
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"This isn’t final relief. The federal government is still hoping to re-terminate a subset of these grants. There’s a lot more work ahead," says Professor Claudia Polsky.
Read a Q&A with Professor Polsky via @californiamag: bit.ly/4xirm8v
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As AI increasingly shapes legal practice, Berkeley Law has a new course starting this fall aimed at educating students about the technology’s strengths and weaknesses while giving them more than 100 hours of hands-on training: bit.ly/4uuIGEp
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"Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court is effectively checking presidential power, and I believe that this has contributed to the loss of trust in government," says Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Read more on @Law360: bit.ly/49Pt0Ex #BerkeleyLaw
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Professor Khiara Bridges, author of "Expecting Inequity," joined @NPRItsBeenAMin podcast to talk through why wealth and status can't outrun racism at the doctor's office: n.pr/3Qrbeko #BerkeleyLaw
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A leader of multiple student orgs, rising 3L Anchita Dasgupta is enjoying her “crash course in the world of international law-making and diplomacy.”
Read about her summer work at the 77th session of the International Law Commission in Geneva: bit.ly/3S7sWtz #BerkeleyLaw
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"I've never been so afraid or imagined being so afraid for the future of our democracy, including the future of freedom of speech," says Dean Chemerinsky at the Berkeley Art, Law and Finance Symposium, presented by @BerkLawBusiness.
Read more on @SFGate: bit.ly/4ebLsbT
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Can police legally lie to you during questioning? youtube.com/shorts/EP5Ann8vx…
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"We're experiencing now an unprecedented assault on the Constitution, on the First Amendment, and of freedom of speech," says Dean Chemerinsky at the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Symposium at @SFMOMA, presented by @BerkLawBusiness: bit.ly/4uY3hCg @Law360
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In a recent piece on the first conviction for AI-related economic espionage charges, rising 2L Armita Fazel explores the legal implications of a former Google engineer stealing trade secret information & trying to send it to entities in China. bit.ly/3ROk105 #BerkeleyLaw
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"We should expect much better from the Supreme Court."
—Opinion by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via The Contrarian: bit.ly/4o82mwp
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Catherine E. Lhamon, executive director of the Edley Center on Law and Democracy, tells @AP that after pushback from schools, the Trump administration is backing off: “It stopped putting itself in a position to lose.”
Read more: bit.ly/43jU9f4 #BerkeleyLaw
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“How do we think about affordability across all of these utilities, and how do we think about universal access across all of these utilities? That's why we have this single-purpose public utility commission in so many states,” says Prof. Tejas Narechania: bit.ly/4ac9hil
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Geetika Jerath ’19 went to law school planning to advise entrepreneurs — and ended up becoming one.
Read the full article to learn more about Jerath and her company: bit.ly/4em1n8x #BerkeleyLaw
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“I thought my impact would come from advising founders who were building the next big thing. As it turned out, Berkeley Law gave me the education, the experience, and the courage that I’d eventually use to build a company with my co-founder.”
—Jerath
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