Berkeley Law

In the 24 hours known as the Big Give, over 14,000 donors contributed more than $12 million to UC Berkeley students and programs. Not only did the Big Give highlight the power of the campus community but emphasized the importance of philanthropy in the face of ever-dwindling state funding as well as the lengths people are willing to go to win.

Faculty at Berkeley Law have filed an amicus brief to offer their expertise to the Supreme Court in the Biden v. Nebraska case surrounding student loan forgiveness.

Laurie Edelman, the Agnes Roddy Robb professor of law and sociology at Berkeley Law, died of pneumonia Feb. 7.

A nearly completed project at the Berkeley Law Library aims to combat biases by considering Indigenous law materials for reclassification under new guidelines.

Berkeley Law is under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over the administration’s response to a bylaw banning Zionist speakers passed in August by the Law Students for Justice in Palestine, or LSJP, and several other law student organizations.

UC Berkeley recently launched The Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society Project, a collaboration between the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, or BCLT, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, or CITRIS, policy lab.

Four research projects hosted by UC Berkeley in the humanities and sciences were awarded grants as part of the UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, or MRPI, this year. 

U.S. News and World Report announced Monday that it will revamp its methodology for ranking law school programs starting in 2023-2024, after various law schools, including Berkeley Law, publicly rebuked the previous system and opted out.

With the graduate student and academic worker strike well underway, many undergraduates have wondered what their role is in the strike, how to show solidarity or whether or not to attend classes.

On Oct. 1, Berkeley Law updated their loan assistance repayment program, or LRAP, to provide more student loan support to law school graduates.